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	<title>The Entrepreneur Next Door</title>
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		<title>Changes in bonding programs encourage government contracting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Government contracting is a great way for some companies to grow both jobs and revenues. One of the necessary components of federal government contracting is bonding. 
SBA announced today that it can now provide surety bonds on federal contracts valued at up to $10 million if the contracting officer feels the bonding is in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.missouribusiness.net/sbtdc/blog/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Get me outta here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve reached a new level of frustration today with some websites that do their best to make it hard for users to navigate, make purchases or gather information. I&#8217;ve been keeping a list of pet peeves. It&#8217;s time to share. 
Why can&#8217;t I use my email to register on your site? I can&#8217;t keep track [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GI bill was a boost to entrepreneurship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a business owner, and your accountant tells you that for every dollar you&#8217;ve put into your company, you&#8217;ve made $7, you would probably think that was a fair return on your investment. 
I thought it appropriate on this Independence Day weekend to pause and consider the rate of return on one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.missouribusiness.net/sbtdc/blog/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Women in management &#8212; a wise business decision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In their new book Womenomics, Claire Shipman and Kathy Kay make a good point about the growing prominence of women not only in the workplace, but in management circles. They contend that the so-called &#8220;softer&#8221; management style of women is not soft at all; instead, it&#8217;s turning out to be more lucrative. A study of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odds and ends on entrepreneurship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most of you, I&#8217;m buried in information from a variety of sources &#8212; magazines, journals, newsletters, Twitter, Facebook, emails and various nuggets of information that others copy for me and leave on my desk. I try to take a few minutes each day to at least skim all of that information and put the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veteran continues to serve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We walked in front of the Lincoln Memorial and talked of bar-b-que sauce. 
That sounds strange, but that is often the case when worlds collide. 
Dr. Harry Berrier, emeritus professor of veterinary pathology and active entrepreneur, is also a World War II-era veteran and former member of the Air Force Reserve. He was with us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference gives insights on government contracting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Representative Ike Skelton Procurement Conference is scheduled for May 29 at the University of Central Missouri from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Now in its 21st year, this day-long event has become a tradition in Missouri, as hundreds of business owners and vendors converge on Warrensburg to learn about government contracting, small business programs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The impact of the recession on millenials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend has a daughter who is all about fashion. In her mid-20s, she is convinced that among the necessary expenses of everyday life are housing, food, transportation, phone and fashion. She would rather shop for shoes than eat I suspect. But even she is feeling this economic crunch, and it&#8217;s been interesting to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.missouribusiness.net/sbtdc/blog/?p=69</link>
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		<title>Using social media for marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re looking for low-cost ways to spread the word about your business, your products, your services. That&#8217;s particularly important in this time of recession when the money to support marketing is just not there, but you know you need to keep your message circulating. 
Online social media seems like the perfect solution &#8212; after all, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.missouribusiness.net/sbtdc/blog/?p=68</link>
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		<title>Small particles leading to big ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A life-saving market potential of more than $1 billion per year. 
That’s what is possible from the nanoparticulate technologies being developed for treating cancer by Columbia-based Nanoparticle Biochem, Inc., according to one of its founders, Dr. Kattesh V. Katti, MU curator’s professor of radiology and physics. 
The university spin-off company, founded in 2004 by an [...]]]></description>
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