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		<title>What Happened at the White House Job Summit?</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/12/05/what-happended-at-the-white-house-job-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[White House job summit: Obama pushes business &#8211; Money &#8220;&#8216;The number 1 priority is to get banks lending to small businesses because small businesses create the majority of jobs in the United States,&#8217; [Google's Eric] Schmidt said.&#8221; This quote comes from the article in CNN&#8217;s Money.com (link above). Finally! Is Washington beginning to &#8220;get it&#8221;? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got Your ARC Loan?</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/10/08/got-your-arc-loan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t have an ARC loan, you&#8217;re not alone! The America’s Recovery Capital (ARC) Loan Program was introduced in June 2009 by the US Small Business Administration &#8220;to provide up to $35,000 in short-term relief for viable small businesses facing immediate financial hardship to help ride out the current uncertain economic times and return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Retain Good Employees During a Downturn</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/07/07/how-to-retain-good-employees-during-a-downturn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compensation & Benefits]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/?p=457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It may be a fact of life for your business. To keep your doors open, you may have had to furlough or even lay off some employees. No one likes to do that. Even when you jettison marginal performers, no one enjoys the process, least of all the business owner. If it DOES happen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste!</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/03/25/never-let-a-serious-crisis-go-to-waste/</link>
		<comments>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/03/25/never-let-a-serious-crisis-go-to-waste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How to Innovate in a Downturn &#8211; WSJ.com What do nylon, Hewlett-Packard and the iPod have in common? Would you believe they all launched during a major financial downturn? Excellent article by Harvard B School Prof and McKinsey partner Bhaskar Chakravorti from the Wall Street Journal, chastening entrepreneurs that this is NOT the time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Businesses Critical of Stimulus Bills</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/02/07/small-businesses-critical-of-stimulus-bills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practically Speaking &#8211; Small Businesses Critical of Stimulus Bills &#8211; NYTimes.com If you&#8217;re a small business owner, chances are this headline resonates. The author of this NYTimes article quantifies the sense that many of us have had about the stimuli under discussion: &#8220;only 0.05 percent of the House bill is dedicated to small-business lending programs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Obama&#8217;s SBA Chief May Change the Agency &#8211; BusinessWeek</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/01/24/how-obamas-sba-chief-may-change-the-agency-businessweek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Obama&#8217;s SBA Chief May Change the Agency &#8211; BusinessWeek: &#8221; Good overview article in Business Week about an Obama appointment. Karen Mills has good Corporate business roots, coming from family business Tootsie Roll (no joke!) to earning a Harvard MBA (we Kellogg alums will try not to hold that against her), then tours at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Watershed Moment for Business Creation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2008/12/25/a-watershed-moment-for-business-creation/</link>
		<comments>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2008/12/25/a-watershed-moment-for-business-creation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 Will Be an Economic Engine for Change Interesting article from HBR Online, predicting the coming year will be &#8220;an economic engine for change.&#8221; Author Jeff Stibel offers some historical examples supporting his point that economic upheavals create the greatest opportunities. I rather like his analogy with forest fires as a necessary part of nature&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angel Investing Down</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2008/12/19/angel-investing-down/</link>
		<comments>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2008/12/19/angel-investing-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angel Investing Down Check out this article in Inc.com. Maybe not a huge surprise but economic uncertainty is impacting the private equity world. But there are some recession-resistent markets for startups that may disprove the rule: green technologies, renewable energy, and health care, to name but a few.]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Skimp On Ad Budgets</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2008/12/03/dont-skimp-on-ad-budgets-forbescom/</link>
		<comments>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2008/12/03/dont-skimp-on-ad-budgets-forbescom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising & Promotion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t Skimp On Ad Budgets &#8211; Forbes.com: So you read or heard the news the other day (and I use the term &#8220;news&#8221; loosely) &#8211; the US is in a recession and has been since December of &#8217;07. I&#8217;m so glad there&#8217;s a group of academics poised to tell us such things! More helpful is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2008/11/14/focus/</link>
		<comments>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2008/11/14/focus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is well established that concentrated attention and focused thought are more productive than the start-and-stop too many of our days are like. That working in dribs and drabs is also a common symptom of business owners who work IN their business more than they work ON their business, then wonder why they never make [...]]]></description>
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