small business

Small Business Trends wants your vote for the best book of the year

For the second year in a row, the editors of Small Business Trends are holding a Reader’s Choice Award for the Best Small Business Book. The awards recognize the year’s best new books for small business owners and entrepreneurs.  A total of 47 books have been nominated (including 4 Portfolio titles).  You can help choose [...]

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Where to Do It

If you’re trying to decide where to start your own business, this list up on CNNMoney might help. They’ve gathered a bunch of useful statistics, from number of small businesses to average wages and crime rates. The list of top places to launch surprised me—notice the lack of Silicon Valley and New York metro-area locales. [...]

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Is This the Time to Chase a Career Dream?

Portfolio author Pam Slim wrote this great article for yesterday’s New York Times about chasing your career dreams. Slim says times of economic turmoil offer a great opportunity to reinvent your career.  Because if you’re going to live with uncertainty (and still work like crazy to secure your livlihood) you might as well pursue something [...]

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Cool jacket, sleeper book

In publishing, a “sleeper” is a book by a non-famous, first time author with huge potential.  We think we have a classic sleeper coming in May, with Pamela Slim’s Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur. Hats off to our art director Joseph Perez for this cool jacket, which features fantastic blurbs [...]

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Norm Brodsky in hipsterland

Like many young publishing people in New York, I live in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. My neighborhood is full of artsy young hipsters with tattoos, tight jeans, and ironic haircuts. It’s also the home of Norm Brodsky, an ultra-successful entrepreneur and coauthor of The Knack. Norm isn’t exactly your typical Williamsburg resident, as you [...]

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