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Infographic: US Women Business Owners

The Small Business Blog

Female business ownership in the US increased more than 20% between 2002 and 2007. An interesting trend in the US recovery is how much of it has been driven by women. This meant they were an important source of employment for many as the recession began in 2008.

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James Dyson: The Ever-Tinkering Engineer

Success

He politely answered questions about his startup years and tough business decisions (in 2002, he moved production of his machines from Malmesbury, a small town in England, to Malaysia; more on this later). When SUCCESS first met Dyson, it was early 2013 at the launch of his hybrid Airblade motion-activated hand-dryer and faucet.

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Are We Becoming a Part-Time Nation?

Small Business Labs

 In 2007, a year when the economy was strong and unemployment low, a bit over 22 million Americans worked part-time. Given the impact of the Great Recession, this not a surprising shift from 2007. In 2002, roughly 18% of all part-timers were teens aged 16 to 19. has always had a lot of part-time employment.

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Navigating the IRS’ Interactive Tax Assistant

BMT Office Administration

A weird thing: I entered two hypothetical children—a daughter who was born in 2002 and a son born in 2007. So all the basic information entered before had to be reentered before the assistant could determine whether one could claim anyone as a dependent. The sets of questions differed, depending on their gender.

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Opportunity – Small Business Quote of the Week

The Small Business Blog

Ann Landers (1918-2002) US columnist, attrib. Opportunity – Small Business Quote of the Week by Stefan Töpfer on Jan 09, 2010 A small business quote keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognise them.&# Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving

Professional Assistant Blog

Its compatible with any version of Outlook 2002 or later. Post from: Administrative Assistant 2comments for this post Anonymous Ive heard that with VISTA and MS Office 2007 Outlook is being phased out and replace with MS E-mail (not sure of name). Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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AZVAs Podcast Episode 1

Loosely Speaking

Brian started working on web sites in 2007. From 2002-2006 Brian played a key role in taking TickCo.com from $7-million to $35-million in sales annually, and driving 40-50% growth year-over-year and 90% of all sales.