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Nation Dec 16

The U.S. has a shortage of licensed child care providers. Can these apps help?

By Cat Wise, Kira Wakeam

Science Mar 30

This 3D-printed home is a petite replica of the houses that will soon shelter underserved families throughout the world. Courtesy of New Story and ICON
These 3D-printed homes could provide shelter to the world’s most vulnerable people

These 3D-printed homes can be built in under 24 hours for as low as $4,000. They're designed to help solve the world's homelessness and housing problems.

By Rashmi Shivni

World Nov 22

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In remote Kenyan villages, solar startups bring light

Some 1.3 billion people around the globe don’t have access to an electric grid. But solar startup companies say harnessing an abundant resource -- the sun -- can light up some of the world’s most remote areas. In this Kenyan…

By Fred de Sam Lazaro

Economy Sep 28

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For African-American female entrepreneurs, funding challenges call for creative bootstrapping

The fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. is African-American women. But minority-owned businesses often face greater challenges getting funding. The NewsHour’s April Brown profiles two women who have bucked the stereotypes and gotten resourceful to launch their ventures.

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Economy Sep 20

The best way to get the inside track on job openings is to get to know the people who work in the industry, writes columnist Nick Corcodilos. Photo by Robert Galbraith/Reuters
Column: Why you no longer need a venture capitalist to start a successful business

The spread of the virtual corporation model was a boon for generic plug-and-play vendors who could assemble products and manage supply chains, ship goods to consumers and provide various business services. But once all of these components were available off-the-shelf,…

By Gerald Davis

Sep 19

Column: How lightweight enterprises are outperforming industry heavyweights

By Gerald Davis

A corporation was once a social institution, with a mission and members and boundaries that separated the inside from the outside. Today it is more like a webpage. Whereas Blockbuster had 83,000 employees and 9,000 physical stories at its height,…

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Dec 17

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Move over Silicon Valley. The new startup nexus is…northern Vermont?

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Middlebury College, a liberal arts school in northern Vermont with just 2,500 students, has become an unlikely hothouse for cultivating entrepreneurs. Does using college to start a business help support the larger liberal arts mission? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.

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Dec 07

Poll: Should small investors be allowed to fund startup businesses?

By News Desk

Small investors could soon be another source of start-up cash for budding entrepreneurs. NewsHour wants to know what you think about the proposed changes. Take our poll and sound off.

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Dec 06

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A distant dream? Crowdfunding still beyond reach for many entrepreneurs

By PBS NewsHour

Raising a large pool of money from many small contributions online, known as crowdfunding, was supposed to be an option for startup business to raise money when President Obama signed the 2012 JOBS Act into law. But today, that method…

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Dec 04

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Replacing surf shops with startups, tech boom makes waves in bohemian Venice Beach

By PBS NewsHour

Some high tech entrepreneurs have started trading in the high costs of the San Francisco Bay Area for the sunnier skies of Venice Beach in Los Angeles. But with the benefits of the boom, like high-paying jobs, also come problems,…

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