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Why Daniel Boulud still lives above the store

The celebrated chef describes his favorite parts of the job and why he chooses to literally live above his signature restaurant in Manhattan, Daniel.

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Can a side gig help your career?

Certain kinds of moonlighting may actually help you in your main job, and wise organizations can embrace, rather than squelch, entrepreneurial zeal.

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Businesses are recovering, but Washington didn’t help

It’s a question that could determine if President Obama gets to serve another term: Are you better off than you were four years ago?

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Succeeding as a ‘boomerpreneur’

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Hail to the Rice Business Plan champions

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The real costs of starting a business

How can you beat the odds if you want to join the boomerpreneur boom and start your own company after 50? MONEY put that question to small-business experts and dozens of fiftysomething entrepreneurs for their best advice.

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A former children’s publisher goes back to school

Before Deborah Kenny quit her job in 2001 to start a school for underprivileged youth in Harlem, her friends staged an intervention. They listed their concerns: She would run out of money, she’d lose her house, and, worst of all, as a new widow she wou…

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Creating jobs on both sides of the border

Hector Correa came to the United States seeking opportunities, and he’s made it his personal mission to create them himself — both here and back in Mexico.

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From tiny jungle town to a gourmet city shop called MarieBelle

In the years before Maribel Lieberman left Honduras for the United States, her mother pleaded for her to ditch dreams of architecture school.

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Starting a company from scratch

How can you beat the odds if you want to join the boomerpreneur boom and start your own company after 50? MONEY put that question to small-business experts and dozens of fiftysomething entrepreneurs for their best advice.

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Industrial ghost town? No, startup boomtown.

When Stephen Hindy opened a beer brewery in Brooklyn’s then-scruffy Williamsburg neighborhood more than a dozen years ago, he was on the front edge of a wave of smaller businesses that were returning to inner cities to tap the benefits of low rent, con…

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Buying a business after 50

As a regional director for Aflac insurance, Stephanie Ringer had built her Louisville sales team into one of the top in Kentucky. One of her secrets for keeping her staff motivated? Holding brainstorming sessions in a local meeting space called WorkSho…

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Vying for a school lunch revolution

Remember school lunches? Some of it was good — the cookies, sometimes the pizza, mostly the items that would make any self-respecting nutritionist cringe. But in the past 15 years or so, schools have come under fire for serving a hot mess of carbs, sa…

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Moms making millions

These five entrepreneurs are successfully juggling their duties as moms, while making millions in their businesses. Here’s how.

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How small businesses grow, even in a tough economy

In a presidential election year, the economy is sure to be the story, with plenty of numbers for detail and small businesses playing the main characters. But over the past 14 years, the Boston-based Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) has co…

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100 fastest growing inner city businesses

From a Brooklyn craft brewer to an event tent designer, America’s urban core is home to a host of novel, fast-growing small businesses. Here’s the top 100.

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Mobile banking for Spanish speakers

Roger Chinchilla and Grimaldy Dominguez grew up watching Latin American families struggle in Queens, New York. As entrepreneurs, the two have created a free mobile banking system to help Hispanics keep track of their money.

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El Pichy Films: A joke turned into a company

It all started in jest.

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Entrepreneur left Colombia and never looked back

Sandra Giraldo never meant to stay here.

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On the rise: Immigrant entrepreneurs

Working for a new company? There’s a more than one-in-four chance your new boss wasn’t born here.

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