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Conferences, expos and awards New: Management tip of the day If you've figured out how to use technology to save time, help customers, or save money, send us the info. Winners get published in the book 301 Great Ideas for Managing Technology. A young design firm is looking for advice: "Our talents and passions lie in design, not sales. Art imitates life imitates art: why entrepreneurism is so hot in Hollywood, onscreen and off.

One who manages, organizes, and assumes the risk of a small business or enterprise is an entrepreneur. Bravery and motivation are necessities for the entrepreneur because the road to sucess has many obstacles along the way. An important question to answer in trying to project whether a business will make it or not is why do businesses fail? The local public library (mainly magazines with monthly or yearly reports) Any college or University (most give public access to their extensive volumes of books, government reports, and other useful information) Vo-tech schools (for basically the same reason) Observation (of other businesses and their success) Federal, state, and local Commerce Departments (They all publish reports on on specific markets. The written deal, no matter how complex, usually says in one way or another that if the investor loans the money now, the business owner promises to share the profits at a later date. Initial money to organize and