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Starting up a new business is always very exciting, whether it's in based in the spare room at home or a new office. Obviously if you're creating your office out of a spare room, it's likely that the business is a one-man band, and keeping the space clean will be part of the weekly household routine. But when moving into a rented or purchased office space, keeping the office space clean is something that is often overlooked.

The gap between the early stage funding needs of a start-up company and the expectations of a typical venture-capital firm can prevent many innovations from growing beyond a concept into a commercial commodity. Because venture capitalists and angel investors tend to support products and services in intermediate, less-risky stages of development, numerous government and academic institutions have created "pre-seed" or gap funds to accelerate the creation of new companies and sustain developing companies through the research phase so their owners can focus on preparing their businesses for later-stage equity investments.

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The small business administration gives away free seminars for those people who'd like to start a business and they often bring in experts from the local community to comment and speak. I have been asked to speak at these seminars and I must tell you it is quite fun to see all the entrepreneurs in the audience that are very interested in learning just how to run a business and get it done. I like to speak about local marketing because that is something I'm really good at and something I enjoy doing and talking about.

While less than half of all small business owners still don't have websites, many have developed a strong online presence that reaches far beyond the places where their businesses are physically located. If a small business owner has a marketable product, a way to distribute that product around the world at a reasonable cost, and a sound business plan and strategy to follow through with the organizational details required, then the possibilities for a truly global business can be achieved right form the comfort of a home or office anywhere.