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JJ Ramberg is the anchor of “Your Business,” MSNBC’s weekly show on small business. In addition to her extensive television reporting experience, Ramberg has a background as an entrepreneur and co-founded GoodSearch.com. She has an MBA from Stanford Business School.



Guest List -- Sunday, May 17

Posted: Monday, May 11, 2009 1:16 PM by Andrew Littell

Small Business Newsmakers: Karen Gordon Mills

On the day before the start of National Small Business Week, Karen Gordon Mills, Administrator of the United States Small Business Administration discusses the state of small business and the initiatives the Obama Administration is pursuing to aide small business owners in these uncertain economic times.

The Power of Resiliency

Very few businesses succeed without any hardships and resiliency is a common theme for success. We'll meet a few entrepreneurs who have employed creative tactics to survive and grow their businesses. Find out how you can come up with ways to reverse your business's fortunes. 

Panelists

--Dave Anderson, President of Dave Anderson's Learn To Lead and LearnToLead.com, an international sales and leadership training and consulting company

--Bob Phibbs, founder of The Retail Doctor, a retail consulting company

Wave of the Future

Belinda Di Giambattista, co-founder of Butter Beans, makers of all-natural organic meals, and Ben Silbermann, co-founder of Tote, a mobile shopping company developing software for smartphones, are the winners of a recent business plan competition at NYU's Stern School of Business. Cynthia Franklin, senior associate director of the Berkley Center Entrepreneurship Program at NYU's Stern School of Business, discusses what made these plans so strong, and what every entrepreneur should have in their business plan.

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