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	<description>One-stop legal resource for start-ups and emerging companies</description>
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		<title>Federal Securities Laws Basics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So let’s say you’ve just started a small company and want to offer shares, whether to yourself, investors, employees, or others. What sort of requirements will you have to comply with? There are many, whether on the federal level (through the SEC and IRS) or on the state level. SEC registration requirements can present some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzclaw.com/blog/2009/10/federal-securities-laws-basics/</link>
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		<title>Simplifying the Home Office Deduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of a number of bills that would potentially benefit small businesses is now floating around Congress in the form of HR 1509, which, if enacted, would allow self-employed home-based business owners to take a standard deduction of $1,500 instead of itemizing home office expenses on their federal income taxes.  Or owners may  continue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzclaw.com/blog/2009/09/simplifying-the-home-office-deduction/</link>
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		<title>83(b) Elections: A Primer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 83(b) election is one of those small tasks that startups (especially closely held companies) need to think about, but which is often also easily forgotten or ignored.  The failure to take advantage of the election can be costly: a large tax bill for a shareholder years down the line could be the result.
So what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzclaw.com/blog/2009/09/83b-elections-a-primer/</link>
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		<title>SBA Now Using YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Buffalo Business First Journal comes this recent news about the Small Business Administration using YouTube to post informational videos helpful to small businesses and entrepreneurs.  The SBA&#8217;s own channel, which can be found here, just debuted with a brief introduction and its first 10 part series, entitled &#8220;Delivering Success.&#8221;  According to the Buffalo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzclaw.com/blog/2009/08/sba-youtube/</link>
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		<title>Another Source for Business Loans: Kiva.org</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
For small business owners out there looking for a business loan, the web site kiva.org brings good news. Taken from a story I originally heard last week on Marketplace—by they way, it&#8217;s a great show, if you don&#8217;t already listen to it—Kiva announced that it’s created a micro-loan program in the U.S.

By way of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzclaw.com/blog/2009/06/small-biz-loans/</link>
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		<title>Interest Free Money From the SBA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not for the startups out there, but for the established, viable small businesses, comes news from the Small Business Administration of a new loan program&#8211;the &#8220;America&#8217;s Capital Recovery Loan Program&#8221;&#8211;essentially a program guaranteeing, through third party lenders, up to $35,000 of interest free money for a year for small businesses struggling to pay their debts. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzclaw.com/blog/2009/05/interest-free-money-from-the-sba/</link>
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		<title>Business.gov: Big Government Helps Small Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I write this blog is to help small businesses, as well as myself, stay up to date about helpful free resources on-line.  Like any group of sites, there are the good ones and then there are the ones that are hardly worth more than a few clicks followed by a quick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzclaw.com/blog/2009/04/businessgov-big-government-helps-small-business/</link>
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		<title>US Copyright Office Raises Fees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US Copyright Office just published notice of its intent to raise registration fees, beginning August 1, 2009, pending approval by Congress.  It&#8217;s not exactly earth-shattering news, but something to be aware of for businesses that intend to register copyrights in the near future.  
The Copyright Office published this rather brief report setting forth and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzclaw.com/blog/2009/04/us-copyright-office-raises-fees/</link>
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		<title>Update: Guide to Recovery &amp; Reinvestment Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a month and a half ago, immediately after President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, I posted this blog entry, entitled &#8220;How the Stimulus Plan Benefits Small Business.&#8221;  Most of the information in that post came from a NY Times article setting forth the various benefits to small businesses.
We now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzclaw.com/blog/2009/03/guide-to-recovery-reinvestment-act/</link>
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		<title>Employees v. Independent Contractors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New companies often want to classify any new workers as independent contractors instead of employees, in order to limit the company&#8217;s costs.  Costs attributable to hiring and retaining employees can be quite substantial and include workers&#8217; compensation, unemployment insurance tax, social security tax and withholding and local payroll taxes.  Simply calling a worker an independent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mzclaw.com/blog/2009/03/employees-v-independent-contractors/</link>
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