business owners

Franchises Offer a Quick Start to a New Career

For wannabe entrepreneurs, franchises offer a proven business model that offers quick entry, but buying an established business doesn't come cheap.

Is Groupon Changing What We're Willing to Pay?

America is in a group-buying frenzy. The rapidly growing craze sparked by website Groupon has spawned hundreds of clones and threatens to overwhelm people's e-mail boxes with Daily Deals. But businesses that use them risk resetting their customers' ideas of what a fair price is.