This week: a range of short and helpful articles!

Article 1 - The Government getting behind small business

While most people watched the new coalition government’s debut budget from behind the sofa, in fear of tax hikes and public sector pay freezes, Britain’s small business community actually had something to smile about.

Read more: HSBC Knowledge Centre

Article 2 – Atrack people to your facebook page

Communicating the presence of your company Facebook page and keeping users or readers engaged is a second important part of building a company page on Facebook. 

After you’ve identified your community-building objectives and the target audience, the key question to answer is: “What’s in it for them?” The success of your efforts to promote your Facebook page resides in having answers for these questions: Why will a person join your community? And why will that person participate in the community on an ongoing basis?

Read more: Wall Street Journal

Article 3 – Advanced Entrepreneurship

What makes an entrepreneur successful? Many have tried to answer this question, but few have delved deeper into what distinguishes a good entrepreneur from a great one.

Based on three decades of working inside 10 start-ups as a founder or early team member (and advising several more), I’ve come to believe that great entrepreneurs approach their job with a different mind-set than those who are merely good. Good entrepreneurs apply intelligence, drive, and business best practices to building their companies. Great entrepreneurs do this too, but they also know that a company’s early stages sometimes require less traditional methods. They add to their tool kit approaches that handle the chaos of a start-up.

Read more – Harvard Business Review