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	<title>Dawn Rivers Baker</title>
	<link>http://www.dawnriversbaker.com</link>
	<description>microbusiness consultant</description>
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		<title>A slight change of direction &#8230; sort of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been rather pre-occupied with the numbers lately. That&#8217;s because there were two very major data releases at the very end of June that excited me very much.
For one thing, the SBA Office of Advocacy and Census finally released the 2007 firm size class numbers. Then, days later, Census released the new nonemployer numbers for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dawnriversbaker.com/2010/07/a-slight-change-of-direction-sort-of/</link>
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		<title>New Research: A Profile of Microbusiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve been in here, so I guess I had better start with the research.
Back in February 2010, under the auspices of the Microbusiness Research Institute, I released MRI&#8217;s first full-fledged research paper (as opposed to the many white papers I&#8217;ve written). 
I&#8217;m pretty excited about it because I intend it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dawnriversbaker.com/2010/02/new-research-a-profile-of-microbusiness/</link>
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		<title>New white paper: Microbusiness and the Human Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since I wrote my last white paper but this one has been several years in the thinking.
For a number of years now, I have been thinking about the different way that microbusiness owners do business and trying to figure out how that fit in. My thinking was dominated by ideas of sustainability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dawnriversbaker.com/2009/03/new-white-paper-microbusiness-and-the-human-economy/</link>
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		<title>AEO National Summit on Entrepreneurship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ At this year&#8217;s AEO annual meeting, I will be presenting a workshop on how microenterprise development professionals can teach their clients to advocate on behalf of their businesses with their elected representatives.
The need is very real. Most microbusiness owners assume they are powerless to influence public policy because they have neither the contacts nor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dawnriversbaker.com/2009/02/aeo-national-summit-on-entrepreneurship/</link>
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		<title>America&#8217;s microbusinesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are about 26 million of them and they are everywhere. In fact, they are more than ninety percent of all U.S. businesses. They are not small businesses as you know them, yet they are almost the entire small business population.
They buy things. They vote, too.
So &#8230; how much do you know about them? Is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dawnriversbaker.com/2008/12/americas-microbusinesses/</link>
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