The 2009 StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition

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BusinessHelpingBusiness

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Contestant's Case to Win

BusinessHelpingBusiness was founded on the simple principle that businesses can help one another to survive and succeed by making needs known and favors available. It is an entirely grassroots movement intended to bring together large and small, global and local, and product and service businesses alike in cooperation rather than competition. The idea is so simple yet so necessary. It is through cooperation, not competition, that businesses can grow together.

To participate in the BusinessHelpingBusiness movement, business owners and entrepreneurs subscribe to The Needs & Haves List to receive weekday emails of needs and haves submitted by other business owners. If they see a need they can fulfill or a have that interests them, a connection is made between business owners.

Regardless of location, sector, industry, tax filing status, or whatever, all businesses can benefit from BusinessHelpingBusiness. There are many, many possibilities for finding needs to fulfill or haves to take advantage of. A restaurant can make gift card giveaways available to a local non-profit charity event. A gallery owner can arrange to decorate the walls of a local salon with their artwork-for-sale. A consultant can offer mentoring services to an in-distress Internet company. A soap company can offer up their overstock of rubber duckies for cross-promotion opportunity. The possibilities are endless!

Thousands of business owners and entrepreneurs are helping one another each and every day at BusinessHelpingBusiness. We hope to see you there!

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