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• Editor’s Note

  New blog highlights entrepreneurship

  We have just launched The Starting Gate, a new Miami Herald blog focusing on news, views and tools for startups and small businesses.

• Entrepreneurship Tools

  Bringing a tech vision to reality? Here’s help

  SuperConf and other Miami Tech Week events provide opportunities to interact with developers and designers.

• Economy

  Express your economic thoughts with haiku poetry

  Business Monday is looking for haiku with an economic them. Are you impacted or concerned about unemployment, low housing prices, too many foreclosures, Europe on the brink, pay cuts and layoffs. Are you still fed up or do you see better days around the corner? Please feel free to riff on our current economic conditions but make sure you keep it to 17 syllables and wrestle it into three unrhymed lines in the 5-7-5 format. Haiku should also express a thought, feeling or mood. Send your contributions to Business Monday Editor Rochelle Koff (rkoff@MiamiHerald.com) by Feb. 20 and include your name and where you live. We’ll print our favorites.

• The Home Economist: Money can’t

  The Beatles had it right: When it comes to relationships, pricey baubles can cause more grief than passion.

• Investing

  Think tactically with your bond investments

  When it comes to bonds and other fixed-income securities, many investors follow a “buy and hold” strategy. After purchasing corporate or municipal bonds, Treasury bills (T-bills) or certificates of deposit (CDs), they tuck those assets away in their portfolios.

• HIGHER EDUCATION

  Cost crunch hammers community colleges

  Florida’s institutions for those who need an affordable education the most are facing an uphill battle in their primary mission.

• REAL ESTATE

  Sam Zell on Miami: Future depends on growing skilled workforce

  Billionaire Sam Zell tells conference audience that Miami’s highly skilled workforce doesn’t match up to Chicago or New York.
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  Inspectors ensure sweetheart’s flowers are pest-free

  U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists search tons of flowers to make sure no pesky pests and diseases make it into bouquets and arrangements during the annual Valentine’s Day season.

• United Way of Broward offers free tax assistance

  Free tax assistance is available through April 14 for low- and moderate-income families through the United Way of Broward County’s Mobile Resource Center and the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.

• STEVE JOBS

  Jobs described as ‘deceptive’ in FBI file

  In newly-released documents, some people who knew or worked with the late Apple mogul said he would sometimes ‘distort reality’ to achieve his goals.

• GREEK DEBT CRISIS

  Euro ministers question bailout deal

  Stuck between looming bankruptcy and a flat-lined economy, Greek politicians agreed Thursday to make a sweeping series of cuts that they hope will secure an international bailout, layering more pain onto what is already a deep recession.

• RETIREMENT

  401(k) balances finish 2011 flat

  The most prolific 401(k) administrator in the country reported that retirement savings accounts didn’t gain much ground in 2011 over 2010.

• BarCamp returns to Miami Feb. 19

  Miami will host its fifth BarCamp, a Silicon Valley phenomenon that has taken root in South Florida, on Feb. 19.

• Two South Beach hotels to join Marriott’s Autograph Collection

  Two Art Deco boutique hotels are joining the Autograph Collection, Marriott International’s portfolio of independently owned and operated upscale properties.
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  FASHION

  A shared passion for fashion

  Seven apparel companies under one roof in Miami share resources, swap ideas and work better than they would alone.

• Grocery Shopping

  Wal-Mart debuts ‘Great for You’ seal

  You may like the food you buy, but is it “Great for You”?

• SOUTH FLORIDA | ECONOMY

  Construction spending finally in a tiny rebound

  Construction spending in Florida is finally in a tiny rebound. The bad news: Housing permits are still 80 percent off their peaks.

• Broward County

  BankAtlantic Center bonds: good rating, ‘negative outlook’

  The financial picture for the Florida Panthers and Broward’s tourist tax caught the attention of Moody’s bond-rating agency, which tacked a “negative outlook’’ onto the county’s bonds for BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise.

• Greek bailout talks hit snag over pension cuts

  Crucial talks to discuss austerity cuts in Greece broke down after eight hours Wednesday as leaders of the three parties backing the country’s coalition government failed to agree to demands from international creditors for substantial cuts to state and private pensions.

• Regulators order inspections for entire Airbus A380 fleet

  European air safety regulators Wednesday ordered inspections of the entire fleet of Airbus A380 jets for tiny cracks in a wing component, extending a directive that had applied to only about a third of the 68 superjumbos in service.

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