Owners Need to Know When Operating Home-Based
By Tara Reynolds, Corporate Vice President, MassMutual

It’s old news that small businesses are facing plenty of challenges, but imagine owning a small business and you need to discuss a problem employee… and it’s your little brother. More than 70 percent of all U.S. businesses are family-owned, and their proprietors will often say that success means being one part entrepreneur and one part family psychologist.





The "techie" programmers are not the only ones who have jumped on the iPhone app band wagon. Rita Bruce and Cathy Mitchell, two friends and moms in the Houston area, have knocked down all barriers by taking their idea for an iPhone game to the finish line. They have turned a socially engaging game they play with their spouses, friends and as a party starter into a social networking opportunity, while having the benefits of building a successful home-based business called PeetyCat.
