smSmallBiz -- SmartMoney Magazine's Small Business site

smSmallBiz takes a fresh approach to covering small business, focusing on the entrepreneur as a quick-thinking risk-taker who can turn a passion for a product or a service into a thriving business. It is the destination site for today's entrepreneurs.

Regular columns focus on the rewards and challenges of running your own show, including "Balancing Work & Life," which advises entrepreneurs on tricky issues such as taking a vacation or dealing with illness or spending time with family, and "Starting Up," which follows entrepreneurs through the early stages of launching a business.

Each month, our streaming-video reports, SmartMoney TV, focuses on a special topic of interest to business owners, whether that's raising capital or dealing with disaster. We also pay special attention to women and minorities, who currently make up the fastest-growing subset of entrepreneurs.

smSmallBiz.com is produced by SmartMoney Magazine, a joint venture of Hearst SM Partnership and Dow Jones & Company. Editorial partners include Entrepreneur Magazine, The Wall Street Journal Online's Small Business and AllBusiness.com.

BIOS

Colleen DeBaise
Small Business Editor
Colleen DeBaise writes the "Balancing Work & Life" column and has focused on small business since joining SmartMoney.com in January 2006. Prior to joining SmartMoney, DeBaise spent seven years at Dow Jones Newswires as a personal-finance columnist and also lead court reporter. Her stories have often appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and other news outlets. She has been interviewed on CNBC, MSNBC and Wall Street Journal Radio.

DeBaise is a 2005 winner of the Newswomen's Club of New York's Front Page award for specialized writing. She has a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a bachelor of arts in English from St. Lawrence University.

Diana Ransom
Reporter
Diana Ransom writes the "Starting Up" column and joined smSmallBiz in August 2007. Previously, she spent two years at The Wall Street Journal Sunday, where she wrote personal-finance articles and a column about young people starting out. Ransom has held internships in the New York bureau of the Christian Science Monitor, where she covered banking and politics, and the New York Daily News, where she tracked everything from marketing and personal-finance topics to the New York Stock Exchange and various corporate criminal proceedings. Before that, she spent a year at Fast Company magazine covering entrepreneurs, technology and marketing. Ransom has a master’s degree in journalism and a certificate in business and economic reporting from New York University. She also holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from George Mason University.

Bill Bischoff
Contributing Writer

Bill Bischoff, a certified public accountant with more than 25 years of experience, has authored books and training courses for tax professionals, and frequently writes about consumer and small-business tax matters.