• Airline profits from frustration
  When Kent Craford saw that "business travelers were being terribly inconvenienced" by Transportation Security Administration regulations, he helped start a regional airline to make their lives easier. SeaPort Airlines uses nine-passenger aircraft, far below the 30-seat minimum for TSA screening, so customers can board quickly and easily. The promise of hassle-free travel allowed the company to expand, even as bigger airlines were cutting back. The Oregonian (Portland) (10/22)

• Bloggers continue to rake in advertising dollars
  The average blogger who brings in advertising revenue makes $42,548 a year from it, according to a survey by Technorati. Some bloggers supplement their ad income with paid speaking and writing gigs, the survey finds. Just 14% of bloggers work for another company, while 54% say they blog part time and 32% identify themselves as self-employed. Technorati/State of the Blogosphere 2009 blog (10/22)

• SBA overhaul may face challenges in the House
  President Barack Obama's plan to boost small-business lending may see some opposition from Congress. The ranking members of the Senate Small Business committee have supported similar language in the past, but House Small Business Committee Chairwoman Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., is pushing her own bill with much lower limits on most SBA 504 loans. NYTimes.com/You're the Boss blog (10/23)

• Home is where the business is
  Home-based entrepreneurs now employ about 10% of the U.S. private-sector workforce, according to a report from Emergent Research. The number of home-based businesses could double in the next 20 years, according to report co-author Steve King. Since they don't have to pay for office space, profitable home-based companies are able to retain a higher percentage of their receipts as income, the report finds. Bloomberg Businessweek (10/23)

• The week's quick fact
  "Research in entrepreneurship has come a long way past trait psychology popular in the 1960's that suggested entrepreneurs were risk-taking, achievement-oriented heroic individuals. Instead, more than 30 years of research shows that it is behavioral and cognitive psychology that predicts success, not traits," writes Dr. Candida Brush, a full professor at Babson College, holder of the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship and Division Chair for Entrepreneurship. Read more.

• How to deal with trolls
  Entrepreneurs need to learn to block out critics who "gain perverse pleasure" in tearing down creative ideas, Seth Godin writes. Such critics are nothing but "trolls," he writes, and "it's part of your job" to ignore them. Seth Godin's Blog (10/24)

Featured Content

Top five news stories selected by SmartBrief on Entrepreneurs readers in the past week.

• 7 ways to impress a venture capitalist (Entrepreneur magazine)

• Why content is no longer king (Advertising Age (tiered subscription model))

• Top "tax havens" -- no passport required (CNNMoney.com)

• Young musician creates an album -- and a legacy (New York magazine)

• Even Richard Branson has regrets (The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model))

• Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.

'Can't please everyone' isn't just an aphorism, it's the secret of being remarkable." --Seth Godin, writing in his blog