Today in Global Small Business: When Friends Go Global

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• What's the next rule or big thing that might save or grow your global small business?
• How a Fort Worth entrepreneur is going global with handbags.
• The pressure when friends go global.
• Global e-commerce set to grow 25 percent in 2015.
• Why becoming a global e-commerce player will require universal payment methods like Bitcoin.
• Weakening Chinese currency could hurt Maryland exporters.