Today in Global Small Business: Stanford University Takes It Global

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

• The Weekly Roundup over at About.com Import and Export site offers tips you might never find on your own.
• Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global (WEGG) powers up for new growth to help women led-owned business owners and entrepreneurs go global.
• Stanford University takes it global to showcase its research, teaching and learning on campus and abroad - finally.
• Arcadia, Wisconsin based Ashley Furniture ($4 billion in sales 2014) tries to go global.
• Visa adds Global M-Payments as a partners to roll out its new set of mobile payment services for Android phones.
• What makes globalizing companies interesting is that they are also America’s elite SMEs -- find out why.