Karen E. Klein is a Los Angeles-based columnist who writes about small business and entrepreneurship for several national publications. For more than a decade, she has been the “Smart Answers” columnist for Bloomberg Business Week and the “Q&A” columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
Karen has also written about personal finance and retirement planning for Newsday and contributed articles to Entrepreneur, The Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Daily News and Sunset magazine.
Advising entrepreneurs on where to find venture capital, private equity and angel funding have been major topics of her columns. She is often called on to judge business plan competitions and small business funding “pitch fests,” and acts as a moderator on small business panels at entrepreneurship conferences. She also writes frequently about marketing, sales, strategic partnerships and acquisitions.
In the 1990s, Karen helped create the "Business Makeover" and "Small Talk" columns for the business section of Los Angeles Times and wrote a five-part series on faith-based development for the Times' real estate section. She also profiled Southern California judges for the Los Angeles Daily Journal and wrote about science and the environment for The World and I.
In the 1980s, Karen was a staff writer at the Orange Coast Daily Pilot and the Los Angeles Daily News, where she covered the federal court and wrote about the Mexico City earthquake and the arrest of the Night Stalker.
She's a 1982 graduate of the University of Southern California, with degrees in English and Journalism, and a member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Specializing in: Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Personal Finance
