Business for Sale: Mid-Atlantic Vending Route
Looking to buy a business where you can dominate the market? Consider this in-office vending-route business. Profile includes price, how the business was val... Read story
Jill Andresky Fraser
Accounts Payable: Catching Costly Errors
A CEO explains how costly errors can be when vendors overbill. Read story
Benchmark: How Bank Rates Vary
A comparison of bank fees for various services, broken down by region. Read story
Business for Sale: Carpet-and-Upholstery-Cleaning Franchises
Looking for a niche where you can really clean up? Consider this 10-year-old carpet-and upholstery-cleaning business. Profile includes price, how the busines... Read story
Getting the Right Insurance When You're Going Solo
A fair number of home-based business owners confided -- off the record -- that they didn't have any additional insurance coverage, because they eith... Read story
Moving On Up and Out
It is often easy for entrepreneurs to see why it makes sense to start their companies at home. But figuring out if it's time to relocate is a toughe... Read story
Web Sites for Home-Based Workers
Here's a sad reality for any home-based entrepreneur hoping to use the Internet to save time and money on essentialbusiness matters: there is so much junk... Read story
Taxing Matters for the Home Office
Let's face it: the tax deduction for business use of your home may be used, abused, and fantasized about more than any other deduction in the rule books. ... Read story
Raising Capital for Home-Based Businesses
Sheila Lovell had already founded, grown, and sold one successful home-based business, a landscaping company in Massachusetts, when in late 1996 she purch... Read story
Home Grown
Once seen as quaint, home businesses are now run by sophisticated and ambitious company builders. Here's what you need to know to start growing a home busine... Read story
Business for Sale: Holiday-Products Manufacturer
Want to cash in on one of the fastest-growing holiday markets in America? Consider this child-oriented holiday-products manufacturer. Profile includes price,... Read story
Building the Board
A strong board of directors can make all the difference to a growth company. Here's how to draft one. Read story
Business for Sale: Texas Liquor Retailer and Wholesaler
Looking for a sparkling way to uncork the new millennium? Consider this Texas-based liquor retailer and wholesaler. Profile includes price, how the business ... Read story
Truth or Dare: When and How to Talk With Your Business Backers
Communication questions Uncertain about how to communicate an unexpected development to your backers? Ask yourself these questions... Read story
Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Before You Hire an Adviser Investigate - with businesslike rigor and savvy - stockbrokers, financial planners, insurance salespeople... Read story
What's Your Company Worth?
Doug Roberson and his partner started thinking about selling their data communications company, Atlantic Network Systems, in 1994. "Because we wanted the ... Read story
Business for Sale: Business-to-Business Web Site
Dying to get in on the Web frenzy? Consider this already-profitable business-to-business Web site. Profile includes price, how the business was valued, outlo... Read story
Business for Sale: Southeastern Retailer of Nautical Books and Charts
This retailer of nautical books and charts is awash in profits and boasts ample potential. The profile includes price, how the business was valued, outlook o... Read story
Money Talk
Holly Hitzemann, president and owner of Great American Stock, suggests that the key to building a good relationship with your banker is knowing how and when ... Read story
Business for Sale: Rocky Mountain Window Cleaners
An overview of a Rocky Mountain window-cleaning operation offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and... Read story
Business for Sale: Not a Sure Thing
Conventional wisdom holds that only one-quarter to one-third of small companies on the market areever sold. At first glance, it's hard to fathom why the r... Read story
The 1999 Business Brokers' Dog List
Although the market has generally been strong for small-business sales, certain types of companiesare languishing. Some examples: f... Read story
What Do Buyers Really Want?
A buyer is usually looking for a company whose cash flow can cover its current operating expenses plusthree other numbers: 1) the
Cost Control Basics
Fine-tune your billing and collection procedures. Few fast-growing companies manage their accounts-receivable systems as effecti... Read story
Hot Tip: Purchasing Discounts
Art Allen, founder of Allen Systems group, an enterprise software company in Naples, Fla., looks to his major suppliers, such as Xerox, to help his compan... Read story
Hot Tip: Keep Hiring Costs Down
Scott Daniels, the CFO of AdOne, a New York City-based company that specializes in Internet classified advertisements, knows that fast-growing young compa... Read story
Hot Tip: Focus On Variable Expenses
As founder of Allen Systems Group, an enterprise software company in Naples, Fla., Art Allen's favorite cost-cutting technique is different from anything ... Read story
Do-It-Yourself Growth Capital
In today's tight financing markets, with many owners relying on cash flow to fund expansion, cost control could be your key to faster growth. Read story
When It's a Seller's Market
If you're thinking of cashing out, there may be no better time than right now. A look at what happened to 22 companies previously featured in Inc. 's... Read story
Business for Sale: Mid-Atlantic Violin Shop
An overview of a violin shop offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and cons of the pur... Read story
Business for Sale: Packager and Distributor of Safe-Sex Products
An overview of a packager and distributor of safe-sex products offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales... Read story
The View from There
To fully understand--and exploit--your company's inner strengths, you need the perspective of someone who can see those assets more clearly then you can: an ... Read story
Who Can Help Out with a Business Plan?
Without a credible business plan, an entrepreneur has little hope of landing capital. Here's what investors will want to see in your plan, and where you can ... Read story
Business for Sale: East Coast Tent-Rental Company
An overview of a tent-rental company offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and cons of... Read story
Capitalization Plan
Some business owners conduct their capital searches along the philosophical lines of "Whatever I can raise, I canuse." Others rely on their business plans... Read story
Business 101: Capitalization Plans
Guidlines for projecting your company's capital needs Some business owners conduct their capital searches along the philosop... Read story
The Truth About Medical Savings Accounts
Overwhelmed by the cost of providing health insurance for your employees? Small businesses can now help employees set up medical savings accounts to pay thei... Read story
Capital Steps
Lance Miller, the CEO of start-up Integration Logic Inc., explains why he isn't even trying to raise capital. Cash-flow and profitability, he argues, are the... Read story
How to Finance Anything
Here's how to find financing in today's unpredictable, often discouraging U.S. capital markets. Includes six case studies of companies that overcame failed a... Read story
20 Tips for Finding Money Now
A list of some of the best sources for financing. Includes information about bank loans, nonbank creditors, private and public equity sources, and internatio... Read story
