Selling To Japan
Sample of small American companies selling wares in Japan. Read story
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
All In The Family
Chairwoman of Careers USA acquires a husband and a new company president in one man. Read story
Adventures In Innovation
Founder of Inventors' Council connects inventors with companies preparing to innovate. Read story
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Community Service and Company Gain
Profile of one CEO who has taken a leave of absence to concentrate on charity work. Read story
Coal Miner's Son
Inc. 500 CEO expands his safety equipment company abroad and changes his focus. Read story
Radon, Radon Go Away
New business information on trends in combating radon. Read story
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Once More, With Feeling
One CEO speaks on the stagnation of remaining in one industry. Read story
Revolution for the Hec of It
Advertising CEO revolutionized the industry with fixed price offerings. Read story
Dressed for Success
Women's clothing sold in interchangeable units helps company fight off competition. Read story
Bound for Glory
Start-up company, Blue Coral Systems, allies with Blue Coral Inc. to gain clout. Read story
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Bittersweet Revenge
Discrepancy over lending agreements leaves one borrower close to bankruptcy. Read story
The Entrepreneurial Personality
Personality tests show marked contrasts between the typical Inc. 500 CEO and the typical small business manager. Read story
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Companies that sell by phone are unhappy about Florida's "asterisk" law, the nation's first. Under the law, residents can pay to have a telephone director... Read story
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The boom in facsimile machines has created a new marketing phenomenon: junk fax, the practice of sending unsolicited advertising through fax machines. Rig... Read story
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Look for higher executive salaries once companies adjust to Section 89 of the Tax Reform Act. Under Section 89, which goes into effect next January, comp... Read story
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You can say good-bye to "pink-sheet" stocks if the National Association of Securities Dealers has its way. NASD will soon require penny-stock brokers to r... Read story
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The export surge is causing temporary shortages of overseas shipping containers in some parts of the country, says David Letteney of the Steamship Operato... Read story
Preemptive Strike
They don't have any sales -- or anything to sell, for that matter. But that hasn't stopped the five souls who make up Red Eye Arms Inc. from shaking up C... Read story
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Although going public is tougher since the crash, selling out isn't: the market for small to midsize, privately held companies is as healthy as ever. Sale... Read story
A growing number of Fortune 500 companies are thinking about starting franchise operations as a way to expand and diversify quickly. Through a subsidiary,... Read story
The 100% commission concept pioneered by real-estate franchisor Re/Max International Inc. (INC., August 1987) continues to win converts in other service i... Read story
Listen for more business programming on AM radio, as entrepreneurs buy troubled stations to experiment with new formats. The decline of AM has made acces... Read story
The U.S. Small Business Administration is considering a new loan-guarantee program for revolving lines of credit, secured mainly by receivables and invent... Read story
More cities and states are getting involved in export financing, particularly for smaller companies that can't get bank support. The U.S. Export-Import Ba... Read story
Tune In, Turn On, And Drive By
Imagine an advertising medium that reached only people who wanted to hear your message -- and only when they wanted to hear it. Now imagine you could pip... Read story
A new study has uncovered what may be the secret ingredient of entrepreneurship: euphoria. In a nationwide survey of 3,000 entrepreneurs with businesses ... Read story
Hotline: Small Business News from April 1988
Keep an eye on the Texas Quality Consortium, a group of 12 Dallas electronics companies that banded together last October to form what may be the nation's... Read story
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Underwriters have never been in the forefront of economic change, so it was only to be expected that Newton C. Kindlund would have a hard time finding one... Read story
Beating Yesterday
Back in 1888, Walter Jessurun had a great idea for a product. To make a retail business grow, he realized, you had to be able to compare today's volume o... Read story
Matchmaker
In Kevin Shea's case, computer dating worked beautifully. Shea is the founder of Binary Engineering Software Inc., a Waltham, Mass., start-up that m... Read story
