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Business for Sale: A Minnesota Bowling Alley

This 24-lane bowling center in Duluth, Minnesota, is priced at $2.4 million  Read more

For sale: An inn on a Maine island

The owners of a 32-room hotel on Mohegan Island off the coast of Maine are putting their hotel up for sale for $4.3 million  Read more

Horse Race: Branded Entertainment

Four start-ups vie for leadership in the lucrative new space of branded entertainment  Read more

The Best Industries for Starting a Business Right Now

Here's a look at some of the fastest-growing industries today -- and where some of the best industries to start a business may be.  View slideshow

Business for Sale: A Motorcycle-Seat Manufacturer

Mike Corbin sold his first handmade motorcycle seat, for $40, back in 1965 at a rally in Grafton, New Hampshire. He went on to found Corbin-Pacific...  Read more

Business For Sale: A Tennessee Sawmill

Tim and Kim Hanback own and operate Berry Brothers Sawmill, whose primary business is making wooden crossties for the railroad industry. The busine...  Read more

Horse Race: The Whiteboard Jungle

Schools nationwide have been replacing their blackboards with digital whiteboards or "smartboards". Here's a look at the players in the industry.  Read more

Horse Race: Putting the App in Apple

Now that it's officially sanctioned, companies are rushing to develop games and widgets for the iPhone  Read more

Horse Race: Searching for the Next Digg

Start-ups jockey for position to be the authority of what's hot on the Web.  Read more

Cashing In on the Housing Crisis

The real estate section of your local newspaper may read more like the obituary page these days. But some savvy entrepreneurs have managed to build booming b...  Read more

What Makes a Good Opportunity?

Evaluate your business concept using the three "M's" before you start up.  Read more

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 more

Upstarts: The Russian Connection

Entrepreneurs who've emigrated from the former Soviet Union are shrewdly benefiting from the crumbling economy of that once-mighty empire. And they aren't th...  Read more