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Tax Issues for New York Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Illinois Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Indiana Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Arkansas Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Iowa Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Kansas Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Kentucky Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for California Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Oregon Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Louisiana Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Maryland Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Massachusetts Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for South Carolina Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Tennessee Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Texas Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Virginia Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Washington Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Wisconsin Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

Tax Issues for Alabama Start-Ups

Registering to Pay Taxes Once you have officially obtained the necessary licenses and permits for your business, you will be respo...  Read more

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 more

CEO's Notebook

CEOs give advice on: boning up on employment law; making the most of customer feedback; finding big-time IT for your small company; and streamlining the due ...  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

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 more

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 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

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 more

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 more

TEC Survey Results: Business Valuations

Here are some findings from a U.S. membership survey recently conducted by TEC Worldwide Inc., an international CEO-education and -development organizatio...  Read more

Rodeo Event-Marketing Company

An overview of a rodeo-marketing company offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and con...  Read more

Caveat Emptor

CEO Brodsky explains why it's riskier for a first-time entrepreneur to purchase an existing business than it is to build one from the ground up.  Read more

Questions Would-be Founders Ask

In response to commonly asked questions by aspiring entrepreneurs, CEO Norm Brodsky lists the five most important questions to ask yourself before starting a...  Read more

Buying Blind

CEO Norm Brodsky says you shouldn't buy a business merely out of hatred for your old job. You should make sure you fully understand what the business entails...  Read more

FYI: Redesigning the CEO

Inc.'s editor looks at how companies use creativity as a competitive advantage; Britain's equivalent of the Inc. 500; and CEOs who've profited by selling and...  Read more

Entrepreneurial Arbitrage

These are tough times for most companies that sell to the Fortune 500, as they find themselvescontending with the turmoil brought on by waves of mergers a...  Read more

The Automatic Daily Scorecard, Buying a Business or Franchise Article

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