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The Growing Cost of Doing Business in China

Small businesses such as Olive Juice and Gonzo Games grapple with rising prices.  Read more

Groupon's Expansion Strategy

In its quest to become the global powerhouse of online daily deals, Chicago-based Groupon is buying up copycat websites overseas.  View slideshow

9 Tips for Doing Business Globally

If you’re planning on doing business abroad, you’re going to need more than just a pocket-size travel guide. Here are 9 useful tips about how to bring yo...  View slideshow

Introducing Inc.com's Local Sections

Inc.com is launching new pages devoted to New York City small business news, Atlanta small business news, Chicago small business news, San Francisco small bu...  Read more

How to Survive a Beijing Business Trip

From the minute you land in Beijing, nothing is business as usual.  Read more

How to Find a Contract Manufacturer in China

One young entrepreneur explains what he learned by quitting his job and hopping on a one-way flight to China.  Read more

Small Businesses Fight Offshore Tax Havens

Multinational companies use tax havens to avoid $37 billion in taxes -- money that could be spent on a small business lending fund.  Read more

10 Steps to Starting a Business in China

China's fast-growing consumer class is giving business owners new reasons to set up shop abroad. Here's how to start and grow your business.  Read more

A Name the Press Could Love

A new bakery proves that a killer name can be the best marketing strategy.  Read more

In China, the Cost of Doing Business Rises

Recent wage hikes combined with rising prices mean China isn't as cheap an option as it once was.  Read more

For Tech Entrepreneurs Looking Beyond Silicon Valley, Chile is Ready and Waiting

Despite a recent earthquake, Chile is positioning itself for future technology investments and innovation.  Read more

The $100 iPad Killer?

A cheaper tablet on the horizon. It will run Google's Android operating system and it will likely be sold by a Chinese computer company. That's the...  Read more

Case Study: Attempting a Global Merger

The CEOs lived on different continents and barely knew each other. Could they make a deal work?  Read more

How to Set Up a London Office

If you are thinking of taking your company across the pond, be prepared to give up your car, pay high rents, and leave your business cards in your wallet.  Read more

China: Malware Capital Of The World

What a claim to fame for Shaoxing, China. It holds the world record for most malware attacks coming out of the country with the national title in the same...  Read more

Go Daddy, Network Solutions Pull Back From China

In the wake of Google's decision to stop censoring online content in China, two domain name registrars announce their retreat.  Read more

Google Redirects Chinese Traffic

Search giant Google has begun redirecting traffic away from Google.cn, its main Chinese site, and to Google.com.hk, this afternoon.  Read more

How to Build an International Brand

For decades, Coca-Cola and IBM were among the scant few globally-recognized brands. By crafting a universal message and increasing brand awareness, here's ho...  Read more

How to Start Selling Internationally

Advice for business owners on researching foreign markets, putting together an export plan, and finding salespeople overseas.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Technical Consumer Products

Ellis Yan was creating those more efficient spiral light bulbs way before 'green' was a buzzword.  Read more

FACE Time: French American Conference for Entrepreneurs 

Senior Editor Rick Schine speaks with French American entrepreneurs on their dual-country businesses, and how to be successful in both.   Watch video

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: MonaVie

How this producer of health drinks has gotten the attention of celebs like Rachael Ray, and is saving the rainforest one acai berry at a time.  Read more

Meet the Bill Gates of Ghana

Brash, ambitious, and optimistic, Herman Chinery-Hesse has already accomplished what many considered impossible--building a thriving tech business in his nat...  Read more

Is Outsourcing to China Over?

A growing number of American manufacturers seem to be profiting from an anti-outsourcing backlash.  Read more

An Olympic Shutdown?

Beijing's Olympic dreams may be a nightmare for U.S. companies  Read more

Finding Salespeople Abroad

Locating top performers in the global economy.  Read more

How to Get Ahead in China

When Mitch Free first went...  Read more

Trading Places: Inc.'s 2008 Export Guide

Who has petrodollars to spend? Where can you sell construction equipment? Jewelry? Management consulting? And where is the market that grew an astounding 55,...  Read more

What Are You Trying to Say? [Audio] 

English may still be the international language of business, but as more entrepreneurs work abroad, they're finding themselves lost in translation. So how...  Watch video

Center of Attention 

While many U.S. entrepreneurs are going global these days, Central America is not often the first place they look. Big mistake.   Watch video

The Oil Boom 

With oil well over $100 a barrel and gas prices flirting with $4 a gallon, oil-rich nations are becoming just that -- rich. So who has the most petrodolla...  Watch video

In Spanish, It's Un Equipo

In English, it's a team. Either way, it's tough to build.  Read more

The Believer

The Harvard M.B.A., the Fortune 500 experience, the connections that come with both--those are just some of the reasons Selena Cuffe can pretty much write he...  Read more

No Free Pass [Audio] 

When it comes to doing business abroad, sometimes you have to pay to play. Problem is, it's usually illegal. Associate editor Hannah Clark explains the ri...  Watch video

Perestroika Continues [Audio] 

Fidel Castro has given up power. The bad news is that he gave it to his brother Raul. Could the shift bring opportunity for U.S. entrepreneurs? Reporter S...  Watch video