Entering Global Markets


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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

Where Opportunity Knocks 

The world may indeed be your oyster. But not all countries are friendly to American entrepreneurs. Staff writer Max Chafkin highlights the best and worst....  Watch video

Fully Committed

Let others proceed gingerly. Bülent Çelebi has set up an American-style company in Turkey, where he enjoys advantages his competition can only dream of.  Read more

How to Be a Local, Anywhere

If you're a leader, lead. When my company explores a new market, I'm the first one off the plane.  Read more

How I Did It: Howard Dahl, President and CEO, Amity Technology

Negotiating with commissars. Bartering for payment. Surviving the crash of the ruble.  Read more

Gold-Medal Marketing

For companies looking to profit from the Beijing Olympics, the race is on.  Read more

A Whole New World [Video] 

Are there opportunities for your business in the Middle East? Staff writer Darren Dahl explains the benefits -- and challenges -- of expanding to the regi...  Watch video

A Whole New World

How Mosaica Education made the jump from the inner city to the Middle East.  Read more

The Worldwide Workforce

To stay competitive and reap top talent, small businesses will need travel beyond the borders of the U.S. for employees and learn to work effectively with wo...  Read more

An Outsourcing Case Study [Audio] 

With revenue flattening, David Galbenski needed a bold new plan. But was outsourcing everything to India really the right move? Darren Dahl speaks to some...  Watch video

Case Study: Was Outsourcing to India the Right Move?

With revenue flattening, David Galbenski needed a bold new plan.  Read more

Case Study: A Quota on Profit

Lafayette 148 had high hopes for its new Chinese factory. Then it encountered an unforeseen problem: trade restrictions.  Read more

Would You Buy a Chinese Car from This Man?

Malcom Bricklin is on a quest to revolutionize the auto industry at 14,845 words per hour.  Read more

In a Foreign Market? Watch Out for Your Bank

Picking a reliable bank can be a key step to making exports run smoothly.  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

Sweatshops, Free Trade Force Owner to Call It Quits

The story of how a manufacturing company failed under pressures from GATT, NAFTA, and sweatshops.  Read more

'Flashes of Genius'

Peter Drucker on entrepreneurial complacency and delusions—and the madness of always thinking you're numb one.  Read more

The Exporter's Catalog

Information on a catalog of books, tapes, and newsletters on international business.  Read more

Structuring a Global Licensing Deal

Structuring a U.S.-based deal with a foreign partner.  Read more

Money (and More) for Overseas Expansion

An income-producing U.S. government agency helps businesses invest in foreign markets.  Read more

Trading Places: Small Businesses and Global Trade

Economist David L. Birch on the state of our global competitiveness and the surprising truth about small exporters.  Read more