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$6 Billion in Small Business Export Funding About to Dry Up

The Ex-Im Bank is under threat of being tapped dry and is facing imminent stoppages for financing small-business exporting.  Read more

Outsourcing Don'ts Learned From Apple

The company's latest supplier responsibility report is out. And it's something every entrepreneur wanting to outsource should read.  Read more

5 Things They Didn't Teach You in Business School

So you got a degree. Now it's time to face the realities of running a business, including these lessons you didn't learn in the classroom.  Read more

Introducing the One-Sector Economy

Entrepreneurship can fix many of our economic woes, explains the author of The Coming Prosperity . Here's his thought-provoking metaphor for our curr...  Read more

Testing a Start-up 8,000 Miles From Silicon Valley

After being founded at UC-Berkeley, NextDrop is pioneering a text-message water-alert system in Hubli, India.  Read more

The Ultimatum: Go Global or Go Home

What to do when your biggest customer tells you that, essentially, your company is too small for them.  Read more

Yelp Goes Live in Australia as It Prepares for IPO

Co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman hopes that the review site will go viral Down Under without a marketing campaign.  Read more

The Returnees

Seoul is home to a burgeoning corps of young entrepreneurs, a shocking number of them born or educated in America. Why aren't they starting companies here?  Read more

How I Launched in Mexico—In Just Three Weeks

Cliff Schertz decided that Mexico was a better spot than India to locate his software start-up. Here's how he got it going in record time.  Read more

Want a Speedy Start-up? Try New Zealand or Rwanda

How can the U.S. ease the process of starting a business? Take a note from countries like New Zealand that are using a "one-stop shop" approach encourage ent...  Read more

Doing Business in China

Michael Lee is on the verge of becoming the first American entrepreneur to build big in the world’s most populous country.  Read more

Web Translation Made Simple

The skinny on a new Web-based service that can translate websites into more than 50 foreign languages  Read more

How I Opened an Office in a War Zone

Just months after assuming the role of CEO, Lisa Hogan went the extra 6,562 miles to accommodate her employees in Afghanistan.  Read more

How to Sell Your Products in the U.K.

U.S. products almost certainly have a market across the pond. Experts share their tips and advice for shipping inexpensively, hiring help abroad, and dealing...  Read more

4 Questions Every Franchiser Should Ask

Is your small business ready to expand? Here are four questions every franchiser should ask before taking the leap.  Read more

Reader Mail: September 2011

Readers respond to our story about the constant feeling of crisis that is entrepreneurship in Argentina, and others.  Read more

The Inc. 500 Global Map

America’s fastest-growing companies are also increasingly global. From Canada to New Zealand, see the extent to which Inc. 500 companies are active in spec...  Read more

Top 10 Global Companies

From London to the Congo, here’s where Inc. 500 companies are finding opportunity abroad.  View slideshow

Thinking About Exporting Overseas?

For some small businesses, doing business abroad is helping get them through tough times at home.  Read more

Fruit Bouquets in Every Time Zone

How do you keep a smooth supply chain when you sell perishable goods on an international scale? Edible Arrangements's co-founder and COO Kamran Farid shares ...  Read more

Reader Mail: July/August 2011

Readers respond to our stories about the battle for national cupcake dominance and social entrepreneurship, among others. Plus: an update on Groupon’s glob...  Read more

A Constant Feeling of Crisis

Think the U.S. economy feels shaky? Try doing business in Argentina, where corruption is the norm, regulations are absurd, inflation is rampant, and financia...  Read more

What Ever Happened to Start-up Nation?

A decade ago, Israel had the highest density of start-ups in the world, and attracted more venture capital than anywhere. Today, the entrepreneurial hotbed f...  Read more

Creating a Smart Export Strategy

Borders still matter, according to Pankaj Ghemawat, author of World 3.0. But that doesn't mean there aren't great opportunities to do business abroad.  Read more

A New Way to Make Calls Abroad

Tired of outrageous overseas roaming charges? EZ Roam aims to help.  Read more