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How to Bring an Alcoholic Beverage to Market

Hey, home-brew whiz. So you have what it takes to get your intoxicating beverage behind bars and on liquor-store shelves?  Read more

Banking on the Bacon

Bacon has proven to be a viable hedge against the recession -- its frenzied popularity has migrated from the Internet into the products of innovative entrepr...  Read more

The Demand Economy

How to locate deep pools of demand in a shrinking marketplace  Read more

Hot Market: The Aging Population

Baby boomers are hitting old age—and they are terrified of nursing homes. If only there was some way to keep the elderly in their homes and healthy.  Read more

Hot Market: Eco-Friendly Homeowners

Forget McMansions—tomorrow’s home is smaller and greener.  Read more

Hot Market: Consumer-Friendly Financial Services

The fees are high. The service is lousy. And strange charges appear for no reason. There has to be a better way to bank.  Read more

Hot Market: Locavores

Tainted burgers. Contaminated eggs. E. coli scares. No wonder Americans are looking close to home for their food.  Read more

Hot Market: Insomniacs

The problem with an always-on, 24-hour, caffeine-fueled culture: When you want to go to sleep, your humming brain won’t let you.  Read more

Hot Market: The Outsourced Work Force

More businesses are turning to remote workers. But can you really be sure that your off-site employees are working?  Read more

How to Adapt Products for Different Markets

How Violight adapted its toothbrush sanitizer into a cleaning product for cell phones.  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

The Art of the Spinoff

Maya Design grows by spinning off companies such as Luma Institute and Rhiza Labs.  Read more

Five Tips for Launching Spinoffs

How Maya Design grows by spinning off businesses  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

How to Become a Certified Woman-Owned Business

Becoming certified as a Women Business Enterprise can help your company pursue new business opportunities.  Read more

Norm Brodsky Answers Your Questions

On co-owning a business and making a long-term investment  Read more

Case Study: A Hot-Tub Maker Hits Hard Times

Bob Hallam of Dimension One Spas is struggling along with the rest of the hot tub industry. Can he come up with some new products to revive his company?  Read more

30 Profiles of Resilience in Business

You just can't keep an entrepreneur down, as these tales of leadership and overcoming obstacles illustrate  Read more

Managing: Planning Now for an Economic Rebound

How companies can plan for a big comeback once the recession is over  Read more

Why a CEO Needs to Have a Plan B

For nearly three decades, in good times and bad, Jack Stack has run his company, SRC, as though disaster could strike at any moment. Now, with the economy cr...  Read more

Case Study: Gambling You Can Turn Around a Business

Micky McDonald ran Westbeach for 5 years. Then the company went bankrupt. Was it time to walk away--or buy it?  Read more

Bootstrapping 101: Switch Business Models On a Dime

Napoleon Barragan of 1-800-Mattress has been consistently inconsistent when it comes to building his $100 million company.  Read more

Market Makers

What business are you in? Many Inner City 100 CEOs need only 10 minutes to answer that question -- which may be one reason they've grown so fast.  Read more

Chaos Theory

Justice Technology, the number one Inc. 500 company for 1998, achieved its staggering growth by branching out into new services--usually before determining w...  Read more

Second Acts

The search for new and bigger markets often leads a company right back home  Read more