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Red Sales in the Gun Set

By Tom Richman |  Oct 1, 1988

The Flint River Project Inc. produces spare parts locally for foreign equipment.  Read more

Learning the Ropes

By H. Garrett Deyoung |  Aug 1, 1988

Suggestions on taking a cost-effective approach to export opportunities.  Read more

Trading Places: Small Businesses and Global Trade

By David L. Birch |  Apr 1, 1988

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

At The Crossroads

By Lucien Rhodes |  Feb 1, 1988

After 10 years, Bill Wilson has discovered that the very traits that fed his early success no longer seem to work. He can no longer control every event in th...  Read more

Second Acts

By Paul B. Brown |  Dec 1, 1987

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

Hamburger Heaven

By John Case |  Sep 1, 1987

How McDonald's created modern-day franchising  Read more

The Chinese Way Of Business

By Joel Kotkin |  Jun 1, 1987

What appears to be a good old-fashioned family business may be a $100-million international conglomerate  Read more

The Pentagon As Partner;

Apr 1, 1987

The Pentagon As Partner;. While a Star Wars contract can set a company humming, it's hardly a ticket to easy street. Dealing with the federal government ...  Read more

Trading Places: Are America and Japan Locked in a Trade War?

By Joel Kotkin and George Gendron |  Jul 1, 1985

Japanese and American entrepreneurs gather for a freewheeling discussion of the differences that divide them, and the ventures that may bring them together.  Read more

Growing Steady

By Tom Richman |  Sep 1, 1984

Maybe it's how well you grow that matters, not how fast.  Read more

Trading Places: How a Dentist Invented the Export Trading Company

By Sara Delano |  Nov 1, 1983

Although Dr. Josepb Blaes considered himself reasonably imaginative, he never dreamed that his design for a more efficient dental clinic would have global si...  Read more

Why I Avoid Government Contracts

By Charles George |  Jun 1, 1982

The Davis-Bacon Act, a relic from the Depression, inflates costs on federal construction projects and discourages small builders from bidding on them.  Read more

A Defense Of Defense Procurement Officers

By John E. Greenhalgh |  Apr 1, 1982

A Defense Of Defense Procurement Officers. The implication in February's Speaking Out column that government procurement officials are primarily concerne...  Read more

Enforcing Regflex: Will The SBA Be Aggressive?

Aug 1, 1981

A battle is brewing in Washington over the Regulatory Flexibility Act, which requires federal agencies to prepare analyses of rules they think will have an i...  Read more

Eight Who Innovate

Aug 1, 1981

Today's small business R&D is helping shape tomorrow.  Read more

How Two R&D Programs Can Work For Small Companies

Aug 1, 1981

The National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and the Defense Department's Small Business Advanced Technology progra...  Read more

Would You Eat Cereal Made From Amaranth?

Aug 1, 1981

One day in the not-too-distant future your morning newspaper may be made from kenaf. Your tires may come from guayule. And you may eat cereal made from amara...  Read more

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By Sara Delano |  Aug 1, 1981

. WHAT ARE THE BEST BETS IN FRANCHISING in the '80s? Ethnic food restaurants, hair-styling salons, and home computer shops are among them, says a recent gove...  Read more

Why Bureaucrats Avoid Small Business R & D

Aug 1, 1981

As a rule, the federal government doesn't like to do business with small companies, for reasons that are not hard to understand if you're the government empl...  Read more

The Inc. 100: We Missed A Trio Of Winners

By Jack Stephens |  Aug 1, 1981

The Inc. 100: We Missed A Trio Of Winners. I read with interest your INC. 100 list in the May issue. Movie Systems Inc. was incorporated in November 1975. We...  Read more

How Can Keeping Sun Out Keep You Warm?

By Douglas W. Goldstein |  Aug 1, 1981

In People Innovations (June), you say that the Heat Mirror produced by the Southwall Corp. "reflects the sun's long, heat-producing waves" result...  Read more

How Our Nation Can Compete Again

By Milton D. Stewart |  Aug 1, 1981

Technology entrepreneurs will lead the way.  Read more

Department Of Defense Small Business Advanced Technology Program (desat)

Aug 1, 1981

Phase I: The DoD expects to award approximately 100 contracts of up to $50,000 each for feasibility research carried out over six months.  Read more

Fighting Pollution With Chemical "Bugs"

Aug 1, 1981

In 1976, some 25,000 drums of pesticide-manufacturing residue were buried by the state in the desert area of Alkali Lake in southeastern Oregon. When his pro...  Read more

Drilling By Ear Makes Oil Easier To Find

Aug 1, 1981

After years of listening to sounds far below the earth's surface, Lewis Katz decided his methods could help oil and gas drillers steer a straighter course in...  Read more