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'The first business plan I wrote was 20 pages long. Then I learned it had to be thick--so I repeated everything three times.' --Jaye Muller, presiden... Read more
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Beyond Campus Recruiting
Steve Burkhart, CEO of Advanced Micro-Electronics (AME), used to get frustrated trying to find qualified job candidates for the PC-maintenance and -networ... Read more
Some Assembly Required
Small companies often have to draw financing from several different backers. Here are several questions to answer before entering a layered financing arrange... Read more
FYI: Redesigning the CEO
Inc.'s editor looks at how companies use creativity as a competitive advantage; Britain's equivalent of the Inc. 500; and CEOs who've profited by selling and... Read more
Entrepreneurial Arbitrage
These are tough times for most companies that sell to the Fortune 500, as they find themselvescontending with the turmoil brought on by waves of mergers a... Read more
The Automatic Daily Scorecard, Buying a Business or Franchise Article
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Nine Steps Toward the Home Office of Your Dreams
What to think about when it comes to design, equipment, and management. Read more
Texas Super Bowl
The University of Texas' International Moot Corp. Competition, the most well known of the country's intercollegiate business-plan tournaments, is a launch pa... Read more
Breeding Technology Entrepreneurs in Iowa
The University of Iowa prepares its engineering students for the business world by offering a technology entrepreneurship program. Read more
Peter's Principles
Book editor Rubin talks with Peter Drucker about how he built a long-standing brand around his own knowledge and how to prepare for a career as a solo act. Read more
Entree to Riches: Winning at MIT
MIT's $50K Entrepreneurship Competition is the hub of a vast network of venture capitalists, angel investors, consultants, and alumni seeking the savviest yo... Read more
House of Cards
Credit cards can be a valuable tool for the entrepreneur or business owner - or they can be a real bane, quickly putting a dent in a company's financial f... Read more
Due Diligence
CEO Norm Brodsky explains that a complex business plan drawn up for investors can yield unrealistic numbers or mistakes. He suggests that entrepreneurs first... Read more
Women Entrepreneurs: Managing Perceptions, Managing Guilt
I have a rule that I will do my best to meet with any woman who hasquestions about how I got to where I am. I am happy to serve as a soundingboard for a w... Read more
The Trouble with Angels
A new breed of private investor has emerged from today's bull market. These angels can behave more like venture capitalists, demanding quick turnaround on th... Read more
Grandma Got Run Over by Bad Research
Although market research suggested ample customers, Irene Viento's upscale children's clothing store, GrandKids Ltd., closed after three years of soft sales. Read more
Four-Star Staff Schooling
When a cook for Chef Allen's sampled a competitor's fare, he was dismayed to find elegant food being served on cold plates. It ruined the meal, the cook r... Read more
Changing Your Swing
Until you've exhausted all the possible distribution channels, you'll never really know whether you have a best-seller on your hands. When Barney Adams co... Read more
Bootstrapping at Showtime
Trade shows can get your product before a target audience, but the cost of exhibiting is often high. Cash-strapped companies can keep the price down by
Close to Home
Involvement in local business helped Yantis Corp., a $25-million highway-construction company in San Antonio, survive Texas's real estate bust of the late... Read more
Cybersecretary
If you're your only employee, who minds the home office while you're away? Does your business receive telephone calls, faxes, and electronic files? You
The Name's the Game
You have only one chance to make a good first impression, and the name of your company may be the way you do it. "Be choosy," advises marketing guru Jack ... Read more
Piggybacking to Market
They started in a two-bedroom apartment in Woodland Hills, Calif., making phone calls, writing computer code, and working hard to convince their neighbors... Read more
Get Business to Come to You
Ask most service providers how they get business, and the answer is "referrals" or "word of mouth." Carter Prescott, head of New York-based Carter Communi... Read more
Slide into Home Base
When Howard Getson isn't selling his company's sales-automation software, he can be found pitching to private investors - widely acknowledged as some of t... Read more
Cool Juice, Hot Sales
Being unable to get your bottled drinks onto supermarket shelves may point you to more original outlets. Urban Juice & Soda, in Vancouver, B.C., can't aff... Read more
" Small Space, Cosmic Possibilities"
Many an entrepreneur working out of a home office or cramped commercial quarters dreads questions like, "Let me come out to your place" and "Can I see you... Read more
The American Dream
An overview of a Florida marketing-communications firm offered for sale, including the price, growth potential, and the pros and cons of the purchase. Read more
Franchisees Thrive with Open-Book Management
Increasingly, franshisees are hopping on the open-book bandwagon. Two such owner-operators are Jim Brown and Joe Clark who run separate Chick-fil-A franch... Read more
Bulletin Board
A collection of 11 short articles on technology. Topics include how a Web site can be bad for business, different types of laptop cases, incorporating online... Read more
Perfect Form
Deborah Williams of Black Cat Computer Wholesale describes how she changed her company from a sole proprietorship to an S-corporation to a C-corporation in h... Read more
Business 101: Incorporation Strategies
When it comes to corporate structure, Deborah Williams has pretty much seen it all. Hard as it may be to believe, her company, Black Cat Computer Wholesal... Read more
When Should I Switch Corporate Status?
There are times when a change in corporate structure can bring a growing company all kinds of advantages, such as a boost in the owner's income or greater... Read more
The Books on Corporate Structure
Nobody ever said that corporate-status issues were simple. But here are two goodsources of in-depth information: The Essential Corporation HandbookRead more
