How Can I Choose Compatible Joint Venture Partners?
Lisa Jacobson, president of Manhattan-based Stanford Coaching Inc., asks potential joint venture partners to take the same behavioral test she uses ... Read more
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The Start-up Factory
The story of how Bill Gross has channeled his creative zeal into a business that generates start-ups and why. Read more
Business for Sale: Chain of Cosmetology Schools
Overview of a business offered for sale, including the price rationale and some pros and cons of the purchase. Read more
Bad Boys of Capitalism
The story of how a start-up is making money for itself and its clients through NASDAQ's Small-Order Execution System. Read more
Info Gathering as Reflex
"The role of managers is to make sure there's a flood of information coming into the company,"says Bruce W. Woolpert, CEO of Granite Rock, a $100-million ... Read more
Plan of Attack
The author of the popular Guerrilla Marketing series explains how to start the year with a marketing calender. Read more
Business Owners, Beware!
Here are some tips to help you avoid becoming a victim to con artists while looking for capital. Read more
Live Your Mission Statement
The mission of Tuffy Auto Centers is "to provide the best automotive service in the industry through a continuous commitment to quality and customer servi... Read more
Routing Around, Controlling the Flow, Setting Up Shop
Three CEOs each review a different software package. Read more
Entrepreneurship Unplugged: Amish and the Internet
"The products marketed by OCC are crafted and manufactured by various plain communities. It is our goal to represent them with sensitivity and integrity."... Read more
Use the Right Marketing Numbers
A marketing expert and entrepreneur tells why marketing strategies not based on hard data are doomed to fail. Read more
Who Are the Real Entrepreneurs?
A noted entrepreneur explains why many people who share that lable are not really entrepreneurs. Read more
The Classics
A noted author offers readers a guide to the best business and management books of all time. Read more
The Virtue of Necessity
Given that the Amish reject self-advancement, what explains their success as entrepreneurs? Read more
Business for Sale: Coastal North Carolina Blueberry Farm
A detailed look at a business offered for sale including the price rationale and pros and cons of the purchase. Read more
Young M.B.A. Seeks Attractive Company
There is a new tool that M.B.A.s can use to find a company they can own: a search fund. Read more
The Best (Way)laid Plans
Here's an Inc. 500 CEO who found that focus, fearlessness, and flexibility work better than a business plan. Read more
Higher Ground
Some Inc. 500 CEOs from the 1980s explain how if you don't act fast, your successful business might out grow you. Read more
What Business Would You Start Today?
One Inc 500 CEO explains how he would like to start an all-dance T.V. network as his next start-up. Read more
Sixty Degrees of Separation
A cofounder of an Inc. 500 company tells how he wrote his businesss plan in Antarctica. Read more
Disco, Duck!
Profile of an Inc. 500 CEO whose past venture evolved into the wildly successful T.V. show, Dance Fever. Read more
Are You Raising an Inc. 500 CEO?
Stories of what some this year's Inc. 500 CEOs did as children that suggested they were really entrepreneurs as kids. Read more
Party of Five
44.8% of Inc. 500 companies were started by partners. Here's one. Read more
Nobody Leaves This Room Until One of Us Starts a Company
An Inc 500 CEO explains how she decided to start her business. Read more
The Online Sleuth
A comprehensive list of sites on the Internet that business people can use for do-it-yourself marketing research. Read more
Conversations with Angels
Several private investors reveal what it takes to win their money. Read more
Business for Sale: Northeast Bagel-Bakery Chain
An upclose look at a business offered for sale complete with price rationale and some pros or cons of the purchase. Read more
What Do Women Want?
A business expert explains why, when it comes to building high-growth companies, men and women aren't so different. Read more
Basic Instincts
A look at a management appraoch that isn't science, but more a feel for trade and how it happens on the fly. Read more
Black-Belt Boss
Here's a look at a day in the life of one of the most physically and psychically prepared CEOs around. Read more
Business For Sale: Hawaiian Kayaking Company
A closeup look at a business offered for sale including the price rationale and the pros and cons of the purchase. Read more
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Bankers and entrepreneurs explain why business-plan software can never deliver what it promises. Read more
Investment Forums: Blue-Ribbon Fair Presentations
An organizer of investment forums discusses how to use such a forum and an entrepreneur tells how he is preparing. Read more
Michael Braun
The CEO of now-dead Kaleida Labs, the Apple-IBM joint venture, on what went wrong. Read more
