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Does Your Technology Fit?

A first-hand account of how high the price can be when you buy your technology before you assess your business needs.  Read story

Out of Control (at Last)

A perilous vacation teaches the healthy difference between control and influence.  Read story

Amsterdam’s PICNIC Conference Serves Up A New Media Feast

Our executive producer, always in search of the latest new media trends, heads to the Netherlands for PICNIC '07, Amsterdam's Cross Media Week.  Read story

Futures Found Overseas

INC. is in error in the statement "The first-ever stock index futures contract was introduced to public trading by the Kansas City Board of Trade on Febru...  Read story

Check Your Sales Leads

Use the Internet to research prospective customers before making pitches--you'll save time and money and be impressively well-prepared.  Read story

Sole Proprietor

Growing things is my business, but growing my business is not necessarily my thing. If that sounds paradoxical, let me explain myself.  Read story

Hot Tips for Foreign Sales

Company used information gathered at foreign trade shows to tailor its product to foreign markets and improve sales.  Read story

Travel: Now boarding: the JetBlue of Bangalore

Discount airlines have become an international hit. We list who is flying.  Read story

Russell Simmons, Rush Communications

for his powerful example  Read story

The Heady Market Ln Mlcrobreweries

It is hardly a movement -- yet. But inspired by Fritz Maytag's example of Anchor beer and convinced that there is a market for a specialty product, a scor...  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without: Christiane Lemieux

Founder of DwellStudio • New York City  Read story

Taking Stock

Nowadays, fraudulent online stock-trading schemes are common. But even before the first electric telegraph, two bankers committed the equivalent of modern-da...  Read story

Safe Passage

How to make financial transactions secure on your Web site. A look at the technology, registering with certification authorities, and digital cash as an alte...  Read story

The Main Event: Learning Las Vegas

Follow the masters of the experience economy to learn business as theater. And where better to learn image reinvention and changing customer expectations tha...  Read story

How We Did It: The Blue Man Group

From downtown performance art to global entertainment empire.  Read story

Take My Payroll, Please

An outsourcer turns an HR headache into a Web-based breeze by shredding the time it takes to do paperwork.  Read story

Small Company Initial Public Offerings: January 1982

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. INC. vs. POPULAR AVERAGES <...  Read story

Foreign Affairs

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, " Charles Dickens wrote about the period of the French Revolution, and a number of U.S. companies co...  Read story

The Connected Car

The introduction of the Chevy Volt and other electric vehicles will require a vast ecosystem of entrepreneurial businesses.  Read story

How to Start an Advertising Company

Take years of experience in the corporate world, and then turn the model on its head.  Read story

The Defiant Ones

Europe has concluded that it must work harder to recognize and nurture growth businesses, and what that means to you.  Read story

Seinfeld Lives! (Well, Sort Of)

During its eight years on television, Seinfeld portrayed the idiosyncrasies of many local New York businesses. Here's how the owners of featured bus...  Read story

An IPO for Everyone

According to the cofounder of investment firm Hambrecht Quist, an entirely new way for companies to go public may bring the markets to the masses.  Read story

My Awakening

How an entrepreneur from Singapore opened my eyes to what I have to do to remain competitive in Springfield.  Read story

A Niche In Time

Faced with changing technology and an overcrowded market, Sky Courier Network realized that it had to fly off in different directions.  Read story

Exporting the Risk

Setting up direct sales abroad and raising money from European venture capitalists.  Read story

Name-calling

What the name of your company and products says about you and your business.  Read story

Utopia Inc.

In the early 1960s, the socialists of kibbutz Ma'agan Michael debated whether to launch a company. Now they debate what to do with the profits.  Read story

Broadcast News

CEO tries to build an audience and an advertising base for her small local television station.  Read story

The French Connection

Profile of the changing French entrepreneurial landscape.  Read story

Matters of Import

The benefits of importing an established product and adapting it to the American market.  Read story

The Coolest Little Start-Up in America

For TerraCycle's Tom Szaky, nothing could be cooler--or sweeter--than selling garbage packaged in garbage.  Read story

Virtual Realities

The ultimate 'virtual corporation': one employee, a network of suppliers and retailers, and real growth potential.  Read story

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