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An iPhone App Phenomenon
The $1,000 iPhone app. It helps law students study for the bar exam, it's selling well, and its profitable. TechCrunch Read more
An All-American Brand Goes Public on the Dutch Exchange
Tommy Hilfiger, the purveyor of preppy apparel that won a loyal following among hip hop artists and their fans in the 1990s, is set to go public. The comp... Read more
Out of Control (at Last)
A perilous vacation teaches the healthy difference between control and influence. Read more
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 more
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 more
Making the Coolest Use of Space
The cubicle is officially out. What's in? Walls that move, plentiful collaboration spaces, and flexible seating arrangements. Oh, and alternate modes of indo... View slideshow
Innovative Office Interiors
Playful shapes and colors abound in these entries. You can be there are no beige cubicles in these inventively designed workplaces. View slideshow
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 more
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 more
10 Tips for Giving an Important Speech
Get ready to fearlessly step on stage in front of a large audience. Read more
Adventures in Software Demo’ing
Why I decided to take my product to 34 cities, from L.A. to Amsterdam. Read more
Hot Tips for Foreign Sales
Company used information gathered at foreign trade shows to tailor its product to foreign markets and improve sales. Read more
Travel: Now boarding: the JetBlue of Bangalore
Discount airlines have become an international hit. We list who is flying. Read more
Meet the Best-Connected 21-Year-Old in the World
Ankur Jain is the founder of the Kairos Society, a network of college entrepreneurs dedicated to changing the world through business. And socializing. Which ... Read more
Russell Simmons, Rush Communications
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Marketing to Moms: You’re Doing It All Wrong
Women control $13 trillion in consumer spending. But most of the assumptions you make about them in your marketing are way off. Read more
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 more
Things I Can't Live Without: Christiane Lemieux
Founder of DwellStudio • New York City Read more
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 more
A Future for San Francisco
For years, my take on San Francisco has been less enthusiastic than many who hold it up as an information-age role model. This is based on many fact... Read more
Online Dating Sites Get Hitched
Match.com buys OKCupid, plus Google's war of words with Microsoft and the rest of the day's news. Read more
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 more
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 more
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 more
How I Did It: Tumi's Charlie Clifford
How Charlie Clifford listened to consumers, salespeople, and employees to build Tumi into a powerful luggage brand Read more
How We Did It: The Blue Man Group
From downtown performance art to global entertainment empire. Read more
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 more
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 more
How to Start an Advertising Company
Take years of experience in the corporate world, and then turn the model on its head. Read more
The Connected Car
The introduction of the Chevy Volt and other electric vehicles will require a vast ecosystem of entrepreneurial businesses. Read more
In Memoriam: Entrepreneurs Who Died in 2009
Remembering the great entrepreneurs who died in 2009, including the founder of The Gap, the inventor of the Taser, and the guy who brought us the Weather Cha... View slideshow
The Defiant Ones
Europe has concluded that it must work harder to recognize and nurture growth businesses, and what that means to you. Read more
My Awakening
How an entrepreneur from Singapore opened my eyes to what I have to do to remain competitive in Springfield. Read more
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 more
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 more
Giving Himself Room to Roam
After a long spell of intense focus on one company, Paul Budnitz, founder of Kidrobot, is finding there’s nothing quite as liberating as being all over the... Read more
Exporting the Risk
Setting up direct sales abroad and raising money from European venture capitalists. Read more
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 more
The French Connection
Profile of the changing French entrepreneurial landscape. Read more
Broadcast News
CEO tries to build an audience and an advertising base for her small local television station. Read more
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