Total Private-Equity Funds Raised for Investment, 1986-1991
North America ranks ahead of the Asia/Pacific region and Europe in terms of private-equity growth opportunity. Read story
Asia
The Latest Shipping News
The latest (bad) news from the shipping industry. Read story
An On-The-Ground Look At Asian Competition
You can't avoid Asia's gazelles by staying home. They're intending to compete right here. Read story
Winning in the Asian Era
The U.S. must take a new commerce perspective in regard to the changes taking place in the world economy. Read story
Satyam to Target SMBs with New SaaS
A new Software as a Service (SaaS) platform aimed at small and midsize businesses Read story
Managing Risk in a New Venture
You can't get rid of all the risk of starting up a business, but you can certainly take a few steps to mitigate it. Read story
Internationalize So You Can Localize Successfully
We all know that Europe and Asia are on the road to catching up with the United States in e-commerce. Estimates vary slightly, but they all indicat... Read story
Computer Use Low at Small Businesses in Asia
Nov. 13, 2006 -- Three quarters of small businesses in Asia's most populous markets operate without the use of computers, according to a ... Read story
Emerging Markets: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Staying Sane, Safe, and Profitable
We at Kemin have been doing business internationally for more than three decades. A few years after our founding in 1961, a Chinese graduate student at Co... Read story
Go Global--Electronically
Communication with customers is a source of competitive edge. You can improve your products and services if you learn from your markets. Before it was acq... Read story
Cross-Cultural/International Communication
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Editor's Letter
A few months ago, we decided that the feature section of this issue would be devoted to just one topic: global entrepreneurship. Partly this came about b... Read story
The New Northwest Passage
Hit hard by imports, aggressive Oregon businesses have discovered how to make the doors of Japanese trade swing both ways. Read story
The Real Threat From Asia
Hong Kong and Singapore have seen their future, and it is not providing cheap labor for American know-how. Read story
What Business Would You Start?
Nearly 50 business luminaries, ranging from H. Ross Perot to Ed McMahon, are asked what businesses to start. Read story
How to Be a Local, Anywhere
If you're a leader, lead. When my company explores a new market, I'm the first one off the plane. Read story
Paradise Lost
How had it come to this? Reell Precision Manufacturing was supposed to be a different kind of company. For years, it thrived, leading its industry, generatin... Read story
Join the Club
Think you're too young to sell overseas? You're probably not. Many fast-growing small companies are going global. A poll ofcompanies on the 1993 Inc. 500 ... Read story
The Shipping Blues
Nestled in a farmhouse overlooking a cornfield in Yardley, Penn., Joe Pfender and his 10 employees at Cargo Express couldn't feel farther removed from the... Read story
Land of Raising Sums
Raising venture capital in Asia. Read story
Business for Sale: Plastic Burgeons
After 20 years of molding sporting-goods equipment, the owners of this Rocky Mountain company are ready to sell. Read story
The Inner City 100 Profiles: 61-70
NO. 61 Spex Precision Machine Technologies Rochester, New York Machined parts manufact... Read story
My First Million-Dollar Account
Four entrepreneurs recall the big sale that changed it all. Read story
What Are You Trying to Say?
Translators for your business. Read story
Six Ways to Open an Office Overseas
Meet the man who's tried them all. Read story
In This Issue
This month's letter from the editor. Read story
The Innovation Upstarts
The growing diversity of computer consumers is attributed to the strength of small, focused microcomputer companies. Read story
The World's Biggest Rolodex
Looking for a supplier in Asia? Jigsaw, an online marketplace that allows businesspeople to buy, sell, and swap contact information, is branching into Jap... Read story
Pat McGovern's Tips for Business Travelers
Make Packing a Reflex Action As much as possible, I pack the same items in the same way for each trip. I can pack my bags for a two... Read story
Read storyU.S. Workers Ranked as World's Most Productive
Thanks to longer workdays and better training, U.S. employees generate more overall value than those in other nations. Read story
How We Did It: Sara Wilson and Warren Wilson, The Snack Factory
As told to Aviva Yael Industry Leader: Food & Beverage Three-Year Growth: Read story
Offshore Drilling
Why foreign-based VCs are taking a closer look at U.S. firms. Read story
How I Did It: Mike Fitzsimmons, Delivery Agent
As told to Aviva Yael Industry Leader: Media Three-Year Growth: 3... Read story
International: Showcases for U.S. Catalogers
An overview of different U.S. catalogers finding profits overseas regardless of their size. Read story
On the Go
You can take all the power of advanced office technology with you on the road. Read story
Emerging Markets
The phrase "emerging markets" has two distinct connotations. First , it means new and emerging foreign export markets for U.S. companies. The U.S.... Read story
The Enemy Within
An explanation of how the base of manufacturing suppliers is crumbling in the U.S. and how to reverse this trend. Read story
Closing the Deal
Three big-time investors have rolled into Miami to listen to 33-year-old whiz kid Marcelo Claure try to sell them a chunk of his company--and, my God, he's l... Read story
What do you think the most important trend affecting small business will be?
E-Commerce and Internet in Business mentor Jakob Nielsen responds to the following questions: What do you think the most impor... Read story
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