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International: Showcases for U.S. Catalogers

An overview of different U.S. catalogers finding profits overseas regardless of their size.  Read story

Country Profiles

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Seizing Global Opportunities

A look at entrepreneurs who have found business opportunities from the North Sea to Antarctica  Read story

A Business Lesson from Down Under

"No Worries." The one phrase I heard most often on my recent trip to Australia was, without question, "No Worries." Whenever I asked someone for he...  Read story

Gas Prices Around the Globe

What are other countries paying per gallon for premium unleaded fuel?  Read story

From Start-Up to Globalization: The 2000 Inc. 500

The technical savvy of many companies in the 2000 Inc. 500 is just one aspect of their high level of sophistication. A number of them already hav...  Read story

Network: October 1989

Network new queries.  Read story

The Accidental Lender

A Texas businesss-owner salvages old engine parts and sells them abroad.  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

What's In That Diaper?

In 2002, Jason and Kimberley Graham-Nye faced a decision: cloth (a hassle) or disposable (wasteful). "We looked at each other and said, 'That's it?'" says Ki...  Read story

Cutting Costs When Staying in Other Countries

Most consolidators and hotel discount directories cover international as well as domestic locations. You may want to collect several directories to optimi...  Read story

A World of Competition

While the U.S. dithers, other nations are recruiting entrepreneurs.  Read story

Business for Sale - Florida Travel Agency

Financial summary and brief description of a Florida travel agency.  Read story

Ask Inc.

How to jump-start sales.  Read story

Powering Up Overseas

A Web site maintained by a world traveler in Texas can help you quickly determine what phone line and electrical plug adapters you'll need when traveling ...  Read story

Crisis? Let Employees Resolve It

Last spring, APA Industries of Melbourne, Australia was facing a crisis -- a pleasant one, granted, but a crisis all the same. Demand for its product unex...  Read story

HP to Expand Compliance Package

By acquiring Canberra, HP adds electronic records management to its e-discovery capabilities.  Read story

How I Did It: Jack Ma, Alibaba.com

The unlikely rise of China's hottest internet tycoon.  Read story

High Flyer

When Charles Muench was a kid, he built gasoline-fueled model airplanes. He'd take them outside and fly them around in big circles. "Some of them got pre...  Read story

California Offers Paid Leave for All Workers

California's new paid family leave.  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

How Can I Be Diverse When I'm So Small?

Over the last few years, the stock market's plunge confirmed an important truth -- for financial security, you need diversity. Last year, in Austra...  Read story

Who's Minding the Store?

Next month, I'm going away for four weeks. Part of that time I'll be on the other half of the world, learning to dive the Great Barrier Reef in Australia....  Read story

Foreign Exchange

The World Wide Web has allowed international competition to move in, but it just may be good for your business.  Read story

Travel;

The next time you hear your employees grousing about jet lag and the miseries of airline food, you might remind them that frequent flying does have its re...  Read story

Network: December 1990

Network new queries.  Read story

Rallying Overseas Reps

How one company made the most of a three-day training for its foreign sales reps, held at U.S. headquarters.  Read story

The Best Business Plan on the Planet

Go behind the scenes with one of the judges at Moot Corp., a world-renowned business-plan contest hosted by the University of Texas at Austin.  Read story

Applicant of the Week: Sew What? Inc.

This family business has a rocking good time sewing stage draperies for the biggest names in the entertainment industry.  Read story

Office Pollution

Chart on personal health and the workplace.  Read story

How to Design an Export Invoice

Designing export invoices that comply with business practices in other countries.  Read story

Making Waves

New nonprofit surfing environmentalist group fights coastal pollution.  Read story

Who's Going Global?

Chart showing numbers of Inc. 500 exporters doing business in specific countries.  Read story

Hall of Fame Profile: Frank L. Vandersloot

On the importance of reputation.  Read story

Overseas Sales On-Line

A quick look at several companies that are doing international business through on-line services like CompuServe.  Read story

The Price Might Be Wrong

Turning dollars into euros, yen, or pounds is trickier than you think.  Read story

"I have one life, and it must come together."

Inc. gathered five entrepreneurs to define what The Good Life means to them and how they're living it.  Read story

Cup of Joe, Side of Net

A well-known Boston restaurant critic reviews several coffee shops that offer acccess to high tech equipment.  Read story

Inc. 500 All-Stars

A look at the companies that have achieved the distinction of appearing on the Inc. 500 a staggering 5 times. Plus: Household-name companies that earned thei...  Read story

Power Trips

Some company owners exercise their imaginations not only in the office but out of it. What's striking about their vacations is not where they went, but why.  Read story