Batavia

Main Street: The Barber of Civility

Foltos' Tonsorial Parlor is no ordinary barbershop: it's also a performance space, a news publisher, and the anchor of one small Illinois town.  Read more

Voting Opens in Small-Business Makeover Contest

Batavia, Ill., and Washington, D.C. were among the 10 finalists in a neighborhood small-business makeover contest sponsored by IKEA, organizers said this ...  Read more

Business Incubators

As the phrase itself implies, business incubators are programs intended to help small businesses get off the ground. They almost always provide both servi...  Read more

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth 1976-80 Per...  Read more

The Idea Factories

Nonprofit incubators have been quietly nurturing fledgling companies since 1959. And they don't demand a huge ownership stake in your company.  Read more

Trading Places: How a Dentist Invented the Export Trading Company

Although Dr. Josepb Blaes considered himself reasonably imaginative, he never dreamed that his design for a more efficient dental clinic would have global si...  Read more

Creation Nation

Wondering where the next hot food ... hit toy ... big band ... miracle drug will come from? Chances are, from entrepreneurs just like you who are furiously c...  Read more

The Private 500 represent 44 states. Geographically, the West wins again on the strength of California's 84 companies -- more than twice as many as any ot...  Read more