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THEY DON'T ALL LOOK LIKE BOY Scouts, not with their skateboards and their bristled Mohawk haircuts. Turning skateboard freaks into Boy Scouts was th... Read more
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Organizational (work)style
What gives workstyle its coherence is the company's values, an often implicit set of principles by which the company runs itselt ("Workstyle," January). T... Read more
Tips From A Banker
Fewer than 10% of prospective borrowers come to a bank adequately prepared. And bankers haven't the time to dig for the facts they need. Unfortunately, t... Read more
How to Communicate in a Crisis
A guide to emerging with reputation intact after a crisis threatens your company Read more
The Other Pin Drops
Robert Putnam, former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, talks about the Internet and our sense of community. Read more
High Noon In Soda Springs;
Recently, the LBO team from Weiss, Peck & Greer engineered a deal so manifestly benevolent that a troop of Eagle Scouts turned out to honor it. Here's... Read more
Lessons from Google's Eric Schmidt
Learning from Google's IPO. In the six years since Google's went public, its stock price has gone from $85 to $581, and it has become one of the mo... Read more
A Cutting Description
Your article about Delmar Skate Park ("[Boy] Scouting for Liability Insurance," Insider, February) stated, "They don't all look like Boy Scouts, not with ... Read more
How to Incorporate Badges Into Your Website
Companies such as Foursquare, Stack Overflow, and ThredUP reward customers with virtual merit badges. Read more
The Entrepreneurial Year in Review
For some industries -- finance and retail, we're looking at you -- this was a year of living dangerously. But plenty of companies had a big year. A look at t... Read more
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Entrepreneurship and innovation make our business culture worth celebrating. But they pose challenges, too Read more
Dream Weavers
These entrepreneurs built thriving companies. Better yet, they are free to live out their very own fantasies Read more
Seven Rules for Legal Advertising
Advertising is regulated by both federal and state law. Under the law, your ad is unlawful if it tends to mislead or deceive. This means the government do... Read more
The Ethics of Bootstrapping
Founder of Intuit discusses the pressure to cut ethical corners when a company's survival is at stake. Read more
Seven Steps to Heaven
Funding for entrepreneurial businesses has completely dried up, right? Wrong. Angel investors -- long a tried-and-true source of capital for young businesses... Read more
The Smart CEO's Reading List
Short reviews of business books recommended for the CEO. Read more
Screening For The Best Employees
There is hardly a chief executive officer around these days who doesn't swear, often publicly, that employees are a company's most important asset. In pr... Read more
Parallel Lives
Bill Gates has a golf handicap in the double digits. And so does Ronald Harland! Tom Monaghan launched his pizza empire in Michigan. And Lisa St... Read more
Obits: Cold Feet Squash Minority-Supplier Site
Despite high-profile supporters and millions in seed capital, an online exchange for minority suppliers to the auto industry couldn't figure out how to make ... Read more
Giving Back as a Company
At Torch Technologies, employees run and fund a nonprofit that gives charity donations. Read more
Nice Guys Finish First
Profiles of the four runners-up for "Best-managed Franchises in America." Read more
Upstarts: Obsession Marketing
Taking their cue from the Beanie Babies mania, some start-ups hope to create the next big consumer fad. Plus: Q A with the man responsible for impo... Read more
Launch a New Product on Twitter
While Facebook is good for building long-term customer relationships, businesses are finding that Twitter can be great for quickly building momentum for, say... Read more
The Foundation for Doing Good
Marriott and Patagonia may have wildly different histories and CEOs with little in common, but both represent the corporation as a tool for social change. Read more
Main Street, Inc.
Forget rebel, forget misfit, forget poor boy makes good. A new study shatters old myths about the entrepreneur. Read more
Changing How The Game Is Played
Bringing space-age technology to the world of sporting goods lets tiny Worth Sports Co. leapfrog its giant competitors and capture a new market Read more
The Buck Stopped Here
Soaring business costs in California were driving Buck Knives to the brink. The company regained its edge by dismantling its factory--and putting it back tog... Read more
Bringing Back a Classic
In 1973, Betty Morris founded Shrinky Dinks. In the 1980s, they became ubiquitous. And now, the entrepreneur has finally found a way to really profit from them. Read more
Lessons of a Bottom Feeder
Dave Morse has turned his most basic of businesses - community newspapers - into a success. Read more
Name-calling
What the name of your company and products says about you and your business. Read more
The Two-year, Three-product, Nine-million-dollar Turnaround
STORY PROPOSAL Bill Sadleir made enough mistakes to sink several companies. He was naive, had the wrong product, and spent several million dollars ... Read more
Share the Wealth, Spoil the Child
Children of successful entrepreneurs discuss the advantages and disadvantages of growing up wealthy. Read more
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