Caribbean


Look Before You Lease

You can save your company a lot of grief by taking a second look at the fine print of your lease.  Read story

More Women Startups in Poorer Regions

A report shows women in Latin America and the Caribbean are starting more businesses.  Read story

Travel Agents are Your Secret Weapon

Agents have the advantage when it comes to discounts and can help you get the best deal during a recession.  Read story

Educating Octavia

Woman entrepreneur seeks help in educating herself on the logistics of food production and marketing.  Read story

Meals on Wheels (and Rails and Water)

Paul Robbins looked at a run-down Florida neighborhood and beheld a transportation utopia. The story of this year's #1 Inner City 100 company.  Read story

"I need to be able to go anywhere and do anything."

Around the world in 365 days.  Read story

Letters

Readers react to articles from the February issue of Inc., including Jill Andresky Fraser's "How to Finance Anything" and Jerry Useem's "All Dressed Up and N...  Read story

Multimedia Is the Message

Several small businesses are highlighted as readers see how to maximize the affects of marketing with multimedia.  Read story

The American Dream: Business For Sale--U.S. Virgin Islands Newsletter

A complete overview of a business being offered for sale including a price rationale and pros and cons of its purchase.  Read story

Shock to the System

A business owner with death anxiety may attempt to build an institution that ensures his or her own immortality. Yalom explains why confronting your mortalit...  Read story

How to Avoid Trouble with the Engines

Search engines have declared a silent war against those of us working on their behalf (well, OK, on behalf of our clients really - but they clearly benefi...  Read story

" My focus is my children."

For one restaurateur, there's always room at the table for family.  Read story

Better Business Trips by Land or Sea

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

Best Of Show

Quick: what's the best bird feeder, compact-disc player, radar detector, and Caribbean resort? With the holidays fast approaching, gift givers in search ...  Read story

Five Ideas to Watch

Clothing that repels bugs, Bill Clinton's latest plaything, and more.  Read story

Do-It-Yourself Phone-Fraud Safeguards

9 precautions to help prevent phone-fraud.  Read story

Gift Ideas for CEOs Who Think They Have Everything

Three short book reviews on topics that would entertain CEOs  Read story

Network: January 1991

Network resources.  Read story

Sailor's Delight

On a tiny Caribbean island, Daffodil Harris started a business doing laundry by hand for vacationing boaters. Today her company is a multidivisional seafarin...  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without: Cindy Melk

What's something H20 Plus founder Cindy Melk can't live without? (Hint: Pop goes the...)  Read story

Paradise the Hard Way

What does it really take to build an island resort, a dream come true in the tropics, a place where work and fun and family all blend seamlessly? HintRead story

Help For Socially Responsible Businesses

If you' re looking for capital for your socially responsible business, you' re in luck. A growing number of funds are providing financing for companies th...  Read story

The Trouble With "the Trouble With S Corporations"

IN THE PAST, WE HAVE OCCASION-ally published articles about the hazards of dealing with outside experts. Now we have another such saga to report. It con...  Read story

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 story

Green Bayou

With almost $1 billion in new taxes, Louisiana is hedging against a long-standing dependency on cheap energy and good ol' boy charm.  Read story

U.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

Present at the Creation

A look at how a fast-food company's initial investors have fared.  Read story

Vital Signs

Finally, some good news about business -- from a place you might least expect it.  Read story

The Second Annual Inner City 100

A listing of the fastest-growing privately held inner-city businesses in America.  Read story

Confirmation Hearing for Deputy SBA Leader

Dec. 5, 2006 -- Jovita Carranza, the Bush administration's pick for deputy leader of the Small Business Administration, will appear befor...  Read story

I Wish Someone Had Told Me...

In the May issue of Inc. , the magazine honors the top 100 inner city businesses o...  Read story

Owners Need Not Apply

First-person account of the organizational benefits of delegation.  Read story

Child's Play

Everybody likes to see young people succeed in business, but lately things have begun to get out of hand. We are not just talking about high-tech whiz kid...  Read story

The Take At The Top

Gain-sharing, revenue-sharing, equity participation, and more bonus systems than you can shake a stick at -- when it comes to rewarding key employees, the da...  Read story

Update: Oualie Ltd.

An update on Octavia Randolph, who still seeks investors for her start-up food company.  Read story

Through the Looking Glass

The editor of Inc. Technology explains why small companies use technology to look like the big guys and vice versa.  Read story

Great Golf Getaways

If you're a golfer, you can't watch a master play without wanting to get out on the links yourself. Now you can go for your personal best -- and save whil...  Read story

A Travel Agent Who Is Off And Running

Give people a hobby, and someone will spend a fortune pursuing it. And someone else will turn it into a thriving business. Tom Gilligan, a running enthu...  Read story

Rallying The Troops

Sales manager devises an award system for salespeople, keeping them motivated throughout the entire contest period.  Read story