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Imagine being in this business: you borrow money at 5.5%, then lend it out to the same people at 19% to 20%. That's a nice return if you can get it, and ...  Read story

Bank Mergers Worry Business Owners

The stock markets were disappointed on Wednesday when HSBC Holdings and Citigroup, Inc. hinted they would not acquire any United States' banks in the near...  Read story

AT&T, Citi Launch New Credit Card

The new card offers rewards and other benefits for small businesses.  Read story

Returns: More Reasons to Love Your Banker

These days your best bet for investing your money may well be the same place you borrow it from.  Read story

The Leveraged Buyout Boom

It was too perfect a symbol, too convenient a metaphor to slip into the first paragraph of a story about leveraged buyouts, but there it was, sitting on t...  Read story

Insider Strategies on Leading a Board

Former chair of Citicorp, leader of the banking revolution that put ATMs on every street, member of many boards, and the defining business insider - that'...  Read story

The Accidental Automator

A small company's bank forces it to invest more in computerization, and in so doing saves the company.  Read story

Report: California Banks Failing Small Business

March 9, 2007 -- California's major banks are failing small and minority-owned businesses when it comes to access to loans and capital, a...  Read story

Tracking Borrowing Costs

A new book traces the performance of more than 30 key money rates over the past decade.  Read story

How I Did It: Nicole Loftus, Zorch

As told to Donna Fenn Industry Leader: Business Services Three-Year Growth: Read story

Ebay Most Trusted For Privacy, Says Study

June 15, 2004 -- As identity theft worries swell and spamming goes almost unabated, consumers have developed a newfound appreciation for ...  Read story

Grist: Micromanagers, Unite!

Confessions from a real-life micro-manager -- and how our company can benefit from a little meddling.  Read story

Grist: Micromanagers, Unite!

Confessions from a real-life micro-manager -- and how our company can benefit from a little meddling.  Read story

The New American Dream

A story about the highs and lows of running a family business.  Read story

Update

The Funded Unmasked September 2007 In September, we wrote about TheFunded.com, a new website that was sending venture cap...  Read story

What Makes a Company Great?

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers an overview and review of J. Collins and J. Porras's book 'Built to Last.'  Read story

Buy the Boss -- or the Company?

Sure, CEOs affect how their stocks perform. Does that mean you should consider the CEO when picking your portfolio?  Read story

Get in the Door One Step at a Time

Asking for a little bit of the business as an alternative sales strategy.  Read story

20 Tips for Finding Money Now

A list of some of the best sources for financing. Includes information about bank loans, nonbank creditors, private and public equity sources, and internatio...  Read story

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A Dozen Ways To Borrow Money

To get bankers to open their pockets, you have to know their language. Here's a primer on the ways banks lend money.  Read story

Are Bigger Banks Bad For Small Business?

Our man tests the waters in a place where mergers and consolidations are already a fact of life  Read story

Bank Websites Ranked for Small-Business Service

Bank of America received top marks in an annual ranking of online banking services for small businesses by Keynote Systems, a San Mateo, Calif.-based comm...  Read story

Get A Whiff Of This

Creative Environments Inc. founder plans to expand product fragrancing company.  Read story

The Old Computer Network

New nonprofit organization channels used computer equipment to public and private schools.  Read story

Is Your Company Web Site Turning Candidates Away?

Most corporate job sites are failing at one important goal: they make it difficult for candidates to apply for positions online. As a result, companies ar...  Read story

Importing

Importers that do a significant amount of business abroad know that very often, foreign vendors won't begin to fill orders without a letter of credit from...  Read story

The First Day On The Job

The person who started work this morning is as close to a "model employee" as you'll ever get. Some companies find ways to keep newcomers that way.  Read story

Toward New Economics

New book chronicles creation and development of the Santa Fe Institute.  Read story

The Prime Rate's Controversial Past

Determining prime has never been easy. The term apparently got its start in the early 1930s, when the country was struggling with the Depression and hard...  Read story

The Buyout Beat Goes On

When we last checked in with Leonard Shaykin, he was the head of Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd.'s leveraged buyout (LBO) unit and an enthusiastic proponent...  Read story

Green Production

The color green is closely associated with environmen-talism—and therefore "green production," "green enterprise," "green business,"and similar tags sig...  Read story

What's Next: Don't Get Brobecked

In tough times, managing your lawyer is key.  Read story

More for Your Money

Carefully orchestrated media can increase the effectiveness of your direct-marketing campaign.  Read story

Back to Basics for the Back-to-School Push

As retailers struggle this season, smaller businesses may have a slight advantage.  Read story

A Bank, at Your Service

The number of start-up banks is on the rise, and they're competing with the big boys by catering to business owners.  Read story

Grist: Mom Pop: Please Read

Who better to defend nepotism than the son of an internationally famous author? In praise of Adam Bellow's new book.  Read story

I Love L.A.

Why Los Angeles is quickly replacing New York City as the economic capital of America in 1989.  Read story

Rushing Your Cash Back Home

Advice for companies doing business abroad on collection and transfer of funds to the U.S.  Read story

Meet Needs of Older Workers to Avoid Brain Drain

Companies may be subsidizing their own corporate brain drain if they offer generous early retirementplans instead of finding ways to retain their graying ...  Read story