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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
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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
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
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