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Best Business Retreat: Four Seasons, Peninsula Papagayo, Costa Rica

The Four Seasons Resort in Costa Rica is popular with businesses looking to combine team building with social responsibility.

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5 Ways to Stay Eco-Friendly When Traveling

It's easier than ever for road warriors to be kind to the environment—and humankind—thanks to green hotels, solar gadgets, and socially responsible offerings. Here are five of our favorites.

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Recent Articles about Costa Rica

What It’s Like…to Wait Out an Interminable Non-compete

After Hotels.com founder Bob Diener sold to IAC in 2003, he went to kite-surf camp in Costa Rica. And when his five-year non-compete was up he launched getar...  Read more

Going South

Opportunity is in season as CAFTA opens up Central America.  Read more

Gone Fishin'

Six places where the fishing, and the fun, are virtually guaranteed.  Read more

To the Good Life

It's not just what they do at work that makes the readers of Inc. different from the readers of other business magazines. It's also the way they live.  Read more

Find Your Niche and Develop It!

I just returned from a great adventure organized by an outfit called Backroads that consisted of hiking, biking, and rafting in Costa Rica (hence my absen...  Read more

Find Your Niche and Develop It!

I just returned from a great adventure organized by an outfit called Backroads that consisted of hiking, biking, and rafting in Costa Rica (hence my absen...  Read more

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Green 50, You Have Company The innovative businesses, with their sustainable and environmentally responsible business practices, that Inc....  Read more

Case Study: Outsourcing Your Company's Help Desk

The Problem: Angry customers. Language issues. Phone static. Maybe outsourcing the help desk wasn't such a great idea after all.  Read more

"I have one life, and it must come together."

Inc. gathered five entrepreneurs to define what The Good Life means to them and how they're living it.  Read more

Recruiting Secrets of the Smartest Companies Around

An ever-tightening job market calls for rigorous, creative recruiting techniques. Here are some of the good-old-fashioned ways to find workers, plus some new...  Read more

Fruit Bouquets in Every Time Zone

How do you keep a smooth supply chain when you sell perishable goods on an international scale? Edible Arrangements's co-founder and COO Kamran Farid shares ...  Read more

" Material things aren't about money, but lifestyle."

An A-Z guide to living large.  Read more

On a Mission to Mars

Former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz founded Ad Astra Rocket Company with a dream of the first manned flight to Mars.  Read more

House Passes CAFTA

July 28, 2005 --In highly contested voting that continued into the early morning Thursday, the House of Representatives narrowly approved ...  Read more

Senate Approves Cafta

July 1, 2005 --In a narrow vote that fell largely along partisan lines, the Senate approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Caf...  Read more

Sean Whalen, Founder of AlterG

AlterG founder Sean Whalen brought to market an anti-gravity treadmill used by top athletes. Now he's going after the medical market.  Watch video

Where to Go for Help: Central America & The Carribean

Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda Investment Authority http://www.investan...  Read more

How Do You Get Away From It All?

Downtime can give you a clear head and even a fresh perspective to return to your business. Here is a list of what successful entrepreneurs do to let off steam.  View slideshow

Don't Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella

Buying insurance after cashing out.  Read more

Don't Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella

Buying insurance after cashing out.  Read more

Maia Josebachvili and Bram Levy, Owners of Urban Escapes

A love of skydiving led Maia Josebachvili to launch Urban Escapes, a business that gives yuppies an adrenaline rush.  Watch video

A Teenage Founder Looks Back

Joel Mueller founded MacUpdate in high school. Now it’s a $3 million business.  Read more

Entrepreneurs We Love, 2010

All of these entrepreneurs are making our lives healthier, saner, richer, or just more fun.  Read more

Case Study Update: Back in the U.S.A.

In July 2004 , we told the story of Everdream, a desktop-management software company in Frem...  Read more

It's Son of Nafta!

But will a new trade pact help American companies remain competitive?  Read more

How to Start an Adventure Travel Company

Check every hotel personally, says Brian Morgan of Adventure Life. Same goes for the zip lines.  Read more

Don't Leave Home Without It

When you hear "Don't leave home without it," you probably think of a little green credit card. If you're self-employed, though, you'd bet...  Read more

Fish 'n' Chips

What investor of sound mind would even harbor a thought of buying into a venture that was capital intensive, fraught with risk hadn't charted a business p...  Read more

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Business by the Bay I was fascinated by Leigh Buchanan's piece on Tranquilo Bay ["Read more

Outsource the Outsourcing

Few entrepreneurs have the time or expertise to find the right offshore contractor. Fortunately, a new breed of broker can do it for you.  Read more

10 Tips for Moms Who Run Businesses

Being a Mom and running a business is like having two full-time jobs. We asked women who do it for their advice on how to juggle running a family while build...  Read more

Upstarts: New-Biz Watch

A look at start-up Orosi LLC, a manufacturer of helmets for white-water kayakers; advertising campaigns built around kayaking imagery; and why adventure spor...  Read more

Do You Love Your Job?

Feb. 14, 2005 -- Every year for about the past 1,500 years or so, people have chosen the chilly second week of February to warm up to tho...  Read more

Why We Lose

Book review: The Silent War: Inside The Global Business Battles Shaping America's Future. (Random House 1989)  Read more

The Great American Revival

While the pundits debate how to restore U.S. industrial competitiveness, thousands of small, flexible, market-driven manufacturers are already doing it  Read more

Globalization

Related Terms: Global Business ; Read more

Gary Hoover: Business Around the World

Gary Hoover  is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker and educator.  He is...  Read more

Things I Can't Live Without: Michael Murdoch

Michael Murdoch, founder of Internet security firm AppRiver, has grown fond of a homicidal sock monkey.  Read more

Things I Can't Live Without: Michael Murdoch

Michael Murdoch, founder of Internet security firm AppRiver, has grown fond of a homicidal sock monkey.  Read more

Look to Low-Cost and Niche Airlines for Low Fares

One of the best ways to get the lowest fares is to know where low-cost and niche airlines fly. These carriers allow you to create your own system of airfa...  Read more

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