No Boom For The Recyclers
For the first time in anyone's memory, bad economic times haven't meant boom times for the automotive aftermarket. Historically, sales of used car parts h... Read story
Detroit
Are Things Happening in Detroit?
Kwame Kilpatrick, the optimistic mayor of Detroit and winner of this year's ICIC Mayoral Leadership Award, believes the Motor City is becoming a hotbed of en... Read story
Super Bowl Fumble?
How does $302 million sound? That’s what the City of Detroit expects Super Bowl XL will bring to town, through hotel and restaurant spending, increa... Read story
Driving A Hard Bargain
DOING BUSINESS WITH BIG BUSINESS ISN'T AS SIMPLE AS IT USED TO BE. BUT THE PAYOFFS ARE STILL ENORMOUS. Read story
...But Not About the Big Three Automakers
The major US car makers demand a 10% reduction in health-care costs from providers. Read story
NBA Owner Announces Plans for Entrepreneurship "Boot Camp"
Bizdom U will offer a full-time, two-year program for aspiring young entrepreneurs. Read story
Older Workers, New Careers
A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business. Read story
Split Cities: A Travel Secret for Maximum Savings
Save as much as 70% and avoid the financial trauma of one airline's route monopoly by splitting your ticketing in half and buying two tickets: one to an i... Read story
Business for Sale: An Indiana Machine Shop
An independent machine shop may be a great buy for someone with industry experience Read story
Waging War On Business Failures
By negotiating new credit terms with bankers and suppliers a Michigan consulting firm helps ailing companies regain their health. Read story
Sign Of The Times
You think crime doesn't pay? Talk to Michael Aichenbaum. Crime has done wonders for his young company, Colonial Lamplighters Inc., which sells electric ... Read story
How I Did It: Cedric J. Franklin Sr. of Harley Stanfield
Can this real estate developer rescue Detroit? Read story
Clusters
Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies or institutions that manufacture products or deliver services to a particular field or ... Read story
Cbeyond To Offer Services in Detroit
Cbeyond (NASDAQ:CBEY), provider of IP-based managed services to small businesses, has expanded its client base to Detroit. Cbeyond will provide sma... Read story
The 2007 Inner City 100 Profiles: 21-30
The 2007 Inner City 100 Profiles: 61-70
The Inner City 100
100 street-smart companies. Read story
A Golden Alternative
Using alternative airports is a form of creative ticketing that airlines don't really object to, but they will not offer alternative airport options when ... Read story
Cities and Oil Prices: The Winners and The Losers
For most places, it’s hard to tell what the long-term effect of the high cost of energy might be. But there are some fairly safe bets. Read story
Just In Time;
A LOT OF TRENDY MANAGEment philosophies come and go with little effect. But Dan Kiurski credits Just in Time, the Japanese manufacturing concept, with re... Read story
Hot Zones
A look at the best cities in America for starting and growing a business. Plus: CEOs discuss their reasons for locating their business where they did. Read story
Start-up Covets Spokes of Northwest's Hub
Start-up airline Pro Air Inc. hopes to win over customers from Northwest Airlines with lower airfares, higher-quality service, and a focus on business travel... Read story
Spell It Out
Companies must provide full descriptions of benefits to employees in order to remain tax exempt under Section 89k. Read story
The Inner City 100
100 street-smart companies. Read story
Is Your Document Storage Cost-effective?
Cost effective document and magnetic-media pickup-and-retriever services. Read story
The 100-year-old Start-up
M. Jacob Sons was founded in 1882 . . . and 1921 . . . and 1963 . . . and again in 1982. Four times now, one generation has succeeded another, an... Read story
The Inner City 100 Profiles: 11-20
NO. 11 VisionIT Detroit Technology staffing Read story
Media, Mid-Perm
Hair salons: hot media market? Read story
Agenda 6/06
The first day of summer is June 21. May we suggest blending business with some fun in the sun? Read story
Will Doctors Turn Patients Away At The Door?
Preventive medicine has taken on a new meaning -- to protect the doctor from malpractice suits. Paul Huth, a lawyer in Detroit, founded Physician's Alert... Read story
From the Scrap Heap
New business recycles refines tires into fuel oil, natural gas, carbon-black substitutes. Read story
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
A Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is a designation the U.S. government uses to refer to a region that, broadly speaking, consists of a city and its su... Read story
Thriving On Adversity
Sometimes entrepreneurship does best when the local economy appears to have taken a turn for the worse Read story
Broken Promises
The bitter truth about partnerships between large automotive corporations and their suppliers. Read story
Small Company Initial Public Offerings: February
Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Offering O-T-C ... Read story
Stranded
Inc. 's Road Warrior lists the country's three best airports for a business traveler to be delayed in. He describes the workstations, business servic... Read story
Does Detroit Deserve a Bailout?
A Big Three collapse could cripple many small businesses with ties to the automotive industry. We asked several Inc. 500|5000 CEOs for their opinions about a... Read story
Location
59 cities and 29 states are represented on the 2007 Inner City 100.
Most Represented Cities:
Detroit - 6
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Frank Venegas, Ideal Group
because he parlayed a little bit of luck into a lot of good fortune for others Read story
Drives: The Next Generation
Hybrids, military styles, and pickups were all the rage at this year's auto show in Detroit. Read story
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