Eastern Europe


Recent Articles about Eastern Europe

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 more

Going Global, Part 2

It's been a bad couple of days in Ukraine, as the country's rival political factions square off in a brewing Read more

Inc. 500 Interview: EPAM Systems

Outsourcing is a tired buzzword -- but that's because all attention has been focused on Asia. EPAM has a few words for small businesses considering IT outsou...  Read more

Feds Bust Retail Hacking Ring

More than 41 million credit and debit card numbers were lifted from OfficeMax, Barnes & Nobles and other retailers, officials say.  Read more

The Graduate, Part 2: How I Ended Up in India

So how did all this get started? Well, it basically began because I knew how to use a computer. I was still in high school, and my father asked m...  Read more

Network: June 1992

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Global Internet Traffic Unaffected by Recession

IT World reports that the economic downturn has...  Read more

How I Did It: Howard Dahl, President and CEO, Amity Technology

Negotiating with commissars. Bartering for payment. Surviving the crash of the ruble.  Read more

Emerging Markets: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Staying Sane, Safe, and Profitable

We at Kemin have been doing business internationally for more than three decades. A few years after our founding in 1961, a Chinese graduate student at Co...  Read more

Going Global, Part 13: Political Risk

In this blog, we've been talking a lot about the best places in the world for entrepreneurs. These countries are typically characterized by strong economi...  Read more

Go East, Young Man

First-person account of a joint venture in Eastern Europe.  Read more

Study: Singapore Tops for Startups

The World Bank says Central Asia and Eastern Europe lead the world in pro-business reforms.  Read more

Software Piracy Hits $29 Billion in Losses

July 9, 2004 -- The software industry is caught in a twisted cycle: People pirate software because it costs so much and software develope...  Read more

Who's Thinking About Exporting?

Chart showing percentage of companies interested in various exporting regions.  Read more

Travel: Now boarding: the JetBlue of Bangalore

Discount airlines have become an international hit. We list who is flying.  Read more

Software Piracy Worldwide a $33 Billion Loss

May 23, 2005 --One in three software programs in use around the world today have been installed without license, according to the second a...  Read more

Factoring

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U.S. Employers Lag Behind in Giving Raises

March 12, 2007 -- U.S. employers are lagging behind China, India, and Eastern Europe when it comes to giving their employees a raise, a r...  Read more

International: Deciding When a Joint Venture Makes Sense

The president of a manufacturing concern explains one key facet he analyzed when expanding into international markets.  Read more

Inc. 500 Interview: Telecommunications Trends

The Co-Founder of Purcell Systems talks about needing to be able to scale up rapidly to supply the telecommunications industry.  Read more

Organizational Growth

Growth is something for which most companies strive, regardless of their size. Small firms want to get big, big firms want to get bigger. Indeed, companie...  Read more

When Customers Revolt

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: A c...  Read more

Relocating Washington

Imagine the Interior Department out West, or Labor in Detroit.  Read more

How Secure Is Your Mobile?

Here's a title Google isn't likely to be trumpeting anytime soon: No. 1 target of mobile hackers.  Read more

A New Way to Get Paid

Square hits the iPhone . Square , the start-up that lets small companies accept credit card payme...  Read more

Groupon's Expansion Strategy

In its quest to become the global powerhouse of online daily deals, Chicago-based Groupon is buying up copycat websites overseas.  View slideshow

Don't Get Hooked

Everyone's seen the subject lines in his or her inbox: "Chase Customer Service" or "EBay account suspension." The subject lines are meant to prompt you to...  Read more

Don't Get Hooked

Everyone's seen the subject lines in his or her inbox: "Chase Customer Service" or "EBay account suspension." The subject lines are meant to prompt you to...  Read more

Book Review - Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan's book " The Age of Turbulence " is unemotional. He te...  Read more

What Makes a Good Entrepreneurial Manager? Ask Middle Managers

According to a recent Industry Standard article, the highly successful entrepreneur John Peters, now CEO of broadband service provider Sigma Netw...  Read more

You Don't Have to be Lucky to be Successful

Luck is no friend of mine. I am the CEO of CellAntenna , a multi-million dollar, multi-national telecommunicatio...  Read more

Report Says Google Attack Traced to Two Chinese Schools

Sleepless nights ahead for CEOs: The same hackers also have launched similar assaults on other companies -- and a new (and unrelated) attack has hit some 2,5...  Read more

Could You Market Chocolate Filled With Air?

John Scharffenberger and other entrepreneurs offer advice to Bubble Chocolate.  Read more

After Hours

Being the overachievers that they are, many Inc. 500 company leaders are involved in extracurricular activities. Here's a sampling of their moonlighting effo...  Read more

Will Your Product `Travel' Overseas?

Survey of current international opportunities in five foreign markets.  Read more

A Geeky Summer Reading Challenge

Happy first day of summer! There's something about long, lazy hot afternoons that beg for a little downtime with a good book. And yes, I know, when it com...  Read more

Growth in Translation

As the world gets smaller and the demand for language services grows bigger, some Inc. 500|5000 companies are cashing in by bridging the communication gap be...  Read more

Attack of the $35 Gucci Handbag

Knockoffs may seem like a cheap-and-easy way to outfit your wardrobe with the top luxury brands. But all those counterfeit Louis Vuitton purses and Dolce & G...  Read more

New Tools for Stopping E-commerce Fraud

When it comes to selling products or services online, you don’t have to be a big company or have a big budget to keep transactions safe from credit-card sc...  Read more

Good Morning, Vietnam

Three entrepreneurs discuss their operations in the emerging Vietnamese marketplace.  Read more

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