Hollywood


Stepping Out

In Hollywood, they like a product to "have legs." Here is a way to make sure that your product will. Boardwalker, a division of Pie-in-the-Sky Co., of San...  Read story

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In 1928, the young Hollywood filmmaker directed his efforts toward raising money for more cartoons starring a character he invented. Arriving in New York,...  Read story

The Return Of Billy Jack

Tom Laughlin has set out to do for videocassettes what Amway did for household products and Domino's did for pizza  Read story

Name Fame

It's about time! After nine years of constant questions about the name of my production company, Almost Network Productions, I see that I was not off bas...  Read story

Return of Giants

Is Hollywood edging out small companies and returning to the studio-dominated days of yesteryear?  Read story

Why Every Business Will Be Like Show Business

Study of the network of flexible small businesses that make up Hollywood's entertainment industry.  Read story

The Enemy Within

An explanation of how the base of manufacturing suppliers is crumbling in the U.S. and how to reverse this trend.  Read story

The Rise of the Micromoguls

In the wild world of high-tech special effects, a handful of upstarts are challenging the kingpins.  Read story

I Lost It at the Movies

Glamour, moguldom, potential home-run returns -- is it any surprise that so many CEOs with cash want to try their hand in the film business? Or that bad thin...  Read story

A Booming Recession Business

Companies that supply dollar stores are raking it in  Read story

Not Awesome

Ships are launched. Kings are crowned. And Hollywood holds chic movie premieres. So how do you announce a new video game? To Synapse Software of Richmond,...  Read story

Online Market-Research Tool

Jan. 16, 2007 -- Vizu Corp., a San Francisco-based software company, on Tuesday introduced a new service that allows users to conduct mar...  Read story

Think Big By Thinking Small

Once we all thought biggest was best. Now we're beginning to know better.  Read story

Not All Deals Sour

Although Bruce G. Posner raises some valid points regarding the influx of initial public offerings ("Wall Street Goes 'Hollywood,'" March), he should have...  Read story

Ready for Your Product's Close-up?

The rules of product placement are changing. Here's how to land a starring role for your firm.  Read story

Behind the Scenes: The Business of the Ballpark

Meet the small businesses behind the scenes at the Atlanta ballpark, Turner Field.  Read story

L.A. Quakes in the Shadow of Beautiful Downtown Burbank

An overview of a city that is using incentive programs, loans, and regulations to attract businesses.  Read story

Halloween Haunts a 'Boo' -ming Business

The haunted attraction business is now nearly a $1 billion-a-year industry.   Read story

Enter the Dragon

How do you reconcile a love for Hollywood glitz with an admiration for cost-conscious Asian filmmaking? Ask Robert Cain.  Read story

Managing from A to Z

Looking for a metaphor for business? As our A-to-Z compendium of similes and analogies will show, any metaphor you can think of has probably been used before.  Read story

The Seven Sexes of Venus

Inc.'s editor comments on how business opportunities today are so complex it takes a group of individuals or businesses all working together to launch a star...  Read story

Write It Yourself

There's still a market for CEO-tells-all -- if you know how to approach it.  Read story

So You Wanna Be in Pictures

An independent entrepreneur creates an inexpensive alternative to the large Hollywood movie studios.  Read story

Confessions of a Ghost

A best-selling ghostwriter explains the making of business books, and what you don't want to know about it.  Read story

The Dream Team

Insights from people behind the technology at one of Hollywood's hottest start-up.  Read story

Young Dot-Com Millionaires in Love

Passions run deep as television soap operas struggle to catch up with our fast-paced world.  Read story

Onward, Christian Marketer

The success of Mel Gibson's film The Passion revealed opportunities in the Christian market.  Read story

How I Did It: Gloria Pink

Gloria Pink, of the famous Pink's, gives reasons Angelenos of all stations will wait an hour for a hot dog.  Read story

The Future of Consumer Research

Are you still using traditional focus groups? New techniques could help you discover what your customers are really thinking.  Read story

Creativity Regained

Robert Redford happens to be a movie star, but he's the star who founded an enterprise that changed an industry. Along the way, this very successful entrepre...  Read story

Letter from Silicon Valley: Success Story

If you're looking to put the proper spin on your company's story, you might want to take a cue from a screenplay or two.  Read story

Obituary: Hollywood's Book Guy Michael A. Viner

Love him or hate him, Michael Viner brought Hollywood to the audio book business  Read story

Brief Profiles of Inc. 500 Companies

A collection of 24 short articles about companies from the 1997 Inc. 500.  Read story

19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now -- Michael Arrington

There are millions of blogs out there. And most of them aren't worth your time. So we scoured the Web and came up with a list of the smartest bloggers, who j...  Read story

Gear: Taking Home Theater to the Next Level

With this Web-ready home theater equipment, you can download tearjerkers and action flicks to watch from the comfort of your sofa.  Read story

Babies

* By year-end, each of the more than 3.8 million babies born in 1986 will gobble up 552 jars of baby food, dirty approximately 3,000 diapers, and grow out...  Read story

IPOs Hit a 30-Year Low

But the guy who took Google and Netscape public is not concerned  Read story

A Twist of Fate

Movie producer John Davis was such a fan of Wetzel's Pretzels that one day he decided to see if he could buy a piece of the company.  Read story

High Camp

How do you attract attention in the hotly competitive, nearly $50-billion-a-year mail-order business? Try a little imagination. Camp Beverly Hills's cata...  Read story