Hollywood

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 more

The Rise of the Micromoguls

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

Why Every Business Will Be Like Show Business

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

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 more

Return of Giants

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

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

Think Big By Thinking Small

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

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

Enter the Dragon

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

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 more

Write It Yourself

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

So You Wanna Be in Pictures

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

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 more

Drives: Yep, That's My Engine. Nice Lighting, Huh?

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The Dream Team

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

Young Dot-Com Millionaires in Love

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

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 more

Onward, Christian Marketer

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

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 more

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 more

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 more

Brief Profiles of Inc. 500 Companies

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

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 more

IPOs Hit a 30-Year Low

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

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 more

Partners in Business and Life

If you and your spouse are co-owners of a business, you need to get your ducks in a row. Tactfully.  Read more

Do Not Pass Go

Dual deck VCR manufacturer sues Japan Inc. for blocking access to parts.  Read more

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 more

The Good, The Bad, And The Questionable;

What follows is a quick sampling of recently created names -- some terrific, some not, and some that could go either way. Since company size can determin...  Read more

With A Little Help From His Friends

A long-shot start-up company gets help from a number of helpful, interested businesspeople.  Read more