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Best Private Jet Service: ShareAJet Exchange
Call it semiprivate aviation: The ShareAJet Exchange website helps connect travelers looking to fly in luxury at a discount.
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5 Innovative Language-Learning Tools
If you work with or are expanding to foreign markets, it's important for your employees to have access to language education. We've found five engaging—and... View slideshow
Chicken Grilled Under Bricks
Every grill jockey needs a couple of showstoppers. This one involves chicken and comes from Italy: pollo al mattone , chicken grilled under a bric... Read more
Autoharping
A new safety service available to Europeans that allows traffic condition messages to be transmitted between cars. Read more
Olive Garden's Ad Campaign Backfires
We all have our chain restaurant guilty pleasures. For me, it's the Cheddar Bay biscuits at Red Lobster: hot, buttery and "made from scratch and baked eve... Read more
Why Don't Your Kids Want To Be Entrepreneurs?
Freedom! Independence! The dream of being on one's own! That's the American ethic, nurtured by tales of hardy immigrants who took their lives into their... Read more
Global Business
Related Terms: Globalization Global business refer... Read more
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The American Model Goes Global
When Jean Ichbiah broke away from the Paris-based computer giant Bull (formerly called Cii-Honeywell Bull) in 1980 to start his own software company, he f... Read more
10 Things I Learned From Failure
Every entrepreneur has made a series of mistakes or been subject to failures along his or her entrepreneurial journey. These setbacks, though painful, wil... Read more
What to Do When You're Fired From the Company You Started
Jeffrey Hollender, co-founder of Seventh Generation, says he wasn’t just cut loose; he was set free. Read more
Where to Go for Help: Europe
Albania Teuleda http://www.teuleda.org.al/index.php?gjuha=eng <... Read more
Should Job Promotions Be Random?
A group of Italian researchers recently conducted a study that found random job promotion was more effective than merit-based promotion. Inc. asks sev... Read more
Will Your Product `Travel' Overseas?
Survey of current international opportunities in five foreign markets. Read more
The Immigrant Prince
From Ellis Island to the corner grocery to the country's largest macaroni company, "JP" Pellegrino's story is the story of American enterprise. Read more
Can Student Consultants Help Grow Your Business?
Over the past few months, I've been in touch with Becky Oliphant, a professor of marketing at Stetson University ... Read more
Cutting Costs When Staying in Other Countries
Most consolidators and hotel discount directories cover international as well as domestic locations. You may want to collect several directories to optimi... Read more
Gas Prices Around the Globe
What are other countries paying per gallon for premium unleaded fuel? Read more
Is America Really Different?
Data showing the roles small businesses play in European economies compared with the role they play in the U.S economy. Read more
3 Ways to Take on the Big Guys
Any self-respecting foodie dork probably knows about the Judgment of Paris, when then-upstart California wines beat out their French competitors during a ... Read more
Join the Club
Think you're too young to sell overseas? You're probably not. Many fast-growing small companies are going global. A poll ofcompanies on the 1993 Inc. 500 ... Read more
Aquatic Street Sweepers
New business operates and charters pollution monitoring, debris oil cleaning vessels. Read more
The Second Industrial Revolution
Against a backdrop of economic turbulence, an economist and a political scientist find that changing tastes and new technology may be ushering in an age of c... Read more
Benchmark: Are U.S. Salespeople Busier?
A graph comparing various facets of a saleperson's day in the U.S. to European counterparts. Read more
The Diary of a Small-Company Owner
First of a two-part series detailing an entrepreneur's use of an outside board as she struggles to grow her company. Read more
The Book of Life
The author recounts the business lessons to be learned from 15th century sage Marsilio Ficino's The Book of Life. Read more
Shoe Faddish
Fads come, and fads go. Here is one that should last about 15 minutes: Shoes-while-u-wait. Actually, the shoes are more like sandals. In Italy, wher... Read more
And You Think You've Got Tax Worries...
Excerpts from The Wall Street Journal on extreme taxation in Italy and Vietnam. Read more
Export: One Call Answers All
Source of information on foreign exporting. Read more
Pick a Legal Location and Avoid Zoning Trouble
Legally speaking, it's far less important whether a certain spot is a good one for your business than if it'sproperly zoned for what you plan to do. The f... Read more
Gift Guide: For the Home
From flower buds to the taste buds--here are some great gifts to use around the house. Read more
Gift Guide: For the Home
From flower buds to the taste buds--here are some great gifts to use around the house. Read more
Diary of a Startup - Presenting to Investors
It's Thursday evening April 28th and the past week has been stressful. Last week, a potential investor had submitted a due diligence list to us that we ha... Read more
"I need to be able to go anywhere and do anything."
Around the world in 365 days. Read more
Hey, Must Be the Money
Last night on American Inventor , the third episode of the season that you can now watch e... Read more
Young Entrepreneurs, Cool Products
The entrepreneurs featured on Inc.com's 30 Under 30 list this year have brought to market a variety of products including bespoke suits, anti-gravity treadmi... View slideshow
Things I Can't Live Without: Salon Owner Oscar Blandi
Outside the salon, Oscar Blandi takes part in extreme sports such as heli-skiing. Here are two of his favorite things. Read more
Introducing... The Guide
I'd like to welcome you to The Guide, a new blog designed to give modern entrepreneurs the tools they need to stay at the top of their games. My name is A... Read more
5 Comforts for Pampered Travelers
More of a road diva than a road warrior? Here are five suggestions for luxurious business travel, cashmere sleeping bag included. View slideshow
Drives: The Next Generation
Hybrids, military styles, and pickups were all the rage at this year's auto show in Detroit. Read more
7 Steps to a Culture of Innovation
Hyper-growth companies often credit a culture of innovation as their primary driver of success. They deploy creative thinking to attack problems big and smal... Read more
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