Los Angeles Times


Business And The Business Press

When I'm out on speaking engagements, I'm often asked why the general business press pays so little attention not just to women-owned companies, but to em...  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without: Michelle Ebbin

Michelle Ebbin went from masseuse to manufacturer. And she's more relaxed now.  Read story

Brondell's Swash Can Turn Almost Any Toilet Into a Bidet.

But will Americans leave toilet paper behind?  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the April issue.  Read story

In This Issue

Art and commerce aren't the natural enemies they are often made out to be.  Read story

Brett Zamore Designed a Stylish, Affordable Kit Home.

Now he wants to go national.  Read story

Pushing Products Through The Pipeline

Frank Brady combines marketing savvy and merchandising skills to move products off the shelves.  Read story

How to Jazz Up Your Website

Do you want to have a top-notch website? Here are 8 important questions to ask yourself.  Read story

Small Business -- And The Nation -- Win A Very Big One

What is the most important piece of small business legislation yet enacted in our life-time? My vote goes to the Small Business Innovation Development Ac...  Read story

Preparing For Out Future

We need a national commitment to modernize our skills as well as our industries. Without one, we face continuing unemployment, a further drop in productivity...  Read story

The State of Small Business 1995

Inc.'s editor-in-chief profiles the writers appearing in this special annual report, The State of Small Business.  Read story

A Mother of a Board

GreenTree Nutrition and its founders Don Kendall and Eric Budin have some seriously golden contacts.The San Francisco-based company's quest to become ...  Read story

Entrepreneurship Lived Deep

Sometimes, ponds reflect the philosophies of their beholders. Consider Henry David Thoreau. Consider Greg Wittstock.  Read story

Lessons of a Bottom Feeder

Dave Morse has turned his most basic of businesses - community newspapers - into a success.  Read story

Making Moves, Doing Deals, Screening the News

Three CEOs each review a new software package.  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 Secret Life Of Young Presidents

Through the doors of a very exclusive organization pass a group of individuals with a special understanding of each other's business problems.  Read story

A New Image For An Old Product

This group of ice manufacturers joined forces to turn a no-frills staple into a classy money-maker.  Read story

How to Start a Software Company

You don't always have to be a tech geek. Like any industry, you just have to identify an unmet need.  Read story

They Chew Gum, Don't They?

Why you should think twice about hiring a public relations firm and some advice on choosing a PR firm.  Read story

The Selling Of The Law

Len Jacoby and Steve Meyers set off a small revolution in legal circles by using mass marketing techniques to sell their services to the man in the street.  Read story

Behind The Scenes;

I am always astonished at the ways some company owners squander their money. I'm not talking here about Donald Trump-type megalomaniacs, but about otherwi...  Read story

Happiness and the Downwardly Mobile CEO

It's not uncommon today for a CEO to leave a big company to run a start-up--but it was ten years ago. John Sculley, who went from PepsiCo to Apple, was among...  Read story

Hot Start-Ups

It's easy to forget that the best new business ideas are often the simplest. Here are 10 start-ups that will have you wondering, "Why didn't I think of that?"  Read story

Recipe for a $40-Million Score

Read how a highbrow, charismatically challenged chef built a restaurant empire and cashed out big.  Read story

A Whole New Game

A Mexican media magnate and a New York publisher team up to start a national daily sports newspaper called The National.  Read story

Anatomy Of A Merger

Bard Heavens' determination to expand his horizons by selling American Shim Die distracted him from the perils of being acquired.  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

Quick Study

Company profile of PDQ, a professionally run quick-printing business.  Read story

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