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Hedging Bets;

SMALL COMPANIES TRADING over the counter have a tough time attracting dollars from such conservative investors as pension-fund managers, who prefer to tak...  Read story

The Government's Take on E-mail

Regulators have (surprise) thought up lots of rules governing e-mail. It's your job to figure out which ones cover you.  Read story

Taking Stock

These days, companies like Apple Computer, MCI, and Tandem are choosing to remain over-the-counter, and the American Stock Exchange, for one, is fighting mad.  Read story

Day Trading

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) defines day trading as follows: "Day traders rapidly buy and sell stocks throughout the day in the hope that ...  Read story

A Profitable Exchange

A summary of the differences between stock exchanges and their minimum listing requirements and 1992 IPOs.  Read story

Hotline

You can say good-bye to "pink-sheet" stocks if the National Association of Securities Dealers has its way. NASD will soon require penny-stock brokers to r...  Read story

Doing a Small Offering

Guidelines for choosing an underwriter for a small initial public offering.  Read story

Hotline

Hotline information paragraphs for May 1990  Read story

Beware the Venture Catalyst

Heard about venture catalysts? These newfangled matchmakers may have great connections to angel investors and venture capitalists, but they may also be br...  Read story

Hotline

Current trends and legislation affecting small business.  Read story

IPO Basics: Investment Bankers, Underwriters, and Other Key Players

The Beauty Contest - Investment Bankers Despite its moniker, the beauty contest should not be taken lightly. During this pageant, ...  Read story

Back-Door IPOs

How to go public by merging with a shell company.  Read story

Over The Counter And Into The Fees

Only rarely does a company choose to jettison a lofty listing on the New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange in favor of joining the over-t...  Read story

The Road to Wall Street

Everyone thinks an IPO is the last hurdle to success, and everyone has it all wrong. It's what happens after you go public that makes all the difference.  Read story

Follow the Money

An associate professor at NYU explains what the associated costs were for one small business to go public.  Read story

CEO's Notebook

CEOs give advice on employee sabbaticals, recruiting at trade shows, speeding up collections, taking advantage of electricity deregulation, and cutting costs...  Read story

Who Needs Wall Street?

The ingredients of a do-it-yourself IPO.  Read story

CEO's Notebook

CEOs discuss lowering insurance costs; using employee committees to review potential clients; getting capital from clients; and mastering your supply chain. ...  Read story

The Great Fund Failure

Mutual funds were designed to let the small guy invest in the market cheaply and efficiently. The system doesn't work, though, when fund investors are to...  Read story

The Match Game

Need a million dollars or more? Thousands of new investment bankers can lend a hand. Just watch costs, and read the fine print.  Read story

The Right Way To Cut Taxes

California's new capital gains law gives special incentives to small business.  Read story

Network: June 1992

Network questions and answers.  Read story

Mail: August 2002

Readers react to recent Inc magazine articles. Plus: An update on the MEP and why the Bush administration is significantly cutting its funding to th...  Read story

A Limited Success

Limited partnerships still offer an attractive source of capital for growing companies -- provided you can figure out how to sell the deal.  Read story

Street Talk

Morty Weiss was trading Polaroid and Xerox stock back in 1946. In those days, Polaroid was marketing a windshield system that cut down glare, and Xerox w...  Read story

Too Public Too Soon

Ferrofluidics seized a chance to go public, although the company wasn't quite ready, and found the spotlight was costly and harsh.  Read story

Initial Public Offerings

Related Terms: Direct Public Offering ;...  Read story

SEC Disclosure Laws and Regulations

Related Terms: Sarbanes-Oxley Companies that are...  Read story

Bad Boys of Capitalism

The story of how a start-up is making money for itself and its clients through NASDAQ's Small-Order Execution System.  Read story

His Way

In which Chris Reed, the founder of a soda company, undertakes an initial public offering -- his way. What can go wrong does. What should go right doesn'...  Read story

Blind Ambition

Two companies fight over the patent rights to fiber optic HDTV (high-definition television).  Read story

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