The Trouble With Lifestyle Entrepreneurs
New Zealand's business owners have struck a work-life balance that many of their American counterparts would envy. So why is this becoming a national crisis?... Read story
New Zealand
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 story
The Future of Manufacturing
A New Zealand company called Ponoko has reinvented the factory for the 21st century. Read story
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This month's letters to the editor. Read story
What's In That Diaper?
In 2002, Jason and Kimberley Graham-Nye faced a decision: cloth (a hassle) or disposable (wasteful). "We looked at each other and said, 'That's it?'" says Ki... Read story
Silicon Mountain to Launch Remote Backup
The service will be integrated with the company's server and storage products. Read story
Contributors
What innovations do entrepreneurs have in store for the medical industry? Adam Bluestein had the chance to take a peek ("Read story
Travel: When You Can't Stand the Heat
Too darn hot? We've rounded up the coolest spots for a summer vacation. Read story
Voyage of a Lifetime
A company owner realizes a dream and breaks a record in the process. Read story
Foreign Exchange
The World Wide Web has allowed international competition to move in, but it just may be good for your business. Read story
Factoring
Related Terms: Accounts Receivable ; Read story
Emerging Markets: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Staying Sane, Safe, and Profitable
We at Kemin have been doing business internationally for more than three decades. A few years after our founding in 1961, a Chinese graduate student at Co... Read story
Office Pollution
Chart on personal health and the workplace. Read story
"I have one life, and it must come together."
Inc. gathered five entrepreneurs to define what The Good Life means to them and how they're living it. Read story
" Material things aren't about money, but lifestyle."
An A-Z guide to living large. Read story
Air Fare
Flying Foods supplies gourmet restaurants with fresh delicacies, or else. Read story
Hiring Contractors via the Web
Hiring on the Web can be risky. You'll be dealing with strangers -- and, working with them from a distance, you won't have the benefit of encounters to bu... Read story
Sites for Soar Eyes
Finding really useful travel sites can be harder than looking for a needle in a haystack. Here are some sites that focus on one aspect of travel and do it... Read story
Singapore, New Zealand, U.S. Top World Business Rankings
A new World Bank report ranks nations based on ease of starting a business and other factors. Read story
Cyberbutlers Serve Road Warriors' Needs
I was recently made aware of a new service being offered by several of themajor international hotel chains. Previously, I had used various butler services... Read story
Letters
Inc. readers offer questions and comments about issues and topics discussed in past editions of the magazine. Read story
Five Ideas to Watch
Easy parking, better emergency response, free names, fragrant law enforcement, and precocious fashion design. Read story
Travel Tips for Retailers
Three strategies can help retailers expand abroad. The trick is to choose the one that best suits your particular ambitions and your starting point. Read story
Man's New Best Friend?
Exotic pets now represent a $15 billion industry. Plenty of entrepreneurs have found a way to make money peddling kinkajous, hedgehogs, and other rare beasts. Read story
Finding Balance
Getting carried away in your work is easy to do when you're an entrepreneur. Running a business becomes an integral part of your life, ... Read story
Finding Balance
Getting carried away in your work is easy to do when you're an entrepreneur. Running a business becomes an integral part of your life,... Read story
How Hard Could It Be: Adventures in Software Demo’ing
Why I decided to take my product to 34 cities, from L.A. to Amsterdam. Read story
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Why I decided to take my product to 34 cities, from L.A. to Amsterdam. Read story
Business for Sale: Little Napa on the Prairie
Over a nice cabernet, you've mused about someday buying a vineyard and winery. But are 12-hour workdays your style? Read story
When Money Flowed Like Water
This article profiles a computer created nearly fifty years ago that used liquid data to model the economy. Read story
Update Your Virus-Protection Software
For years now, Alex Haddox, of the Symantec Antivirus Research Center, in Santa Monica, Calif., has studied the devastating effect of boot-sector viruses.... Read story
International: Net Effect on Overseas Sales
Two execs explain how they use on-line services to communicate with their international sales and marketing force. Read story
U.S. Tops List of Entrepreneurial Nations
American entrepreneurs are driving innovation worldwide, according to a new Babson report. Read story
E-Mail Grows Up
Various businesspeople tell how they are using different E-mail packages to handle a variety of tasks. Read story
In Memoriam
We remember the great entrepreneurs who died this year, from the founders of K2 skis and Lands' End, to the woman who invented tortilla chips and Richard Bra... Read story
Local Hero or Tax Cheat?
In the past few weeks, I've been called both. Read story
A Lofty Take on Leadership: Mountain Climbing and Managing Companies
People climb mountains to conquer them. Sometimes, though, they find that the mountains end up exerting an influence over them of a kind they had never an... Read story
Strange Fruits
How Frieda's Finest established itself as a major marketer of exotic fruits and vegetables. Read story
Niche Picking
An adventure-bookstore owner thought he had conquered the Web. Then he found he had to fight his way up the Amazon. Read this survival tale. Read story
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