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Why It's Trending: The small Iberian country's credit rating was downgraded by Moody's, prompted fresh concern about the health of economies in Europe and causing the euro to drop in value again.

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Where to Go for Help: Europe

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Export: One Call Answers All

Source of information on foreign exporting.  Read more

A Name the Press Could Love

A new bakery proves that a killer name can be the best marketing strategy.  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

The Pros And Cons;

Makes sense. Your company, the one with the big-time plans, needs a big-time name. And a big-time consultant to pick it? Maybe. Hiring a professi...  Read more

Search: December 2002

Any book calling itself Business: The Ultimate Resource has a lot to live up to.  Read more

Tailor-Made in America

A business expert explains how craftmanship practiced at so-called "Craftories" is inventing a new competitive edge.  Read more

Bullish on New York

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ...  Read more

Growth in Translation

As the world gets smaller and the demand for language services grows bigger, some Inc. 500|5000 companies are cashing in by bridging the communication gap be...  Read more

Small Talk

Various entrepreneurs share their thoughts on the changing role of small businesses in the U.S.  Read more

Europe: the Fast Track

The big European economies are stagnant, but if you look around you find some extraordinarysuccess stories. From his base in Prague, Ivo St. Kovachev is ...  Read more

Sponsored Section: How Low Can You Go?

Low-Cost, HomeBased Franchises for Todays Economic Climate.  Read more

Reader Mail: October 2010

Responses to Inc.’s plan for revitalizing the American dream.  Read more

Best of the Small Business Web: Standard Bearer

At Quality Transmission Service, owner Bob Jones's expert advice has made him a local hero and raised his industry's reputation.  Read more

Payton's Place

The most brilliant restaurateur in London slathers a bit of American on every dish. The English eat it up.  Read more

Running Through the Legs of Goliath

How upstart Method is taking on the giants of the household products industry.  Read more

Solemates

Here's how Mandy Cabot, cofounder of footwear distributor Dansko, has controlled her company's growth while tiptoeing between hungry retailers and a balky su...  Read more

Credit Bureaus

A credit bureau is an agency that collects and sells information about the credit-worthiness, or the ability to meet debt obligations, of individuals and ...  Read more

Northward, Ho!

The new trade agreement between the United States and Canada could touch off a small-business export boom  Read more

The Truly Global Business Plan

Start-ups such as Somnio and Lookout Mobile Security are working on global expansion right from Day One.  Read more

The Defiant Ones

Europe has concluded that it must work harder to recognize and nurture growth businesses, and what that means to you.  Read more

Will Europe Blow It?

Small European companies worry that 1992's unified market will bring in a suffocating bureacracy of red tape, regulation, and centralization.  Read more

European Union (EU)

The European Union (EU), formerly known as the European Community (EC), was formed in the 1950s to encourage and oversee political and economic cooperatio...  Read more

Wine Sellers

How Don Zacharia turned a mom-and-pop liquor store into a wine-retailing juggernaut -- and a family business that works.  Read more

Can Rob Kalin Scale Etsy?

An army of 400,000 crafters has made Etsy a hot start-up: profitable, well capitalized, growing. Now founder Rob Kalin is looking for ways to make them succe...  Read more

Going After Nike

With plenty of bark and maybe just enough bite, "antipreneur" Kalle Lasn is ready to leave his mark -- er, spot -- on the global sneaker industry. Watch out,...  Read more