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Small Firms Can Breed Other Small Firms
Small businesses are more likely to be breeding grounds for potential entrepreneurs than are larger companies, reports a study by two Purdue University pr... Read more
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A new study has uncovered what may be the secret ingredient of entrepreneurship: euphoria. In a nationwide survey of 3,000 entrepreneurs with businesses ... Read more
Consumer Bankruptcy Stirs A New Fight
The delicate relationship between creditors' legal rights and those of debtors has always been tense. But the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 may have unba... Read more
Kauffman Donates $25.5 Million to Universities
The grants, part of a $200 million initiative, will help foster entrepreneurship programs at nine schools nationwide. Read more
Even If The Prime Drops, Small Firms Will Suffer
The average rate small businesses have to pay on loans could continue to rise even if the prime rate drops, a Purdue University professor says. Beca... Read more
A Rose.com by Any Other Name
What's in a name? Possibly returns that beat the market by nearly 100%. That's the conclusion reached by Michael Cooper, Orlin Dimitrov, and P. Raghavendr... Read more
New! Improved! Manufacturing
Suddenly, the shop floor is where the action is. Read more
College Student to Hasbro: Thanks but No Thanks
Why he turned down the toymaker's offer of $500,000 Read more
How to Set Business Goals
Your company's goals will only be effective if you have a clear vision of what you want to achieve--and how. Read more
What's Going To Happen In '82?
INC. asked hundreds of business people what they think this year will be like. Read more
Pilot. Hero. Entrepreneur?
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, who successfully landed a US Airways plane in New York's Hudson River, is also the founder and president of -- surprise, su... Read more
The Making of an Inc. 500 CEO: My Favorite Job
A close-up article that features one CEO, and how he took his start-up publication to the top of the heap. Read more
What's Next: The Idiocy of Crowds
Collaboration is the hottest buzzword in business today. Too bad it doesn't work. Read more
How I Did It: John Vechey, Founder of PopCap
How a small company is capturing a big audience in the casual gaming market. Read more
Retail Watchers Baffled by Holiday Shopping Season
Dec. 22, 2005-- With Christmas and Hanukkah falling on the same Sunday and shoppers feeling the fallout from hurricanes and a transit stri... Read more
Unbridled Growth
For five years, Herbalife International's health and diet pitch has made it one of the fastest-growing companies in American history. Now a series of investi... Read more
Make The Most Of Your Money
"Aggressive cash management is important to a small company like Retech," says James Mayfield, controller of the Ukiah, Calif., engineering firm. Re... Read more
Bringing It All Back Home
When was the last time you took a member of your state legislature to lunch? If you haven't yet, you probably should. Increasingly, if slowly, stat... Read more
Why We Lose
Book review: The Silent War: Inside The Global Business Battles Shaping America's Future. (Random House 1989) Read more
The Spirit Of Independence; Workers
"In general it is impossible that manufactures should succeed in America from the high price of labour." -- Thomas Jefferson Read more
The Start-Up Diaries: Moonlight over Indiana
Luis Espinoza has been moonlighting for the past few years to build Inca Quality Foods, a Hispanic food-distribution business. But he would never dream of qu... Read more
Bulletin Board
This collection includes short articles about conducting background checks, an online matchmaker for developing technologies, electronic whiteboards, powder ... Read more
Bulletin Board
This collection includes short articles about conducting background checks, an online matchmaker for developing technologies, electronic whiteboards, powder ... Read more
Seeing Red
Animalens Inc. makes and markets red-tinted contact lenses for egg-laying chickens. Read more
The New Yankee Traders
Chinese-Americans are using family ties to beat the Japanese and Big Business for a share of the burgeoning Chinese market. Read more
The New Owners Speak German
The next time someone offers to buy your company, there's a one-in-five chance that he'll be from another country. Read more
The Customer is the Company
Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month -- with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retail distribution. And it's neve... Read more
Least Likely to Succeed
Entrepreneur of the Year Jerry Ehrlich manufactures truck trailers with innovation, efficiency, and quality. Read more
Let Them Make Mudpies
Jack Wells shifted uneasily in his chair. He was not happy about this. Not one bit. "They say a bureaucrat knows he's going to have a bad day when he show... Read more
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