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See the Show, Buy the Pen

Smaller brands are finding a home on the Great White Way.  Read story

"It's Going to Be Big"

Marc Ecko always had the dream. Over time -- it wasn't easy -- he developed the skills. Here, he talks about how he got smart, why his billion-dollar clothin...  Read story

Tailor-Made Entrepreneurs

The runways of Fashion Week aren't just a showcase for frivolous frocks. For entrepreneurial designers, high fashion is a high-stakes business.  Read story

Agenda 09/05

As Frank Sinatra crooned, the days grow short when you reach September. With holidays, back-to-school sessions, and the fourth quarter just around the corner...  Read story

The New American Dream

A story about the highs and lows of running a family business.  Read story

My Place: Thomas Ennis's Glass Beach House

The owner of this glass beach house holds 29 patents. He's putting some of them to work around the house.  Read story

Don't You Wish You'd Thought of That?: America's Weirdest Businesses

30 tributes to entrepreneurial...daring  Read story

Kenneth Cole: How the King of Sole Got Soul

For more than two decades, Kenneth Cole avoided the limelight. He built a $400 million shoe-and-clothing company, married the daughter of former New York ...  Read story

Royalties

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Face-off

Two men, each with an Inc. 500 clothing company, debate the differences between their companies.  Read story

How to Raise an Entrepreneur

The key, Michelle Rousseff Kemp found, is to bar your kids from the family business.  Read story

A Business Plan with Heart

A decade ago, when I was employed as a chartered surveyor for a major British insurance company, I realized that I was doing something that was making my ...  Read story

The Company Store

A manufacturer maintains its only retail store for the sole purpose of conducting market research.  Read story

A Knack for Sweet Deals

Getting preferential treatment from big vendors is deliciously easy for Dylan's Candy Bar.  Read story

Applicant of the Week: Johnny Cupcakes

How a 26-year-old college drop-out created a multi-million dollar t-shirt business with no business plan, no advertising, and no investors.  Read story

Future Shop

Sandy Zimmerman's retail marriage of quality, discounts, and service has turned an obsure New York town into a mecca for a new breed of consumers.  Read story

In the Customer's Shoes

Profile of a CEO who rebuilt his men's shoe store by listening to his customers.  Read story

The Buzz Factory

Tattoo, Inc., a low-profile San Francisco marketing firm, has amassed an impressive group of blue-chip clients with its uncanny ability to define the essence...  Read story

Brand on the Run

Martin Connolly, CEO of bicycle-wheel manufacturer Spinergy Inc., used a combination of buzz, product placement, and celebrity endorsement to cultivate one o...  Read story

Steal This Strategy

How one company grows and prospers by taking the best ideas from big companies.  Read story

Creativity Regained

Robert Redford happens to be a movie star, but he's the star who founded an enterprise that changed an industry. Along the way, this very successful entrepre...  Read story

Whose Brand Is It, Anyway?

Terri Williamson did a textbook job of launching Glow. Jennifer Lopez and her team did a textbook job of launching Glow by J.Lo. And then their worlds collided.  Read story

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