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Things I Can't Live Without: Josh Reid

Co-founder of Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate, an up-and-coming snowboard maker. The company sells its boards and other snowboarding gear through nearly 500 ...  Read story

Jet-setting on a Budget

A new flight-sharing website for luxury travelers.  Read story

Network: Reader Responses

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Need A Bulletproof Rolls With Full Bar?

High-volume sales and mass marketing may be the goal of some small businessmen, but Edward and Thomas O'Gara are happy if they ring up three or four sales...  Read story

Lease Is More

Travelers find more space, more charm, and less expensive rates when they check into an apartment instead of a hotel.  Read story

Travel: Now boarding: the JetBlue of Bangalore

Discount airlines have become an international hit. We list who is flying.  Read story

How to Shield Yourself from Business Travel Nightmares

Take an honest assessment of the scenario and think through the whole trip. Only then should you decide whether to go and how to plan the trip.  Read story

Dossier: Keep Me a Prize

Sure, you can build a company and hope that it outlives you, but why stop there? A prize program offers immortality.  Read story

Can't We Have Another?

When to launch a second brand. Plus: The ins and outs of outsourcing.  Read story

The Secret Of Succession

Alain Le Grand is the fifth generation of his family to make profitable use of tradition.  Read story

Seven Steps to Heaven

Funding for entrepreneurial businesses has completely dried up, right? Wrong. Angel investors -- long a tried-and-true source of capital for young businesses...  Read story

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 story

Things I Can't Live Without: Alex Algard

Founder of WhitePages.com, the telephone directory site, and the CarDomain Network, the online community for car enthusiasts.  Read story

10 Tips for Communicating Change

While organizational change requires more than 10 tips, here are 10 key things to keep in mind when planning, announcing, implementing, and communicating ...  Read story

Four Companies Making iPhone Video Apps

The market for iPhone video apps is exploding. A look at some of the up-and-comers  Read story

Are Frequent Flyer Miles Worth the Effort?

They are, if you don't expect to get rewarded each time you try to use them.  Read story

How I Did It: Bill Bathe of U.S Energy Services

Having made the Inc. 500 list for the fifth year, Bill Bathe shares his story.  Read story

Best of the Small Business Web: Law and Order-Taking

Atkinson-Baker, the industry's first-to-the-Web court-reporter scheduling service, saves lawyers and employees time and trouble.  Read story

Globalization

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Hot Spots: A Field Guide to Your Local Economy

Some signs to look for suggesting a community's vitality and opportunity, and those signaling economic collapse.  Read story

Best of the Small Business Web: The Heat Is Online

Advanced Radiant Technology's heating guru wins local customers and far-flung admirers by waxing eloquent on his art and craft.  Read story

Letter From Silicon Valley: Sunrise, Sunset

In which our company-founder-turned-writer reveals what may be the final chapter for his former company.  Read story

An Rfc For Today: A Capital Idea

The Democrats are ready for a national economic strategy. Felix Rohatyn's plan for a new Reconstruction Finance Corp. leads the debate.  Read story

Unsentimental Journey

A Horatio Alger success story in the extreme that is the story of many an entrepreneur.  Read story

Clipped!

Linda Froehlich, inventor of the SuperClip, describes how large office-supply companies crowded out her patented product with knockoffs.  Read story

While You Were Out

Here's how two companies purchased their voice-mail systems. Includes the options they faced, the cost of each system, and technical glitches that arose duri...  Read story

Barbarians at the Watergate

It may have taken awhile, but Washington society is finally adjusting to a new breed: the fast-moving, different-thinking, so very dot-com riche.   Read story

Growing Your Business by Going Global

Information on international business: Hungarian market opportunities, meeting ISO 9000 standards, and packing tips.  Read story

From Victim of the Iranian Revolution to CEO of an Inc. 5000 Company - Toners Plus

These days, Shahin Azizi goes by Sean. He's the founder and CEO of Toners Plus, an office supply company based in California. Azizi, his wife and their fo...  Read story

Clown College: The Halls Of Mirth

"Everyone laughed when I said I wanted to start a clown college," says Irvin Feld. "They told me, 'Clowns are born; you can't teach someone to be a clown....  Read story

Lords Of The Rings

What has $2 million in sequins and feathers, loads 11 flatcars in an hour and a half, and thrills 7 million people? Ringling Bros. is actually a very serious...  Read story

Growing Business by Going Global

Market intelligence on People's Republic of China; gadgets that make int'l telecommunications easier.  Read story

The Smartest Little Company in America

To pinpoint elusive business trends among eclectic, nonquantitative sources of data, CEO Duncan Highsmith depends on a powerful knowledge-management tool--hi...  Read story

Piano Man

Although Santi Falcone may make the world's best piano, people won't buy it till the world's best pianists play it. And the world's best pianists won't play ...  Read story

Who Owns Harlem?

As an economic-development boom takes off in Harlem, residents hotly debate what path will lead the famed African American neighborhood into a prosperous fut...  Read story

Doubting Thomas

Tom Peters discusses his experiences in the world of business and the nature of entrepreneurship.  Read story

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