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Recent Articles about Santa Monica

How to Create a Productive Work Environment (Clue: Don't Ignore Your Health)—Part 2

While trying to get out of my office and take a nice stroll around my office building, I noticed that I was hit with unwanted noise.  I found my ears...  Read more

Teen Entrepreneurs Headed to China

The winners of a U.S. business-plan competition will now compete against nine other nations.  Read more

Study: Smaller Workplaces Are Safer

Facilities operated by larger companies have up to five times the fatality rate of smaller companies.  Read more

Teen Entrepreneurs Headed to China

The winners of a U.S. business-plan competition will now compete against nine other nations.  Read more

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U.S. Teens Win Global Entrepreneurship Contest

The team from Santa Monica, Calif., runs an on-campus restaurant and snack bar.  Read more

Firing: A Dirty Job...

A short review of James Walsh's book 'Rightful Termination,' including purchasing information.  Read more

Briefings: January 2003

The company owner's guide to laws, news, trends, and regulations.  Read more

Ask Myra Goodman

Co-founder and executive vice president, Earthbound Farm.  Read more

Elevator Pitch: NovaSim

NovaSim’s software makes call centers and hospitals more efficient. Will $300,000 take it to the next level?  Read more

Outlook 2006: Logistics

The shipping news.  Read more

Financing Big-Ticket Software

Large software vendors are now arranging leases on their own products.  Read more

Is Recycled Paper Really Recycled?

Inc. writer clears up some of the confusion about recycled paper and its use.  Read more

Letting Go of Your Landline

Many individuals use their cell phone as their only phone line. Should entrepreneurs consider it too?  Read more

Employee Health Costs Rising

Smaller employers continue to offer benefits despite a 30 percent hike in insurance prices, a study shows.  Read more

Fewer Fed Contracts Going to Women

April 27, 2007 -- Women small-business owners accounted for only 3.3 percent of all federal contracts awarded in 2005, below the governme...  Read more

Mail

The Future of Marketing I'm amazed that search advertising, the most pervasive new marketing tool, was not included in your Read more

Massachusetts Tops Tech Rankings

The state's science and technology sector leads the nation in R&D, a study reports.  Read more

Florida Metro Areas Lead National Job Growth

Nov. 19, 2004 --The Fort Myers-Cape Coral metropolitan area in Florida led the nation in job growth in 2003, according to a new study by t...  Read more

Coping with Stress Claims

How to make yourself less vulnerable to employee lawsuits claiming disabling workplace stress.  Read more

The 2008 Inc. 500 Investor's Guide

Four venture capitalists peruse the list of fastest-growing companies and tell us what looks good.  Read more

How I Got VC Money: Ed Jaeger

How a company that manufactures protective gloves raised venture capital  Read more

Heading South

Northern California may still dominate the high-technology headlines, but in recent years southern California has begun to challenge the Bay Area as the n...  Read more

The Most Expensive States for Business?

Hawaii and New York remain the most expensive states to run a business, while South Dakota is the cheapest, according to a recent study by the Milken Inst...  Read more

Who's Talking about Your Company Online?

Companies like Beachbody are using new reputation monitoring tools to scour the Internet for customer complaints.  Read more

Still the Best Places to Do Business

A public-policy expert explains why some big cities are the best place for successful entrepreneurial commerce.  Read more

" Same Day, Same Day Planner"

METAphorically and in practice, everyone's on the same page at The Phelps Group, a Santa Monica, Calif., integrated marketing-communications company where...  Read more

Profiles in Growth

Highlight of different characteristics of the CEOs of 1993 Inc. 100 companies.  Read more

Ways to Make Your Laptop Battery Last Longer

Yes, you can take that transcontinental -- or transoceanic -- flight, without lugging along a spare battery.  Read more

Aftermarket ELF Protection

New affordable shields available to protect computer users from extremely low-frequency radiation.  Read more

10 Eye-Catching Ambient Ads

What ads did you see on your way to work this morning? Trouble remembering? Here are 10 smart advertisements and marketing campaigns that generated buzz and ...  View slideshow

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the April issue.  Read more

The Inc. Network

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Elevator Pitch: Sport Technology Makes Gear for the X Games Crowd

Can it raise $3 million to meet demand?  Read more

Entrepreneurs in the News

The latest news on James Sun, Michael Dell, and Mitchell Binder  Read more

CEO Notebook

CEOs from across the country share advice and questions on topics ranging from staffing to taking time off.  Read more

The World's Smartest Car?

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

Communications: Open, Sesame

A quick review of two software packages that offer easy access to the Internet, and how to purchase these packages.  Read more

Micro Matter

From books to tapes to classes, computer training options are as varied as the computers themselves.  Read more

Taking on Big Accounts

Smart business strategies for diversifying your customer relationships  Read more