Sausalito


Hot Tip: Advisory Boards

Christine Comaford, managing director at Artemis Ventures, in Sausalito, Calif., has a method for making the most of an advisory board. S...  Read story

You get what you pay for

Employer puts his employees on salary with a bonus to eliminate the incentive to work overtime.  Read story

Street Smarts: Surviving the Recession

It requires conquering your fears and making the right choices. Many business owners won't do either  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the December issue.  Read story

Modeling Your Company's Future

John Ward, a management consultant and owner of Need To Know, teaches workshop participants to sculpt images from clay that represent their company's philoso...  Read story

Marketing: Let Your Packaging Do the Talking

A look at how packaging can offer a wide variety of ways to communicate with your customers.  Read story

One More Reason We're Glad We Don't Work For Big Companies

Inc. staffers come up with the same name for a General Mills cereal that it took a consulting firm a year to find.  Read story

The Other Side Of The Table

For a small company, working out the details of a business agreement with IBM Corp. is usually as one-sided as bidding for ball players with George Steinb...  Read story

Come Again

An art gallery tracks customers and turns them into repeat buyers.  Read story

Leni Miller's Houseboat

A company founder creates a home office that's so great, everyone wants to visit her.  Read story

Feathers in Her Cap

Ann Withey, owner of Annie's Homegrown, a $3.5-million Sausalito-and-Boston-based macaroni-and-cheese manufacturer, boasts a database of 75,000 customer n...  Read story

The Entrepreneur of the Year

Entrepreneur of the year awards and the selection process.  Read story

Avoiding International Accounting Hassles

Tips on adjusting to foreign accounting systems.  Read story

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

When the marriage partnership ends, what happens to the business partnership?  Read story

Dream Weaver

The president of Create-It! Inc. reviews MindMan--The Creative MindManager, a software product that helps groups organize the thoughts and ideas that occur d...  Read story

Are We Having Fun Yet?

Front desk employees are supplied with cash to buy toys to promote a relaxed, playful atmosphere.  Read story

The Secrets of Cross-Promotion

Different entrepreneurs tell how they have found marketing partnerships to be an effective way to stretch a budget.  Read story

The 500

#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ...  Read story

Social Capital

Here's how four socially minded VC firms and banks are breaking from tradition.  Read story

International Partners

California company produces goods in Taiwan because of the excellent service.  Read story

How to Survive Without a Job

Guide to creating your own workplace in the '90s. Focus on entrepreneurs the changing small business landscape.  Read story

Network: June 1993

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

What's in a Name?

Is your company's brand name doing everything it could? Here's how to get the name you deserve.  Read story

Start-Up Focus: Swords into Ploughshares

A short article that profiles a start-up owned by two past members of America's defense industry turned entrepreneurs.  Read story

CEO's Notebook

CEOs discuss lowering insurance costs; using employee committees to review potential clients; getting capital from clients; and mastering your supply chain. ...  Read story

Back To Basics

The high-tech boom went bust, and investors started looking for managers with proven track records, and flocking to companies like Roto-Rooter and OshKosh Bh...  Read story

Creating a Cyberdefense

After suicide hijackers and anthrax letters, the next big worry is virtual terrorists.  Read story

Made to Order

In-depth analysis of a start-up catalog business.  Read story

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Founders of professional service firms have a choice to make: Do they want to be the company, or do they want to build one?  Read story

The Entrepreneur of the Year

Introduction to the Entrepreneur of the Year judges and the selection process.  Read story

Plug and Pay

Some horror tales of hiring the wrong high-tech consultant, and how to avoid this dangerous situation.  Read story

Go Sell It on the Mountain

A look at Blue Mountain Arts' bold plans for turning its popular Web site into an E-commerce moneymaker.  Read story

Case Study

His rock club was in ruins. His partnership was crumbling. Could Allan Fingerhut save his business and his friendship?  Read story

Can Business Still Save The World?

Meet the new breed of socially responsible CEOs. They share the goals of activist pioneers like Body Shop cofounder Anita Roddick and Ben Jerry's...  Read story

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