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South Dakota


Recent Articles about South Dakota

The FYI Pop Quiz

Q: What's the small-business-lending capital of the United States? A: South Dakota.  Read more

Labor: Paying Your Dues

1 Wyoming 6. Hawaii 2. South Dakota 7. Idaho 3. Kansas 8. Nebraska 4. Vermont 9. Utah 5. Colorado ...  Read more

Study: South Dakota Best for Small Firms

South Dakota, Nevada, and Wyoming are the nation's most entrepreneur-friendly states, according to the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council. Read more

South Dakota Tops List of Best States for Small Business

Nov. 1, 2006 -- South Dakota has the best climate for small businesses in the country, according to annual rankings released today by the...  Read more

How to Get Started

Column discussing government programs designed to help entrepreneurs and why no one knows about them.  Read more

Crunching the Numbers

Inc. looks at hiring trends, the cost of ink, and sales of trucks and cargo vans.  Read more

Hotline

Hotline information paragraphs  Read more

South Dakota Rated Friendliest State for Entrepreneurship

Oct. 12, 2004 --If you're looking to start a small business, your best bet is to set up shop in the Mount Rushmore State, according to a n...  Read more

Network: December 1991

Network resources.  Read more

Unconventional Wisdom;

Don't simply create new public-sector programs. Change private-sector behavior instead. Unless a state can change what happens in the marketplace -- how...  Read more

At a Glance

Charts providing information on the features of Inc. 500 companies.  Read more

D.C. Ranks As Most Hostile Place for Small Business

The nation's capital is a harsh place for entrepreneurs. Want somewhere friendlier? Try South Dakota.  Read more

Report: Wyoming Tops for Business Taxes

Among all 50 states, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nevada offer the best tax systems for growing businesses, according to the Tax Foundation. Based on...  Read more

Wyoming, South Dakota Top List of States with Best Tax Climate

In contrast, Rhode Island and Ohio ranked as the worst tax states for businesses.  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

Changing State Liability Laws

Not only do states have widely varying laws dealing with liability claims, but these are in flux: some 30 states have made changes in just the past year. Thr...  Read more

Feds Target Growth in Underserved Markets

The Small Business Administration this fall is hoping to spur small-business growth in inner city and rural areas through a series of programs and activit...  Read more

Carbon Post-it Notes Win National Business Contest

March 19, 2007 -- Carbon Post-it Notes created by students at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in Rapid City, S.D., was ...  Read more

The Top 10 States In Six Categories

CAPITAL RESOURCES 1. New York 2. California 3. Massachusetts 4. Connecticut 5. Minnesota 6. Texas 7. Penn...  Read more

The War Between The States, Revisited

Last year's celebrated war of words between Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich and his South Dakota counterpart, William Janklow, may have marked a new low p...  Read more

Using Customer Databases Daily

One-to-one relationship selling is the oldest game around, but if you're not working it in conjunction with a well-maintained customer database, opportuni...  Read more

Personal Income Up in Second Quarter

Sept. 28, 2005 --Strong earnings in real estate, professional services, and other entrepreneurial sectors helped jumpstart personal income...  Read more

Best & Worst

Rating the best and worst states--among the 26 whose governors are up for reelection--in seven key areas.  Read more

Start-Ups and Blowouts

Chart showing new-business incorporations, business bankruptcies and business failures nationwide by region.  Read more

New Year, New Laws

An entrepreneur's guide to state policies taking effect at the start of 2006.  Read more

The Business of Base Closures

While most communities worry about job losses, a few see opportunity  Read more

Joel Was Wrong, Arrington Gets Uninvited, and This Wink Will Cost You

Dear Michael Arrington, Please don't come back. Sincerely, Europe . The TechCrunch founder lives the high life in Paris at the Read more

Here's a Nice Problem

Mike Levsen has a problem most mayors would love to have -- he's got jobs galore coming to his tiny town of Aberdeen, South Dakota, and isn't sure he has ...  Read more

Top 25 Cities for Doing Business in America

If you're looking for cities large, medium, and small where job growth is robust and economies are strong, head to the ones on this year's Top Cities list. F...  Read more

Community Banks, Viral Marketing and More Spending Declines

Small banks forced to cut back . The Wall Street Journal has a great pie...  Read more

10 Great Seasonal Summer Businesses

If it weren't for these seasonal businesses, much of what we love and take for granted as simple summer pleasures might never have existed. Here's to all com...  View slideshow

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

Which States are Best for Entrepreneurs?

South Dakota and Nevada top new rankings by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council.  Read more

What The Rankings Mean

In years past, INC.'s annual Report on the States ranked the business climates of the 50 states through a formula that took into account roughly a dozen v...  Read more

Cement Shortage Has Builders in a Bind

Governors of five states say tariff exacerbates the problem.  Read more

The 1991 Inc. 500(Introduction)

Introduction overview of the Inc. 500.  Read more

The Inc. 100 Portfolio;

* Six INC. 100 chief executive officers once worked for IBM Corp. * Symbion Inc. (#43), which makes the Jarvik-7 artificial heart and other artifici...  Read more

Desperation Capitalism

What do Clorox and Apple Computer have in common? Both were launched by bootstrappers-- and here are some other bootstrapping Hall of Famers.  Read more

Best Of Show Business Activity: Trouble In The Oil Patch

1. New Hampshire 6. Florida 2. Colorado 7. Georgia 3. Alaska 8. California 4. New Jersey 9. Massachusetts ...  Read more

Do-It-Yourself Job Creation

Profiles of entrepreneurs who are creating their own jobs and changing the face of business.  Read more