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What to Do After Selling

Super Bowl ads: The verdict. "Beer solves a lot of problems, women hold men back from their dream, and this year, pants are optional." That's what ...  Read more

The Jobs Bill and You

Senate passes hiring incentives . A measure designed to provide financial incentives for companies to hire new employees looks set to pass the Senat...  Read more

Fred Wilson Gets Darwinian and How to Do More With Less

Six business principles to stick with in 2009. Inc. 500 CEO Michael Mothner, of Wpromote, outlines Read more

VC Money Heads East; The Bar Code Turns 35

A dozen cleantech IPOs That's what we'll see over the next year, according to the fervently bullish Steve Westly, former eBay marketing director an...  Read more

Dubai’s Meltdown; The Biz Behind This Year's Hottest Toy

Meltdown in Dubai? The boom that put indoor ski slopes in the desert and man-made islands in the Persian Gulf looks to be coming to an end. Over th...  Read more

Business Management Applications: The Power of Data

BMAs may be your online secret weapon to weather the downturn -- and come out of it stronger and more profitable.  Read more

Should I Prosecute?

My son called me yesterday to tell me about a recent hire at his company. After three weeks, they found out that the new receptionist was stealing credit ...  Read more

Alternative Energy's Uphill Climb

Many people are enthusiastic about the prospects of the alternative-energy industry, but two pieces of news today underscore the fact that the industry is...  Read more

Federal Contractors Must Vouch for Workers

In an effort intended to address illegal immigration, the Bush administration released an executive order today asking all federal contractors to certify ...  Read more

Is Your Company Like the Brady Bunch?

When companies are sold, the founder will probably have a hard time coping, and the buyer may not turn out to be as or clever in their management as one m...  Read more

Should I Prosecute?

My son called me yesterday to tell me about a recent hire at his company. After three weeks, they found out that the new receptionist was stealing credit ...  Read more

A Danish scam, deflation, and letdown at Macworld

High-flying Danish firm exposed as a sham. The Wall Street Journal has a Read more

March Madness at Work

It's that time of year: March Madness, otherwise known as the NCAA men's basketball tournament. On Sunday evening, the selection committee revealed the fi...  Read more

Behind-the-Scenes Influencers of Silicon Valley

Get your business a bar code. Everyone knows that Google helps customers find your business online, but today's tech-savvy window shoppers are now ...  Read more

Advice from the IRS Will Soon Cost More

If you need the IRS's advice on whether your simplified employee pension plan is too complicated or a pre-filing agreement on how much money your multinat...  Read more

Out of Business

According to the Small Business Administration, about 34% of business with fewer than 500 employees close within two years of opening, and 50% fold after ...  Read more

GDP Fell 6.1 Percent in Q1

"Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- decreased at an annual rat...  Read more

Getting To Inbox Zero

How to stop drowning in e-mail. Spark Capital's Bijan Sabet doesn't blame you for tweeting when you get to inbox-zero. "It feels good getting to th...  Read more

Out of this World

With all of the hype about Discovery 's safe return, it seems like now would be an opportune time to look to outer space for business opportunitie...  Read more

Going Global, Part 5: Liquid ban be damned!

When globetrotter Pat McGovern first drafted his "Tips for...  Read more

Immigration's New Rules

Senators ranging from Democrat Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts to Republican Saxby Chambliss of Georgia announced today that they had reached a deal on compr...  Read more

Can Brad Pitt Save an Independent Studio?

A reprieve for the Weinsteins? Most movie studio heads would have been popping bubbly over the opening of Inglorious Basterds this weekend. (The Qu...  Read more

Biz Lessons from the Poker Table; Google's New Idea

Yanks win, but few spoils for Bronx businesses . Congratulations to the New York Yankees, for winning (yet another) World Series championship. But w...  Read more

Ask Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran's tips on gaining media exposure.  Read more

Emotional Branding

Though they all seem to be taking hard a line against George W. Bush (case in point, last week's Bush-bashing Read more

The Call of the Entrepreneur

I really enjoyed this story (registration required) about Robert Serros and his Orla...  Read more

Editor's Letter

A few months ago, we decided that the feature section of this issue would be devoted to just one topic: global entrepreneurship. Partly this came about b...  Read more

Obama's Marketing Value, Small Banks, and the Belgian Blues

Barack Obama, brand evangelist. Former Inc. Senior Writer Stephanie Clifford has a great story in today's New York Times about <...  Read more

Credit Card Cuts and the Rise of Local Currency

Card providers slash limits. The WSJ has some disturbing examples of how cr...  Read more

Bloggers Beware and Twitter's Revenue Model

How America fell in love with green-topped rooster sauce. The New York Times looks into the origins of the now ubiquitous bottles of Huy Fong srira...  Read more

Crisis Management Tips and the Supreme Court on Patents

How to communicate in a crisis in the age of social media. Read more

Twitter's Revenue Problem; The Right Way to Fail

The Return of Steve Jobs? Apple is widely Read more

A Smarter Segway?

Some students at MIT have developed a fold-up scooter for use primarily in cities in Asia, where car traffic is reaching staggering levels. According to a...  Read more

Spring Break for Geeks

South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) is a technology conference here...  Read more

Banning Trans Fat

The New York Times reports that "The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously yesterday to move forward with plans to prohibit the city's 20,000 re...  Read more

Shrinking Angels Funds and a Memorable Coffee Bust

If only Norm Brodsky got to him in time. On Slate today, there's a great cautionary tale ab...  Read more

A Parliament of Night-Owl Entrepreneurs

Who needs sleep when there are start-ups to launch? Between endless e-mail conversations and talkative co-workers, getting actual work done during ...  Read more

In this Issue

Reflecting on the current business climate and an unstoppable force.  Read more

A Family Dynasty Fails, Vulture Investors, and Pirate Trouble

After 55 years, a billion-dollar family business files for bankruptcy. Martin and Matthew Bucksbaum, two brothers from Iowa, rose from local grocer...  Read more

An Opec of Rice?

With food and grain prices surging worldwide, an organization of rice-producing nations appears to be in the works, the New York Times reports. Read more