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How I Did It: Richard Schaps, CEO, Van Wagner Communications

By Richard Schaps |  Oct 1, 2007

Richard Schaps sold his outdoor-advertising company, Van Wagner, for $170 million. On Tuesday, he passed out millions of dollars to his people--and then star...  Read story

Businesses Win Times Square Billboard Ads

Jul 9, 2007

A South Carolina-based center for children with disabilities and a Montana-based seller of environmentally-friendly building products were among the small...  Read story

In a Former Life: Tama Starr

By Ilan Mochari |  Aug 1, 2000

Present life: CEO of Artkraft Strauss, an outdoor-advertising company based in New York City. Founded in 1897, the company is best known ...  Read story

How I Did It: Caroline Hirsch

By Caroline Hirsch |  Nov 1, 2004

From Jerry Seinfeld to Jay Leno, scores of standup comics have cut their teeth on the stage that Caroline Hirsch built.  Read story

Good Vibrations

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jul 1, 1988

A new recording studio stakes it pitch on service, but will its customers care?  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without...

By Riza Cruz |  Dec 1, 2003

Animator Jeff Nodelman finds that a meal of ribs gets his creative juices flowing. He also has good taste in boats.  Read story

CEO's Notebook

By Various Inc Staff |  Aug 1, 2000

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

Broadway Stagehands End Strike

By Matt Finkelstein |  Nov 29, 2007

Restaurants, parking lots, and other small businesses find relief as curtains go up again.  Read story

Smart Questions for Your Accountant

By Jennifer Gill |  Nov 1, 2006

Forget holiday shopping. Now's the time to huddle with your CPA and make year-end tax moves that will shave Uncle Sam's bill. Here are a few questions to ask...  Read story

Hall of Fame Profile: Ross O. Youngs

By Nadine Heintz |  Oct 15, 2004

On how an invention becomes (or sometimes doesn't become) a business.  Read story

Underground Mailroad

By James Vescovi |  Jun 15, 1994

A curator gives a history of New York City's pneumatic mail system that linked the city's post offices.  Read story

Young Entrepreneurs Network, Celebrate in New York

By Melanie Brooks |  Apr 26, 2006

The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s annual banquet drew more than 1,000 attendees.  Read story

Broadway Strike Costing Businesses $17 Million Per Day

By Matt Finkelstein |  Nov 13, 2007

The stagehands' strike has dealt New York restaurants, parking lots, and other businesses a "powerful" blow.  Read story

Dramatic Results

By Stephanie Clifford |  Oct 1, 2007

Making opera (yes, opera) seem young and hip.  Read story

Remote Possibilities

By Moe Meyerson |  Mar 15, 1997

A light-hearted look at how cell phones, modems, and pagers may have made communicating too easy.  Read story

Peter's Principles

By Harriet Rubin |  Mar 1, 1998

Book editor Rubin talks with Peter Drucker about how he built a long-standing brand around his own knowledge and how to prepare for a career as a solo act.  Read story

How to Get Your First Great Idea

By Samuel Fromartz |  Apr 1, 1998

Five rules to follow that will help you recognize valuable business ideas. Includes case studies of entrepreneurs who quickly transformed ideas into start-up...  Read story

How I Did It: Percy Sutton, Chairman Emeritus, Inner City Broadcasting

By Percy Sutton |  May 1, 2007

Talk about a man in full. Percy Sutton has been a stunt pilot, an intelligence officer, Malcolm X's lawyer, and a powerful politician. And also a media mogul...  Read story

Managing the Impossible

By John Anderson |  Apr 1, 2003

Starting with nothing but the force of his entrepreneurial leadership, Omar Minaya took the orphans of baseball and made them winners -- a lesson in grit.  Read story

The Marketing Genius Strikes Back

By Gay Jervey |  Apr 1, 2003

How Kenn Viselman made his name, lost his company, and is taking the biggest gamble of his career.  Read story

Does Your Business Need a Second Life?

By Michael Fitzgerald |  Feb 1, 2007

Why are companies like Toyota (NYSE:TM) and Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and Starwood Hotels (NYSE:HOT) getting immersed in this pixilated fairyland? Why did IBM (N...  Read story

Daddy Dearest

By Edward O. Welles |  Jan 1, 1991

Profile of two third-generation family business heirs' struggle for succession and success.  Read story

Who Are the Real Entrepreneurs?

By Norm Brodsky |  Dec 1, 1996

A noted entrepreneur explains why many people who share that lable are not really entrepreneurs.  Read story

Jon Pritchett's Dream of Reviving AstroTurf Became a PR Nightmare

By Andrew Park |  Sep 1, 2008

Should he go all out to save the brand?  Read story

The Mouth Will Rise Again

By John Anderson |  Feb 1, 2004

Fresh from losing several billion dollars and his job at AOL Time Warner, Ted Turner returns to his entrepreneurial roots: "Leave your gun at the cash regist...  Read story

Graduation Day

By GERALD LANSON |  May 1, 1987

Joshua Smith built the fastest-growing black-owned business in America. But can Maxima survive its graduation from the government program that made success p...  Read story

Allhiphop.com's Founders Thought a Weeklong Event Would Raise the Company's Profile and Boost Growth

By Kermit Pattison |  Feb 1, 2008

Instead, it almost killed their business.  Read story

The Selling Of The Law

By Craig R. Waters |  Mar 1, 1982

Len Jacoby and Steve Meyers set off a small revolution in legal circles by using mass marketing techniques to sell their services to the man in the street.  Read story

Cleaning House

By JAY FINEGAN |  Jun 1, 1986

In his battle to close the SBA, President Reagan has turned on his own appointees, offended his business constituency, and welched on a deal with Congress. E...  Read story

Small Businesses Brace for New York Transit Strike

By Walter Alarkon |  Dec 19, 2005

Dec. 19, 2005-- As New York braces for a potential transit strike that officials say could cost the city's economy up to $400 million a da...  Read story

Their Online Dating Site was Struggling

By Max Chafkin |  May 1, 2008

Was a blind-date stunt really the answer?  Read story

I Love L.A.

By Joel Kotkin |  Mar 1, 1989

Why Los Angeles is quickly replacing New York City as the economic capital of America in 1989.  Read story

Built for Speed

By Donna Fenn |  Sep 1, 1998

Roger Abramson, CEO of office-furniture distributor the Atlantic Group, uses speed as a competitive advantage by combining lightening-fast operations with qu...  Read story

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