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Timothy Bates


Recent Articles about Timothy Bates

U.S. Business Data Worst in World -- and Getting Worse

Various experts discuss why it has become so difficult to track issues concerning small businesses.  Read more

Black Entrepreneurs: A New Generation

As traditional black-owned retail and service businesses decline, new, more ambitious black entrepreneurs emerge.  Read more

A New Kind of Business

Policymakers should take a good look at growth companies founded by African Americans.  Read more

Registry: Who's Who in Small-Business Research

Sixteen thumbnail sketchs of the country's leading small-business economists, complete with e-mail addresses.  Read more

A Bad Investment

A professor of labor and urban studies explains why empowerment zones are doomed, and offers a better plan.  Read more

Why Loans Won't Save the Poor

Two labor and urban affairs experts explain why microlending programs don't solve all the problems of the disadvantaged.  Read more

Look Before You Leap

A professor of economics looks at recent research concerning franchising, and offers tips about franchising.  Read more

Buyers Learn to Beware at Franchise Boot Camp

Louis Dominguez, a 53-year-old retired account executive with Verizon, was recently on a conference call with a representative from Alphagraphics, a print...  Read more

Resources

A guide to finding more information on various topics featured in the Oct. 1996 issue of Inc. magazine.  Read more

The Smartest Franchisees in America

An in-depth look at a new wave of franchisees who are using their entrepreneurial smarts as true company builders.  Read more