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Visa Rules May Hurt Small Flight Schools

A new effort to toughen security could cost schools half their revenue, according to the SBA.  Read more

Export Experts Close to Home

Public private resources for analyzing overseas prospects.  Read more

Biometrics

Related Terms: Data Encryption ; Read more

Safer Business Trips to Mexico

Escalating drug violence has dissuaded many tourists from visiting Mexican border towns such as Tijuana and Nogales. But what if business requires a visit...  Read more

Foreign Affairs Tech Expo

Nov. 28, 2006 -- Small businesses interested in providing technology for U.S. foreign affairs operations are invited to attend State Depa...  Read more

7 Tips for Foreign Business Travel

Maximize your time spent overseas. Proper preparation before your departure will not only make your business trip a safe one but more productive.  Read more

Fiasco, By Jack Anderson With James Boyd. Times Books, Three Park Ave., New York, Ny 10016; 386 Pp., $17.50.

Some Americans suspected that there was a Nixon in the woodpile in regard to the oil crises and price run-ups of the early 1970s, what with the former Pre...  Read more

The Ceo Who Came In From The Cold

U.S. exporter Ralph Gregorian was kicked out of the Soviet Union on spy charges he says are outrageous. So he did what any red-blooded entrepreneur would do:...  Read more

Intellectual Property

Related Terms: Inventions and Patents ; ...  Read more

5 Entrepreneurs in the New Congress

Business owners from Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania take seats in the 111th Congress.  View slideshow

Save the Yellow Pages

Small-business owners are fighting to preserve the old-fashioned phone book. Plus, Groupon gets sued, and the rest of the day's news.  Read more

Green Bayou

With almost $1 billion in new taxes, Louisiana is hedging against a long-standing dependency on cheap energy and good ol' boy charm.  Read more

The Way I Work: Lani Hay of Lanmark Technology

Government contractor Lani Hay spends her days meeting with politicians, partying with celebrities, and advising the military.  Read more

Inside Goldman’s $500 Million Small Business Initiative

Dina Powell, the executive in charge of the program, fills in some of the details.  Read more

Per Diem Allowances

Related Terms: Expense Accounts The term "pe...  Read more

Arms Dealer Probed

Lawmakers want to know how a wealthy munitions firm won $300 million in federal contracts as a small disadvantaged business.  Read more

U.S., Allies Create Small-Business Fund for Middle East

Nov. 18, 2005 --The nation's foreign policymakers are turning to small businesses to promote democracy in the Middle East and North Africa...  Read more

How I Did It: Jerry Torres, Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions

As told to Max Chafkin Industry Leader: Government Services Three-Year Growth: Read more

Building a Global Network

Who you need to know and how to find them.  Read more

Winning a Government Contract

Though billions of stimulus fund dollars are being allocated for government contracts, many small business owners are still unaware of how to strategically w...  Read more

Google Intervenes in Japan

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. ...  Read more

In Congress We Trust

I bring good news to those of you who feared Congress made a lot of promises but did nothing this past year: it did something! I stumbled across small but...  Read more

The World According To Me

What can you learn from a CEO's autobiography?  Read more

The Third Apple Founder

Wozniak, Jobs, . . . and Wayne? The Mercury News heads to the Nevada desert and catches up with Ron Wayne, "Read more

The Boy Who Cried Boycott

Okay, what are we boycotting this time? "Remember when we were all supposed to quit Facebook?," asks TechCrunch blogger Read more

Raul Castro: Reformer?

After Fidel Castro fell ill last summer Cuban-Americans across the country turned a hopeful eye toward their homeland in anticipation that la revolucio...  Read more

Into Africa

Yes, you can do business there.  Read more

Salt Lake City, Utah

THE INSULAR MORMON CULTURE THAT ONCE BROUGHT ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IS NOW A MAJOR LIABILITY FOR BUSINESS OWNERS.  Read more

Perestroika Continues

Will Cuba, post-Fidel, be ready for U.S. trade?  Read more

"overseas Customers Prefer Small Companies"

Last year, Maureen Reagan and Sell Overseas America helped 740 companies stake out a share of the world marketplace.  Read more

Exporting

Related Terms: Export-Import Bank ; Read more

Special Financial Report: Employee Compensation

What should you pay employees in this crazy job market? A look at the new rules of compensation  Read more

The President's Message: An Historic Event

On March 1, in response to the Small Business Economic Policy Act of 1980, Ronald Reagan sent to Congress the first annual "State of Small Business" repor...  Read more

Total Quality Management (TQM)

Related Terms: ISO 9000 ; Read more

A Whole New World

How Mosaica Education made the jump from the inner city to the Middle East.  Read more

We've Been Hacked

Not scared of losing your data to a corporate thief? You should be.  Read more

We've Been Hacked

Not scared of losing your data to a corporate thief? You should be.  Read more

The Thinking Man's CEO

Interview with with a CEO who pursues outside activities to expose his company to emerging areas of opportunity.  Read more

Meet the Best-Connected 21-Year-Old in the World

Ankur Jain is the founder of the Kairos Society, a network of college entrepreneurs dedicated to changing the world through business. And socializing. Which ...  Read more