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How I Did It: Howard Dahl, President and CEO, Amity Technology
Negotiating with commissars. Bartering for payment. Surviving the crash of the ruble.
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USSR yellow pages
Available Soviet Independent Business Directory with key information on Soviet companies. Read more
The Cold Shoulder
I commend Ralph Gregorian's courage and determination in taking on the government of the Soviet Union. Few governments, let alone men, have enough courag... Read more
Silicon Steppe
The prevailing winds of technological change may blow from West to East, but a growing number of U.S. companies are riding the countercurrents, turning co... Read more
Sign of the Times
U.S. entrepreneur markets Soviet souvenir tee-shirts in Russia. 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
Upstarts: The Russian Connection
Entrepreneurs who've emigrated from the former Soviet Union are shrewdly benefiting from the crumbling economy of that once-mighty empire. And they aren't th... Read more
How to Be a Local, Anywhere
If you're a leader, lead. When my company explores a new market, I'm the first one off the plane. Read more
Back in the U.S.S.R.
A museum curator suggests Russia's BESM supercomputer may have been superior to ours during the Cold War. Read more
Workers' Rights: Caveat Employer
Even without a union, your employees have certain rights under federal law that you should know about. Read more
Update: Crime And Punishment
Raphael Gregorian is hardly the portrait of a victorious man. He works out of a windowless basement office. His small company, which once had sales of a... 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
Digital Inc: Going Mobile
Investing in a wireless network slashed inventory errors at one electronics distributor. Better yet, it turned warehouse workers into high-tech innovators. Read more
Digital Inc: Going Mobile
Investing in a wireless network slashed inventory errors at one electronics distributor. Better yet, it turned warehouse workers into high-tech innovators. Read more
Antitrust Slowdown
As a very small and very independent businessman, I take the strongest exception possible to the hysterical claptrap of "Busting the Trustbusters" (Washin... Read more
The Capitalist Road
Two Russian companies have installed the country's first employee stock ownership plans. Read more
A Soviet Case For Entrepreneurship
If you traveled from Monticello to Moscow, you would cover more than 5,000 miles. Ideologically, the distance from the symbol of Jeffersonian democracy to... Read more
Building Strong Bones
New business sets out to build longer, stronger bones. Read more
Do-It-Yourself Phone-Fraud Safeguards
9 precautions to help prevent phone-fraud. Read more
Who's Thinking About Exporting?
Chart showing percentage of companies interested in various exporting regions. Read more
Kachajian's Rebellion
The story of how one small manufacturere spent six years fighting to save his business from the deadening hand of government export controls -- and won. Sort... Read more
Rambling for Gems
Here's how one woman turned an impromptu vacation into a thriving jewelry design and manufacturing business. Read more
Learning the Ropes
Suggestions on taking a cost-effective approach to export opportunities. Read more
The Andropov Connection
To hear Lev Zak tell it, Russians just can't get no respect. "You wouldn't believe how bad consumer products and services are there," he says. "I mean it'... Read more
Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology
Two of America's best-known authors express their different opinions on the role technology plays in our society. Read more
Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley
As blind faith in the infallibility of high-tech companies falters, the era of unrestrained growth in the Valley may be over. Read more
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) is a widely used method for planning and coordinating large-scale projects. As Harold Kerzner explained... Read more
Entrepreneurs Collide: Will Zoning Take Town Downhill?
Various entrepreneurs from a small town comment on a topic that concerns many small-buisness people--zoning laws. Read more
Inc. 500 Interview: EPAM Systems
Outsourcing is a tired buzzword -- but that's because all attention has been focused on Asia. EPAM has a few words for small businesses considering IT outsou... Read more
Red Stars Rising
The president of a Russian telephone company explains the challenge of finding employees in the former USSR. Read more
Busting The Trustbusters
Independent businesspeople voted in droves for Ronald Reagan. Now Reagan proposes that fewer businesspeople be independent. Read more
"being Dead Is Bad For Business"
A growing number of businesspeople are looking beyond the survival of their own companies -- and becoming outspoken participants in the nuclear arms debate. Read more
Bitter Harvest
They can breed a cow with half again as much beef as those raised by their grandfathers and grow 160 bushels of corn an acre instead of 80. Their revenues ar... Read more
Wordly Wise
Harbor International has prospered for years through global turmoil. Hakan Castegren has seen it all since he launched Harbor International Fund... Read more
Turning Spin into Substance
Beyond Spin by Markos Kounalakis, Drew Banks, and Kim Daus Jossey-Bass, 1999, 266 pages, $27. The New Goals o... Read more
In Memoriam: Entrepreneurs Who Died in 2009
Remembering the great entrepreneurs who died in 2009, including the founder of The Gap, the inventor of the Taser, and the guy who brought us the Weather Cha... View slideshow
Go East, Young Man
First-person account of a joint venture in Eastern Europe. Read more
Winning in the Asian Era
The U.S. must take a new commerce perspective in regard to the changes taking place in the world economy. Read more
Laima Tazmin
We love her because she's a lot like other kids--and then again... Read more
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