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How Smart Is Your Seafood?
RFID tags are small devices incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. They are Read more
Vietnam
Recent Articles about Vietnam
Would Ho Chi Minh Have Owned A Laptop?
Some quick figures and stats about high technology in today's Vietnam. Read more
Good Morning, Vietnam
Three entrepreneurs discuss their operations in the emerging Vietnamese marketplace. Read more
Entrepreneurial Terror
My terror is not unlike that which I knew as a Vietnam soldier. I also know that while I have control of my entrepreneurial terror, my beautiful wife doe... Read more
The Kindest Cut
Competition has sparked a global decline in corporate taxes. Read more
The Superman Complex
CEO describes the post-Vietman trauma and its effect on his business. Read more
Small Farmers Behind Possible Tariffs on China, Vietnam
July 7, 2004 -- Score one for the small farmer. Yesterday, responding to a petition from a group of small shrimp farmers in eight states,... Read more
Country Profiles
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"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
Funding for Basic Businesses
Qualifying for funding from the Specialized Small Business Investment Company. Read more
Vet Supply
Using the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program to recruit new employees. Read more
Corps Values
The U.S. Marines are trained to make split-second decisions based on incomplete information, in life-or-death situations. Can they provide clues to running a... Read more
The 2010 Inc. 5000: Top 10 Asian Entrepreneurs
Tracing their roots to countries as diverse as Vietnam, China, Japan and Korea, these entrepreneurs overcame linguistic, financial, and cultural barriers to ... View slideshow
D.C. Contact List
They're busy folks, but here's where to find them. 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
The China Train May Have Already Left the Station, Part Two
I flew from Sydney to Chicago where I had dinner with the CEO of a company that manufactures parts for electric motors. What keeps him up at night, I ask... Read more
Hiring On The Money
School is nearly out, and for many small companies that can mean a substantial rise in the number of summer-job applications. For employers hiring young a... Read more
No Fonda Fan
I am pleased to learn the in-depth story of the failure of Jane Fonda's Workout clothing line ("Starstruck," October 1985). But I am shocked by INC.'s co... Read more
Software Piracy Worldwide a $33 Billion Loss
May 23, 2005 --One in three software programs in use around the world today have been installed without license, according to the second a... Read more
Officers and Gentlemen
Venture capital firms size up the market for defense contracting Read more
V-Tech Services, - Inc. Article
V-Tech Services Location: Philadelphia 2002 revenue: $8 million Grow... Read more
In a Former Life: Chris Rooney
CHRIS ROONEY, 58 Present life: Rooney is the CEO of Cignal Global Communications Inc., a three-year-old teleco... Read more
Fight Click Fraud on Pay-Per-Click Ads
Click fraud is particularly a concern for small businesses with limited advertising budgets. How can you be sure that when you buy pay-per-click advertising ... Read more
How I Did It: Serial Entrepreneur Richard Heckmann
Buy fearlessly, sell ruthlessly, repeat regularly. How Richard Heckmann takes struggling companies and sells them for billions Read more
Shirt-sleeve Investing
The year was 1981, and company comptroller Tom Buck figured it was the end of the road for Colorado AMC/Jeep Renault Inc. All of Buck's efforts to find m... Read more
'Tis Better to Give
Resources for information on the tax rules governing charitable donations. Read more
The Inc. 500
Brief profiles of 15 Inc. 500 companies and their founders. Read more
So You Want To Go Into Politics?
A growing number of entrepreneurs are abandoning the privacy and freedom of business for the perils of public office. Read more
The 1989 Inc. 500
Brief profiles of 15 Inc. 500 CEOs. Read more
Contributors
For " Blue Is the New Green ,"
Business Ownership Among Immigrant Women on the Rise
February 4, 2005 --There's long been an American dream of a man immigrating to the U.S., setting up a business, and providing for himself ... Read more
Kiva Borrower Phun Them, Live from Cambodia
A little over a year ago, Inc . connected with Kiva.org , a website that facilitates microloans to ... Read more
Character and Caring: Business Lessons from Three Military Officers
Military metaphors abound in the world of business. Companies rarely enter new markets; they usually "invade" them. When businesses ponder geographic expa... Read more
International: Showcases for U.S. Catalogers
An overview of different U.S. catalogers finding profits overseas regardless of their size. Read more
And You Think You've Got Tax Worries...
Excerpts from The Wall Street Journal on extreme taxation in Italy and Vietnam. Read more
The Spirit Of Independence; On The Frontiers
"In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high." -- Henry David Thoreau Read more
Taking Credit
For years, small business has assumed that the problems associated with the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit outweigh the advantages. It's time to take another look. Read more
How I Did It: Randy Slager
Former Army officer Randy Slager has two goals: continue expanding his $30 million IT company and keep knocking down walls that prevent disabled veterans fro... Read more
Upstarts: Tapping Generation Y
A new wave of start-ups is courting an unprecedented swell of cash-rich teens. But even if these teen-obsessed ventures strike the adolescent mother lode, ca... Read more
Quick Picks
January's downtime distractions include Toshiba's Portégé M205, Sierra Wireless's Voq, and a good book, The Anatomy of Hope . Read more
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