Wellesley (Massachusetts)


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Personal Best

The president of Amicus Legal Staffing reviews LifePeak, a personal-achievement software product that helps users find balance in their lives through self-ev...  Read more

Before You Serve Up a Server

As major computer manufacturers aggressively target the small-business server market, you have many server options, whether you're running a computer netw...  Read more

Are Entrepreneurs Born or Taught?

A Babson College study says if you can lead a student to entrepreneurship courses, he'll start his own business.  Read more

Making Flying Solo Smoother

More and more people are going into business for themselves, either as a sideline to their full-time work or as their main source of income. Either way,ex...  Read more

Value vs. Vision

If you're in the consulting business, you're all too familiar with this question: "What do you charge; what's your day rate?" How you answer often determi...  Read more

Nurture the Nurturers

Do you ask employees for their opinion on improving customer service? Adept Inc., an information-technology consulting firm, headquartered in Wellesley, M...  Read more

Think Before You Do: Building a Business Plan

Entrepreneurs are natural doers rather than thinkers, but perhaps we were different. In 1996, nearly a year before we launched Executive Options, our care...  Read more

Going For Broke

Is now a good time to start a company?  Read more

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Presenters

Entrepreneurs learn pretty quickly that making a verbal pitch to investors is very different from submitting a written business plan. Here are seven good pra...  Read more

The Most Entrepreneurial Place on Earth

East Cambridge, MA is booming, sparked by fast-growing local computer software and biotech industries.  Read more

Fight Spam in Six Steps

Unwanted and unsolicited junk e-mail currently makes up about two-thirds of all e-mail received, but there are some simple ways your business can cut down on...  Read more

Incentive Plans;

A lot of people say money doesn't motivate, but I found myself grabbing for the phone as soon as it rang," says Catherine Hessinger, a travel agent who be...  Read more

Dropping Back In

A few college students have special extracurricular activities: running their own companies. They're former dropouts dropping back in.  Read more

Best Courses 2011: Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship

A class that brings together 485 students to work on a series of new ventures  Read more

Babson Professor to Speak at VC Forum

Jan. 12, 2007 -- Michael Caslin, an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., will be a feature speake...  Read more

The Ultimate Unemployment Benefit

A federally-sponsored program serves as a springboard for unemployed workers who want to start their own businesses.  Read more

The Best Jobs That Nobody Wants

College entrepreneurship departments are raking in the bucks, but there aren't enough professors to staff them  Read more

Uneasy Rider

John Healy, CEO of Coventry Spares Ltd., realized that the year 2000 bug would paralyze his antiquated computer system. Here's how he brought his motorcycle-...  Read more

Play Money

Founder of simulated stock market confronts decision among three different long-term growth strategies.  Read more

Why 20 Million of You Can't Be Wrong

A long-time Inc. contributor surveys the current entrepreneurial scene and reports his findings. How do things look? Well, one answer might be "Never better,...  Read more

Traffic Will Make You Rich: The Word from the Experts

Sales, not traffic, are what's needed to create profit for a Web site, according to the experts.  Read more

Are You Being Served?

Computer Networks It's a buyer's market for small-business servers. Here's how to untangle all the options Read more

Are You Being Served?

Computer Networks It's a buyer's market for small-business servers. Here's how to untangle all the options Read more

Tech Talk: Online Video Helps Travel Website

By allowing resort homeowners to take video of their properties and showcase them online, a Massachusetts-based travel website finds a new technology tool to...  Read more

University, Inc.;

DONALD L. SNELLMAN NEVER graduated from high school. But the owner and founder of printing-equipment maker Norfin Inc. has made it to the upper reaches o...  Read more

Traffic Will Make You Rich: The Word from the Experts

Sales, not traffic, are what's needed to create profit for a Web site, according to the experts.  Read more

Counterrevolutionary

The Luddites weren't entirely successful in their attempt to halt the Industrial Revolution in 19th-century England, but they did make their point. Steven...  Read more

Building a Web Site Is Easy: The Word from the Experts

E-commerce experts discuss the technical hardships a business can suffer when trying to create a customer-friendly Web site.  Read more

Smart Money Makes You Smart: The Word from the Experts

E-commerce experts weigh in on the importance of finding smart investors.  Read more

Brand Is Everything: The Word from the Experts

E-commerce experts discuss why having a good brand does not necessarily generate sales on the Internet.  Read more

Wild Ads Make Web Stars: The Word from the Experts

Ad campaigns for dot-coms should explain what the business does in order to be effective, say industry observers.  Read more

Community, Community, Community: The Word from the Experts

Not every company needs to build an online community, say Web observers.  Read more

Brand Is Everything: The Word from the Experts

E-commerce experts discuss why having a good brand does not necessarily generate sales on the Internet.  Read more

Community, Community, Community: The Word from the Experts

Not every company needs to build an online community, say Web observers.  Read more

Building a Web Site Is Easy: The Word from the Experts

E-commerce experts discuss the technical hardships a business can suffer when trying to create a customer-friendly Web site.  Read more

End-of-Season Planning

Look for more columns from Ted Hurlbut in our upcoming Retail Resource Center. Let the craziness begin! If you're a small r...  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

Hotline

Hotline information paragraphs: March 1990  Read more

Five Trends That Will Define 2005

What's in store for entrepreneurs in the new year? Five pressing trends.  Read more

Campus Businesses Have Fun, Make Profits

The word "demonstration" at colleges and universities these days is more likely to refer to a product demonstration than to a protest march. When student...  Read more