One Company's Budget: Increasing Capital Investments in a Recession
Fusion Systems makes manufacturing equipment with a twist: they innovate new ways to make obsolete machines. Read story
Company Activities and Information
Go Public Through the Back Door
Forget about an initial public offering, says Tim Halter, president of the Halter Financial Group, in Dallas.HFG specializes in helping private companies ... Read story
Uncle Sam Wants You -- To Do R
The Department of Defense, which has long relied on large companies for the bulk of its purchases, recently turned an eye to small businesses for research... Read story
The 1981 Tax Cut: A Tilt To Big Business?
President Reagan's tax reform plans still leave small business at a disadvantage. Read story
Definitions Behind Business Name Jargon
One reason the law of business names often seems confusing is that the subject is riddled with lots of arcane and often overlapping legal jargon. For exam... Read story
Nobel Prizes Aren't Enough
Better support of small company R D will help us lead the world in innovative products as well as basic research. Read story
Business Slump Spurs Sellouts And Mergers
Mergers and acquisitions of small companies rose significantly during the first quarter of 1981. "It's almost become a natural reflex to sell out when th... Read story
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Small business innovation research bills have been introduced in both houses of Congress. They would require all federal agencies whose research and deve... Read story
Stanley Mason Is Growing Oil On Trees
Entrepreneurs like Mason are solving our "insolvable" problems. Read story
What The Nsf Thinks Of Its Own R
The only agency in the federal government required by law to include small businesses specifically in its R&D funding wishes it didn't have to. ... Read story
Partnership Basics
A partnership is an association of two or more persons, known as general partners, who act as co-owners of a business and operate it for profit. The other... Read story
The More They Spend On R&D , The Faster They Grow
Sizing up R&D spending in 52 smaller companies. Read story
Small Business Innovation: The Need Is Critical, The Time Is Now
"In the past 15 years of economic turbulence small business has proved more flexible and adaptable than the giant corporations. Small companies have provided... Read story
Why Bureaucrats Avoid Small Business R & D
As a rule, the federal government doesn't like to do business with small companies, for reasons that are not hard to understand if you're the government e... Read story
How Our Nation Can Compete Again
Technology entrepreneurs will lead the way. Read story
What The NSF Thinks Of Its Own R&D Program
The only agency in the federal government required by law to include small businesses specifically in its R&D funding wishes it didn't have to. To t... Read story
Stanley Mason Is Growing Oil On Trees
Entrepreneurs like Mason are solving our "insolvable" problems. Read story
IPO Basics: A Road Map
Registration Statement Before a company may offer its shares for sale, it must first file a registration statement with the Securi... Read story
IPO Basics: The Registration Statement
Registration statements have the following two principal parts: Part I is the prospectus, the legal offering or "selling" document. The "i... Read story
Merger Mania: Art Buchwald Vs. The Attorney General
WASHINGTON -- Every time you pick up the newspaper you read about one company merging with another company. We have laws to protect competition in the Un... Read story
Justice Plans End To Antitrust "activism"
Some aspects of the Reagan Administration's antitrust policy will remain fuzzy until early next year, but other features of the Justice Department's new p... Read story
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Dun & Bradstreet is playing matchmaker. In its newly developed prototype "Purchasing and Procurement Information System," the credit rating company i... Read story
Big Business Cries Foul
Small companies can patent government-funded inventions -- and the big guys don't like it. Read story
Rise In Bankruptcy, Interest Rates Linked
Because of persistently high interest rates, business bankruptcies are increasing at a close to record rate, reports the National Small Business Associati... Read story
The Accounting Profession Vs. The Sec: When Is A Loan Not A Loan?
The proposed public offering of Hadron Inc. (see story) is not the only research and development limited partnership awaiting a decision from the Securiti... Read story
The Drift Of Snow
Cincinnati business executive Edwin Snow was one of those rare citizens with enough gumption (and money) to carry a grievance all the way to the Supreme C... Read story
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They may never replace traditional venture capital, but for some companies these deals are a better way to raise money. Read story
How To Make Megamergers Work For Everyone
The time has come to face up to the problem of "megamergers." I define a megamerger as any transaction that results in a business with at least $100... Read story
Putting A Business Together Again
Shattered by a business downturn, Marine Optical found that declaring bankruptcy gave it a second chance. Changing attitudes and new laws make that option mo... Read story
Four Ways a Board Can Help Manage a Merger
A fidgety economy is doing nothing to slow the tide of mergers and acquisitions, but it is making more and more of the last decade' s brilliant deals look... Read story
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R&D partnerships are a long way from "coming of age" (March). Your story led off with a photo of the De Lorean automobile, which was financed partly ... Read story
Give Government Research Back To Entrepreneurs
Federal research laboratories have no business working on gas heaters, solar power, or other programs that compete directly with the private sector. Read story
Small Business -- And The Nation -- Win A Very Big One
What is the most important piece of small business legislation yet enacted in our life-time? My vote goes to the Small Business Innovation Development Ac... Read story
How To Fuel Growth Through Limited Partners
Tom Keaveney kept control of his business by growing with tax-sheltered partnership dollars. Read story
Memorable Achievement Or Hollow Victory?
On July 22, 1982, President Reagan signed Public Law 97-219, the Small Business Innovation Development Act. He was in good form as he made this strong sta... Read story
The Equity Partnership As A Seed For Start-ups
Since the limited partners get the early losses, they demand less equity from founders at the time of tax-free conversion. Read story
Developing an R
John Lisy, vice president and chief operating officer of Orbital Research, offers his top tips for developing solid research and development relationships wi... Read story
The Family Cache
By forming new corporations or partnerships with younger relatives, owners of closely held companies can save on income and estate taxes without affecting th... Read story
Scrutiny Sparks New Calls for Governance 'Top Dogs'
Amid heightened investor scrutiny, some U.S. companies are choosing to name a specific executive to carry the corporate-governance load. At Tyco In... Read story
Taxing Times: Last Minute Tax Tips to Remember
Deductions your business shouldn't miss this year. Read story
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