The Case for Letting Your Customers Design Your Products
Why limit your company's brainpower to your employees? Here's how to tap the crowd to research new concepts, innovate, and design new products or services.
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America’s Fastest-Growing Telecommunications Company
One Source Networks manages wide-area networks and provides VoIP services for large and midsize customers.
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8 Questions to Ask Before Incorporating Your Business Partnership
So you've found a business partner to help make your idea a reality. Be sure to ask yourselves these eight questions before incorporating.
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How to Merge Corporate Cultures
Mergers and acquisitions can create strange bedfellows, but the drawbacks of companies' cultures not meshing together can have an impact on the bottom line.
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5 Reasons It Might Be Time to Find a New Business Partner
Business partnerships are great—when they work. Here are five reasons it might be time to split up with your business partner.
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How to Evaluate a Joint Venture
Joint ventures offer companies the opportunity to quickly gain access to new markets or technologies. However, consider these eight tips before diving in to ... Read more
Guess Who's Buying T-Mobile
AT&T will soon be leapfrogging over Verizon to become the biggest wireless carrier in the United States after announcing today (Sunday) that it will b... Read more
Weasel Alert: FCC Commish Joins Comcast
Earlier this year, the FCC approved the merger of Comcast and NBC with a four to one vote among its panel of commissioners. One of the four commissioners ... Read more
More HP Rumor Mill!
It shouldn't be called "mergers and acquisitions." It's more like "mergers and acquisitions… and rumors… and speculation." Ever since ... Read more
Seamless IT Integration for Mergers & Acquisitions
As they emerge from the recession, many companies are gun shy when it comes to major transactions. But mergers and acquisitions are the lifeblood of growth. ... Read more
How to Prepare a Company for an Initial Public Offering
An initial public offering of stock can be viewed as the definitive sign of a company's success. Here is a look at the steps a company can take to prepare fo... Read more
How to Structure a Partnership
Partnerships are incredibly common--and incredibly hard to sustain. Here's how to set up a partnership that is equitable, efficient, and mutually rewarding. Read more
Smashbox Beauty Cosmetics Snapped Up by Estee Lauder
Privately held makeup brand's digital and social media presence draws in cosmetic giant's interest. Read more
Where VCs Are Putting Their Money in 2010
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Small Companies Spend More on R&D
New government report confirms widely held belief that small companies spend proportionally more of their revenues on research and development than large ones. Read more
Selling a Business Is Not a DIY Project
If you're serious about selling your business - especially to a larger company - going it alone is a bad idea for a number of reasons. Read more
Five Tips for Launching Spinoffs
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Why We Need More Funding for Big Science
Research and development done under the auspices of agencies such as the NIH, NASA, and DARPA has seeded America's entrepreneurial economy for decades. It wo... Read more
Stop Enforcing Noncompetes
Because we need to promote competition for labor and talent among start-up companies in fast-growing industries. Read more
Congress Considers Federal Tax Credit for Angels
Angel investors would get a 25 percent credit for backing a business that's already qualified for a federal research and development grant program for small ... Read more
How to Take Advantage of the R&D Tax Credit
Last week President Obama proposed expanding the research and development tax credit and even making it permanent. Here's how to figure out if you qualify. Read more
U.S. Trailing in Innovation and Competitiveness
America is ranked sixth behind Singapore, Sweden and South Korea. Read more
How to Outsource R&D
R&D isn't just for big corporations. Here's how you can use innovation to build your business, from selecting projects to tax advantages. Read more
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 more
Large Mergers Could Signal Onset of Middle-Market Deals
Experts say the billion-dollar acquisitions represent a return of confidence in the economy. Read more
India's Entrepreneurs Unleashed; Google's New Language
From the annals of world domination: Google launches its own programming language. One of the pillars of Google's success has been efficiency, whet... Read more
Study: Innovation a Group Effort
More businesses are relying on public sector help to develop innovative products. Read more
House Okays R&D Tax Credit
The $60 billion package curbs oil industry tax breaks, a move the White House has threatened to veto. Read more
Credit Card Issuers Struggling
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First, the Merger
Then, the culture clash. how to fix the little things that can tear a company apart. Read more
The Start of a Beautiful Friendship
Partnering with your customers on R&D. Read more
Angel, Venture Capital, or Bootstrap?
Tech entrepreneurs need to pursue different avenues for financing when starting out. Fortunately, online resources can help out. Read more
Sellouts in the Green Sector?
The natural products industry has seen a rash of buy-outs of late. In October, Clorox acquired Burt's Bees, maker of an eco-friendly line of beeswax skinc... Read more
Once Upon a Time...
There was a technology company called Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Does anyone remember them? During it's headiest days back in 1987, DEC ... Read more
5 Sure Signs From High Tech That We're in a Recession
In case last week's unemployement report didn't convince you. Or the continued wrangling over the automaker bail out. Or the bail out of Citibank. Or....<... Read more
Venture-Backed IPOs Top $4.27 Billion
More companies are going public, led by the technology sector, but mergers and acquisitions have slowed. Read more
This Week's Economic Roundup
Gas prices start climbing again; more companies file for bankruptcy in the second quarter. Read more
Tech R&D Conference for Small Firms
March 6, 2007 -- The National Small Business Innovation Research and the Small Business Technology Transfer are co-hosting a conference o... Read more
Study: M&As Can Lead to Talent Loss
May 7, 2007 -- Mergers and acquisitions can have a negative impact on employee opinions about their company, according to new research by... Read more
Business Bankruptcies on the Rise
Following declines last year, the number of businesses filing for bankruptcy rose to 6,705 in the second quarter, a seven percent increase from the start ... Read more
A New Shell
A shady strategy gets a makeover. Read more
Jim Clark Exits Shutterfly
Jim Clark, the legendary technology entrepreneur who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape Communications, has quit as chairman of the board of Shutterfly... Read more
Inc. 500: A Former No. 1 Acquired
Gateway, the Inc. 500 alum known for its utilitarian computers, groundbreaking direct sales model, and Holstein-spotted boxes, has agreed to be acquired b... Read more
Study: Low Cost Not Driving Offshoring
More companies are sending R D oversees because of intellectual capital and university collaboration. Read more
Companies Push for Renewal of R&D Tax Credit
Manufacturers say a prolonged gap in incentives is cutting into their bottom line. Read more
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