Bootstrapping at Showtime
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Involvement in local business helped Yantis Corp., a $25-million highway-construction company in San Antonio, survive Texas's real estate bust of the late... Read more
Bulletin Board
A collection of 11 short articles on technology. Topics include how a Web site can be bad for business, different types of laptop cases, incorporating online... Read more
More Than a Passing Interest
As a former wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Inc. 500 CEO John Stallworth tells how he made the jump from catching passes to running a company. Read more
Pop Quiz: Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Inc. 500 CEO?
Let's face it: all those neglected niches out there need someone with your qualities--an intolerance of mediocrity and an overload of intuition and energy... Read more
How Can I Get Employees to Buy Into Our Strategy?
Jennifer Lawton, CEO of Net Daemons Associates Inc., which has headquarters in Woburn, Mass., circulates her annual business plan to all of her 58 employe... Read more
Hoop Dreams: New League Banks on Sisterhood
A look at a women's basketball league that is banking on grassroots marketing and worker solidarity. Read more
The Next Big Things
Inc. asks several ad hoc demographic experts to predict the future and suggest what will be the next big thing. Read more
Where to Find Business Help
Where do small-business owners get information to help them run their companies? According to a recent survey, the most popular sources are magazines and ... Read more
The Entrepreneurial Balancing Act: Making the Best of a Good Thing
Many working parents who must answer to bosses and abide by organizational rules may think it is easier for entrepreneurs to juggle the sometimes conflict... Read more
Start-up Chasers Track New-Biz Storm
Start-ups are enjoying newfound importance with policymakers and here's how they're being tracked. Read more
Genrational Marketing
An offering from the recent book on marketing, Rocking the Ages. Read more
Help Wanted: Smart CEOs. No Ideas Necessary
Unlikely as it sounds, venture firms are setting up entrepreneurs just so they can decide on a what business to start. Read more
Bad Boys of Capitalism
The story of how a start-up is making money for itself and its clients through NASDAQ's Small-Order Execution System. Read more
Info Gathering as Reflex
"The role of managers is to make sure there's a flood of information coming into the company,"says Bruce W. Woolpert, CEO of Granite Rock, a $100-million ... Read more
Live Your Mission Statement
The mission of Tuffy Auto Centers is "to provide the best automotive service in the industry through a continuous commitment to quality and customer servi... Read more
Routing Around, Controlling the Flow, Setting Up Shop
Three CEOs each review a different software package. Read more
Entrepreneurship Unplugged: Amish and the Internet
"The products marketed by OCC are crafted and manufactured by various plain communities. It is our goal to represent them with sensitivity and integrity."... Read more
Use the Right Marketing Numbers
A marketing expert and entrepreneur tells why marketing strategies not based on hard data are doomed to fail. Read more
Who Are the Real Entrepreneurs?
A noted entrepreneur explains why many people who share that lable are not really entrepreneurs. Read more
The Classics
A noted author offers readers a guide to the best business and management books of all time. Read more
The Virtue of Necessity
Given that the Amish reject self-advancement, what explains their success as entrepreneurs? Read more
The Best (Way)laid Plans
Here's an Inc. 500 CEO who found that focus, fearlessness, and flexibility work better than a business plan. Read more
Higher Ground
Some Inc. 500 CEOs from the 1980s explain how if you don't act fast, your successful business might out grow you. Read more
What Business Would You Start Today?
One Inc 500 CEO explains how he would like to start an all-dance T.V. network as his next start-up. Read more
Sixty Degrees of Separation
A cofounder of an Inc. 500 company tells how he wrote his businesss plan in Antarctica. Read more
Disco, Duck!
Profile of an Inc. 500 CEO whose past venture evolved into the wildly successful T.V. show, Dance Fever. Read more
Are You Raising an Inc. 500 CEO?
Stories of what some this year's Inc. 500 CEOs did as children that suggested they were really entrepreneurs as kids. Read more
The Online Sleuth
A comprehensive list of sites on the Internet that business people can use for do-it-yourself marketing research. Read more
What Do Women Want?
A business expert explains why, when it comes to building high-growth companies, men and women aren't so different. Read more
Basic Instincts
A look at a management appraoch that isn't science, but more a feel for trade and how it happens on the fly. Read more
Black-Belt Boss
Here's a look at a day in the life of one of the most physically and psychically prepared CEOs around. Read more
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Bankers and entrepreneurs explain why business-plan software can never deliver what it promises. Read more
Investment Forums: Blue-Ribbon Fair Presentations
An organizer of investment forums discusses how to use such a forum and an entrepreneur tells how he is preparing. Read more
