Buyout
This article starts out as a time-sensitive piece about this being a great time for Management Buyouts (MBOs) but then turns into a good overview of the issues involved in the process. The article focuses on the work of Rick Rickertsen, author of Buyout: The Insider’s Guide to Buying Your Own Company (Content: Article | Author: Paul B. Brown | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Finance
Steal This Strategy
A 25-employee company, fittingly called Best Practices, routinely plunders big-company ideas and prunes them for its own use. Its methods for doing so are yours for the taking, too
Content: Article | Author: Ilan Mochari | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Best Practices
The Entrepreneurship Explosion
Valley Legend’s Biggest Road Show Ever
Is it crazy for promising venture-backed start-ups to commit time and stock to nonprofits even before making money themselves? Former VC Gib Myers doesn’t think so.
Content: Article | Author: D. M. Osborne | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Nonprofit, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Can Business Still Save The World?
Meet the new breed of socially responsible CEOs. They share the goals of activist pioneers like Body Shop cofounder Anita Roddick and Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen — but are taking radically different approaches to activism.
Content: Article | Author: Thea Singer | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
Dear John
Founders who go after venture capital can find themselves with bulging coffers — but without their old job as CEO.
Content: Article | Author: D. M. Osborne | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Entrepreneurship
Pharmaceutical Marketing Expenditures
Wireless Lan Market Forecast
Restaurant Industry Facts
The Best Business Plan on the Planet
Moot Corp. diary: Behind the scenes at the business-plan contest everyone wants to win – a detailed investigation of the International Moot Corp Business Plan Competition, sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin.
Content: Article | Author: Michael Warshaw | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, MBA Related
The Young Entrepreneur’s Survival Kit
Inc.com offers a crash course helping students deal with the pressures of academics and a social life while starting up a business when still in school. The survival kits begins with a host of first-hand accounts of young entrepreneurs, including the founders of Feld Technologies, Nantucket Nectors, and Dell Computers. It also offers information on student business plan contests, the fundamental basics of starting a … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Bruce Kohl | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Entrepreneurship
Too Cool For School?
After years of loathing M.B.A. programs, here’s why today’s savvy entrepreneurs are now seeking these degrees.
Content: Article | Author: Jay Finegan | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Upstarts: ASPs
Article gives basic overview of the ASP (Application Service Provider) concept and model; offers some statistics, examples, analysis and an interview with Phil Wainewright, founder and managing editor of ASPnews.com
Content: Article | Author: Alessandra Bianchi | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Industry Specific, IT / Technology / E-Business
Exit Capital: The Perfect Buyers
article describes how an employer can use an ESOP to sell his company to his employees
Content: Article | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Small Business
15 Steps to a Start-up Investors Will Buy
presents a 15-point plan for those seeking money from venture capitalists, private investors, or even traditional lenders.
Content: Article | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Entrepreneurship
What Makes an Entrepreneur
A seasoned professor debunks some myths about an entrepreneur’s traits and lists those he sees as crucial.
Content: Article | Author: Jon P. Goodman | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Entrepreneurship