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Carl Rupp: Self-Made in America

By Angus Loten - Carl Rupp lost it all when his drug addiction landed him in prison. Well, almost everything--he never lost his determination to be a successful entrepreneur. Meet the winner of Inc.com and The History Channel's Self Made in America contest. (Added: 29-Nov-2006 Hits: 513 )

Pay-as-you-go PR

By Stephanie Clifford - No matter what PR model you use, there's no guarantee that your company will land on the cover of Time. Or Inc. But at least pay-for-placement deals ensure that you get what you pay for. (Added: 29-Nov-2006 Hits: 521 )

12 Ways to Grow Your Home-Based Business

By Paul & Sarah Edwards - If you can't face the prospect of giving up the convenience and comforts of working from home, but you don't want to miss out on your chance to grow to the next level, here are twelve solutions we and other people have found for these dilemmas. (Added: 29-Nov-2006 Hits: 465 )

Learning to Love Networking

By Mike Spinny - Business owners are often characterized as outgoing and boisterous, born to glad-hand and network. But that's not always the case. For many entrepreneurs, mastering the psychological aspects of networking--gathering the confidence to approach a clique, say, or simply making small talk with strangers--is as much a challenge as developing a product or drafting a business plan. (Added: 29-Nov-2006 Hits: 485 )

The Well-Balanced Life: The Turnaround

By Donna Fenn - You started a company to control your destiny, but somewhere along the way it started controlling you. The business you built may be thriving, but at the expense of having a life. The good news: It's not impossible to have both a high-quality career and an even higher-quality life. (Added: 6-Feb-2006 Hits: 579 )

A Travelocity for Sending Packages, Operations

By Max Chafkin - A new website lets you compare shipping rates from multiple carriers. Guess which big-brown-truck-deploying shipping company is not amused? (Added: 29-Nov-2006 Hits: 474 )

The Road Warrior's Arsenal

By Micheal Fitzgerald - . Working from the road is getting downright convenient. Here are six technologies that can make it even more so. (Added: 29-Nov-2006 Hits: 461 )

Striking Out on Your Own

By Carole Matthews - Though going solo can be liberating, it can also be a frustrating experience. Here Inc.com offers resources to help combat some of the challenges of being self-employed, from finding health insurance to troubleshooting computer ills to fighting isolation. (Added: 29-Nov-2006 Hits: 590 )

The Big Lie

By Steven Berglas - The trick to beating burnout is understanding it as part of the predictable cycle of entrepreneurial stress, notes Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Steven Berglas. In this classic piece from Inc. magazine, he outlines the way stress may manifest itself during different phases of your company's growth. Berglas also gives five sanity-saving strategies for preventing and coping with burnout, gleaned from his own work with entrepreneurs. (Added: 6-Feb-2006 Hits: 544 )

Low Budget, High Impact

By Ted O'Callahan - When you're a solo entrepreneur, marketing your products and services can seem like more than you can afford. However, take it from our experts, it doesn't have to be. (Added: 29-Nov-2006 Hits: 488 )

The World According to Me

By Micheal S. Hopkins - If you and your company are heading in two divergent directions, one reason may be that your personal needs have gotten lost in the mix. A longtime business adviser and business owner offers a thoughtful argument that the only way your business is going to succeed is if its goals are aligned with your own. He shows how to reintroduce your own desires into your demanding business. (Added: 6-Feb-2006 Hits: 670 )

The Prosper Diaries

By n a - Landing a loan on Prosper isn't always easy. Here's how one business owner navigated the process. (Added: 29-Nov-2006 Hits: 477 )

How to Start a Business for (Almost) Nothing

By Stephanie Clifford - On the following pages, you'll find profiles of seven entrepreneurs who started their businesses with between zero and $2,000. They survived on 50-cent hot dogs and worked from cramped basement offices. (Added: 29-Nov-2006 Hits: 832 )

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

By Alex Salkever - Learn about the new alternative to banks and VCs: person-to-person lending. (Added: 29-Nov-2006 Hits: 445 )

Cough It Up!

By Lori Oliva - One of the toughest parts about working for yourself is getting paid -- even by deep-pocketed corporations. Here's how to keep from being hoodwinked by reluctant clients. (Added: 6-Feb-2006 Hits: 503 )

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