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The Reverse Pivot is not your typical golf shoe. For starters, its clunky, three-toned saddle-oxford body strays from the traditional single-colored, pointy-toed, dress-shoe style of footwear that players like ...

The risks involved in making a corporate acquisition -- whether of a large asset, a division of an existing company, or even a competitor -- are enormous, in part because there are so many unknowns to ...

Referrals from satisfied customers are fuel to your business's engine. Yet statistics show that the average satisfied customer tells only five other people. You can increase those numbers by giving clients ...

What to Ask Your Users Regardless of your site, there are two types of information you will need at first. The first type can be captured from your log files (informational files about your site traffic and ...

HOW TO FINANCE [almost] ANYTHING Looking for capital? Here's how one company bootstrapped its own funding Back in 1993, when he began StockMaster.com Inc. as a graduate student at MIT, Mark Torrance had no ...

Ray Ortega understands why businesses need good space. He just doesn't understand why so many of them insist on paying for it. "People get involved in these long-term rental agreements. Then they ...

Offices & Operations mentor Mie-Yun Lee responds to the following question from an inc.com user: We are a small engineering firm (11 people), and the lease on our two small offices will be up in one year. We ...

Human Resources mentor Robert Hoffman responds to the following question from an inc.com user: I was hired as the controller of a small company that now has 25 employees. I was also given the role of HR ...

These days, it seems that both traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers and online "e-tailers" are drowning in a sea of customer information -- knocked by wave after wave of data from online ...

Finance & Capital mentor Stephen King responds: Cash flow forecasting and the reporting of actual cash flow results are two critical activities that go hand in hand. A good cash flow forecast, also called a ...