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How Small Retailers Can Outgun the Big Chains; Machan: Serving free ice cream and being nice to jerks: How small retailers survive.
SmartMoney.comIt's the most familiar refrain in business: Sooner or later, the big and global devour the small and local. But why do some little, independently owned stores manage to stay glued to their foundations despite the cyclone of competition from ...
Bio-Plastic Firms Are Mushrooming; Machan: The founders of Ecovative are convinced that they'll be able to create mushroom-based products to take the place of most plastics, and they've already put some on the market.
SmartMoney.comIn the 1967 movie "The Graduate," Dustin Hoffman receives one-word career advice that conjures a bright future: "plastics." In today's remake, the word might be "mushrooms."
The Next Zuckerberg May Live in China; Machan: On a recent trip to Beijing and Shanghai, we met with entrepreneurs who were adamant they wouldn't be anywhere else.
SmartMoney.comEric Schmidt, 33, moved to Beijing in 2002 after graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Schmidt didn't speak Chinese and knew little about business. His first entrepreneurial ventures included a basketball camp that ...
Websites Seeking Tomorrow's Thomas Edisons; Machan: An 'industry of failure,' flooded with folks trying to build a better spatula.
SmartMoney.comEveryone wants to be an inventor. So when I had the opportunity to test-drive an idea at Quirky, a company that helps people commercialize their product ideas, I jumped at the chance.
Small Businesses Go Solar; Machan: With the price of solar power dropping, some small firms are seeing the light.
SmartMoney.comInstalling solar power at their Shelter Island, N.Y., Ace Hardware store seemed like the right thing to do for the planet, say owners David Gurney and Meredith Page. But now that the brother-and-sister ownership team have the system, ...
Obscure Insurance That Hurts Small Businesses; Machan: If you can't get a so-called surety bond, you aren't invited to the party.
SmartMoney.comConstantly stuck between a rock and a hard place," is how Dominic Dunlap describes his business, DCG Roofing Solutions. Finding work isn't the problem: There are all kinds of government contracts to be grabbed near his Des Plaines, Ill., ...
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