Small Business

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Inc. April 2005 Alan Schwarz	How I Did It: Mike Veeck Midgets? Nuns who give massages? Disco Demolition Night? Free vasectomies on Father's Day? If there's one thing Mike Veeck learned from his father Bill, and from building a profitable empire of minor league baseball teams, it's this: Fun is good.
Inc. April 2005 John Anderson	Wine Sellers How Don Zacharia turned a mom-and-pop liquor store into a wine-retailing juggernaut -- and a family business that works.
Inc. April 2005 Alison Stein Wellner	John Menard's Tax Crackup It's every entrepreneur's dream to hit it big. But when you finally strike it rich don't overpay yourself, or you might find yourself facing IRS scrutiny -- especially since the agency recently said it will step up small-business audits and enforcements. Menard Inc., the home improvement chain, serves as an example.
Inc. April 2005 Alison Stein Wellner	Sales Are Up. So Are Lawsuits Sure, successful entrepreneurs are vulnerable to being sued. But John Menard, founder of home improvement chain Menard Inc., has faced an unusually steady stream of lawsuits.
Inc. April 2005 Adam Hanft	Remembering an Entrepreneur We Loved Horace Hagedorn, advertising executive turned entrepreneur, grew his Miracle-Gro fertilizer into a $2-billion business. He did with a keen eye for opportunity and a sound understanding of marketing and advertising.
Inc. April 2005	A New Way to Find Small Businesses Amazon's A9 Yellow Pages provide small companies with a new way to be found on the Internet.
Inc. April 2005 Lora Kolodny	Seeing the iPod as a Security Threat As the popularity, storage capacity, and connectivity of gadgets like the iPod increase, experts say, so will the use of such devices to perpetrate computer crimes at work. But small businesses may may a built-in advantage against such threats.
Inc. April 2005 Stephanie Clifford	EBay Hike Irks Small Businesses The hike primarily affects high-volume sellers who've set up what are called eBay Stores. This is encouraging some businesses to look at eBay's competitors or to ramp up their own websites.
Inc. April 2005 Stephanie Clifford	Tax Holiday for Little Guys, Too Small companies can take advantage of the repatriation tax break just like larger companies.
Inc. April 2005 Darren Dahl	The Celebrity Pitch America is more celebrity-mad than ever. But is hitching your company to a star really the right move? If you're careful, employing a celebrity can be worth the gamble; if not, the damage could be difficult to overcome.
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