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How Build-a-Bear invented a bear market

How Build-a-Bear invented a bear market A toy retailer thrives by thinking like a kid. (Fortune Small Business) — Cute […]

Making the Decision to Replace Yourself

  By KATHERINE REYNOLDS LEWIS   In early 2008, Matt Dorey, founder and chief executive of Curve Dental, was at […]

Slowdown in the OTC products market in Poland in 2010

The growth rate of the Polish market of OTC medicines, dietary supplements and dermocosmetics will decline to 3% in 2010, […]

OXSTONE FOOD FOR THOUGHT – Equity Market Commentary and the Growing Demand for Alternative Investing – December 2010

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, CEO, Oxstone Capital Management Equity Market Commentary and the Growing Demand for Alternative Investing We […]

OTC market in Central and Eastern Europe will exceed EUR 12bn in 2012

The economic downturn affected the market of OTC products in Central and Eastern Europe which in 2009 grow by only […]

Why M&A May Rebound

Why M.&A. May Rebound By HEIDI N. MOORE After a long drought, companies and private equity firms may be ready […]

Three Steps to Establishing an Entrepreneur Brand

Lessons from skateboarder extraordinaire and successful businessman Tony Hawk By Dan Schawbel With the national unemployment rate still north of […]

Mideast Private Equity Has Room to Run

The nascent private equity industry in the Middle East got slammed by the downturn. If it adheres to five core […]

Jake Burton: My life as a pioneer

Interview by Dinah Eng, contributorDecember 8, 2010: 5:43 AM ET   FORTUNE — Jake Burton talks about why he ditched […]

Why Life is Simpler, Saner, and Less Expensive in Corozal

By Lynn Armstrong, International Living, Today we have a hotel-resort in Corozal, Belize. But I didn’t start out here… or […]