Vol. 35 No. 10, October - October 2015
Index
- Buying a business: unexpected journey from employee to first-time business owner required assistance; persistence and a bit of faith.
- Financing: owners of small consultancy used infusion of cash to reinvent the business and hire staff to carry out their vision.
- Going global: just five years after ERD first targeted international business, 1 out of 6 customers is based overseas.
- Growing globally.
- Letter from the executive director, Small Business & Technology Development Center.
- Marketing: who needs a sales force? Low-cost, digital marketing strategies draw potential customers to e-commerce software startup's website.
- N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center.
- N.C. Small Business Center Network.
- Public/private nonprofits.
- State agencies.
- Correction.
- Opening up: an appreciation of business leaders--and coaches--who share their stories.
- Juiced up: a father-son duo in the small mountain town of Laurel Springs might be the secret behind the success of your favorite winery.
- Born to run: before stints in Congress and the governor's mansion made him a household name, a professor-turned-politician named Jim Martin passed an early ethical test.
- Reeling it in: former homebuilder casts a new career through the rising popularity of fly fishing.
- Can I get a taxi? Greensboro mechanic is key source for Anglophiles who want a bit of London in their lives.
- Western chief: UNC Asheville's new leader favors a broad view.
- Capital gains: life-sciences funding soars, but tech attracts less interest.
- Future focused: the Charlotte region is banking its past successes and looking toward the future by developing leadership and industries while solving challenges such as transportation.
- Small is beautiful: homebuilders target baby boomers who want to live it up in cozier digs, minus the yardwork.
- Vital signs.
- Casting for startups.
- Associated Materials.
- Live Oak Bank.
- Mayne Pharma.
- Setzer Properties.
- DIY is in their DNA.
- AgBiome.
- Hatteras Venture Partners.
- Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Industries.
- Scioderm.
- Sprout Pharmaceuticals.
- Ziptronix.
- Eye of the Tiger.
- BB&T.
- Heritage Home Group.
- High Point Regional Health.
- High Point University.
- MillerCoors.
- The Fresh Market.
- Power surge.
- Albemarle Corporation.
- Belk.
- Essentra.
- Michael Waltrip Racing Management.
- Steritech Group.
- TTI.
- Mission Health.
- SpartaCraft.
- TEAM Industries.
- Upping the ante.
- Original jurisdiction: how NC's Business Court became a model of its own.
- Upwardly mobile: Grant Thornton ranks the state's largest private companies.
- Purple daze.
- Paper mates: what's old becomes new again at Jackson Paper's mountain mill.