Vol. 36 No. 10, October 2016
Index
- 2016 state of small business.
- Commercializing tech: turning an invention into a small business meant navigating the world of grants, patents and partnerships.
- Financing: launched in a basement with a credit card and a prayer, Barringer Moving & Storage had to move itself a few times to keep up with rapid growth.
- Management: setting goals and developing action plans helped ScanOnline set the bar on growth, expansion.
- N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center.
- N.C. Small Business Center Network.
- Networking: strategic plan helped Darby Communications build a small, boutique PR firm in Asheville with clients from coast to coast.
- Public/private nonprofits.
- State agencies.
- State resources give veteran-owned businesses a fighting chance.
- 35 years: while the state's economy has changed, thoughtful storytelling stays the same.
- Coming up roses: the Vance County seat of Henderson, perhaps best known as the hometown of broadcast icon Charlie Rose, struggles to prepare its children for a fast-changing world.
- Start me up.
- No vacancy: North Carolina is benefiting from a nationwide hotel boom, but will investors check out early?
- Breakfast club: mornings get risky, weird and magical all before 9.
- Banishing the boss: the layer-free management approach has worked at a Durham factory for 23 years.
- Steal of the century: Hollywood's portrayal of the state's most famous money grab gets it partly right.
- Salute to summer: Camp Corral offers respite to children of deployed, injured, disabled or fallen service members.
- A monthly snapshot of North Carolina's economy.
- Blackwater's legacy.
- East Carolina University.
- Home sales in New Hanover, Pender and north Brunswick counties soared 30% in August.
- Live Oak Bank.
- Peak Demand.
- Faded roses blossom.
- Investors Management Corp.
- Jonathan Taylor.
- N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
- Phononic.
- Quintiles Transnational.
- UNC Chapel Hill.
- Jet setter.
- Forward High Point.
- Hafele America.
- Prescient.
- Unifi.
- Cruising ahead.
- Lowe.
- Morningstar Properties.
- Peak 10.
- Red Classic.
- Wells Fargo.
- Yokohama Tire.
- Rags to riches.
- North American Roofing.
- SylvanSport.
- Western Carolina University.
- A leg up: North Carolina orthopedic care providers are uniting practices and advancing procedures to help patients recover faster and spend less money.
- Four centuries in the making.
- Show time.
- Soak up the sun: a scrappy Asheville solar company gives a bright tint to this year's list of the state's largest privately held companies.
- Digging deep.
- Southern hospitality.
- Mass appeal.
- Insightful leadership.
- Atlantic notion.
- Physicians' assistant.
- Sponsor comments.
- Smart moves: the Charlotte region drives economic development with workforce development, transportation investment and, possibly, a concentrated marketing effort.
- Big-city culture abounds here.