Fortune Small Business Magazine November 1, 2006Fortune Small Business Magazine February 1, 2007

COVER STORY:
Everybody Wants In
By Phaedra Hise

Last year a record number of Americans started companies. Some 66% tell pollsters they want to be their own boss one day. Here’s why entrepreneurship has become a national obsession, and what that means for veteran business owners. Read more

Fortune Small Business Magazine October 1, 2006Fortune Small Business Magazine October 1, 2006

COVER STORY:
Mascot makeover
By Carlye Adler, FSB Magazine

How the Pillsbury doughboy explains consumer behavior. Read more

Fortune Small Business Magazine September 1, 2006Fortune Small Business Magazine September 1, 2006

COVER STORY:
The time to sell
By Justin Martin, FSB Magazine

The economy’s hot, and buyers are flush with cash. Here’s how to get a top price for your business. Read more

Fortune Small Business Magazine July 1, 2006Fortune Small Business Magazine July 1, 2006

COVER STORY:
The FSB 100
By Suzanne Barlynand Chuck Marvin, FSB Magazine

America’s Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies Read more

Fortune Small Business Magazine June 1, 2006Fortune Small Business Magazine June 1, 2006

COVER STORY:
Building Wealth
By Jeff Garigliano

Once you’ve made it, how do you keep it growing? For entrepreneurs, the answer involves some unconventional thinking about personal finance. Read more

Fortune Small Business Magazine May 1, 2006Fortune Small Business Magazine May 1, 2006

COVER STORY:
Zero to $1 billion
by Richard McGill Murphy, FSB senior editor

A new study shows that companies that spurt from saplings to giants tend to share the same seven traits. How does your business stack up? Read more

Fortune Small Business Magazine April 1, 2006Fortune Small Business Magazine April 1, 2006

COVER STORY:
Which Women Get Big?
by Anne Fisher

When it comes to building large businesses, women lag far behind men–but that’s changing fast. Read more

Fortune Small Business Magazine March 1, 2006Fortune Small Business Magazine March 1, 2006

COVER STORY:
Can entrepreneurship be taught?
by By Patricia B. Gray, FORTUNE Small Business, with additional reporting by Anne Field

Classes for would-be entrepreneurs are a hot trend at America’s universities. But can risk taking and originality be learned? Read more

Fortune Small Business Magazine February 1, 2006Fortune Small Business Magazine February 1, 2006

COVER STORY:
Jesus Inc.

by Richard McGill Murphy

What does it take to serve God and Mammon? Read more

Fortune Small Business Magazine, December 2006Fortune Small Business Magazine, December 2006

Cover Story: The next little thing

In its cover story, FSB features 10 big ideas coming from small businesses in 2007.

When a new product from Microsoft debuts, it doesn’t arrive quietly. Instead it gets tracked through the R&D pipeline by trade magazines, bloggers and carefully controlled announcements from the marketing department.

Small-business innovations don’t work that way. They tiptoe into the market, heralded by minimal PR (if any) and propelled instead by the inventor’s enthusiasm.

What makes that more ironic is that small businesses these days come up with better ideas more consistently than their corporate competitors. “Rates of R&D growth among small firms tend to have been higher than among large R&D-performing firms,” says John Jankowski, director of the R&D Statistics Program at the National Science Foundation.

To find these innovative companies you need a field guide, and that’s were FSB comes in. Exploring everything from ocean-generated electricity to six-foot roses to an ATM for books, the stories on the following pages offer a preview of the companies, products, people, trends and ideas likely to make news in 2007 - all from the world of small business.
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