Ilan Mochari


Benefits: Looking for the Next 401(k)?

A tax-free savings plan for college sounds like a great perk, but take a close look at the fine print before signing on.  Read story

IRS Watch: Tax News You Can Use Now

Thanks to new legislation, small businesses just might be singing in the spring rain this year.  Read story

What You Learn on the Other Side

For some CEOs the best management lessons come from their lives as customers.  Read story

Archive: Lights, Camera, Football

In 1960, Ed Sabol left his job selling overcoats to pursue his true passion: capturing football on film.  Read story

The Numbers Game

How should you fund your growing company? Just ask the Inc 500 class of 2002.  Read story

How to Collect from Anyone (Even Enron)

Thirty ways to get paid within 30 days.  Read story

The Innovation Factor: What's Your Innovation Quotient?

So you think you're inventive? Take our 20 question quiz and see how you rate.  Read story

How Innovative Are You?

Inc staff writer Ilan Mochari explains the answers behind the questions of Inc 's September 2002 innovation quiz.  Read story

Collection Slip-Ups

A panel of veteran collectors offers its opinions on what not to do when when it comes to collections.  Read story

Main Street: The Barber of Civility

Foltos' Tonsorial Parlor is no ordinary barbershop: it's also a performance space, a news publisher, and the anchor of one small Illinois town.  Read story

The Innovation Factor: Time Travelers

How do innovators know where to place their bets? They send their employees into the future.  Read story

RR: The Upside (of Downtime)

Looking to become a better CEO? Try not taking care of business for a while.  Read story

Hands On: Delegation Follow-up

Every time you delegate something, record the task, the employee, and the deadline on your calendar.  Read story

How to Run a Marathon

Hey, maybe it's time to run a marathon. Because, really, what self-respecting, athletically ambitious, kick-ass entrepreneur can resist that challenge?  Read story

Climbing Back Up

When the founders of X-It Products saw a billion-dollar rival imitate the design of their sole product, they didn't have much hope that their tiny start-up c...  Read story

It's All in the Details

How do you build morale and a sense of corporate responsibility? In surprisingly small ways.  Read story

Hands On: Works Well With Others

Giving employees quarterly goals has helped Revenue Technology Services Corp. to improve cooperation.  Read story

Suspension of Disbelief

Wagner Engineering is improving SUV suspension to help prevent roll-overs.  Read story

Putting Stock in Dr. Spock

Douglas Lee is putting stock in Dr. Spock and hopes the rights to the late doctor's work will deliver major returns.  Read story

Don't Cry for Me

When life gives you lemons ...  Read story

Big Money, Small Payroll

Can you imagine a company that brings in $1 million in revenues per employee? How some Inc 500 companies excel at doing more with less.  Read story

Younger Than That Now

A look at Brandon Steiner, former owner of Steiner Sports Marketing Inc. and recovering CEO.  Read story

The Talking Cure

Your business is failing. What better time to share your financials with your employees? No, seriously.  Read story

Hoop Dreams

For Rich Baumer, there's the company he's built, and there's basketball. Don't try to take the basketball away.  Read story

Cost-Control Diet

Trim financial fat from your business's expenses.  Read story

Taking the Bite Out of a Price Increase

Here's how CQC Dental Laboratory raised prices without losing customers.  Read story

Steal This Strategy

A good idea is a good idea -- even if it comes from someone else.  Read story

George Feldenkreis: My Biggest Mistake

The apparel industry can make or break you when it comes to your inventory, says Perry Ellis chairman and CEO George Feldenkreis.  Read story

In A Former Life: Joe Guerra

From maintenance mechanic to golf course guru, Joe Guerra has an understanding for the workers at the bottom.  Read story

The Price of Ignorance

How much should you pay for a premium Web site? If only there were a simple answer.  Read story

A Place For Everything

Extreme circumstances inspired this dietitian to engineer what may be the world's most efficient home office.  Read story

All The Right Moves

With his as-needed approach to home-office equipment, this college-football guru has written the playbook on technological pragmatism.  Read story

In A Former Life: S. Kenneth Kannappan

CEO S. Kenneth Kannappan discusses how he discovered the key to motivating employees while working at his first job.  Read story

The Price of Ignorance

How much should you pay for a premium Web site? If only there were a simple answer.  Read story

Scoring The Credit You Need

Getting a loan is a faster, more objective process than it used to be -- for better or worse.  Read story

In A Former Life: C. Richard Reese

C. Richard Reese, CEO of Iron Moutain Inc., who now speaks to large groups of people all the time, discusses his first brush with public speaking.  Read story

How Should Business Partners Evaluate One Another's Performance?

What you should do when it's time to motivate your partners but not offend them with constructive critiscism.  Read story

Hot Tip: Let Your Sales Team Sell

By changing the office duties of their sales team, Giftcorp has increased sales by 30%.  Read story

Ace Distribution Takes Legwork

Here's how playing detective helped this education-products vendor to revamp his distribution strategy.  Read story

In a Former Life: Len Rodman

Len Rodman, CEO of a $2.4-billion engineering and construction company, discusses how he learned the importance of understanding employee strengths and weakn...  Read story