The Entrepreneur of the Year
Introduction to the Entrepreneur of the Year judges and the selection process. Read story
Joshua Hyatt
Born to Run
Profile of this year's Entrepreneur of the Year winners. Read story
Out of the Ordinary
Profile of an Inc. 500 CEO who turned around a no-growth roofing business. Read story
Exporting the Risk
Setting up direct sales abroad and raising money from European venture capitalists. Read story
The Parent Trap
The personal costs of borrowing start-up capital from parents. Read story
Hot Product, Cold World
Profile of a beverage start-up and the emotional pain of bankruptcy and failure. Read story
The Next Big Thing
Profile of a start-up drive-through pizza franchise. Read story
The Dark Side
Some common fears of private companies who go public. Read story
Surviving on Chaos
A company turns itself around after its product is turned away by foreign buyers. Read story
How to Write a Business Best-Seller
Harvey Mackay, author of Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive, tells about the marketing of his book. Read story
How to Screen Job Applicants
What it takes to effectively screen and interview job applicants Read story
Bankruptcy Without Tears
Man invents new business game where the object is to acquire as many companies as possible without going bankrupt Read story
Inventing Entrepreneurs
A CEO encourages entrepreneurial spirit among his regional managers by giving them lots of latitude and 49% equity. Read story
Employer Financing
Woman creates her own start-up with spinoff technology from her employer and gets pay-as-you-go financing deal. Read story
Too Close for Comfort
How to keep your foreign distributor from becoming your competitor. Read story
Growth Strategies: Sell Mates
An applications software developer makes sales, not technology, the driving force for the entire company. Read story
Growth Strategies: Buy the Buy
A retailer creates discount store where all of the merchandise sells for less than 98 cents. Read story
Ask and You Shall Receive
Company uses customer feedback from focus groups to hone its depth-sounding fishing device. Read story
Marathon Man
After 16 inventions and years in the red, an inventor gives it another go with computerized foreign language translator. Read story
A Fretless Business
Famous guitar maker has seen a recent surge in sales. Read story
Rewriting The Book On Entreprenuership
A former professor of business starts his own company and learns some new things about "real life" entrepreneurship. Read story
Growing Up as a CEO
After eight years of unbroken business success, Walter Riley found out he wasn't the leader he thought he was. Read story
The 75-Minute Drill
New York restaurateur places a 75-minute hourglass on dinner tables to ensure high customer turnover. Read story
Dig It
Start-up company offering dirt from the yards of celebrities proves unprofitable. Read story
The Odyssey of an `Excellent' Man
How one CEO improved his treatment of employees to create a more successful company. Read story
The Last Shift
The world of competition and technological change seen through the eyes of an American machine operator Read story
Failure 101
A professor at the University of Michigan Business School teaches to maximize lessons from failure. Read story
The Littlest Mogul
The founder of a small film studio tell how he can make a movie for under $50,000. Read story
The Partnership Route
Joint ventures with foreign markets can bring new frontiers in technology and management. Read story
Blowout
A well-hidden payoff scandal almost sent one CEO into bankruptcy. Read story
Report on the States
Governor's innovations on economic development may be adopted nationally (rankings and statistics included). Read story
Cheap Counsel
Profile and analysis of a start-up legal services firm. Read story
Machine Dreams
Time-sharing factory 'machine park' provides small businesses with state-of-the-art equipment at low cost. Read story
Ghost Story;
STORY PROPOSAL All the world may be a stage, but it's still rare that I see a psychological drama played out within a business. At Briggs Ltd., a r... Read story
Hitting The Trail;
The numbers don't tell it all. Behind every fast-growing company is a winning strategy and the person who devised it Read story
Inc. 100 Index
The numbers don't tell it all. Behind every fast-growing company is a winning strategy and the person who devised it Read story
Attention, K Mart Shoppers;
The numbers don't tell it all. Behind every fast-growing company is a winning strategy and the person who devised it Read story
Nice Girls Don't Explode;
The numbers don't tell it all. Behind every fast-growing company is a winning strategy and the person who devised it Read story
Brush With Greatness;
The numbers don't tell it all. Behind every fast-growing company is a winning strategy and the person who devised it Read story
