Milton D. Stewart

There's Gold In Them Thar Hills

For those small companies engaged in technological innovation, the Small Business Innovation Research program can be a rich source of funding.  Read story

Franchising The Mails

There is at least one government official who advocates getting the private sector involved in mail delivery, and some businesspeople agree with him.  Read story

Small Business Needs An Export Trading Act Of Its Own

Even with a lot of government action on foreign trade, some new steps are needed to open up exporting to the rest of the economy.  Read story

An Open Letter To The National Party Chairman

Your small business advisory groups could make 1984 a memorable year for legislative issues.  Read story

Venture Capital And The American Dream

Although there has been enormous growth in the venture capital industry in the past 25 years, we still have a long way to go. The time to start is now.  Read story

The Education Of A Small Businessperson

It is that loveliest time of the year on college campuses -- commencement -- a good season to think about how critical our colleges and universities will ...  Read story

The British Connection

For U.S. small businesspeople, the problems and progress of our English counterparts should be more than a matter of idle curiosity.  Read story

Preparing For Out Future

We need a national commitment to modernize our skills as well as our industries. Without one, we face continuing unemployment, a further drop in productivity...  Read story

Polishing The Apple

Federal legislation might have given computer companies a tax break for giving equipment to schools. But the bill stirred up its share of controversy.  Read story

A New Tack For The New Year

Two proposed bills -- one to create jobs for small business at home, another to study the worldwide economic slump -- might provide the solution voters seek.  Read story

Satchel Paige: Another Man For All Seasons

More than just a great ball player, he was an entrepreneur of his own talents who believed nothing was inevitable.  Read story

Signals For An Upturn?

The Small Business High Technology Institute stands ready to mobilize the private sector and to stimulate the federal governemnt toward maximizing innovation.  Read story

Memorable Achievement Or Hollow Victory?

On July 22, 1982, President Reagan signed Public Law 97-219, the Small Business Innovation Development Act. He was in good form as he made this strong sta...  Read story

Small Business -- And The Nation -- Win A Very Big One

What is the most important piece of small business legislation yet enacted in our life-time? My vote goes to the Small Business Innovation Development Ac...  Read story

Taxing Questions For The '80s

Every so often this country witnesses a burst of creative citizenship. Ordinary folks, fed up with their leaders' solutions for the nation's woes, insist ...  Read story

Competing With Uncle Sam

If small business can handle it, the job shouldn't be done by government.  Read story

Bringing It All Back Home

When was the last time you took a member of your state legislature to lunch? If you haven't yet, you probably should. Increasingly, if slowly, stat...  Read story

The President's Message: An Historic Event

On March 1, in response to the Small Business Economic Policy Act of 1980, Ronald Reagan sent to Congress the first annual "State of Small Business" repor...  Read story

Public Enemy Number One

With all the talk about deficits, we've lost sight of the fact that jobs are the key to a healthy economy.  Read story

How To Make Megamergers Work For Everyone

The time has come to face up to the problem of "megamergers." I define a megamerger as any transaction that results in a business with at least $100...  Read story

Small Business, Congress, And A "litmus Paper" Bill

Never has the small business community had so clear a chance to serve its country as it has in the new congressional session. The Small Business Innovati...  Read story

Q A's On Small Business Innovation

1. Why do its supporters call the Small Business Innovation Act "an urgent national need?" Sen. Warren Rudman (R-N.H.) led a brilliantly successful...  Read story

'82 Outlook: Small Business Looks At Its Prospects

Cool, hopeful, determined, and ready. That's how I'd describe the self-portrait small business paints as it looks at 1982. (Whether hopeful enough to do...  Read story

Rx For '82: Action, Not Words

The responses to our first Small Business Outlook survey (see page 31) showed a lot less optimism than we'll need in the year ahead. That's why I made a ...  Read story

The Small Business Decade: A Look Back At Year Two

At the small business bottom line, where it matters most, 1981 has been a year of mixed results at best. Bankruptcies escalated and high interest rates c...  Read story

Small Business Keeps The Republic Strong

Shortly after the founding fathers finished drafting the Constitution in 1787, Benjamin Franklin reportedly encountered a Philadelphia matron who asked, "...  Read story

Buckstoppers: The Key To Healthy Bottom Lines

This magazine's basic editorial job is to help make and keep small business bottom lines healthy. One of the things we like best about our work is that w...  Read story

"to Secure These Rights..."

This is the first of a series of articles that will appear from time to time in this space on the general subject of "The Federal Turnaround We Need." In ...  Read story

A Note From The Editor

INC.'s first Special Report on the state's small business climates must be read with care because it is a first report. We know from our experience with ...  Read story

There was a time not so long ago when the American small businessman's attention span did not have to go beyond suppliers, customers, partners, and employ...  Read story

Put Not Thy Trust In Antitrust

Until the rules of the debate are changed, arguments over the effects of antitrust laws mean nothing to small business.  Read story

There is a special and mysterious excitement about the birth of anything new. Whether it's a person, an idea, an invention, a work of art, or a business, ...  Read story

Congress Hears -- And Forwards -- A Message

Eighty-one United States senators have joined to sponsor (not just vote for) a "Small Business Innovation Research Act of 1981." We have previously report...  Read story

Small Business Innovation: The Need Is Critical, The Time Is Now

"In the past 15 years of economic turbulence small business has proved more flexible and adaptable than the giant corporations. Small companies have provided...  Read story

Hansen Enterprises Rockford, Illinois;

August 1, 1981 President Ronald Reagan, The White House, Washington, D.C. Dear President Dutch: I hope you don't mind ...  Read story

How Our Nation Can Compete Again

Technology entrepreneurs will lead the way.  Read story

Nobel Prizes Aren't Enough

Better support of small company R D will help us lead the world in innovative products as well as basic research.  Read story

Measuring Clout

If small business can help Boeing, why can't it help itself?  Read story

In this issue, for the first time, INC. has expanded its list of the fastest-growing public companies to the next 100 growth companies. We've called it t...  Read story

How Taxes Should Be Cut

If the President and Congress really want to stimulate the economy, they will help small business.  Read story