Muscling In
Profile of a start-up reconditioner of classic American muscle cars. Read story
Robert A. Mamis
After the Sale
Five ex-owners reveal the hidden emotional costs behind the decision to sell out. Read story
Smooth Operator
Interview with a successful corporate raider. Read story
The Inc. 100
Overview of the Inc. 100 with a focus on general trends, profitability and stock performance. Read story
Risky Business
A venture capitalist discusses marketplace trends and the venture capital business. Read story
The Small Chill
Engineer forms a company around his new invention, a miniaturized combination freezer-refrigerator-microwave. Read story
How to Manage Your Sales Force
A successful manager gives tips on creating a winning sales team. Read story
Growth Strategies: Upper Crust
Gourmet pizza seller finds a niche, offering tasty, reasonably priced fare. Read story
Mother of Invention
Chicago woman builds a business "incubator" where she helps inner-city entrepreneurs. Read story
Global Start-up
CEO's plan for world-wide sale of his medical device that will make certain types of surgery obselete. Read story
Real Service
Mail-order computer software and peripherals company sets new industry standards for customer service. Read story
Management By Necessity
Interview with one CEO and the steps behind his $80 million, no venture capital, computer software company. Read story
Fatal Attraction
Profile of a CEO, the expansion of his business, and the effect a futile acquisition had on his operation. Read story
How To Renegotiate Your Loan
Advice on renegotiating loans while lending institutions fear liability suits. Read story
Going Public
Profile of a company going public and the costs and benefits that apply. Read story
Economic Forecaster Stanley Salvigsen
Interview with economic forecaster who advises on reducing debt to prepare for hard times ahead. Read story
Play Money
Founder of simulated stock market confronts decision among three different long-term growth strategies. Read story
The Guys Who Beat General Mills
It's a common enough story: big company sues small company; small company heroically stands its ground -- and gets litigated into oblivion. Such was the ... Read story
A Little Help From Your Friends
You probably know more potential investors than you realize. The trick is to put together a deal they'll find attractive Read story
Once again, the wisdom of Wall Street's contrarians -- that ornery minority that refuses to go along with prevailing sentiment -- has proved reliable. In... Read story
The Dr. Fad Show
Every Saturday morning for decades, televised mayhem has unfolded at a pace that would have curdled the blood of Attila the Hun. But now comes toymaker K... Read story
Attack Of The Bears
Why did the small-cap stocks lose their luster? Read story
Rooms With A View
The 'bed-and-breakfast' concept goes urban Read story
A Sobering View On Falling Interest Rates
Despite the mysterious disappearance of over 22% in stock valuations on Black Monday, the Dreyfus Capital Value Fund dropped less than 2% that same dark d... Read story
Big Board chairman John J. Phelan Jr. may have to stick with "melt-down," since he is credited with being first to apply that description to the stock mar... Read story
Details, Details
Finding little things and executing them well doesn't have to be complicated, or even expensive -- only ingenious. And it doesn't require a glamorous set... Read story
Worst-laid Plans
When too many people are bullish, holds one Wall Street bromide, the stock market is headed for a fall. If so, then maybe there was more warning of Octob... Read story
Phew! For a while there it seemed as if this section's observations on the behavior of small-company stocks might never return to its appointed task of f... Read story
Sales Management Software
With the arrival of integrated programs and laptop computers, managing a sales force enters the electronic age. A panel of managers airs the pros and cons Read story
Venture Capital After The Fall
How the dealmakers see it Read story
Can This Company Be Saved?
Cardinal Services is slipping toward bankruptcy. A turnaround team is trying to rescue it. Time is running out Read story
Sour Grapes
Are Wall Street's critics outraged by greed, or simply jealous? Read story
Annals Of Venture Capital
"Here," one turnaround practitioner frequently says, dropping a key on the desk of yet another major -- and undersecured -- creditor. "You can have the k... Read story
Cashing In Without Cashing Out
A growing number of owners are selling their companies to venture capitalists -- without giving up a controlling interest Read story
Servicing The Bottom Line
To most manufacturers and distributors, the service department is a necessary evil. To Offtech Inc., it's the source of half the profits Read story
Bewitching
In October alone -- a month traditionally among retailing's slowest -- National Theme Productions Inc. (NTP), an eight-year-old specialty clothier based i... Read story
This month's statistics mark the fifth anniversary of the time back in May 1982 when INC. began its charts of the stock indexes at the same point: 0.00. S... Read story
If whoever is in charge of the Dow Jones Industrial Average can drop components at will simply because they seem no longer to conform to the character of ... Read story
Take It Off, Take Most Of It Off
"I stand at the counter and ring up a $55 jacket for $5, a $30 pair of pants for $5. It takes an enormous bag to put those two things in, yet I ask the c... Read story
