Out Of The Minds Of Babes
Almost half the patents issued last year by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office went to foreigners -- a far cry from the mere 11% that foreigners won a q... Read story
Robert A. Mamis
From Riches To Rags . . . And Back
For the first time in four years, the INC. 100 outperformed the leading averages Read story
Last July, just as it appeared the INC. Index might at last cross back into positive ground after lo, these many years, it took quite a Dixie. The steep s... Read story
Lender Of Last Resort
If your loan is too risky for a bank, an asset-based lender may be willing to provide the cash -- but it won't come cheap Read story
Gross National Products
Clacking teeth. Rubber octopuses. Exploding lighters. Believe it or not, some people build companies around this stuff Read story
Catalog Marketing, Cont.
If you like O. Henry, you'll love I. Magnin; if you've just finished The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, you'll probably go for The Sharper Image. Th... Read story
All Shares Are Not Created Equal
A separate class of low-voting stock lets you go public without losing control of your company -- but the tactic could backfire. Read story
Over-the-counter Culture
Unless you're given to hanging out on the steps of the Securities and Exchange Commission and bribing postal workers, getting reliable data on companies t... Read story
Taking Control
For this small retailer, the development of the right computer system transformed every single aspect of the way the company did business. Read story
Office: Business In The Round
Five dozen employees are probably too many to jam onto the limited floor space that Crimson Travel Service allotted them, the agency's owner granted. Then... Read story
The Perfect Acquisition
Some want to buy; some want to sell; some want to plan for the ultimate cashout. The owner of Perfect Courier did all three at once. Read story
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Want some advice on stocks? Turn on the TV. Read story
One way the market is always consistent is that it never does what the consensus expects. Someday the madding crowd may wise up to how contemptuously it ... Read story
The World According To Arps
The new adjustable-rate and auction-rate preferred mutual funds may be oddities, but companies looking for cash repositories will find their aftertax yields ... Read story
Microcomputers;
OVER RECENT YEARS, FRESH GENerations of microcomputers and their concomitant acronyms have been appearing with bewildering frequency, doubling and redoubl... Read story
Trends;
ANYONE WHO DOUBTS THAT THE trickiest phase of an initial public offering is the very last one -- pricing the issue -- might ask Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fen... Read story
Factors To Consider
Few people outside the business understand factoring, but it's a time-tested way to increase your cash flow when your capital is low and accounts receivable ... Read story
Tender Offers
Charles Leighton's approach to managing acquisitions is enough to make even the most independent private business owner want to be bought. Read story
Investors can't but be pleased that all the averages -- including INC.'s -- were up for six straight months. Maybe it's best to let a sleeping dog lie, b... Read story
Meat And Potatoes
In an industry noted for concepts and gimmicks, Ryan's has become one of the hottest restaurant chains around, without franchising, advertising, or leveraging. Read story
It's What's Up Front That Counts
Mark Weissman learned the hard way that nothing beats a hefty chunk of cash at the start of a licensing deal. Read story
Equity;
Like hairdressers, accountants tend to think of themselves as people in the know. But until recently, none of the nation's Big Eight firms did much to ex... Read story
Update;
Scarcely did our article on Air Atlanta Inc.'s zero-coupon takeoff appear ("A Deal for All Seasons," January, page 105) than Daniel H. Kolber's phone lit ... Read story
Marketing;
We receive hundreds of prospectuses and annual reports at INC. every year, and 99.8% of them are your standard black-and-white look-alikes. Every so ofte... Read story
With a spectacular (for it, these days) 8% gain in the month, the INC. Index finally made it back to where it began a year ago. So did the fellow-speculat... Read story
Look Before You Weep
Most fast-growing companies headed for trouble give investors plenty of warning. The trick is knowing where to find it. Read story
The Price Is Wrong
The owners of Contextural Design could have sworn they were making money on every unit they sold. Read story
While the Dow Jones Industrials were setting new records, the INC. Index was trying to work its way out of a deficit situation almost as hopeless as the ... Read story
Managing Technology;
Compact disks, which hold more than an hour's worth of music, are the latest rage among audiophiles. And the 4.72-inch disks may soon become the rage amo... Read story
Preselling The Company
The acquisition of Forefront was arranged and the dowry was set before the company was even born. Read story
Like A Christmas Carol on Wall Street, the gift of life in equities this holiday season occurred despite the fiscal Scrooges. Many economists and portfol... Read story
Cash Crop
As an independent, Global Money Orders faces stiff competition. Read story
A Deal For All Seasons
AIR ATLANTA HAS BEEN CREATIVE IN FINDING SOURCES OF CAPITAL -- AND MOST CREATIVE OF ALL IS ITS USE OF ZERO COUPON BONDS. Read story
With all five indexes trending down, plus two of three groups of new issues, this month's Investing in Growth Companies paints one of the saddest pictures... Read story
Private Lives;
Four straight years on the INC. 500 -- and all with one good idea. Read story
Silver Threads Among The Gold
Technical innovations have made Montabert a leader in the label trade. Read story
For some time now, Street Talk has been marveling at the exceptional performance of new issues through thick and thin, especially since their perkiness in... Read story
Challenged to explain his (so far) unfulfilled prediction that stocks would rise in 1985, an analyst on a television talk show retorted, "Well, they haven... Read story
Air Fare
Flying Foods supplies gourmet restaurants with fresh delicacies, or else. Read story
The Gang That Doesn't Think Straight
Stumped for new product ideas? Meet some pros who look for them from every angle but the obvious. Read story