The Sporting Life
Orvis goes out of its way to bring an air of authority to its product lines. Read story
Robert A. Mamis
Spare Change
Norman Harper found a bonanza when he let customers do the dirty work. Read story
The Reel Stuff
To finance their art films, Albert and David Maysles focus their cameras on big-name corporations. Read story
New Faces Of 1985
CONVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES (1) From the beginning, it has been a written policy at Convergent Technologies Inc. that key employees must take a 13-week ... Read story
Investing In Growth Companies;
Our portfolio of INC. 100 stocks is only hypothetical. Lucky for us. Read story
Bookmakers
Cloverdale Press, an upstart in book publishing, picks its markets before it picks its writers. Read story
Forecasting A Profit
Weather Services Corp. has made a business, if not a science, of predicting the weather. Read story
Private Trading
There's a lot of private company stock around. So where are the buyers? Read story
A Manager's Guide To Integrated Software
THEY MACRO! THEY MASK! THEY MERGE! SOME OF THEM EVEN DO WINDOWS . . . BUT CAN THEY HELP YOU RUN YOUR BUSINESS? Read story
Name-calling
What the name of your company and products says about you and your business. Read story
Taking Stock
These days, companies like Apple Computer, MCI, and Tandem are choosing to remain over-the-counter, and the American Stock Exchange, for one, is fighting mad. Read story
The Year Of The Fast-growth Bear
When the Big Board sniffles, it's the INC. 100 that gets pneumonia. This year's 16% drop can in part be blamed on the earnings ailments of larger companies. Read story
New Money
Start-ups in search of capital are finding a new kind of investor -- adventure capitalists: successful ex-entrepreneurs who contribute themselves as well as ... Read story
Roscoe L. Egger
"We could do more audits than anybody ever did before and set some kind of record. But the question is, Have we lived up to our obligation to the public to b... Read story
Calculating The Market's Future
To receive the weekend forecasts of stock-market advisory services, a subscriber usually has to wait for Monday morning's mail, which is unreliable, or ph... Read story
The Speaking Circuit
Computers have been prattling on for a number of years now, but they have started to get downright garrulous lately. Two talking microcomputers were unvei... Read story
Sparring Partners
Partnerships seem to be breaking up faster than marriages these days. And it's not always happening behind closed doors. Read story
Frank Perdue
At a time when marketing has suddenly become the hot topic from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, one of the most effective marketers around is a slender, la... Read story
High Rise And Handsome
Far from the glamorous valleys of high technology, the fastest-growing private company in the United States has been casting handsome profits from poured con... Read story
HP Points A Finger At IBM
They say that apes with typewriters and plenty of time could eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. By the same token, a flock of moths might come... Read story
Where Does The Money Go?
Since you can't take it with you, for entrepreneurs on whom newly created net worth weighs heavily, the problem is what to do with it while you are here. ... Read story
Adam Osborne
"When you become an entrepreneur you can go up awfully fast, but you can go down just as fast. It's so ephemeral, like actors who end up committing suicide. ... Read story
Good Move, Monty
Experts said computer Scrabble couldn't be done, but programmers from the Iowa cornfields have packaged a fast-thinking, tough-minded, hand-held little playe... Read story
The Ricardo Montalban Of High Tech
Few entrepreneurs launch their businesses dressed in a leotard and a crown, but that is exactly what Ron Gordon was wearing when his latest venture, Club ... Read story
Playing Hardball In Software
During its infancy, the software industry existed in innocence and harmony reminiscent of a William Blake poem: Lions lived with lambs. But software is gr... Read story
Golden Handcuffs
It certainly worked out for me," claims Edward Esber, a former marketing vice-president for VisiCorp in San Jose, Calif. Like many hired field workers in ... Read story
The Electronic Slam Dunk
Beginning this fall, Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics is going to meet Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers in a nonstop game of one-on-one. Not on a b... Read story
Unlocking Management Creativity
In the old days -- five years ago, to be exact -- a financial spreadsheet was manufactured out of actual paper and ink. It often measured two feet across ... Read story
Investing In Growth Companies;
Like the weather, the fortunes of fast-growth stocks can change overnight. Witness the rebound of this year's INC. 100 portfolio. Read story
Turn Your Ira Into A Short-term Shelter
It may pay to put money into an Individual Retirement Account and to withdraw it before you retire. Read story
Of Mice And Apples
When Apple Computer Inc. finally decided to drop the wraps from Lisa, its new computer, after several guarded years, vice-president John Couch proclaimed ... Read story
Courting Disaster
With a ragtag band of failing companies snatched from the steps of bankruptcy courts, Applied Technology Ventures has constructed a robust corporation. Read story
The Pied Piper Of Sunnyvale
Two bearded tinkerers with electronic gadgets getting together to discuss the future is not, by Silicon Valley standards, extraordinary. So when entrepren... Read story
The Fund That Pays No Taxes
Using old tax provisions and new money-managing tactics, shareholders can convert dividend payments to capital gains. Read story
Protect Your Collectibles
Most homeowner's insurance policies contain snares for the unwary. But coverage of any collection can be customized. Read story
Too Public Too Soon
Ferrofluidics seized a chance to go public, although the company wasn't quite ready, and found the spotlight was costly and harsh. Read story
The Passing Of The Broker's Boardroom
With the arrival of interactive computers and radios that sound alarms and talk back, an office-bound investor no longer is at the mercy of a broker's teleph... Read story
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
In a start-up, one thing worse than a bad product is a good product with too little money behind it, as Evolution Technologie's founders learned the hard way. Read story
A Run For Your Money
Horse-breeding partnerships are as legitimate as boxcars and cattle. A big payoff may be a long shot, but in this tax shelter, slow and steady wins the race. Read story
Take Stock In The Futures
Betting on the future level of market indexes isn't a game for the timid. But stock futures have their conservative side as well. Read story
