The 10th Annual Ranking Of The Fastest-growing Small Public Companies
For 10 years, founders, companies, and industries have passed from our lists into entrepreneurial lore Read story
Stephen D. Solomon
Press release of the month. A behind-the-scenes account of journalism's splashiest start-up in recent years -- Gannett Co.'s USA Today -- might make temp... Read story
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DOUG TOMPKINS DOESN'T meddle very much once he's delegated decision making at Esprit. There aren't many phones where he spends much of the year -- climbi... Read story
Adolf and Rudolf Dassler ran a factory together making athletic shoes in a small Bavarian town. But after World War II, the founders of Adidas Sports-chuh... Read story
Robert Wood Johnson Was Inspired
Robert Wood Johnson was inspired after hearing a British surgeon's speech citing airborne germs as the leading cause of infections in hospitals. In 1886, ... Read story
As a pharmacist, he had plenty of medications to soothe his son's hacking cough. But there was a rub: none offered croup therapy specifically for infants.... Read story
Only In America;
-- From an Associated Press dispatch A MAN HAS BEEN DISMISSED AFTER leaving his maintenance job to respond to an emergency call to help two victims of hea... Read story
Trade Wars Through The Ages
"(It) would be better to buy beef produced by the King's subjects, dear though it is, both for the navy and for private individuals, than to buy it at a l... Read story
Trade Wars Through The Ages
In the fourth century, the Persians drastically raised the price of raw silk they sold to the Byzantine merchants. Justinian, the Byzantine ruler, attemp... Read story
Trade Wars Through The Ages
"The English had now begun to deluge the markets of France with their whale oils: and they were enabled by the great premiums given by their Government to... Read story
Trade Wars Through The Ages
"Great talk of the Duch proclaiming themselfs in India lords of the Southern Seas and deny traffique there to all ships but their own, upon pain of confis... Read story
William Danforth had the right product for turn-of-the-century St. Louis when he began making feed for horses and mules. But whole wheat cereal for humans... Read story
Aah, Those Were The Days
Inflation topping 15%, the prime nudging 20%, and business failure rates skyrocketing. When it came to starting a company. . . Read story
He came to America in a hurry, after his father's praise of the American Revolution made the family unwelcome in England. Turning down a cushy assistant ... Read story
Great Moments In Recruiting
PART 1 Bring Tools, Experience, and a 110-Story Office Tower WANTED: Watchmaker with reference who can furnish tools. State age, experience an... Read story
Great Moments In Recruiting
PART 4 But Did They Get A's in the Course? The two engineering students from Stanford University capped of their undergraduate years of friend... Read story
Great Moments In Recruiting
PART 3 And the Father-in-Law Didn't Even Ask for Equity At 16, the Baltimore native got his first job developing a telegraph machine. He rose ... Read story
Great Moments In Recruiting
PART 2 The Profits, on the Other Hand, Are Nothing to Sneeze At Just after the Civil War, a group in Neenah, Wis., began gathering every night... Read story
English As A Second Language
Or, as President Reagan might say, throw the little ones back. "A violation of the four-ounce standard occurs if the average of the aggregate weight... Read story
Frequent layoffs made work in the Hibbing, Minn., iron mines too stop-and-go for Carl Eric Wickman, a Swedish immigrant. So he became the local dealer for... Read story
As the muggy Washington, D.C., summer of 1927 fizzled out, so did sales at two A&W root-beer stands. So the owners decided to add Mexican food. One c... Read story
"Technology, especially electronics, is not what you might call my strong point. . . . I mean all I know about computers wouldn't cover a silicon chip."<... Read story
As a teenager in Memphis, he watched salesmen passing through town and vowed to become one of them. He wangled $125 and the use of a horse on Saturdays f... Read story
Tell It to the Federal Trade Commission "To our lords, the administrator, and Nabu-aha-iddin: Concerning the 400 [measures of] barley . . . he has g... Read story
The Shekel's in the Mail "Tell Puzur-Assur, Amua, and Assur-samsi: Thirty years ago you left the city of Assur. You have never made a deposit since... Read story
Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money "Tell Ahu-kinum: Immediately after you left for the trip, Imgur-Sin arrived here and claimed: "He owes me one-third of... Read story
. . . But Perhaps His Assistant Could Help "Tell Ina: We have heard here that the palace has put you in fetters, but we did not believe it until we... Read story
On the face of it, the book The Human Drift, published in 1894, was an anticapitalist tract. It condemned competition as the source of all evil, and it re... Read story
In 1928, the young Hollywood filmmaker directed his efforts toward raising money for more cartoons starring a character he invented. Arriving in New York,... Read story
"We don't manage by managing. We manage by being there all the time." -- Chuck Sussman, president, Pretty Neat Industries Inc. Read story
His ties were to the railroad where he worked as a station agent in tiny North Redwood, Minn. But when a local jeweler rejected a shipment of watches, he ... Read story
The product was scandalous. Hair dye was for ladies of the evening in 1955, not for the girl next door. So when Lawrence Gelb decided to introduce his dy... Read story
Gum chewers owe their treat to the Mexican general who wiped out Davy Crockett and his band at the Alamo. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, a deposed ... Read story
It was, perhaps, one of the longest development efforts on record for a consumer product. Whitcomb Judson received his first patents in the early 1890s. I... Read story
His first three jobs must have made him bristle. He was a trolley conductor in Boston, but was fired for taking unauthorized control of a motorcar and wr... Read story
Times Change: In Pittsburgh, the spiritual center of the Rust Belt, high-technology workers now outnumber steelworkers. While the steel business continue... Read story
"An entrepreneur is a guy who is personally guaranteeing $5 million and has about five bucks in his pocket." -- Rick Inatome, president and chief ex... Read story
It was the volunteer fireman's vanity that made all the difference. Still in his early twenties, he combed through medical journals seeking a cure f... Read story
He was clearly a loser as an entrepreneur. At 36, he had already failed at four different retail businesses on both coasts. "I have worked two years for ... Read story
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