The Creative Spirit
Remembering Bernard A. Goldhirsh, the entrepreneur extraordinaire who founded Inc. Read more
Growth Strategies
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Advice on Acquisition Advisors
When pursuing growth through acquisition, it's crucial to find the right advisers. Read more
Forming a Virtual Company
Have you ever failed to land a prospective client because they thought your company was just too small or that you couldn't serve the scope of their needs... Read more
Faster Tech Transfer
Carnegie Mellon University is trying to streamline technology transfer. Read more
Just Say Om
With tough, new rivals like Nike and Reebok, Sara Chambers's yoga business is suddenly getting stressful. Read more
What Your Country Can Do For You
You don't have to be as big as Halliburton to get a piece of the government-contracting action. Read more
Buyers Learn to Beware at Franchise Boot Camp
Louis Dominguez, a 53-year-old retired account executive with Verizon, was recently on a conference call with a representative from Alphagraphics, a print... Read more
To Export Profitably
Is now the right time to do business overseas? Read more
SBDCs Face the Ax
As states trim their budgets, many of the Small Business Administration's Small Business Development Centers may be forced to close. Read more
Speaking in Tongues
When doing business overseas, the right translator can make all the difference. Read more
Sugar Ray Leonard's Toughest Fight
The six-time champ is trying to build a business, promote a new generation of fighters, and clean up his sullied sport. It's not as easy as it sounds. Read more
Reviving Main Street
Growing up in Los Angeles, I didn't have a "Main Street." We shopped at the mall and drove everywhere, even to buy a carton of milk. In those years, L.A. ... Read more
No Oil, No Problem
Pitching an alternative fuel made from soybeans. Read more
Vital Signs
Finally, some good news about business -- from a place you might least expect it. Read more
A Business Grows Straight Outta Compton
In a tough business in an even tougher town, Chet Pipkin has built a Hall of Fame company. Read more
The Big Picture
This year's top company thrives in the electronics industry despite intense price pressure. Read more
Mayoral Momentum
A primary tenet of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City's (ICIC) philosophy is that the private sector must play a major role in the revitalization... Read more
Sounding the Sirens
With budget deficits growing, government-sponsored programs for small businesses are being cut back or altered. Yet many government resources are still av... Read more
Creating Growth Paths
Turnaround Update Company: Lau Technologies, Littleton, Mass. Founded: 1990 ... Read more
Turnaround Update
In the April 2003 issue of Inc. , contributor John Anderson recounts Omar Minaya's amazing Read more
The Marketing Genius Strikes Back
How Kenn Viselman made his name, lost his company, and is taking the biggest gamble of his career. Read more
Rude Awakenings May Await New Franchisees
Before Kelly Waddell, 31, and his wife, Sandra, 35, opened their Pop-A-Lock franchise in Dayton, Ohio, they went to bed at 11 p.m., and assumed everyone e... Read more
Spotlight: Hollywood's Dream Factory
Winning one Oscar is small potatoes. Here's a guy who accepts (or rejects) more than 50 every year. Read more
Case Study: Spy in the Sky
Having leased blimps to clients like Fuji Film, a company considers a whole new market: homeland security. Read more
The Path to the Top
Are you an agent of change, or will you be a victim of change? Read more
The Sweet Smell of Excess
When big-shot Blockbuster alums came calling with plans to start a national chain of florist shops, little guys like John Partridge and Greg Royer thought th... Read more
Profile: A Hot Property
Real-estate broker Barbara Corcoran went from waitressing at a diner to building a $70-million company. Read more
Case Study: The Offer You Almost Can't Refuse
A woman from Target is on the line. She wants your product, but you'll have to completely change your company to get the deal. Do you dare to say no? Read more
Strategies: The Don't-Take-It-to-Market Alternative
Sometimes getting smaller is the only way to get bigger. Read more
How Bribery and Other Types of Corruption Threaten the Global Marketplace
In Turkey, the apartment buildings that collapse during earthquakes are known as "bribe buildings." In Africa, bridges dot the landscape with no roads to con... Read more
Best-Laid Plans
For entrepreneurs, it's not that the best-laid plans often go awry -- although they do, all the time. It's that when they do, determined CEOs turn circumstan... Read more
Six Ways to Outrun the Competition
Talk about countercyclical: more than half the companies on the 2002 Inc 500 list have thrived in industries that are just puttering along. Here's how. Read more
Dossier: Keep Me a Prize
Sure, you can build a company and hope that it outlives you, but why stop there? A prize program offers immortality. Read more
Main Street: All They're Cracked Up To Be
The characters in A Confederacy of Dunces aren't the only celebrated nuts in Louisiana. Consider Bergeron Pecans. Read more
