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The Paperwork Required to Set Up an LLC

Nov 1, 2000

To create an LLC, you must file the correct paperwork with your state.  Read more

Internet Business Method Patents

By Rich Stim |  Nov 1, 2000

A company that develops a new way of conducting e-commerce may be able to prevent others fromusing it for almost two decades. Since 1998, an increasing nu...  Read more

Obits: Cold Feet Squash Minority-Supplier Site

By Mike Hofman |  Nov 1, 2000

Despite high-profile supporters and millions in seed capital, an online exchange for minority suppliers to the auto industry couldn't figure out how to make ...  Read more

Everything Old Is New Again

By Kate Neville |  Oct 25, 2000

Has the e-commerce bubble burst? If recent reports are to be believed, online business-to-consumer (B2C) businesses are in a slump. Stock prices of many l...  Read more

The IT Talent Shortage

Oct 24, 2000

The dearth of American IT professionals has given high-tech workers the leverage to command premium salaries and perks from companies desperate to attract...  Read more

It's the Year of the Other Internet Company

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Oct 15, 2000

2000 is the year the Internet hit the Inc. 500, big-time. One indicator? Of the companies, Read more

Growth Market Suppliers Make the Inc. 500

Oct 15, 2000

Some of the 64 explicitly Internet-related companies on the 2000 Inc. 500 listare following a time-honored tactic of entrepreneurs with growing, ...  Read more

It's All about Technology

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Oct 15, 2000

In the 19 years we've been compiling the Inc. 500, we may never have had a list that was as technology-intensive as this one. The tech bias is a ...  Read more

Shared Tastes

By Ilan Mochari |  Oct 15, 2000

The partners: Former college roommates Met: 1986 Fused: 1995 Bonding event:Read more

Follow the Numbers

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Oct 15, 2000

What the characteristics of the Inc. 500 reveal about trends in the national economy.  Read more

Let's Get Physical

By Mike Hofman |  Oct 15, 2000

Four years ago E*Trade Group ( Inc. 500 list, 1996) was considered a threat to traditional retailing. Now the online stock brokerage is throwing itse...  Read more

The Internet Mini-List: A Subset of the 2000 Inc. 500

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Oct 7, 2000

This is the year the Internet hit the Inc. 500, Inc. magazine's annual list of the fastest-growing privately held U.S. companies, big ti...  Read more

We haven't started our business, but my partners want compensation. What should I do?

Sep 19, 2000

Ethics in Business mentor Jeffrey Seglin responds to the following question from an inc.com visitor: I'm starting a company with...  Read more

All Adventure, All the Time

By D.M. Osborne |  Sep 15, 2000

A handful of sites want to take the sweat out of lining up your next big travel adventure. Can they deliver? Inc. Technology 's panel of entrepreneur...  Read more

A Good Idea -- but Is It a Business?

By Rhonda Abrams |  Sep 11, 2000

A friend took me to dinner to pick my brain about her new business. She was excited: she had a great idea, had lined up a strategic partner, and was rarin...  Read more

New Twist on Building Traffic

By Karen Lake |  Sep 7, 2000

Traffic - - it's what every site wants. Traffic equals eyeballs, and advertisers and partners will pay for exposure to those eyeballs. But how do s...  Read more

How can I start consulting when I have little business experience?

Sep 6, 2000

Ethics in Business mentor Jeffrey L. Seglin answers the following question from an inc.com visitor: I am an ethicist and philoso...  Read more

How do I change my corporate structure?

Jul 12, 2000

Law & Taxation mentor Barbara Weltman responds to the following question from an inc.com user: How do I change my corporate stru...  Read more

The Art of Being Successfully Self-Employed

Jul 1, 2000

A book outlines the framework for succeeding as a self-employed professional.  Read more

Pick a Web Business Model that Works for You

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 20, 2000

Let's say you're a wool sweater expert and you've decided to start your own Internet business. Well, great! But exactly what sort of business do you want?...  Read more

Web Business Model: Product Sales

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 20, 2000

A Web business based on product sales involves selling a physical, shippable product online. There are three main ways to sell products on the Web:...  Read more

Web Business Model: Service Sales

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 20, 2000

Services too, as well as products, can be sold via the Internet. Here are the three examples of this kind of business model: Read more

Web Business Model: Information Delivery

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 20, 2000

One of the biggest benefits of the World Wide Web is that it presents a fast, efficient, and practical way to share information around the world. Informat...  Read more

Foreign Exchange

By Fred Hapgood |  Jun 15, 2000

The World Wide Web has allowed international competition to move in, but it just may be good for your business.  Read more

A Soloist's Blueprint

By Lauren Gibbons Paul |  Jun 15, 2000

An architect relies on good old-fashioned word of mouth to outfit his high-tech office in the woods.  Read more

How much equity will venture capitalists want in my start-up?

Jun 14, 2000

Internet in Business mentor Bradley Feld responds to the following question from an inc.com visitor: What is the typical composi...  Read more

The Importance of Corporate Minutes

Jun 13, 2000

Forming a corporation is an important, and sometimes exhausting, task. Typically, after the new entity is established and the initial shares sold to stock...  Read more

Which Legal Form Is Best for Your Business?

Jun 13, 2000

When you start a business, you must decide on a legal structure for it. Usually you'll choose either a sole proprietorship, a partnership, a limited liabi...  Read more

The Next Next Thing

By Steve Solomon |  Jun 1, 2000

Three entrepreneurs decided they could turn their money-losing brick-and-mortar business into a well-funded dot-com. The question: Will they be able to win S...  Read more

Sites for Singles

By Ned Snell |  Jun 1, 2000

Running a business on your own and looking for some virtual guidance? A panel of entrepreneurs helps us review a handful of Web sites designed for soloists.  Read more

My partner is leaving my business. What's a good strategy for going it alone?

May 30, 2000

Running a One-Person Business mentors Paul and Sarah Edwards respond to the following question from an inc.com reader: My wife a...  Read more

Is There Gold under That There Hype?

By Christi Frum |  May 22, 2000

Business-to-business (B2B) commerce. Is it a market worth $7.3 trillion and 6.9% of the global economy by 2004? Or is it a media extravaganza promising an...  Read more

Music to the People

By Chuck D |  May 15, 2000

Rapper Chuck D. on the Web and the beat of change in the music industry.  Read more

The Greenhouse Effect

By Edward O. Welles |  May 15, 2000

Gene Gage wanted a quiet life in the country where he could indulge his hobby of growing herbs. That was before he hitched his wagon to an Internet star.  Read more

Electric Currency

By Philip Diehl |  May 15, 2000

The former director of the U.S. Mint on whether Internet technology will displace hard currency.  Read more