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Origins of the 500: Partners

By Ilan Mochari |  Oct 15, 1999

Where do America's fastest growing private companies get all those great ideas? A look at some of the strange ways Inc. 500 company cofounders came together.  Read more

Pure Internet Play

By Nancy K. Austin |  Oct 15, 1999

The driving force behind the success of Simutronic's online games isn't the technology, it's the users. Here's how the culture behind these interactive games...  Read more

The Complicated Landscape of Business-to-Business E-Commerce

Oct 13, 1999

The Internet is still reinventing business relationships and creating new trading partners. Companies that can't keep pace are finding themselves at an incre...  Read more

Why Partnerships Fail

By Christopher Caggiano |  Oct 1, 1999

To forge successful strategic alliances, it pays to know what doesn't work. A few common situations can jeopardize alliances.  Read more

Why Partnerships Fail

By Christopher Caggiano |  Oct 1, 1999

To forge successful strategic alliances, it pays to know what doesn't work. Here are a few common situations that can jeopardize alliances.  Read more

The Internet E-cosystem

By Ilan Mochari |  Oct 1, 1999

A look at some dominant Web-based business phenomena that currently dot the cyber-landscape and the array of the start-ups that have sprung up to support or ...  Read more

Niche Picking

By Donna Fenn |  Oct 1, 1999

An adventure-bookstore owner thought he had conquered the Web. Then he found he had to fight his way up the Amazon. Read this survival tale.  Read more

Bright Lights, Big Opportunity

By Emily Barker |  Sep 15, 1999

Utility.com, the first Internet electric company, competes in a newly-deregulated industry, hoping to grab a tiny share of a huge market.  Read more

In a Former Life: George Bell

By Ilan Mochari |  Sep 1, 1999

The president of online giant Excite@Home learned as a documentary filmmaker how to throw away a plan that isn't working.  Read more

GreenTree Vs. MotherNature.com

By Shane McLaughlin |  Aug 4, 1999

Inc. Exclusive asks: Who's got the healthiest business strategy?  Read more

Fiscal Therapy

By Emily Barker |  Jul 1, 1999

At a two-day "boot camp" for high-tech start-ups, CEOs thought they'd be learning how to attract Silicon Valley investors. What they got was even more import...  Read more

Profiled Web Site: Garden Escape

By Michelle Keyo |  Apr 8, 1999

This horticultural Web site has a "green thumb" in Web design, utilizing unique Web technology to make each user's visit efficient and personally tailored.  Read more

Ticket to the Show

By Susan Hansen |  Apr 1, 1999

Here's how Professional Sports Authenticator, a Newport Beach, Calif., company, aims to cash in on both the Internet-auction boom and the surging market for ...  Read more

Priceline.com's Brave New World

By Robin Taylor Parets |  Feb 19, 1999

An online retailer, boasting "name your own prices," seeks to remake e-commerce.  Read more

The Soloist

By Harriet Rubin |  Nov 1, 1998

In the August 1998 issue of Inc. , Rubin began chronicling her career as a solo act. In this excerpt from her diary, she searches for her own identit...  Read more

A Business Model of One's Own

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 1, 1998

A recent decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has allowed an Internet-based company to patent its own business model. Will this be a barrier to n...  Read more

The Close-to-Complete Diary of Harriet Rubin: Excerpt 2: Davos, Here I Come

By Harriet Rubin |  Oct 19, 1998

Hobnobbing with the rich and famous at the Rolls-Royce of business conferences proves a heavy trip for a new soloist.  Read more

The Close-to-Complete Diary of Harriet Rubin: Excerpt 3: Going All the Way (or trying to)

By Harriet Rubin |  Oct 19, 1998

"What do I want of my business?," asks new soloist Rubin. "I have so much trouble answering this question because I don't want a business. I want a life. Tha...  Read more

Leaning on Partners

By Marc Ballon |  Oct 15, 1998

In order to find time to run his four companies, including Inc. 500 winner Coating Systems, Michael McMahon delegates critical duties to three seaso...  Read more

Holding Pattern

By Joshua D. Macht |  Sep 15, 1998

A look at how four companies have cemented their relationships with existing customers by installing extranets that improve customer service and allow for on...  Read more

ROM Service

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Sep 15, 1998

Inc. 's Road Warrior lists six innovations that computer-hardware companies and hotels could adopt that would greatly reduce a business traveler's an...  Read more

Shark Bytes

By Leigh Buchanan |  Sep 15, 1998

Rudy Socha and Carolyn Darrow threw out the business rulebook--and their environmentally conscious Web site is poised to bring in $7 million in sales.  Read more

The Close-to-Complete Diary of Harriet Rubin: Excerpt 1, January 1998

By Harriet Rubin |  Aug 13, 1998

A look at what it's really like to be in business on your own -- what's scary, lonely, easy, difficult.  Read more

Diary of a Soloist

By Harriet Rubin |  Aug 1, 1998

In the March 1998 issue of Inc. , Rubin announced her desire to shuck corporate trappings and strike out on her own. Here are excerpts from her journ...  Read more

The Art (Not Science) of Picking the Right Partner

By Jerry Useem |  Aug 1, 1998

Think twice before picking a partner.  Read more