Which Products Sell Best Online?
You've read about the success of e-commerce giants like Amazon.com and Dell Computer. You've seen America Online attract more than 10 million subscribers.... Read more
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Origins of the 500: Partners
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
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
Unlike consumers excited by the Internet's newshopping opportunities, companies have beenbuying and selling electronically for years. Despite that experie... Read more
Why Partnerships Fail
Like any other business relationship, successful strategic alliances are subject to misunderstandings, poor planning, and sheer caprice. According to Gene... Read more
Why Partnerships Fail
Like any other business relationship, successful strategic alliances are subject to misunderstandings, poor planning, and sheer caprice. According to Gene... Read more
The Internet E-cosystem
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
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
Last summer, when Idealab founder Bill Gross got together with his former high school classmate Chris King, a lightbulb switched on. The utility industry ... Read more
In a Former Life: George Bell
GEORGE BELL, 42 President of Excite@Home Present life: Bell, formerly the CEO of Internet portal Read more
GreenTree Vs. MotherNature.com
In " What Level Playing Field? " from the May 1999 issue, Inc. staff writer Marc Ballon... Read more
Fiscal Therapy
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
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Ticket to the Show
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
You may have seen the ads in national publications such as The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. They look like typical airlin... Read more
The Soloist
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
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
In Excerpt 1, "January 1998: Taking the Plunge," Rubin talks about making the great leap into independent consulting after a long career as an editor ... Read more
The Close-to-Complete Diary of Harriet Rubin: Excerpt 3: Going All the Way (or trying to)
In earlier diary excerpts, Rubin talks about making the leap into independent consulting after a long career as an editor at Doubleday. Here, she deta... Read more
Leaning on Partners
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
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
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
Internet vendor Rudy Socha is a flouter of norms. He doesn't promote his Web site. He discards customer data. And he gives away money. Lots of money. Yet ... Read more
The Close-to-Complete Diary of Harriet Rubin: Excerpt 1, January 1998
January 1998: Taking the Plunge ... Read more
Diary of a Soloist
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
ffith, a lawyer at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, in Nashville, remembers the time two men came into his office and announced that they wanted to form a p... Read more
Why do You Want a Partner?
Mardy Grothe, a psychologist with a long track record of counseling partners, answers the question almost every would-be cofounder avoids: What's real... Read more
Happy Endings
So you and your partner have tried everything. You've seen a marriage counselor. You've done primal-scream therapy. And still you hate each other's guts.<... Read more
Partners on the Edge
Brett Cosor and Jeff Studley, co-owners of CPR MultiMedia Solutions, came to dislike each other so much they brought in a marriage counselor to help them thr... Read more
Reversal of Fortune
When Web-based Sapient Health Network was on the brink of failure, CEO Jim Kean quickly reinvented the entire company. A look at how cyberspace has spawned a... Read more
Upstarts: New-Biz Watch
For-profit schools: a look at Advantage Schools; Michigan's governor's take on school privatization; and companies that failed in this market. Read more
Beyond Campus Recruiting
Steve Burkhart, CEO of Advanced Micro-Electronics (AME), used to get frustrated trying to find qualified job candidates for the PC-maintenance and -networ... Read more
Piggybacking to Market
They started in a two-bedroom apartment in Woodland Hills, Calif., making phone calls, writing computer code, and working hard to convince their neighbors... Read more
Perfect Form
Deborah Williams of Black Cat Computer Wholesale describes how she changed her company from a sole proprietorship to an S-corporation to a C-corporation in h... Read more
Business 101: Incorporation Strategies
When it comes to corporate structure, Deborah Williams has pretty much seen it all. Hard as it may be to believe, her company, Black Cat Computer Wholesal... Read more
