Inc. Magazine - August 1, 2001
- What's in a Place?
- The role location plays in entrepreneurship.
- Take This Deal and Shove It
- Funding. Everyone in the Bay Area seems to need it, but oddly enough, CEOs are rebuffing venture capitalists more and more. The reason: check out those term sheets.
- Know Your Place
- When it comes to entrepreneurial vitality, is geography destiny? Are some places really better than others for starting and growing a business? And if you live in a place that's 'wrong,' can you do anything about it?
- Growing Home
- Is it possible to combine entrepreneurial ambition with community life?
- Saints Alive!
- Quirky customs and homespun promotional strategies help this minor-league baseball team build a winning brand in its community.
- The Store that Stark Built
- Debra's Natural Gourmet proves that even in the face of big-box competition, a tiny player can become both a beloved local business and a profitable growth company.
- Common Threads
- Joe Fulmer, CEO of Stitching Post, deliberately transformed his store into the kind of place where customers socialize with one another.
- Leveraging Local Intelligence
- This pierogi maker's key to success was building on its local roots to compete with corporate food giants.
- The Pita Principle
- Just how low can you go when bootstrapping your start-up? The founders of Stacy's Pita Chip Co. can tell you.
- Q&A: Sins of the Founder
- Despite runaway growth, ZF Micro Devices is hiring additional staff only sparingly. That's because CEO David Feldman is haunted by a mistake he made a decade ago.
- Licensing Wizardry
- How to pull off lucrative licensing deals.
- Hot Tip: Team Up with Competition
- Save money on material costs by teaming up with your competition.
- Hot Tip: Partner with Your Banker
- Turn your relationship with your bank into a win-win partnership.
- Cost-Control Diet
- Trim financial fat from your business's expenses.
- Taking the Bite Out of a Price Increase
- Here's how CQC Dental Laboratory raised prices without losing customers.
- Thomas G. Stemberg: My Biggest Mistake
- Thomas G. Stemberg, founder and CEO of Staples Inc., discusses why you should make decisions based on customer preferences first and cost factors second.
- Do What You Love. No Really
- This CEO discovered that she could grow her company by focusing on what she loves most.
- In a Former Life: Greg MacGillivray
- Greg MacGillivray, president of a $20-million dollar IMAX-film company, discusses how he learned to be patient growing up as a surfer.
- A Soloist's Nightmare
- Independent contractors often can't diagnose their own computer ills. And a sick system can leave a soloist's business on life support.
- Free Speech
- Preparing for a big speech? Resources on the Web can help.
- Credit Where Credit is Due
- Why community banks may well be your best source of financing in today's economy.
- A New Leaf
- Can you really learn to think differently? According to three new books, the answer is yes.
- Index
- A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the August 2001 issue of Inc. magazine.
- Business for Sale: East Coast Herbal Supplier
- Pass the echinacea! A company that supplies nutritional-supplement ingredients is for sale -- and poised for growth.
- Rescuing Tradition
- Local ownership and a commitment to its devoted workers kept this boat building company afloat.
