Inc Magazine: September 1, 2001
- Hell-Bent for Lather
- A high-tech car wash (all spray, no brush) aims to become the Starbucks of drive through suds.
- Life in the Fast Lane
- Highlights from the 19th annual Inc. 500 conference.
- Readers react to articles from the July issue of Inc., including Mike Hofman's "It Takes All Kinds," Edward O. Welles' "Options, Equity, and Rancor," and Emily Barker's "Size Counts." Plus: Update on Inc. 500 entrepreneur Roy Wetterstrom.
- The Loan Ranger
- CircleLending helps manage friends-and-family loans.
- Eyes on the Rides
- MetsSignal Inc. can help you capture those precious vacation moments, without having to lug your camera everywhere.
- You're Nobody Till Somebody Collects You
- PeopleCards helps you get your 15 minutes of fame on the Web.
- When I Snap My Fingers, You Will Wake Up and Go National
- Looking for a franchise to run that specializes in the subconscious rather than sandwiches? Wield the power of suggestion with Positive Changes Hypnosis.
- Enter the Dragon
- How do you reconcile a love for Hollywood glitz with an admiration for cost-conscious Asian filmmaking? Ask Robert Cain.
- Search
- The best business magazines you're not reading, secrets for finding almost anything online, building a great workforce by promoting individuality, and the Web's future.
- Where Men are Men and Women Buy Limoges
- The family-run store in Texas that's been mixing drill bits and Limoges boxes for more than 60 years.
- Food for Thought
- The online grocery business just keeps growing. So why can't anybody make money at it?
- And They're Off
- The business drama of the Olympic competition.
- Hey, Sailor, Wanna Get Lucky?
- Boat-making biz seeks new captain.
- The Adrenaline Junkie and You
- With the world watching, Ian Adamson and his team won the Eco-Challenge in Borneo. For a fee, he and his young company will show you how.
- Sleep, the Final Frontier
- The experts know that nothing is more important than the right amount of sleep. They also know how to get it.
- Hoop Dreams
- For Rich Baumer, there's the company he's built, and there's basketball. Don't try to take the basketball away.
- Tom Ritchey's Garage
- Tom Ritchey, bike-frame and bike-component designer, finds that he's most productive when working in a space of his own.
- Making the Travelers' Century Club, Times Two
- Dick Matland, president of Coronado Shores Co., has traveled to enough destinations to qualify for the Travelers' Century Club two times over.
- Frank Tucker's Downtime
- Life after work: heading home with a single-dad CEO.
- Club Fed
- A Washington, D.C., tip sheet from ultimate insider Mary Naylor, capital native and founder of her own corporate-concierge business.
- This is not Your Father's Hummer
- A peek inside New Dimensions Ltd. founder Tim Hildabrand's highly accessorized vehicle.
- The Suitable Throne
- The Explorer E-cliner could be the most comfortable home office ever.
- The X Factor
- The one quality that can't be taught and that every entrepreneur must have to succeed.
- Confessions of a Nonserial Entrepreneur
- There are plenty of second acts in business, but this company founder looks forward to a long intermission.
- The Declaration of Independents
- Just when economic bullying by big corporations threatened the whole idea of independent small business, company builders nationwide did the last thing anyone expected -- they turned to one another for help.
- What's Your Culture Worth?
- At first glance, Utah-based Setpoint appeared to have nothing that an acquirer normally seeks. Nothing except an organizational culture so distinct and powerful that someone wanted to buy Setpoint just to get it.
- Hacked!
- When cybercriminals hacked their systems, Ron Johnson, co-owner of Ultimutt, knew four things he needed to do. Here's what they were -- and what happened when Johnson did them.
- An IPO for Everyone
- According to the cofounder of investment firm Hambrecht & Quist, an entirely new way for companies to go public may bring the markets to the masses.
- What's Love Got to Do With It?
- Experienced entrepreneurs offer advice on dealing with lost love at the office, deciding whether or not to grow, looking bigger than you are, and more.
- Site Gag
- Humor sites on the Web, as judged by three of the funniest guys we know.
- Using Your Noodle
- One start-up team did everything wrong -- except for the one thing that mattered most: they took a cold, hard look at their mistakes.
- Oprah Gets Psyched
- How Oprah gets psyched for boardroom showdowns -- and other pearls overheard at the nation's top daylong conference of female execs.
- More Strings Attached
- Today, even veteran CEOs are having a tough time raising funds, and what money they do raise comes with a lot of strings attached.
- The Messenger Is the Medium
- A custom-bag maker goes online to find new life -- and ends up curing the one-product-wonder blues.
- Ideas For Sale
- Is the world ready for an eBay of ideas?
- All The Right Moves
- Getting taxpayers to foot the bill for your new IT system.
- Chocolate 2.0
- A look at Bissinger French Confections' homespun tech upgrade.
- Basic Training
- New technology got you baffled? Our crib sheet can help.
- Gender Benders, Rejoice
- The origins of Avon.
- Re: Design
- Editor-in-chief George Gendron discusses the highlights of the newly redesigned magazine, and why it speaks to the spirit of the age.
- Index
- A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the September 2001 issue of Inc magazine.
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