October 1, 2001
- All Shook Up
- What would drive an entrepreneur to reshuffle his top management team at the peak of his company's success?
- Readers react to recent Inc articles, including Anne Stuart's "The Pita Principal," D.M. Osborne's "Dear John," Norm Brodsky's "Groundhog's Day," and David Bayless's "Know Your Place.
- Watching You Watching
- Seeing Machines' new product hopes to help us better understand how we interact with machines.
- The Multipurpose Multiplex
- Madstone Films has a plan to deliver specialized content in underutilized movie theaters. If television can do it, why not the big screen?
- Sight for Sore Eyes
- Recuperating from corrective eye surgery, Steve Marcum got the idea for SportEYZ, his patented sunglasses.
- Racket Busters
- Ed Cornwell unsuccessfully tried incorporating his ferroconcrete into boat-building and fireproofing materials before finally settling on a sound idea: noise-absorbing SoundSorb.
- In the Line of Pliers
- After living with risk daily, what does a longtime Secret Service agent do for an encore? Become an entrepreneur.
- Search
- "The greatest business book ever," and more.
- The Bucks Stop Here
- The fire department wants 103 pounds of ham. The phone rings with an order for 500 pounds of beef. The line to the counter runs 20 deep. Just another day in the life of Holsinger's Meat Market.
- Hot Stuff
- Is it finally time to jump on the alternative-energy bandwagon? Well, yes and no.
- Burnt Offerings
- The IPO world is alive and well for one optimistic company builder.
- Prozac Notion
- Talk about a convenient society. Try 1-800-I-NEED-A-THERAPIST-NOW.
- Ready for a Sea Change?
- Business for sale: A cruise-focused travel agency.
- Fore Play
- The Senior PGA tour. If you're a golf buff, you've probably toyed with the idea. We found one chief executive who actually did it. And guess what? Surviving the Senior PGA Tour makes building a business look easy.
- Money Guru
- Want to hire a money guru? Maybe you should answer some questions first.
- Jeanne Lambert, Home Alone
- A single CEO with no children sets some boundaries.
- Old Route 66
- How the Albuquerque locals get their kicks.
- Leni Miller's Houseboat
- A company founder creates a home office that's so great, everyone wants to visit her.
- Barriers to Entry
- Why barriers to entry are good.
- Menu Driven
- A food zealot chases his fortune on the Web, even though content sites are no longer the dish du jour.
- Lucrative Expletive
- Begun as a joke, F***ed Company.com has turned its creator, a disgruntled "geek" named Phil Kaplan, into a folk hero. And it's probably one of the few dot-coms that's making money -- an irony that is not lost on Kaplan.
- Seven Steps to Heaven
- Funding for entrepreneurial businesses has completely dried up, right? Wrong. Angel investors -- long a tried-and-true source of capital for young businesses -- have not hung up their wings.
- Managing One-to-One
- Operating under the premise that no two workers are alike, companies that are practicing one-to-one management are figuring out what makes each of their employees tick. And that, the employees say, makes all the difference.
- Will Work for Paycheck
- Can an entrepreneur find happiness working for someone else? Plus, answers to questions about discontinuing a product, valuing a company, and more.
- The Right Fit
- Money is still out there looking for strategic buys.
- The Innovator's Dilemma
- What to do when your dream comes true and you hate it.
- Inside Information
- The lowdown on competitive intelligence.
- The Bulletproof Business Plan
- How to bulletproof your business plan during a slumping economy.
- Uncle Sam Wants Chew
- How Philip Wrigley pitched in for the war effort in 1945.
