February 1, 2002
- FYI: The Million-Dollar Post-it Note
- Confessions of a compulsive bootstrapper.
- Mail: February 2002
- Readers react to articles from the Inc 500 and November 2001 issues of Inc, Plus: Update on two trash-talking CEOs.
- High Concept: Injector Gadget
- A new category of medical devices aims to take the pain out of vaccinations.
- Search: Tempests in Teapots
- A must-read for managers who don't fit in; a free alternative to LexisNexis; and why there's no such thing as a new idea.
- Main Street: The Fiberglass Menagerie
- Lions and tigers and Big Boys, oh my! Presenting the nation's premier manufacturer of fiberglass roadside figures.
- 60-Second Business Plan: Downhill and Dirty
- What do you get when you cross a Hummer with skis? Entrepreneur James Page's all-terrain skates.
- Business for Sale: Itching to Make Your Mark?
- Looking to make your mark in business? Check out this rubber-stamp manufacturer.
- Re: How to Get Your Book Published
- Think you've got the making of the next blockbuster business best-seller? Take it from a pro: it's not as easy as it looks.
- Wine Not?
- Sure, a person can almost always find an exquisite wine when traveling. But for Lee Perlman 'almost always' isn't enough.
- Decision Time
- Improve your chances for success through better decision making.
- Verdi and Me
- High-tech entrepreneur Brent Habig on singing opera, and how it makes him a better manager than you are. Or at least different.
- Drug of Choice
- A user's guide to America's drug of choice: coffee.
- Spokes Women
- CEO Linda Graebner has found the perfect path into her daughter's head. (It involves pedaling.
- Vegas, Stripped
- As George Maloof Jr. sees it, there's a lot more to Vegas than the Strip.
- Street Smarts: Opportunity Knocks
- Four reasons why now is the best time to build a new business.
- Letter from Silicon Valley: Zen and the Art of Management Coaching
- Taking the fine art of management consulting to Japan.
- Sales: What Works Now
- Perplexing as the current sales environment may seem, there are strategies for coping with it. Inc surveys the changing entrepreneurial landscape to find the latest answers to your most pressing sales concerns.
- The Disruptive Start-Up: Clayton Christensen On How To Compete With The Best
- How can you tell if your plan to take on a big swinging company is smart or foolhardy? Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen might have the answers.
- Start with Nothing
- Greg Gianforte, founder of $30-million RightNow Technologies Inc., learned that bootstrapping is not simply about pinching pennies and cutting costs. Smart bootstrapping is about turning your lack of resources into a competitive advantage.
- The Work-at-Home Diaries
- Offers show up every day in your E-mailbox promising that you can escape your straitjacketing day job and make plenty of money working from home. Could it be that your E-mail inbox is concealing a hidden gold mine? Inc road tests a few.
- Inc Query: What Do Your Customers See?
- Determining what numbers you should be tracking, and other pressing business matters.
- Why You're Hiring All Wrong
- Want to avoid employee churn? Map out a career path for new hires.
- Secrets of a Novice TV Star
- Small business is big news again. When Today calls, make sure you're ready for prime time.
- Hands On: Works Well With Others
- Giving employees quarterly goals has helped Revenue Technology Services Corp. to improve cooperation.
- Penny-Wise, Site-Foolish
- Don't scrimp when you pick a Web host -- unless you like greeting customers with "Site not found.
- Best of the Net: The Factoring Factor
- Slow-paying customers got you in a cash-flow crisis? These sites can help you bring in the moola.
- Archive: Creative Destruction
- Stueben Glass president Arthur Houghton Jr. sought a break from his company's past, literally.
