Start-up

Border Crossings

By Ellyn E. Spragins | Mar 1, 1989

One small company's experience after its sale to a Japanese investor. Read more

In Search Of The Perfect Business

By Michael S. Hopkins | Mar 1, 1989

Successful franchise marketing leads a deli business to explosive growth. Read more

The Doublemint Strategy

By Paul B. Brown | Mar 1, 1989

A company splits its original sales space in two and starts a successful offshoot business. Read more

Chinese Checkers

By Hal Plotkin | Feb 1, 1989

An entrepreneur dramatizes his business in novels and uses the royalties as capital for his next start-up. Read more

Big Deal

By Leslie Brokaw | Feb 1, 1989

Associates of billionaire gain capital through his investment. Read more

A Capital Idea

By Ellyn E. Spragins | Jan 1, 1989

The Securities and Exchange Commission's new rules may simplify means of receiving loans and equity. Read more

The Disciples of David Birch

By John Case | Jan 1, 1989

A new generation of researchers discover the effect of small business on the economy. Read more

Seize The Time

By Ellyn E. Spragins | Jan 1, 1989

Well-heeled investment groups create money and demand for solid companies. Read more

Love Me (Legal) Tender

By Inc. staff | Dec 1, 1988

Elvis Presley MasterCard introduced in conjunction with Federal Savings and Loan Association, Memphis. Read more

How to Build an Inc. 500 Company

By Michael S. Hopkins | Dec 1, 1988

Profile of an Inc. 500 CEO and his success in managing growth while taking his company public. Read more

The Partnership Route

By Joshua Hyatt | Dec 1, 1988

Joint ventures with foreign markets can bring new frontiers in technology and management. Read more

Going Public

By Robert A. Mamis | Oct 1, 1988

Profile of a company going public and the costs and benefits that apply. Read more

Economic Forecaster Stanley Salvigsen

By Robert A. Mamis | Sep 1, 1988

Interview with economic forecaster who advises on reducing debt to prepare for hard times ahead. Read more

Winning in the Asian Era

By Joel Kotkin | Sep 1, 1988

The U.S. must take a new commerce perspective in regard to the changes taking place in the world economy. Read more

Splitting Heirs (1988)

By Joshua Hyatt | Mar 1, 1988

Nearly a hundred years ago, Lorenzo Vaughn planted a time bomb in his company. Finally, it went off Read more

A Limited Success

By Bruce G. Posner | Feb 1, 1988

Limited partnerships still offer an attractive source of capital for growing companies -- provided you can figure out how to sell the deal. Read more

Hamburger Heaven

By John Case | Sep 1, 1987

How McDonald's created modern-day franchising Read more

Fear Of Franchising

By Curtis Hartman | Jun 1, 1987

How Carol Brothers seduced the press, the industry, and scores of franchisees with the false promise of 'the next McDonald's' Read more

The Trouble With S Corporations

By Douglas H. Forde | May 1, 1987

In the mad rush to switch to S-corporation status, a lot of company owners overlooked the pitfalls. Fortunately, it's not too late to switch back Read more

Hot Tip: Don't Make a Personal Guarantee

By Patricia A. Amend | Feb 1, 1987

One small business banker says that a personal guarantee isn't always necessary. Read more

What VCs Look for in a Management Team

By Virginia I. Postrel | Nov 1, 1986

A survey done by New York University's Center for Entrepreneurial Studies examined those issues that venture capitalists feel can make or break a deal. Read more

Officers and Gentlemen

By Virginia I. Postrel | Sep 1, 1986

Venture capital firms size up the market for defense contracting Read more

Trading Places: How a Dentist Invented the Export Trading Company

By Sara Delano | Nov 1, 1983

Although Dr. Josepb Blaes considered himself reasonably imaginative, he never dreamed that his design for a more efficient dental clinic would have global si... Read more

A Bond By Any Other Name

By Bruce G. Posner | Nov 1, 1983

Whether you call them "high-yield," "low-rated," or just plain "junk" bonds, a lot of companies are finding there is nothing shoddy about public market debt. Read more

The Leveraged Buyout Boom

By Craig R. Waters | Sep 1, 1983

It was too perfect a symbol, too convenient a metaphor to slip into the first paragraph of a story about leveraged buyouts, but there it was, sitting on t... Read more