An Innovative Borrower Gets The Law To Bend
An Innovative Borrower Gets The Law To Bend. Two years ago, Alfred H. Knief thought he had found a foolproof way to beat the high cost of borrowing from a ba... Read more
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A Dozen Ways To Borrow Money
To get bankers to open their pockets, you have to know their language. Here's a primer on the ways banks lend money. Read more
More On Home Offices
Meet the college professor who lost his war with the Internal Revenue Service but who may have won an important battle for others. Read more
Tips From A Banker
Tips From A Banker. Fewer than 10% of prospective borrowers come to a bank adequately prepared. And bankers haven't the time to dig for the facts they ne... Read more
Now You Can Talk To Your Wheelchair
Not long ago, a quadriplegic at the Veterans Administration Prosthetics Center in New York City moved his motorized wheelchair and its mechanical arms using ... Read more
The Inc. 100: We Missed A Trio Of Winners
I was disappointed to find that we were not included in the INC. 100. Our company has been incorporated since 1972 and our stock is publicly traded. We antic... Read more
The More They Spend On R&D , The Faster They Grow
Sizing up R&D spending in 52 smaller companies. Read more
Oil And High-tech Offerings Are Still Hot
Last year's issues in these categories gained as much as 200%. Read more
The Inc. 100: We Missed A Trio Of Winners
We feel that Chemical Investors qualifies to be on the list of the INC. 100. Computing the sales growth record of CI for the last five years gives a percent ... Read more
Why Partnerships Break Up
If he'd observed these three principles, says the author, his own partnership might still be alive. Read more
The IRS Wants to Know: What's Your Business Worth?
The IRS will want to know, and you should know how they'll figure it out. Revenue Ruling 59-60 has the answers. Read more
From the Very Beginning, Apple Was Born to Grow
Apple Computer founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak always expected to get big. Their company was staffed, financed, and designed as if success was a certai... Read more
7 Start-up Success Stories
All this could be yours. Here's how 10 savvy entrepreneurs got their dream companies up and running - and how you can do the same View slideshow
6 Questions to Ask Before Starting a Business
So you have a big idea and want to start your own company. Is that all it takes? You may think you're a natural-born entrepreneur, but becoming one is easier... View slideshow
10 Great Entrepreneurs Talk about their Start-up Days
Entrepreneurs aren’t known for keeping things to themselves, and at Inc., we’ve been listening as they speak their minds for 30 years. Here, what Bill Ga... View slideshow
How to Make $10 Million from Home in 4 Easy Steps
Plenty of Fish founder Markus Frind runs a company that makes $10 million a year—from home. Here's how. View slideshow
Coworking Spaces Grow in Popularity
How shared working spaces are facilitating start-ups. Read more
The Jeweler
Whitney Williams, a 22-year-old senior at Texas Christian University, founded her jewelery design business, Tramonti, in 2007. Read more
The Designer
Ryan Dickerson, a 20-year-old junior at Syracuse University, founded Rylaxing in 2009 to enhance his dorm room space. Read more
The Lender
Troy Rhodes Jr., a 22-year-old junior at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, founded MyBookBorrow.com in 2009. Read more
The Tracker
Alfonso Olvera, a 23-year-old senior at the University of Houston, launched his Web-based tracking system RailTronix, in 2009. Read more
The Memorialist
Curtis Funk, a 25-year-old senior at Weber State University, founded FuneralRecording.com in 2006. Read more
The Organizer
Joe Davy, a 20-year-old junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, started EvoApp, an online organizational system, in 2009. Read more
