3Com Corporation

CallRex Now Compatible With 3Com System

The application allows companies to monitor IP voice calls for quality assurance, training and security.  Read more

3Com Targets SMBs With New VCX Offering

3Com (NASDAQ:COMS) has launched a new IP telephony solution targeted at small and midsize businesses. The new VCX Platform, including VCX Connect 100 and ...  Read more

Why Every Company Needs a Story

Every company needs a story to help management and employees remember what matters most for their business.  Read more

Getting the Message

The advantages and disadvantages of electronic mail.  Read more

Who's in Charge Here?

A portrait of the relationship between a founder and a professional manager.  Read more

Growing Steady

Maybe it's how well you grow that matters, not how fast.  Read more

Big Name Hunting

The cost of renting intellectual powers is going higher and higher. And the people bestowed with such powers are playing harder and harder to get. So, m...  Read more

The Quotable Entrepreneur: Ron Schmelzer

"When we hit the wall with our first company, we realized we had to shut down and start over. So we called our employees together and brought everybody th...  Read more

The New Entrepreneurial Elite

Lured by enormous compensation packages and the excitement of fast growth, many big-company executives are leaving cushy positions to run start-ups.  Read more

Golden Handcuffs

It certainly worked out for me," claims Edward Esber, a former marketing vice-president for VisiCorp in San Jose, Calif. Like many hired field workers in ...  Read more

Tech Talk: Wireless Office Better Serves Clients

A marketing company in Florida discovers that a wireless network not only lets clients have Internet access, but allows employees to work outside if they want.  Read more

Inc. 100 Index

Company (rank) Advanced Telecommunications (13) American Businessphones (44) American City Business Journals (11) American Communi...  Read more

8 Tips for Managing Staff Through Hard Times

Tips on keeping employees motivated despite cutbacks.  Read more

Stocking Up On Capital Gains;

For the first time in three years, INC.'s annual academic exercise -- buying $100 worth of stock in each of its hundred fast-growing corporations -- has t...  Read more

Wi-Fi for the Masses

Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it--one city at a time.  Read more

The Little Picture

New business shrinks color-image files while maintaining near-perfect quality.  Read more

Rapid Transit

Need faster, cheaper Internet access without a T1 or an ISDN line? Here's a sampling of cable, DSL, and fixed wireless providers that can give you more speed...  Read more

Newsbreakers

News blurbs about three businesses.  Read more

It's All in the Cards

A review of various PC cards that can turn your laptop into everything from a pager to a global positioner.  Read more

It Was 20 Years Ago Today

A look at the cultural, economic, and political climate during 1979, the year that Inc. was founded, and the entrepreneurs and trends that shaped business ov...  Read more

Wi-Fi for the Masses

Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it--one city at a time.  Read more

The Great Games of Business

The businesspeople you see using digital assistants on airplanes probably aren't doing work. They're playing games. But the games they play are teaching them...  Read more

From Riches To Rags . . . And Back

For the first time in four years, the INC. 100 outperformed the leading averages  Read more

The 1985 Inc. 100

Introducing the fastest-growing public companies in America.  Read more

Nothing But Net

Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com Corp. and inventor of Ethernet, talks with Inc. about the Internet.  Read more

Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100

Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit...  Read more

Finding Value In A Steamy Market

Amid a blistering four-month rally, most value stocks have become overvalued. It's time to dig deeper.  Read more

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Forecast: A New Year's Guide for CEOs

Various Inc. editors and other experts discuss a number of topics and how they relate to the 1996 economy.  Read more

The Smart CEO's Reading List

Short reviews of business books recommended for the CEO.  Read more

1987 The Inc. 100;

WE'RE AWAITING CONFIRMATION FROM THE observatory at Mount Palomar that all the planets and moons did indeed orbit around Wall Street last year. Certainly...  Read more

A Network of Her Own

Women who are entrepreneurs have always found it tougher to raise money than their male counterparts have. New kinds of support and a new breed of investor a...  Read more

How to Turn Social Networking Contacts Into Customers

Now that business people have migrated onto such social networking sites and amassed a dizzying array of contacts -- and contacts' contacts -- how do you con...  Read more

New Money

Start-ups in search of capital are finding a new kind of investor -- adventure capitalists: successful ex-entrepreneurs who contribute themselves as well as ...  Read more

Shhh. That's Classified

How do you hire new employees, lease a building, get financing, and develop a new product in total secrecy? A CIA veteran tells you how.  Read more

Missing Links

Is your computer setup getting to be a royal pain in the you-know-what? Choosing the right network may be the most important technology decision you make.  Read more

Shhh. That's Classified

How do you hire new employees, lease a building, get financing, and develop a new product in total secrecy? A CIA veteran tells you how.  Read more