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Big Manager on Campus

Here's how some dorm-room entrepreneurs founded their first company, before they got a first degree.  Read story

Knowing What Customers Want

The “sense and respond?? business model helps companies keep up with rapidly changing markets.  Read story

Getting Even

After a contract fell through with 7-Eleven, a Maryland businessman started his own chain of convenience stores.  Read story

Just-About-In-Time

The Japanese (and others) are having second thoughts about their system of just-in-time inventory management.  Read story

Strategy

Related Terms: Business Planning "Strategy...  Read story

Labor Shortage;

TODAY, WHEN YOU ORDER A large Pepsi at your local Burger King, the cashier may hand you an empty cup to fill at the self-service drink machine. In 10 yea...  Read story

In Search Of Software

Need a software package to handle legal billing? How about one for taking care of real estate amortization, or helping with inventory control? Here's an i...  Read story

A Blockbuster Video Idea

Inc. 500 CEO Greg Pabich finds a market for used movies and video games with his company, Movies Games 4 Sale.  Read story

Outer Resources

A look at two companies, Air Taser and CFData, that became successful largely because they outsourced the technology-intensive aspects of their businesses.  Read story

The Declaration of Independents

Just when economic bullying by big corporations threatened the whole idea of independent small business, company builders nationwide did the last thing anyon...  Read story

Is the Price Right? Ask Jay Walker

Like every other network before it, the Internetwill eventually become as routine as the highway system,electric grids, and telephone networks. And when i...  Read story

Where Is Your Business On the Insistence Scale?

Customers always had, and always will have, choices. Dissatisfaction with goods and services results in spending migration, compounded with ease of access to...  Read story

Congressman Wants A Business Soap

Texas congressman Jim Collins comes from Dallas, but he's no great follower of J. R. Ewing. He'd much rather see a TV series on John D. Rockefeller. "The...  Read story

Search

Spot that opportunity: the definitive guide to finding promising new markets, and more.  Read story

What's Next: Staying Connected

A slew of new gadgets can help you compete.  Read story

A Tale Of Two Companies

There's more than one way to bake a cookie -- and build a business.  Read story

The New Issei

How a few Japanese managers broke free of Theory F by exporting themselves to America.  Read story

Main Street: Frozen Assets

Some 70 years after the introduction of the refrigerator, an ice supply company continues to remake itself.  Read story

Find It. Use It.

It's a good bet your company possesses intellectual property it isn't exploiting. Here's how to identify those assets and turn them into new business.  Read story

The Most Entrepreneurial City in America: Vegas

A look at why Las Vegas, a city with little history and very few natural resources, is the country's hottest spot for start-ups. It produced over 17,000 new ...  Read story

Two Men and a Bottle

The cofounder of Nantucket Nectars recounts how he and his partner, Tom First, started their business almost unintentionally and soon found themselves runnin...  Read story

Starting Up in a Down Economy

Nobody loves a recession*. But many successful entrepreneurs say that, in retrospect, they were lucky to have launched their businesses in tough times.  Read story

Fanatics!

During these soft economic times, small businesses are uniquely positioned to offer something that many lumbering giants can't: peerless customer service. He...  Read story

In Search Of The Perfect Business

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

What's Luck Got to Do with It?

A latex-glove and -condom manufacturer wins the 1993 Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award.  Read story

Brief Profiles of Inc. 500 Companies

A collection of 27 short articles about companies from the 1998 Inc. 500.  Read story

Kinder-care's Standard Formula For Success

Back in 1968, real estate developer Perry Mendel had an idea that many people he talked to thought was outrageous, impractical, and probably immoral. Men...  Read story

Confessions of an Entrepreneur's Wife

She was proud to support her husband's dream of building a great business. But five years is a long time to watch someone focus on his company at the expense...  Read story

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