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Knowing What Customers Want

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

Big Manager on Campus

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

Getting Even

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

5 Business Lessons Learned from Undercover Boss

It was one of this year’s reality show standouts, beloved by viewers for the dose of schadenfreude they’d get by seeing executives fail at attempting the...  View slideshow

When a Product Gets the Obama Effect

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: Ho...  Read more

Just-About-In-Time

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

Strategy

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The 2010 Inc. 5000: Top 10 Companies by Revenue

Even though this year's Inc. 5000 top companies by gross revenue all reported more than $2 billion in earnings last year, they still managed to deliver impre...  View slideshow

Finding Growth in a Recession

The only thing constant on this year's Inc. 5000 list is change; although growth is down, revenue is up for a new group of top industries.  Read more

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 more

Staying Connected

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

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

What's Next: Staying Connected

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

Search

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

A Tale Of Two Companies

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

Move Over, Mary Kay

There's a new guard of companies selling using the tricks of the direct-selling trade. Today, it's J. Hilburn, Stella & Dot, Ambit Energy, and even Zumba, ro...  View slideshow

The New Issei

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

Main Street: Frozen Assets

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

Firing the "So-So" Workers

Jay Goltz on how to handle hiring mistakes. Plus, Mark Zuckerberg's stalker, the new social media elites and the rest of the day's news.  Read more

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 more

Taking the Direct Route to Sales Growth

A group of companies on this year's Inc. 5000 have expanded rapidly by adopting the approach made famous by companies such as Mary Kay and Tupperware.  Read more

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 more

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 more

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 more

The Best of Inc. 2010

A look at the most popular articles, news items, and columns from the editors of Inc. magazine.  Read more

Brief Profiles of Inc. 500 Companies

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

What's Luck Got to Do with It?

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

In Search Of The Perfect Business

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

Meet America's Fastest-Growing Company

Jere Thompson Jr. of Ambit Energy on how he rose to the top of the 2010 Inc. 500.  Read more

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 more

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 more