Alessandra Bianchi


Colo. White-Wtr Rafting Co.

Financial summary and brief description of a Colorado white-water rafting company.  Read story

Zapplication

New business service links student's college applications to universities.  Read story

Natural Pesticide

Start-up creates the world's first natural cockroach pesticide.  Read story

From Dancing Dots to Floating Restaurants

Sampling of start-ups from 20 small-business development centers.  Read story

Tracking Flexible Fliers

A new software program accommodates uneven telecommuting and flextime work schedules.  Read story

News From the Home-based Biz Front

New study finds that new home-based entrepreneurs break the traditional mold.  Read story

In Your Face, Inc.

'Downsized' workers reemerge with a sense of irony, as seen in these two start-ups.  Read story

Grads for Hire

Start-up produces a computerized college job-listing network.  Read story

Cable Meets CD

New business capitalizes on emerging field of digital audio technology.  Read story

Minor-League Baseball Franchise

Financial summary brief description of a minor-league baseball franchise.  Read story

How to Write a Patent Application

Ordering information for How to Write a Patent Application by Jeffrey G. Sheldon.  Read story

He Masters Voice

Direct marketer delivers sales pitches using voice mail technology.  Read story

The Cutting Edge

Hair salons feature artwork and jazz music to enhance employees' creativity and pamper customers.  Read story

The Rules of Attraction

Many Inc. 500 CEOs become addicted to fast growth -- the exhilaration of laying it all on the line -- while some even plan fast growth just to make the Inc. ...  Read story

Seattle Bookstore

Financial summary brief description of a Seattle bookstore.  Read story

Up from Failure

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers an overview of the Sept. 1997 edition of the magazine and some of its topics and articles.  Read story

North Carolina Racquet Club

Financial summary & brief description of a North Carolina racquet club.  Read story

Northern California Bike Shop

Financial summary brief description of a northern California bike shop.  Read story

U.S. Work-at-Home Population Trends

Chart showing projected increase in the numbers of Americans who are or will be working at home by 1995.  Read story

Phoney Business

New companies sell ceramic tiles and listings of apartments, used cars, home-repair services by phone.  Read story

Seed Capital, Part II: More Microlending

Nonprofits organizations are providing microloans through a SBA program geared to qualified entrepreneurs.  Read story

Venture Capital: The Price of Growth

List showing the average age of a start-up at the time of its first round of venture capital financing.  Read story

Family-Run Child-Care Center

Financial summary and brief description of a child-care center.  Read story

Runaway Inflation

New business creates original flotation device.  Read story

Network

Inc. Technology readers react to articles from Inc. Technology #2, 1998, including Alessandra Bianchi's "Lines of Fire" and Jeffrey Seglin's "He's Got the Wh...  Read story

Fla. Fishing Pier

Financial summary and brief description of a Florida fishing pier.  Read story

Collaborative Effort Produces AIDS Education Kit

Business releases AIDS education product.  Read story

Learning the Hard Way

The successful inventor of a word game relates how she will do things differently the second time around.  Read story

The Price of Inexperience

Chart showing inexperienced entrepreneurs are more resource starved and have less start-up capital.  Read story

Multimedia Games

Three start-ups in the hot new field of multimedia games  Read story

Calif. Vineyard/Winery

Financial summary and brief description of a California vineyard.  Read story

Vintage New England Diner

Financial summary brief description of a vintage New England diner.  Read story

Your Product Here

Start-up brings five experienced catalog veterans together to create the Good Catalog Co.  Read story

Unlocking Genetic Secrets

Profiles of companies hoping to map the entire human genome and locate the genes that cause any number of diseases.  Read story

The Best Advice May Still Be Free

Small Business Development Centers' free advice proves helpful to clients.  Read story

If at First You Don't Succeed...

Company owner starts a new business after first company's demise, to prove it wasn't his fault.  Read story

Small-Town Weekly

Financial summary and brief description of a small-town weekly.  Read story

Texas Drag Strip

Financial summary brief description of a Texas Drag Strip.  Read story

Maine Model-Ship Maker

Financial summary brief description of a model-making business.  Read story

Found Money

New business locates unclaimed funds.  Read story