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Franchisor's Fall

By Roberta D. Read |  Aug 1, 1987

I'm proud to be associated with Amway Corp., which made no promises and painted no flowery pictures to recruit me. It was made very clear that my success ...  Read story

Bad Trip

By Anne Murphy |  Aug 1, 1994

An Inc. writer sets out to launch a business on the Internet.  Read story

The Buddy System

By Susan Greco |  Oct 15, 1996

While multilevel marketing may make you think of scam, many Inc. 500 companies find this approach indispensable.  Read story

Network: November 1991

By Michael P. Cronin |  Nov 1, 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Fast-Sinking Star

By Donna Fenn |  Oct 15, 2000

After making the #1 spot on the 1996 Inc. 500, multilevel marketer Bill Gouldd slid and folded in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.  Read story

The Commission Conundrum

By Francisco Dao |  Jul 1, 2005

As companies try to increase sales while cutting costs, a popular trend has been to explore the use of commission-only sales staff. While this seems li...  Read story

Multilevel Marketing

In his book, According to Kotler , Paul Kotler defined this subject as follows: "Multilevel marketing (also called network marketing), describes s...  Read story

Unbridled Growth

By Curtis Hartman |  Dec 1, 1985

For five years, Herbalife International's health and diet pitch has made it one of the fastest-growing companies in American history. Now a series of investi...  Read story

Fear Of Franchising

By Curtis Hartman |  Jun 1, 1987

How Carol Brothers seduced the press, the industry, and scores of franchisees with the false promise of 'the next McDonald's'  Read story

Cheap Counsel

By Joshua Hyatt |  Sep 1, 1988

Profile and analysis of a start-up legal services firm.  Read story

Multilevel Mischief

By Norm Brodsky |  Jun 1, 1998

CEO Brodsky recounts the experiences of a friend who went to work for a multilevel marketing company. He explains why very few people get rich from MLM ventu...  Read story

Ordinary Business

By Tom Richman |  May 1, 1987

What would happen, my colleague John Case wondered aloud, if you took the INC. 100 list and stripped off all the obvious hyper-growth companies? Say you clea...  Read story

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

By Inc Staff |  Dec 1, 1992

A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year.  Read story

There's a New Man in Town

By Andrew Raskin |  Oct 1, 2000

Pressured by his venture capital backers, Gazooba founder Andrew Raskin makes room for a new CEO.  Read story

Hot Start-Ups

By Inc Staff |  Jul 1, 1999

It's easy to forget that the best new business ideas are often the simplest. Here are 10 start-ups that will have you wondering, "Why didn't I think of that?"  Read story

The 100-year-old Start-up

By Bruce G. Posner |  Sep 1, 1985

M. Jacob Sons was founded in 1882 . . . and 1921 . . . and 1963 . . . and again in 1982. Four times now, one generation has succeeded another, an...  Read story

The Return Of Billy Jack

By Lucien Rhodes |  Dec 1, 1987

Tom Laughlin has set out to do for videocassettes what Amway did for household products and Domino's did for pizza  Read story

Climbing Back Up

By Ilan Mochari |  Mar 1, 2002

When the founders of X-It Products saw a billion-dollar rival imitate the design of their sole product, they didn't have much hope that their tiny start-up c...  Read story

America's Fastest-growing Private Companies

By Curtis Hartman |  Oct 1, 2006

By now, you are familiar with the backbone metaphor. As in: “Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. We must do everything we can…to make s...  Read story

Rating the Governors

By Mike Hofman |  Oct 1, 2006

With Arnold Schwarzenegger and 25 other governors up for reelection, we look at who among them has earned the entrepreneurial vote.  Read story

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