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Inc. 500 Countdown: ath Power Consulting

Today's Inc. 500 honoree, ath Power Consulting, gets real-time data on customers to help its clients better gauge their business performance. Loca...  Read more

Go Global--Electronically

Communication with customers is a source of competitive edge. You can improve your products and services if you learn from your markets. Before it was acq...  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

Network: January 1993

Network: reader-to-reader advice on a variety of topics.  Read more

Sitting on Top of the World

Here's a review of a high-tech computer chair that pampers your body while you earn your keep.  Read more

A Space Of Their Own

There comes a time when employees need their own space. Infinet Inc., a $35-million communication systems manufacturer in Andover, Mass., awards a private...  Read more

Nice Try

At the time, it seemed like a stroke of genius. Ztel Inc., a telecommunications company in Andover, Mass., needed to hire about 15 engineers, fast, ...  Read more

Planning Your Exit

Management considerations that will help prepare your company for sale.  Read more

Group Think

A look at how groupware allows small-company employees to work simultaneously, saving both time and money.  Read more

Grand Plans

Shoestring start-ups: seven fast-growing companies that were started for $1,000 or less, and tactics to borrow for your own start-up.  Read more

Jeanne Lambert, Home Alone

A single CEO with no children sets some boundaries.  Read more

Make No Mistake

Company head presents awards for the year's best mistakes.  Read more

Study: Almost Half of Résumés are Bogus

A new six-month review of résumés found that a surprising number contained "major misrepresentations."  Read more

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. SMALL COMPANY INITIAL PUBLIC O...  Read more

Industries In Transition

Terry Dorman's parents didn't pay much attention when their 19-year-old son and his friend Peter Bogdonoff set up a silk-screening shop in the Dorman base...  Read more

Companies Embracing Holiday Cheer

Dec. 12, 2005 --Swept up in the holiday spirit, or perhaps too much eggnog, small-business owners are saying thanks to their employees by ...  Read more

Better the Hire You Know

Recruiting past employees provides crunch relief The dot-com revolution may have lost a little steam, but a lot of businesses are ...  Read more

Has Anyone Seen the Boss?

The CEO life after (or before, or right in the middle of) work.  Read more

How Information Technology Is Leveling the Playing Field

Various business people discuss how technology allows them to compete with the "big boys."  Read more

Red Tape: Are You Cheating Your Employees?

Litigation from wage-and-hour disputes is skyrocketing. And you may be breaking the law without even knowing it.  Read more

Behind the Scenes: Companies at the Heart of Everyday Life

Wendy's Drive-Through, Oxon Hill, Maryland, 11.11.07, 5:14 p.m.  Read more

The Remote Control CEO

Stephen Mcdonnell insists that he stays home four days a week because it's good management--not because it's fun. The performance of his company, Applegate F...  Read more

What's Next: Power Surge

Thanks to new technology, your next Internet service provider could be the power company.  Read more

What's Next: Power Surge

Thanks to new technology, your next Internet service provider could be the power company.  Read more

Start-ups Target Old Bosses as New Customers

More and more employees are leaving large corporations and starting businesses with their old employers as customers.  Read more

Rochelle Behrens is Bracing Herself For the "O" Effect

Life is going to get a lot more interesting tomorrow for Rochelle Behrens, the 28 year-old designer of ...  Read more

The Benefits Of Agressive Lending

For small companies that find it hard to borrow unsecured funds, asset-based lending is a better alternative than ever.  Read more

The Inc. 500

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth 197781 Perc...  Read more

The Once And Future King

Wherein the heir to King Arthur Flour sets off to build an empire and almost loses his kingdom.  Read more

CEO's Notebook

At Kirby's prompting, Smith also checked Petra's assets-to-liabilities ratio. It was .82 -- too low, in her view. "He had too much short-term debt," Kirby...  Read more

YourCustomer@YourBusiness.com

Providing Internet service to your customers may sound like technology, but it's all about marketing.  Read more

Putting On A Good Face

In trying to reach a new market, even a successful company may need a graphic overhaul.  Read more

Hook, Line, and Sinker

Disciples of Fish are bringing the happiness revolution to corporate America. It sounds as if they're fighting the good fight. But there may be casu...  Read more

Slim Pickings

INC. 100 veteran Harold Katz and his franchisees thought they had a formula for perpetual growth. Then their customers cut them down to size.  Read more

Luck is for Losers

A gambler who loathes risk, Bill Kaplan ran his famed MIT Blackjack Team like a business and left the table with more than $10 million in winnings. Can the l...  Read more

Anatomy of a Start-Up, Part 1: The Climb Begins

In mid-October Richard L. Thompson, 44, and Lawrence G. Braitman, 40, co-founders of Flycast Communications, a Web-based advertising firm, flew from San F...  Read more

Taming the Beast

A close-up look at how a business owner learned the art of growing his remodeling business.  Read more