Preparing for a Financial Crisis
Companies can do much to avoid falling victim to sudden national financial emergencies. Although the tally of such events is rising, many businesses remain u... Read story
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How Entrepreneurship and Democracy Affect Internet Development
Rarely has a technology had a greater effect on the spread of the global marketplace than the emergence of the Internet. Many businesses have adapted thei... Read story
Leading Up: The Art of Managing Your Boss
True or false: Leaders have followers, but not all followers are subordinates. Quite true, says management professor Read story
Chaos Theory
Justice Technology, the number one Inc. 500 company for 1998, achieved its staggering growth by branching out into new services--usually before determining w... Read story
How I Did It: Jerry Torres, Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions
As told to Max Chafkin Industry Leader: Government Services Three-Year Growth: Read story
My Place: Blake Mycoskie's Cozy Cruiser
Adventures in Entrepreneurial Living. Read story
The Immigration Debate
At least 55 of this year's Inc. 500 CEOs were born outside the United States, coming from countries as far-flung as Argentina, the United Kingdom, India, ... Read story
The Inc. 100 Portfolio;
* Six INC. 100 chief executive officers once worked for IBM Corp. * Symbion Inc. (#43), which makes the Jarvik-7 artificial heart and other artifici... Read story
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Ask For Travel
Ask Computer Systems Inc. has a habit of singling out salespeople who perform well and then sending them away. Ask, a $64-million producer of computer so... Read story
The Secrets of Super-Productive CEOs
In 2001, a recent Princeton graduate named Timothy Ferriss started a little company that sold vitamins on the Internet. Things went well, but instead of t... Read story
Why Interns Are Good for Business
In an effort to build their staffs on a shoestring and catch young talent on the rise, smart, fast-growing companies are enlisting interns more than ever. Fo... Read story
Study: Men Twice As Likely to Start Businesses
Although companies run by men and women succeed at equal rates, a startup gender gap persists. Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Andrew Cull, Remote Medical International
Why Andrew Cull, founder of Remote Medical International, counts a rescue knife, a flashlight, and a bunch of chickens among his favorite things Read story
Where Did You Learn How to Grow a Company?
Whether they learned their craft from their families, in school, or through experience, the Inc 500 agree that entrepreneurs are made, not born. Read story
The Inner-City 100: The Asphalt Window
Inner-cities aren't usually thought of as hotbeds of entrepreneurial activity, but they are often harbingers of things to come for the rest of the country. Read story
Almost a Tax Plan
The budget deficit is deadly serious. Tax reform should be too. Read story
Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia, on Corporate Culture
To build Patagonia's singular corporate culture, Yvon Chouinard first asked himself what kind of business he wanted to own. Read story
Telling a Good Story
You may have the greatest company in the world. But if you don't know how to convey that to customers, you may as well not exist. Read story
Forecaster Gary Shilling
They used to say that this maverick economist was wrong about his warnings of disinflation and depression. Now, they say he was just a bit early. Read story
Letter From the Editor: A Baseball Story
Lessons from a major-league entrepreneur. Read story
Technology: Finding Freelance Programmers
Using sites like oDesk, Elance, Guru, and RentACoder to find the best developers Read story
Emerging Markets
The phrase "emerging markets" has two distinct connotations. First , it means new and emerging foreign export markets for U.S. companies. The U.S.... Read story
Follow the Big Guys
Currency fluctuations can jeopardize cash flow or profitability in companies of any size. If your company is potentially at risk, consider currency hedging. Read story
The Inner City 100 Profiles: 31-40
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Contributors
"I now know for a fact, as I suspected all along, that I have the power to make objects move simply by willing them to do so." No, contributing editor
Higher Ground
Some Inc. 500 CEOs from the 1980s explain how if you don't act fast, your successful business might out grow you. Read story
Has Anyone Seen the Boss?
The CEO life after (or before, or right in the middle of) work. Read story
Multicultural Work Force
A multicultural work force is one made up of men and women from a variety of different cultural and racial backgrounds. The labor force of any country is ... Read story
On the Road
CEOs' tales of negotiation terrors, collection nightmares and jet-lag cures. Read story
Credit Bureaus
A credit bureau is an agency that collects and sells information about the credit-worthiness, or the ability to meet debt obligations, of individuals and ... Read story
Falling Phone Rates Squash Global Fax Service
The Intergram Corp., hoping to undercut overseas rivals with Internet-based fax services, went bankrupt when international telephone rates began to plummet. Read story
Travel: Now boarding: the JetBlue of Bangalore
Discount airlines have become an international hit. We list who is flying. Read story
Top Gun for Start-Ups
An experimental graduate program at Babson College is designed to carry students to their first start-up. Read story
The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg, founder of Word Press and Automattic, manages a successful Internet business where everyone is working from home. Read story
The Skills Crisis
Manufacturer provides in-house training skills to his employees, many of whom are Latin American. Read story
Size Matters
Can AgInfoLink, a vendor of livestock-tracking systems, succeed as a virtual operation? Here are seven helpful tips for anyone considering a virtual start-up. Read story
In the Line of Pliers
After living with risk daily, what does a longtime Secret Service agent do for an encore? Become an entrepreneur. Read story
The Wine Entrepreneurs
Forget stomping grapes. These savvy entrepreneurs have transformed their passion for wine into lucrative businesses. Read story
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