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Solidarity Forever

Along with the crocuses and daffodils come tentative signs this spring of renewed labor union activity in the high-tech industry: * Led by organizer...  Read story

Choosing Between Objective And Subjective Sales Programs

If you want to design your own computer program to help you with your retail sales, call in your local programmer for a quotation on writing the software....  Read story

When The Magic Goes

The adoring crowd of 300 engineers executives, and reporters fell silent. They had gathered this Friday night in the bright new site of Sente Technologies...  Read story

The Challenge Of Cartridges

Ever since video games were first introduced to the market, the industry has been especially fertile ground for company start-ups. From 1977 to 1981 indus...  Read story

Intrapreneurship (sic) Corporate Creativity

Entrepreneurship. You can almost see the shudders -- and the hunger -- that word produces in the heart of corporate America. Picture Exxon Corp. hea...  Read story

The Pied Piper Of Sunnyvale

Two bearded tinkerers with electronic gadgets getting together to discuss the future is not, by Silicon Valley standards, extraordinary. So when entrepren...  Read story

Nolan Bushnell is Back in the Game

Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, employed Steve Jobs, built a bunch of robots, and pretty much invented the whole cocky-young-entrepreneurial-genius pose. He's ...  Read story

A Rogues' Gallery Of California Swashbucklers

They were the high fliers of high tech: aggressive, creative, and supremely egotistical. The companies they founded made them rich and famous. But today, tho...  Read story

A Buyer's Guide To Personal Business Computers

The following 14 personal business computers can handle a variety of useful business applications. Yet they involve no more setup than a component stereo...  Read story

Different Routes: Perennial Software Services Group

For David Fast, the issue is quality of growth. Fast is the founder and president of Perennial Software Services Group, in Santa Clara, Calif., a leading...  Read story

Hot, Hotter, Hottest

It would be too bad if Donald Kingsborough isn't a leading candidate for "hottest entrepreneur in America," because we're pretty sure he could handle the ...  Read story

When Advertising Doesn't Need Hot Air

Five years ago, Robert Keith Vicino, now 29, tried to marry his hobby -- hot-air ballooning -- with his Connecticut advertisind business. It didn't work. ...  Read story

Inc. Online Exclusives June 2009, - Inc. Article

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Computer TV

Aapps Corp. will soon market an add-on device that will turn a portion of a Macintosh computer into a TV screen.  Read story

E-Mail in the Pines

New product allows portable computers to exchange E-mail with virtually any other U.S. computer site.  Read story

Atari sneezed, and EA caught a cold

Electronic Arts , founded by Trip Hawkins, in 1982, was the first software development firm to sell its products directly to consumers ins...  Read story

Product Fallout

"Shake the tree and something is bound to fall out" was the inspiration, such as it is, behind Nolan Bushnell's 1980 funding of Axlon Inc. The tree happen...  Read story

The Ticker

Ross Perot and his charts are back. Sixteen years after his failed presidential bid, the founder of EDS has launched a w...  Read story

Games Businesspeople Play

Some talk about it; some don't. But without question, there are more than a few who are doing something other than VisiCalc down at the shop.  Read story

10 Questions for Nolan Bushnell

1. What's your favorite part of a typical day? My shower in the early morning. It's this time of luxury and of solitude. It's wher...  Read story

Inc. Online Exclusives: September 2009

What's Online: September 2009 1.Check Out the Inc. 5000 ...  Read story

The Ricardo Montalban Of High Tech

Few entrepreneurs launch their businesses dressed in a leotard and a crown, but that is exactly what Ron Gordon was wearing when his latest venture, Club ...  Read story

Those Were The Days

Remember when bankruptcy meant you were broke? When John De Lorean was just a GM exec with a dream? When you thought a silicon chip was a new kind of snack f...  Read story

What Business Would You Start?

Nearly 50 business luminaries, ranging from H. Ross Perot to Ed McMahon, are asked what businesses to start.  Read story

An Apple A Day

George A. Kuhnreich, director of corporate planning for Tandy Corp., sits in his spacious office atop one of the twin Tandy Towers in downtown Fort Worth,...  Read story

The Power Lunch

* Lee Iacocca ate two dozen raw clams on the half shell at his first interview for the top spot at Chrysler Corp. * John C. D. Bruno, owner of The P...  Read story

Climbing To The Top Of The Charts

Microcomputer software sales are heading for the stratosphere. But the most popular programs aren't necessarily the best.  Read story

Name-calling

What the name of your company and products says about you and your business.  Read story

The Real Father Of Video Games

Your story on Nolan Bushnell ("When the Magic Goes," October 1984) was great, and it has me looking forward to the next exciting episode. But it left me w...  Read story

More Toys Make The New 911 A Joy Ride

The new Porsche that you can drive like a video game.  Read story

Blast In, Write On, Litigate Out

Three CEOs each review a new software package.  Read story

The Grub-and-games Strategy Still Thrives

The food-and-fun strategy that Pizza Time Theatre Inc. pioneered still has a following in the restaurant business, even though Pizza Time itself filed for...  Read story

A Software Package Under The Tree

Not long ago, using a microcomputer to handle personal finances was as popular as filing recipes electronically. Kitchen wizardry with the home computer i...  Read story

A Buyers Guide To Personal Business Software

Vendor Program *(Price **) System Requirements DATA MANAGEMENT ASHTON-TATE dBASE II ($700) 48K ...  Read story

Foreign Affairs

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, " Charles Dickens wrote about the period of the French Revolution, and a number of U.S. companies co...  Read story

Another Launch

Richard Henry Dana Jr. couldn't have asked for a better setup: an innocent from Utah hanging around the Golden Gate Bridge and gazing out to sea, wondenng...  Read story

Carry On

What to look for in a portable computer.  Read story

Book Review: Companies Are People, Too

Companies Are People, Too by Sandra Fekete with LeeAnna Keith John Wiley & Sons 254 pages $29.95 ...  Read story

No Tech, No Takers

Various Inc. writers examine eight myths about going public that the 1996 market shatters.  Read story

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