Baltimore


A Look at the Losers

The standouts on this year's list are the cities that know how to attract entrepreneurs.  Read story

Great Moments In Recruiting

PART 3 And the Father-in-Law Didn't Even Ask for Equity At 16, the Baltimore native got his first job developing a telegraph machine. He rose ...  Read story

Wrong Move

Why packing the Cleveland Browns off to Baltimore wasn't good business, no matter how you look at it.  Read story

Study Ranks Cities with Best and Worst Customer Service

Baltimore and Washington, D.C., had the slowest wait times, while Phoenix and Portland, Ore., were the speediest.  Read story

Communications: When Talk Is Cheap

A quick look at how one company is using technology to maintain its high-quality phone service at a low cost.  Read story

Regus Opens New Business Center

The new business center will feature 53 offices and 90 workstations.  Read story

Network: December 1991

Network new queries.  Read story

A Company of Businesspeople

How and why managers are breaking down the traditional us-versus-them mentality of the workplace.  Read story

Seeing the iPod as a Security Threat

Is the iPod a computer security threat?  Read story

A Golden Alternative

Using alternative airports is a form of creative ticketing that airlines don't really object to, but they will not offer alternative airport options when ...  Read story

Look to Low-Cost and Niche Airlines for Low Fares

One of the best ways to get the lowest fares is to know where low-cost and niche airlines fly. These carriers allow you to create your own system of airfa...  Read story

Keeping In Touch

From simple beeps to ticker-tape printouts, the message is clear. Pagers and mobile phones are rapidly becoming more useful and affordable.  Read story

Memo to Myself

They lead small businesses, but have big goals.  Read story

The Inner City 100

100 street-smart companies.  Read story

Does This Mess Belong to You?

Before blaming an outsourcing firm for all of your woes, take a look in the mirror. Entrepreneurs often create their own problems. Here are four of the most ...  Read story

Wash Out Defectors

Increasing the likelihood of future venture capital funding through prenuptial agreements.  Read story

Economic Development #1: The Question

Observations on the trend of new companies choosing to locate within a city.  Read story

The Inner City 100

100 street-smart companies.  Read story

Creating Companies of Companies

Once a company grows beyond a few employees, it's easy for people to lose sight of the business. They work in departments. They worry about keeping the bo...  Read story

Class Of '82: Crossing Over To Wall Street

1982 Issue Issue Latest price Amount rank Company Date price 10/6/83 raised ($ mil...  Read story

Consumers in the Mist

For real insights into your clients, hire an anthropologist.  Read story

How to Impress a Banker

Credit insurance is gaining ground in the U.S., as a way to preserve capital from the danger of uncollectible accounts.  Read story

Where Office-Rental Rates Are Going

Chart comparing the tenant-effective rental rates for 12 locales.  Read story

The Inc. Network: Reader Responses

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Location

65 cities and 30 states are represented on the 2006 Inner City 100. Most Represented Cities: Boston - 5 Denv...  Read story

Blessed Events

How to make a sponsorship pay off.  Read story

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

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

Embrace It, That Embraceable Zoo

Arthur Watson, Baltimore's first zoo-keeper, doesn't believe in retirement. So last July, after 32 years of keeping company with live animals, he opened A...  Read story

Making Research Pay

Start-up company provides market research, funding, development assistance to promising technology companies.  Read story

Inc. Online Exclusives: October 2009

What's Online: October 2009 1. Prepare Your 2010 Budgets Oct...  Read story

Network: Reader Responses

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

The Company That Grew Too Fast

The thing about growth is that you have to finance it. And that, as Brian Le Gette learned the hard way with one-time Inc. 500 company 180s, can be tricky.  Read story

Spouses On The (new) Job

The growing number of families with both spouses working has given rise to a new corporate benefit: "transplacement." Under this program, companies pay co...  Read story

The Inner City 100

100 street-smart companies.  Read story

Mail

This month's letters to the editor.  Read story

Howdy Duty

If you're a manufacturer who exports, you may be missing out on money that can be refunded to you as part of U.S. Customs Service's duty drawback program....  Read story

Fat Times For Small Suppliers

When The Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. dropped saccharin from many of their diet drinks in favor of aspartame late last year, a group of small companies ...  Read story

The Ultimate Sales Force, Direct Sales Article - Inc. Article

How Peter Groop took HP's, GE's, and IBM's leftover products and built one of the hottest teams in America to sell them.  Read story

The Inner City 100 Profiles: 31-40

NO. 31 BankServ San Francisco Electronic payment processing Read story