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Seeking Quality, Juicer Squeezes Out Franchisees

Given the choice of franchising or setting up company-owned stores, here's why a fruit-juice firm opted for the stores.  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the December issue.  Read story

High Concept: I'll Take Manhattan

A new way to build computer memory chips takes its inspiration from the Manhattan skyline: when space is at a premium, build up rather than out.  Read story

Any Given Start-Up

In years past, only a Super Bowl ring could light up the eyes of a burly football player. Now he's just as likely to perk up over a new dot-com. Pro athletes...  Read story

The Futurists

From solar panels to clean coal, betting big on the future of energy.  Read story

Resources

A comprehensive guide, including phone numbers, to resources for various articles featured in the July issue of Inc.  Read story

Wi-Fi for the Masses

Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it--one city at a time.  Read story

The Fast Track to Face Time

It's the eternal question asked by every entrepreneur who ever tried to raise capital: What do venture capitalists want? The answer, according to the Web ...  Read story

Myth 3: Smart Money Makes You Smart

Think any Internet start-up can get venture capital? Not true. Entrepreneur Cliff Young had to grow his company before the VCs came calling.  Read story

War Stories

Reviews of three new business books -- one on why starting a company is like waging war, one about a high-profile venture capital firm, and one on why you sh...  Read story

The Down-Round Dilemma

Once a rarity, down rounds are becoming the norm among firms lucky enough to get venture capital funding. But is topping off the tanks worth the drop in valu...  Read story

The Plot Thickens

As the initial celebrations fade into memory, our heroes from Silicon Valley discover that the Old Economy business of selling books is tougher than they sus...  Read story

How to Kill a Great Idea!

Jonathan Abrams created the first online social network and enlisted Silicon Valley's best and brightest to run it. Yet Friendster flamed out spectacularly. ...  Read story

Rewriting the Ending

The unfortunate demise and surprising rebirth of a very special business. Part 1 in a series.  Read story

How Fast Can This Thing Go, Anyway?

Zipcar was a classic founder-run company--long on passion, short on cash. Until a new CEO came aboard, gave the business a seven-step tune-up, and put the pe...  Read story

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