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Log On, Bitte

By Inc Staff |  Jun 1, 1990

Two on-line databases with directory information on businesses in Germany.  Read story

Online Music Retailer Faces the Realities of the Internet Economy

Jan 10, 2001

Inc. magazine profiled the start-up CDnow in its Anatomy of a Start-Up series in June 1996. In January 2001 Inc. checked back in to find...  Read story

Big Plans

By Anne Marie Borrego |  Jan 1, 2001

Catch up with some of the companies profiled in our Anatomy of a Start-Up series, and here's what you'll discover: Plans are one thing, executing them is ano...  Read story

The Anatomy of a Sale--Ours

By Bo Burlingham |  Sep 1, 2005

Magazines know how to go after a story, but this one came to us. Inc. was recently the focus of a business drama with valuable lessons about what a ...  Read story

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Soloist

By Harriet Rubin |  Dec 1, 1999

Harriet Rubin discusses the most important lesson she has learned during her two years as a soloist: the very same things that make soloing rewarding are exa...  Read story

A New Chapter for E-Books

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Mar 15, 2000

After falling flat in the early 1990s, are digital books ready to fly? Entrepreneurs are betting that new technology is creating a legitimate market.  Read story

Lucrative Expletive

By Gay Jervey |  Oct 1, 2001

Begun as a joke, F***ed Company.com has turned its creator, a disgruntled "geek" named Phil Kaplan, into a folk hero. And it's probably one of the few dot-co...  Read story

A Changing of the Guard

By George Gendron |  Nov 1, 2000

After 21 years, Inc. gets a new owner. Plus, if innovation is random, how can you make it strike at your company?  Read story

Law and Ardor

By Harvey A. Silverglate |  Mar 15, 2001

Switching their strategy, Bertelsmann Music Group decided to lend a hand to rival Napster -- a deal that will benefit both companies.  Read story

'Flashes of Genius'

By George Gendron |  May 15, 1996

Peter Drucker on entrepreneurial complacency and delusions—and the madness of always thinking you're numb one.  Read story

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