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Ask Bill Rasmussen

Bill Rasmussen, co-founder of ESPN, on the best time to cash out.  Read story

Ask Inc.

Ask Inc. tackles going global and hiring leaders. Plus, what to put in an employee manual.  Read story

Keeping Track of a Wide, Wide World of Programs

Consulting firm will prepare customized reports on any software, including articles, reviews, and a demo copy.  Read story

Hey, We All Make Mistakes!

Because entrepreneurs understand that no one learns without making mistakes, we present a special April Fool's edition of the Inc. Quiz.  Read story

Tapping Canadian Markets

Market intelligence summary of business opportunities in Canada.  Read story

Angel Investor Directory

Finding the right angel investor could help you get your start-up off the ground. Angel-investor networks are a good place to start looking for funding. T...  Read story

Freudian Chip

Psychologist Bob Wilson has a patient with an anger problem. The guy knows he needs help, but he doesn't want anyone at the office to know he's getting co...  Read story

Cool Juice, Hot Sales

Being unable to get your bottled drinks onto supermarket shelves may point you to more original outlets. Urban Juice & Soda, in Vancouver, B.C., can't aff...  Read story

No Contest

Contrary to what you may think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees  Read story

The Next Big Thing

Animation may just add what's been missing from your Web site.  Read story

Puppy Power

Using a new tool called a widget to boost your brand.  Read story

What Can We Do to Attract Attention at Trade Shows?

When Peter van Stolk, CEO of Urban Juice & Soda, in Vancouver, B.C., attended a major beverage trade show in 1996, he knew his $2.6 million company--the m...  Read story

Brand New

Will this start-up be able to keep changing its brands to keep up with the ever-changing beverage market?  Read story

Case Studies

Laptop schleppers are a demanding lot. While Silicon Valley engineers rack their brains to create a better, faster mobile computer, their customers are mo...  Read story

Option Play, Standard Setter, The Name Game

New software is reviewed by buisness-people, and information is provided about system requirements and price.  Read story

The Survey Says...

Want to know what consumers think? Put down the comment cards and poll them online instead.  Read story

Ask Inc.

Helping employees deal with rising gas prices; developing partnerships with bigger companies; and Bob Galvin on implementing Six Sigma.  Read story

Ask Inc.

The skinny on e-zine ads; a lopsided partnership proposal.  Read story

Ask Inc.

Deciding whether to hire a PR agency; making prototypes.  Read story

Mail

I'm With Jack I read the revealing interview with Jack Stack ["Read story

Anatomy of a Start-Up Collection

In Big Plans ," an article in the January 2001 issue of Inc. magazi...  Read story

Packing Them In

Analysis of an environmentally-friendly industrial packaging & gift-wrap start-up.  Read story

Case Study: Gambling You Can Turn Around a Business

Micky McDonald ran Westbeach for 5 years. Then the company went bankrupt. Was it time to walk away--or buy it?  Read story

Innovation: The Outer Limits

The hottest, most mind-boggling high-tech products are coming not only from corporate behemoths but also from start-ups you've never heard of.  Read story

The Inc. Network

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Special Technology Report: Inside Story

These days, savvy CEOs are tapping the power of intranets and extranets to give small companies the muscle and flexibility of their big-company counterparts....  Read story

Big Love

When angels have too much faith.  Read story

And the Money Comes Rolling In

Markus Frind works one hour a day and brings in $10 million a year. How does he do it? He keeps things simple.  Read story

Update: A Shopping Site Scores

An appearance in Inc. produces a fortuitous phone call -- and a $1.3 million investment  Read story

Are Your Passwords Too Weak?

Hacked passwords can compromise company data security. Strategies for creating the best passwords  Read story

Guest Speaker: What You Need to Succeed

Treat people right and they will eat nails for you, and other lessons I learned building Staples into a giant company.  Read story

Worker, Rule Thyself

Sure, you sometimes ask your employees for input on human-resources-related issues. But would you turnthe entire department over to them? Believe it or no...  Read story

Self-Rule

Sure, sometimes you ask your employees for input on issues related to human resources. But would you turn your HR department over to them? Believe it or n...  Read story

Airports of Call

Don't leave home without your plan for staying wired in.  Read story

Today's 'Down Rounds' Bring Startups Pain

From The Wall Street Journal Online Fledgling companies are being forc...  Read story

Big Game

TO THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE AND SELL IT, TRIVIAL PURSUIT IS NOT WAY TO SPEND A PLEASANT EVENING  Read story

The Snack Food That's Packing America

A profile of a start-up that is producing an all-natural packaging material.  Read story

How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders, Flickr

The original plan had been to create an online game. But they were just about out of money. And then Butterfield had this crazy vision of building a photo-sh...  Read story

Kuolt's Complex

Sooner or later, every successful entrepreneur has to face the possibility that his company has outgrown him. Milt Kuolt did it twice, and it wasn't any easi...  Read story

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