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INC.'s second report on the climate for small business in the tes begins on page 95. Of all the stories we publish each year, there is no doubt that this ...  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the July 2001 issue of Inc. magazine.  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the January 1999 issue.  Read story

Harnessing Student Power

With only $125 and unpaid help from college students, Ron Vos was able to grow his youth-oriented marketing service into a $1 million venture.  Read story

Fighting the War on Postage

Catalog houses suggest alternative marketing tactics to offset the high cost of mailing.  Read story

Tips for Board Benchmarking

Benchmarking is making its way out of corporate TQM programs and into the boardroom where it can help you develop your own best practices in corporate gov...  Read story

Internet Superstart Enlists Locals to Battle Giants

An overview of a Web business that is banking on networking with local businesses to overcome giant competition.  Read story

Resources

A guide to more information on subjects covered in the Inc. magazine special issue: The State of Small Business 1997.  Read story

Steal This Strategy

A good idea is a good idea -- even if it comes from someone else.  Read story

Why Bargain Prices Lure Cable Advertisers

Businesses find cable television a successful, low-cost way to reach key prospects.  Read story

The Best 4 Small-Business Neighborhoods in America

Here's what entrepreneurs are looking for when selecting a community for start-ups, and what they're finding.  Read story

Networking on America Online

How one company owner uses an on-line service to find sales leads and network with other entrepreneurs.  Read story

Changing With the Times

The sales compensation strategy Magnet Street started with no longer fit its growing company. Here's how it created one that not only made its team happy, bu...  Read story

Upstarts: Year 2000

The founder of Y2K News magazine explains why his millennium bug publication will survive past 1999. Plus, several shorter articles about how companies are t...  Read story

Upstarts: Virtual Campuses

Here's how start-up University Access partnered with universities and PBS to sell long-distance learning programs. Plus: why corporations are likely customer...  Read story

Build Your Own

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, Warren W. Webb, president of The Computation Co. of San Diego, Calif., is wearing a leather tool belt and poking his finger i...  Read story

Payton's Place

The most brilliant restaurateur in London slathers a bit of American on every dish. The English eat it up.  Read story

A Quantified Success

Profile of a successful start-up in the bicycle industry.  Read story

Did Seth Go to the Dark Side?

Another natural foods guy sells out. Seth Goldman, founder of Honest Tea, says his deal with Coke is all part of staying true to his mission.  Read story

Sex and the Strip Mall

An entrepreneur bets that porn is ready to go mass retail.  Read story

The Best Newsletters in America

Using newsletters to expand your business, introduce new products, encourage repeat business.  Read story

Obit: Restaurateurs Lose Grip on Star's Coattails

What better celebrity to endorse your restaurant than Michael Jordan? But when the owners' friendship with their celebrity patron deteriorated, it was only a...  Read story

Almanac

A statistical guide to the metro areas and states that are home to the most start-ups per capita, the top 20 types of new ventures, and the most popular home...  Read story

Entrepreneur of the Year: Ping Fu

She came to this country by way of a Chinese prison, but that's the past, and the future holds a tantalizing promise of smarter, cheaper manufacturing and be...  Read story

Hot Zones

A look at the best cities in America for starting and growing a business. Plus: CEOs discuss their reasons for locating their business where they did.  Read story

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#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read story

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