Charlotte

Are You Road Warrior Material?

Suzanne LaFata discovers some commonalities between her road warrior friends and finds that having a certain set of qualities makes life on the road much eas...  Read more

Business for Sale: North Carolina Child-Care Center

An overview of a child-care center offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and cons of t...  Read more

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 more

Regus Opens New Business Centers

Office, workstations and conference spaces are now available in Charlotte and Boston.  Read more

Will We Survive Being Sexless?

Have you noticed that the promiscuity of the media farewells to "Sex and the City" exceed the libidinous energy of the show itself? The show's six year ru...  Read more

Dream Weavers

These entrepreneurs built thriving companies. Better yet, they are free to live out their very own fantasies  Read more

INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS: SEPTEMBER 1987 Offering First Size after- O-T-C ($ ...  Read more

Relocating Washington

Imagine the Interior Department out West, or Labor in Detroit.  Read more

A Startup To Help Startups and the Stork Visits Twitter

The dark side of micro-lending . The Wall Street Journal has a long, fascinating story on a new credit bubble in India. On the surface it sounds fam...  Read more

Edge Cities

List of the 10 U.S. cities with the greatest concentration of small companies.  Read more

iPhones Not Sexy in the City

Apple got a big dis' from The Big Apple. I had to laugh over the weekend when I finally got a chance to see "Sex and The City". Without spoiling ...  Read more

Case Study: Outsourcing Your Company's Help Desk

The Problem: Angry customers. Language issues. Phone static. Maybe outsourcing the help desk wasn't such a great idea after all.  Read more

Still the Best Places to Do Business

A public-policy expert explains why some big cities are the best place for successful entrepreneurial commerce.  Read more

Let Us Now Pray ... for Accu-Fab

Three years ago Gregg Page and Dennis Zullig decided that spreading the glory of God -- not making money -- would be their company's top priority. They had n...  Read more

Don’t Play Referee

Do you ever get tired of playing "referee" in you...  Read more

Case Study

The Problem: Addie Swartz wants to give girls an alternative to Britney. But how do you sell wholesomeness to tweens?  Read more

The Truth about Mentoring

Editor's note: Since this story was written in 1998, Inc. Online has become inc.com. What does it take to make the perfect mentoring match...  Read more

Top 25 Cities for Doing Business in America

If you're looking for cities large, medium, and small where job growth is robust and economies are strong, head to the ones on this year's Top Cities list. F...  Read more

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 more

Burning Down the House

A former car dealer launches an on-line start-up that is reshaping the industry.  Read more

How to Start an Airline of Your Own

In an industry in which 117 airlines have filed bankruptcy since 1979, Joseph Lorenzo thinks he can make Reno Air work.  Read more