Charlotte (North Carolina)


Where the Growth Is

The best cities for growing a business and how to follow the signs to thriving markets.  Read story

Does Charter Pay? You Decide

Comparisons of three major airlines and a charter service on three trips, based on number of days required and cost.  Read story

The Best Big Cities for Starting and Growing a Business

Report examines the concentration of new businesses in states, regions, metro, and rural areas.  Read story

Cooking Up Sales

CEO invites foreign delegations to his ranch where they cook their favorite dishes.  Read story

Fourth Wave;

SOME OF THE HEAT IS GOING out of parts of the Sunbelt, as boomtowns like Houston become less attractive to companies that are on the move or expanding. Re...  Read story

Entitled

Some amusing titles entrepreneurs have given themselves.  Read story

What Bankers Like to Know

Insight from bankers about what they want to know from their clients.  Read story

New Website Singles Out Companies That Fail Health Inspections

Healthinspections.com provides centralized access to inspection reports for restaurants and other businesses.  Read story

Whistle While You Work

These three companies are among the best-known makers of whistleblower software. Prices depend on how customized a system is and the number of users, but the...  Read story

Where Are the Best Cities to Do Business?

Our comprehensive annual guide to which places are thriving -- even in an economy many consider in recession.  Read story

Index

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

Ask Inc.

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

Aspirations for '05

CEOs' new year's resolutions.  Read story

Jolly Goods

Our catalog of perfect holiday gifts features products from some of America's fascinating, privately held companies.  Read story

The Space Race

With office rents plunging, there's never been a better time to be a tenant.  Read story

Letters

Readers react to articles from the State of Small Business, June, and July 2000 issues of Inc. , including "The View from Brooklyn," by Norm Brodsky;...  Read story

Bank City, USA

Investment banker Hugh L. McColl Jr. takes us on a tour of 'Bank City, USA' (also known as Charlotte, N.C.).  Read story

Business for Sale: North Carolina-Based Photo Studio

The snapshot: this North Carolina-based photo studio has corporate customers any company should shoot for. But when you look at the big picture, does its ask...  Read story

Best Work and Life: One Life to Live

How some companies acknowledge and foster their employees' lives outside the office.  Read story

Among the Bigs, More of the Same

The standouts on this year's list are the cities that know how to attract entrepreneurs.  Read story

Bank of America Earmarks $10 Million for Entrepreneurs

The money will go to the Opportunity Finance Network, which helps small businesses in lower-income communities.  Read story

Web Sites We Love

Inc. 500 CEOs reveal some of the ways they're using the Web to locate critical information, ranging from news on venture capital and specific industries to t...  Read story

The Inner City 100

100 street-smart companies.  Read story

The Entrepreneur of the Year

Entrepreneur of the year awards and the selection process.  Read story

The Inner City 100 Profiles: 81-90

NO. 81 GimaSport Hartford, Connecticut Sportswear manufacturing Read story

Logos That Turn Heads

Are walking, talking advertisements gimmicks or goldmines?  Read story

Know the M.O.

Cold calls are incredibly intrusive because they aren't sensitive to your customer's schedule," says Dave Rogers, president of Information Control System ...  Read story

Best Cities: The Lists

Here's Inc. magazine's 2000 list of the best metro areas, big and small, in which to start and grow your business.  Read story

Out of Control

Travis Parsons lost his CEO title when he sold to a rival. Now, he's trying to stay on --- and stay relevant.  Read story

Homes, Sweet Homes

Aluminum-siding salespeople take note -- the Promised Land may be in Albuquerque. That's where the number of housing starts is growing fastest, acco...  Read story

The Next Great Retail Idea: PR?

A North Carolina entrepreneur sets his sights on creating the H&R Block of public relations.  Read story

The Time-honored ESOP

ESOP tax advantages and cost saving strategies.  Read story

Bootstrapping Tactics: A Bootstrapper's Primer

Successful entrepreneurs of every stripe offer readers tips and hints on a wide range of topics.  Read story

Ask Inc.

Managing a micromanager, the downside of confidentiality agreements, and starting an online marketing campaign.  Read story

Can Your Bank Do This?

A number of entrepreneurs define for Inc. what makes an exceptional small-business commercial bank.  Read story

The Next Big Thing

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

The Most Entrepreneurial Cities in America

Inc.'s 1990 ranking of metropolitan regions by job growth, business starts, and proportion of high-growth companies.  Read story

Private Connections

Want an alternative to the Web? Many company are reaching customers by creating private on-line services.  Read story

Upstarts: Community Banks Reborn

In an age of banking megamergers, many start-up community banks, like Chattahoochee National in Alpharetta, Ga., hope to grab market share through specialize...  Read story