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What The Rankings Mean

This year's rankings measure how a state is actually doing in stimulating entrepreneurial activity and economic expansion. A state's position on the list...  Read more

Women's Clout

U.S. Census fails to count women-owned corporations.  Read more

Quote Of The Month

"Need furniture cheap? Just watch VC-backed start-ups -- they've always got the poshest stuff -- and wait for the liquidator. We get our best equipment ...  Read more

Cities that Have Soared or Sunk as a Place to Start a Business

A look at the big and small cities that have shown the greatest rise or fall on Inc. 's list of the best cities in which to start a business, from 19...  Read more

Managing in the New Economy

An economist who studies America's business environment talks to the editors about management and planning.  Read more

Letters

Readers respond to recent Inc. articles, including the "South Shall Ride Again," "What Do Teens Really Want?" and "The ABCs of Profit".  Read more

David Birch: Practice What You Teach

When David Birch says that "start-up is a terrible phase," he sounds more like a fledgling entrepreneur than a respected Massachusetts Institute of Techno...  Read more

The Age of the Gazelle

A look at some data that shows most of today's new jobs come from a relative handful of fast-growing companies.  Read more

Help Wanted

An Inc. executive editor speaks with noted economist David Birch about how growth companies really behave.  Read more

Live Fast, Die Young

Statistics show that successful entrepreneurship requires tenacity and patience.  Read more

Here Comes The Neighborhood

A listing of nine high-growth neighborhoods in and around older, slower-growth cities.  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

Matters Of Fact

In 1979, David Birch shattered the prevailing wisdom about job creation. Now he's at it again.  Read more

Best Cities: The Location Advantage

Is it time to make your move? These CEOs bet that their companies would thrive in a new location.  Read more

After The Crash

The strength of hidden aggressive smaller companies stimulates the economy when it falters.  Read more

Measuring Innovation

To assess innovation statistically company by company across the entire economy, we have used the Growth Index -- a tool created at Cognetics Inc. to meas...  Read more

Resources

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

How The Cities Were Ranked

Our annual report on metropolitan areas is based on three objective factors: job generation, rate of significant new business start-ups, and the percentag...  Read more

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 more

That Old School Tie

Report shows small companies and companies with university affiliations have better rates of return on R D dollars.  Read more

What The Rankings Mean

In years past, INC.'s annual Report on the States ranked the business climates of the 50 states through a formula that took into account roughly a dozen v...  Read more

Report on the States

Governor's innovations on economic development may be adopted nationally (rankings and statistics included).  Read more

Late Bloomers

Statistics show that high growth is prevelant in older, more established companies.  Read more

The Big Business Of Women-Owned Companies

Some surprising statistics about women-owned businesses.  Read more

Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places

Government should foster innovation and entrepreneurship instead of focusing on companies' sizes.  Read more

Prematurely Gray?

Statistics show that the high-tech industry has a low failure rate, despite reputation.  Read more

Small Talk

Various entrepreneurs share their thoughts on the changing role of small businesses in the U.S.  Read more

Report on the States 1989

A ranking of states in terms of new jobs, new companies, and the climate for growth.  Read more

Place Matters

A look at some data showing how the economies of various geographical regions of the U.S. are performing.  Read more

The New-Economy Almanac

A statistical and informational snapshot of today's businesses and how they are operating in the new economy.  Read more

How to Survive Without a Job

Guide to creating your own workplace in the '90s. Focus on entrepreneurs the changing small business landscape.  Read more

The Most Entrepreneurial Place on Earth

East Cambridge, MA is booming, sparked by fast-growing local computer software and biotech industries.  Read more

I Love L.A.

Why Los Angeles is quickly replacing New York City as the economic capital of America in 1989.  Read more

Letters

Readers respond to recent Inc. articles, including the December 2000 column by Andrew Raskin, who stepped down as CEO of his San Francisco start-up,...  Read more

The Great American Revival

While the pundits debate how to restore U.S. industrial competitiveness, thousands of small, flexible, market-driven manufacturers are already doing it  Read more

The Truth About Start-Ups

Eight traits common to fast-growth start-ups.  Read more

HOW THE CITIES WERE RANKED Like our annual states report, this ranking of metropolitan areas is based on three factors: job generation, rate of significan...  Read more

Miracle, Schmiracle

Michael Dukakis is blowing a golden opportunity to talk about the real reasons for Massachusetts's booming economy  Read more

The Disciples of David Birch

A new generation of researchers discover the effect of small business on the economy.  Read more

Coming Of Age

Entrepreneurs and business experts discuss how the 80s changed the way they think about business.  Read more