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Instant Start-Up

When Data General cut-back their pet project, two former employees took their work formed HyperDesk Corp.  Read more

Anyone who doubts that the rally to record highs in the first quarter of 1985 was speculative in nature has only to check the characteristics of the leadi...  Read more

Busting The Trustbusters

Independent businesspeople voted in droves for Ronald Reagan. Now Reagan proposes that fewer businesspeople be independent.  Read more

Read This Box, Save $5,000,000

The seeds of every company's demise are contained in its business plan, says Fred Adler. The trick is finding them.  Read more

Office Technology;

The laptop computer has never lived up to its potential as a tool for traveling executives, thanks mainly to its unlighted liquid-crystal display (LCD) sc...  Read more

Gearing Up

A start-up saves money and time by obtaining equipment through a venture leasing deal.  Read more

How To Avoid The Pitfalls Of Computer Contracts

If your hardware or software package doesn't live up to expectations, you may have a legal problem.  Read more

The Soul Of A New Entrepreneur

When Robert Downs tries to pry money out of a venture capitalist, he doesn't perform the usual song and dance. Instead, he wows them with the unusual fac...  Read more

On the first anniversary of 1982's spectacular market launch, stocks were on their way down. But the nature of any market -- bull or bear -- is to correct...  Read more

What Business Would You Start?

Nearly 50 business luminaries, ranging from H. Ross Perot to Ed McMahon, are asked what businesses to start.  Read more

In Search Of The Above Average

Tom Peters got us all hot for excellence. But when we strive to achieve it, a new book argues, we're prone to certain pitfalls.  Read more

Supercomputer Surge

Start-up focuses on the supercomputer market.  Read more

The Business Owner's Bookshelf

30 books you should read and put to use  Read more

The Buyout Beat Goes On

When we last checked in with Leonard Shaykin, he was the head of Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd.'s leveraged buyout (LBO) unit and an enthusiastic proponent...  Read more

Network: August 1990

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

The Tie That Binds

Microcomputer to mainframe and micro to mini communications are hot topics today -- with good reason. For many growing companies, these links could provide a...  Read more

The Hottest Entrepreneur In America Is The "smart Team" At Compaq Computer

Companies like Compaq are emerging from the high-tech shakeout stronger than ever. Their secret: avoiding the one-man shown. Is there a lesson here for the r...  Read more

The Third Wave

U.S. entrepreneurs are filling new niches in the semiconductor industry.  Read more

The Equity Partnership As A Seed For Start-ups

Since the limited partners get the early losses, they demand less equity from founders at the time of tax-free conversion.  Read more

Where Really Bad Ideas Come From

Before starting the companies that made the 1998 Inc. 500, many CEOs pursued dubious business concepts that ultimately bombed. Here are the lessons ...  Read more

Eight Problems A Computer Can't Solve

Computers are pretty smart, but like everyone else, they have their limitations.  Read more

A Worm In Apple?

While researching his new book on Apple Computer Inc., author Michael Moritz found the company's co-founder, Steven Jobs, to be the strong, silent type --...  Read more

Peaks And Valleys

Venture capitalist Don Valentine scaled the entrepreneurial heights as a key investor in Apple Computer, Altos Computer Systems, and Tandem. Now, amidst unce...  Read more

Every Employee An Entrepreneur

It seems an unusual soruce for the most provocative information about small and medium-size companies to emerge in the 1980s: McKinsey & Co., one of t...  Read more

The Leveraged Buyout Boom

It was too perfect a symbol, too convenient a metaphor to slip into the first paragraph of a story about leveraged buyouts, but there it was, sitting on t...  Read more

Private Lives

Microcomputers, welding equipment, wheelcharis, prefabricated churches, and five other businesses earned their companies a spot on this year's INC. 500.  Read more

Tandem Has A Fail-safe Plan For Growth

If Jim Treybig has his way, his computer company will get bigger without losing its enterpreneurial style.  Read more

The Enemy Within

Employees run their own businesses and compete against each other at Spectrum Associates.  Read more

Friday The 13th

The call came from IBM offering Martin Alpert a deal that could give his company a lock on its market. But he wasn't celebrating.  Read more