David Birch


Suburbs Scene Of More Small Firm Start-ups

Jul 1, 1981

"It's been a common notion that central cities serve as incubators for new, small companies," says David Birch, author of a new study on small business st...  Read story

Why Things Aren't As Bad As They Seem

Sep 1, 1981

Researcher David Birch says the United States is better at providing services than making products. That adds up to a rosy future.  Read story

Does Technology Really Create Jobs?

By Tom Richman |  Aug 1, 1984

David Birch, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher who first measured the role of small companies in creating jobs, recently turned his com...  Read story

David Birch: Practice What You Teach

By J.H. |  Oct 1, 1984

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 story

Matters Of Fact

Apr 1, 1985

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

Fast Lane

By Kenneth B. Lucas |  Jun 1, 1987

David L. Birch's "The Q Factor" ("Metro Report," April) ignores the importance of ground transportation to economic growth. Birch mistakenly claims that T...  Read story

Quote Of The Month

By Reported by Sara Baer-Sinnott |  Jun 1, 1988

"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 story

Managing in the New Economy

By Michael S. Hopkins |  Apr 1, 1990

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

The New Business News

By George Gendron |  Oct 1, 1991

New information and interpretation of start-up demographics.  Read story

Women's Clout

By George Gendron |  Nov 1, 1991

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

The Maple-Leaf Rag

By George Gendron |  Feb 1, 1992

Book recommendation: 'The State of Small Business and Entrepreneurship in Atlantic Canada'.  Read story

Help Wanted

By Michael S. Hopkins |  May 15, 1997

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

The Gazelle Theory

By John Case |  May 15, 2001

Are some small companies more equal than others?  Read story

What America Needs Is A Few Good Failures

By Tom Richman |  Sep 1, 1983

Four years ago, David Birch showed that small companies create most of the country's jobs. Now he has found that failure is just as important as success in k...  Read story

The Disciples of David Birch

By John Case |  Jan 1, 1989

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

The Economic Microscope

By John Case |  Nov 1, 1989

Local economies should be closely studied in order to discern true economic trends.  Read story

Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places

By John Case |  Mar 1, 1994

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

The Age of the Gazelle

By John Case |  May 15, 1996

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

Seeing Red

By Tom Richman |  May 1, 1986

Why one out of every three companies on the INC. 100 is losing money.  Read story

Live Fast, Die Young

By DAVID L. BIRCH |  Aug 1, 1988

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

The State of Small Business 1997

By Michael S. Hopkins |  May 15, 1997

One of Inc.'s executive editors presents some thoughts and comments about the current state of small business.  Read story

Hot Zones

By Emily Barker |  Dec 1, 1999

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

SMALL BUSINESS 2001: Where We Are Now

By John Case |  May 15, 2001

Starting your own business is never easy. But it was once a whole lot harder.  Read story

Registry: Who's Who in Small-Business Research

By Karen E. Carney |  May 15, 1995

Sixteen thumbnail sketchs of the country's leading small-business economists, complete with e-mail addresses.  Read story

Cloudy, With a Chance of Monsoons

By Various Inc Staff |  Dec 1, 2001

Recession, downturn - whatever you call it, the recent economic slowdown may be one of the most confusing in recent memory. Results of a recent Inc 500 surve...  Read story

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By Contributors: Joshua Hyatt |  Nov 1, 1987

Between hard covers. Two books by INC. columnists have been published this fall: David L. Birch's Job Creation in America: How Our Smallest Companies Put...  Read story

The Small-business Mayor

By Hal Plotkin |  Jul 1, 1988

Art Agnos wasn't given much chance when he declared his candidacy for mayor of San Francisco in March 1987. A former social worker turned state assemblym...  Read story

And Now For Some Really Bad News...

By George Gendron |  Nov 1, 1992

The news on small business, the backbone of the U.S. economy, is grimmer than ever.  Read story

Wet Paint

By George Gendron |  Apr 1, 1985

Navigating the corridors of a magazine that has grown as rapidly as INC. can be treacherous business. There is a bathroom today where you could have swor...  Read story

Resources

By Inc Staff |  May 15, 1997

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

Inc. 500

By Leigh Buchanan |  Sep 1, 2008

Half-a-thousand reminders that business ingenuity and economic leadership still start with entrepreneurs.  Read story

The Entrepreneurial Numbers Game

By JAY FINEGAN |  May 1, 1986

Q: How many researchers does it take to calculate the number of new businesses in the United States? A: It doesn't matter.  Read story

How to Get Rich in America

By Edward O. Welles |  Jan 1, 1993

Climb the ladder or start your own company: which is the surest path to financial security for you and your family?  Read story

Second Thoughts on Growth

By Elizabeth Conlin |  Mar 1, 1991

Analysis of a new generation of business owners, and growing a company in light of the last decade.  Read story

In Praise of Growth

By John Case |  Dec 1, 1988

Introduction to the Inc. 500 praising the endurance necessary to maintain growth.  Read story

The Wonderland Economy

By John Case |  May 15, 1995

A close-up look at the vital role small business plays in America's economy that debunks many myths about this sector.  Read story

Creators of the New Economy

By Tom Richman |  May 15, 1997

A look at why, in the new economy, amateur entrepreneurship is over, and how the professionals are now in control.  Read story

Profile of a Bootstrapper

By Joshua Hyatt |  Aug 1, 1997

Bootstrappers respond to an Inc. poll and offer insights into what they've learned from their start-ups.  Read story

After The Crash

By DAVID L. BIRCH |  Dec 1, 1988

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

John Galt Boulevard, Omaha

By Mike Hofman |  Oct 15, 1997

Fast-growth companies are everywhere, including the unlikely city of Omaha.  Read story