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Business for Sale: A Minnesota Bowling Alley

This 24-lane bowling center in Duluth, Minnesota, is priced at $2.4 million  Read story

Economic Revival;

FOR DULUTH, MINN., NOTHING seemed to work. With the timber and mining industries reeling, unemployment soared as high as 50% in parts of the region ...  Read story

Little Big Man

When Pizza King Jeno Paulucci sets out to do "good works," it can be hard to tell philanthropy from business.  Read story

Who's Managing Whom?

What the experts are telling your workers about you.  Read story

Ask Inc.

Thwarting office theft, and making the most of revolving credit lines.  Read story

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Frequent layoffs made work in the Hibbing, Minn., iron mines too stop-and-go for Carl Eric Wickman, a Swedish immigrant. So he became the local dealer for...  Read story

The Privacy Time Bomb

You're sitting on a privacy time bomb. Here's how to defuse it.  Read story

Swap Shop

Export trading companies, which act as international distributors, can offer a wealth of experience in negotiating the labyrinths of overseas transportati...  Read story

International: Calling the Shots with Export Traders

A CEO explains how he used an export trader to take his product international and the deal that was struck.  Read story

Do S Corporations Still Make Sense?

S corporations provide some important advantages, but new tax rates cause some problems.  Read story

Behind the Scenes: Companies at the Heart of Everyday Life

Nashville International Airport 12.07.07, 1:45 p.m.  Read story

Why Charities Don't Want Your Money

Why the Salvation Army doesn't want your nickel.  Read story

As Oil Hits New High, Businesses Continue to Struggle

Increased fuel costs have forced companies to raise their own prices and provide new commuting options for employees.  Read story

The Q Factor

These days, a city's growth has less to do with lower costs than with the quality of its people and lifestyle  Read story

Network: August 1991

Network new queries.  Read story

Solving Expense Reporting Woes

Small companies turn to the Web to find relief in managing expense reports.  Read story

The Master Chef

Jeno Paulucci counts more than 70 companies to his credit, including several major frozen-food brands. At 89, he's getting ready to launch another new ventur...  Read story

What's Your Line?

Here are some tips on what to look for in an Internet service provider and why.  Read story

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The Anticapitalist CEO and Her Seditious Shirt The Planned Parenthood "I had an abortion" T-shirt Ani DiFranco wears in the lead photo for the s...  Read story

Where Is Your Business On the Insistence Scale?

Customers always had, and always will have, choices. Dissatisfaction with goods and services results in spending migration, compounded with ease of access to...  Read story

Thriving On Adversity

Sometimes entrepreneurship does best when the local economy appears to have taken a turn for the worse  Read story

Companies Brace for Big Holiday Sales

More than 60 percent of small-business owners expect a boost in December.  Read story

Hot Spots

INC.'s annual ranking of America's cities  Read story

Marketing: Living Up and Down the Dial

As more companies pump up the volume of their radio advertising, here are 10 tips for making the most of your airtime.  Read story

The Well-Balanced Life: Got Game?

When life makes you want to call a time-out, perhaps it's time to call in a coach.  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

Tech Geeks? Check. Worker Bees? Sure.

Companies that fill your every staffing need.  Read story

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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 story

Case Study: How to Reinvent a Failing Start-up

Flocabulary burned through $50,000—and had nearly nothing to show for it. Was it time to throw in the towel?  Read story

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 story

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year.  Read story

My Favorite Company

Inc. writers and editors write about their favorite companies.  Read story

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 story

Ideas For Sale

Is the world ready for an eBay of ideas?  Read story

The Ride of His Life

Robert Klick's fifth business wowed Oprah, bowled over Kelly Ripa, and put him cheek by jowl with Russell Crowe. Too bad this amazing celebrity run had to en...  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

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 story

Hot Spots

Summary of metropolitan economies for 1989; the most growth was seen in the 'edge cities', where cattle once grazed.  Read story

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