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Parallel Universe

What's an expanding city to do when it runs out of room? Take it online.  Read more

Parallel Universe

What's an expanding city to do when it runs out of room? Take it online.  Read more

Create a Culture of Change

The years ahead promise even faster and more fundamental change forfamily firms. Industry consolidation, shrinking strategic life cycles,e-commerce, globa...  Read more

Executive Education: Inc. Shops the Top Marketing Programs

A list of five sales-and-marketing "executive ed" programs, with information such as tuition, length and phone numbers.  Read more

Financing: A New Twist

A CEO explains terms that she has with her suppliers that put a new twist on supplier financing.  Read more

The Wages Of Fear

With concrete barriers going up at the White House, fear of political terrorism has spread throughout the land, prompting business executives to give more...  Read more

E-Town, USA

Entrepreneurs all over the country are taking matters into their own hands and transforming their communities into wired cities. Here's how you can compete f...  Read more

E-Town, USA

Entrepreneurs all over the country are taking matters into their own hands and transforming their communities into wired cities. Here's how you can compete f...  Read more

Stuck? Pass the Play-Doh

If you need to unlock employee creativity, try taking them to a playful workspace.  Read more

Marketing: Contests for Customers

A quick look at how a new PR firm used a contest to gain recognition for the agency and local entrepreneurs.  Read more

Tell-All Books Win All Bankers

Most business owners insist that bankers don't understand the financial realities of growing acompany. Bankers retort that business owners are out of touc...  Read more

Ask Inc.

Q As a convicted felon, will I find it difficult to take out loans and start a business? When I get out of jail, I'd li...  Read more

Insurance Companies Move into Smaller Deals

Mid-sized companies securing loans from insurance companies.  Read more

Calculating Startup Costs; Obama's Small-Biz PItch

How to calculate startup costs. The Wall Street Journal takes a page (literal...  Read more

Recruiting the Newly Retired

Jo Anne Schiller hired recently-retired sales reps, who already know the territory and can work on commission alone.  Read more

Banking: The Microloan Alternative

A small-business owner explains how she received a microloan and what it took to secure it.  Read more

Communicating with Your Banker

Sharing information with your banker as a relationship strengthening strategy.  Read more

Change Marketing Plans To Survive the Squeeze

Sales and marketing is more art than science, and it's a particularly difficult art in this tough economy. For most of the 1990s, many products and...  Read more

Rescue at cc:

Bruce Holmes had left his company for dead. Then a band of fanatical customers rushed to the Internet to save its life.  Read more

Loading The Bases

With the explosion of the database industry, information on practically anything is only a phone call away.  Read more

The Rebranding Game

If at first you pick the wrong name, you can always try, try again.  Read more

Buh-Bye, Bell?

Beema, Inc., a multimedia production house, found that it could save money by using Internet telephony rather than the traditional telecoms. But will it work...  Read more

Buh-Bye, Bell?

Beema, Inc., a multimedia production house, found that it could save money by using Internet telephony rather than the traditional telecoms. But will it work...  Read more

Special Report: Sales-What Works Now, Part II

Experts take on questions relating to recruiting salespeople, the value of independent reps, geographic sales territories, and sales compensation.  Read more

Case Study: Could Organic Valley Thrive Without Wal-Mart?

Organic Valley couldn't sell enough milk to Wal-Mart. And that was the problem.  Read more

Mail: June 2002

Readers react to articles from recent issues of Inc magazine. Plus, an update on Tom Danner, savior of software maker Haven Corp.  Read more

A Little Enlightened Self-Interest

Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard and Winning Workplaces's Ken Lehman talk about values, ethics, and why companies that treat employees well have a business advantage.  Read more

Where the Money Is

Venture capitalists are awash with cash. Are start-ups getting more of it? Plus: How three untrendy companies have managed to get VC investments.  Read more

Too Cool For School?

After years of loathing M.B.A. programs, here's why today's savvy entrepreneurs are now seeking these degrees.  Read more

Political Animals

Whether they raise cash in battleground states or bring a manager's touch to a campaign, these company builders have breached the inner circle of U.S. politics.  Read more

Resources

A guide to finding more information on various topics featured in the Oct. 1996 issue of Inc. magazine.  Read more

The Perfect Internet Business

Garden.com is one of the hottest Internet companies around, but what's so special about it is how basic it is. Here's what you can learn from the secrets of ...  Read more

Inside an Internet Incubator

Incubators can be lifesavers for fledgling dot-coms, but Veritas Medicine may be regretting its decision to join one.  Read more

Inside an Internet Incubator

Incubators can be lifesavers for fledgling dot-coms, but Veritas Medicine may be regretting its decision to join one.  Read more

Out of the Blue

Several former IBM employees are featured in an attempt to see why past Big Blue employees often become entrepreneurs.  Read more