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One of the key elements of our ZapMail plan was our belief that the costs of the various components in the system would decrease year after year. This be...  Read story

Who's Counting?

Some evenings, it may seem to the agents and couriers that "half a billion items" are moving through the Federal Express system. But I am sure, for the s...  Read story

Are You An Innovator Or An Entrepreneur?

In common parlance, innovators and entrepreneurs are often confused. Both create something new in the world of business. And both tend to focus obsessiv...  Read story

The Spirit Of Independence; Workers

"In general it is impossible that manufactures should succeed in America from the high price of labour." -- Thomas Jefferson  Read story

Rediscovering Enterprise

Five years ago this month, INC. published its first issue. The magazine was 112 pages in length, and weighed in at eight and a half ounces. Its contents i...  Read story

Express Delivery

After years of careful, deliberate work in the shipping and logistics business, Accuship's Mason Kauffman pulls out all the stops in a race to rule the onlin...  Read story

Entrepreneurs Unite! The Birth Of A Party

Introduction of a new entrepreneurial political party.  Read story

That Certain Something: Influential Entrepreneurs

We put the question to six experts: Who are the five most interesting entrepreneurs of the past 30 years?  Read story

Who's Running America's Fastest-growing Companies

Most of you have probably seen them -- tests that claim to measure one's "entre-preneurial quotient." Invariably, they feature questions like: (1) A...  Read story

The Long View

Book Review: Ideas and Information in a High-Tech World (W.W. Norton Co., 1989)  Read story

My Favorite Company

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

Coming Of Age

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

More Myths

Inc. magazine's editor-in-chief discusses the evolution of E-culture, start-ups that help other new companies out of the gate, competing against a m...  Read story

FYI: Taking Responsibility

When is a CEO not a CEO?  Read story

Prophets Of The New Age

Imagine, if you can, what your world would be like without Frederick W. Smith. With the creation of Federal Express Corp., Smith did more than build himse...  Read story

Street Smarts: The Answer Man

What do you do when an employee starts a competing business? Nothing, says the Answer Man.  Read story

The Three Criteria for a Successful New Business

A veteran entrepreneur explains why you need more than a revolutionary product to have a successful start-up.  Read story

The Evolution of the Professional Entrepreneur

Characteristics of some company builders from days past and how they differ from those building businesses today.  Read story

Getting to Prime

Interview with management consultant Ichak Adizes on growing a company to attain peak corporate performance.  Read story

Who Are the Real Entrepreneurs?

A noted entrepreneur explains why many people who share that lable are not really entrepreneurs.  Read story

The Hottest Entrepreneur In America

The entrepreneur of the year grossed less than $100,000 in 1986, has no full-time employees, and plans to expand her business from Cleveland to Washington, D...  Read story

The World According To Me

What can you learn from a CEO's autobiography?  Read story

Thinking Big

Tom Peters takes on the Harvard Business Review regarding the issue of company size  Read story

Your World Will Never Be The Same

Ultimately what the man had to say as provocative as it was, may have been less telling than what he had actually done. For three hours Allan Kenn...  Read story

CEO Compensation: The ABCs of Paying Yourself

Advice from experts and CEOs that adds up to primer for execs to figure out their annual salaries.  Read story

The Inc. 500

Brief profiles of 15 Inc. 500 companies.  Read story

Managing from A to Z

Looking for a metaphor for business? As our A-to-Z compendium of similes and analogies will show, any metaphor you can think of has probably been used before.  Read story

Federal Express's Fred Smith

The man who created overnight delivery says you absolutely, positively have to innovate -- if only to survive.  Read story

The Start-Up Diaries: Plan B-Minus

Application Technologies' founder Johann Verheem is staking his future on a plan that didn't quite make the grade in business school.  Read story

Small Is the New Big

Like a lot of entrepreneurs, Jay Goltz couldn't imagine doing anything but building his company as big and as fast as possible--until it almost destroyed him.  Read story

Play Money

Founder of simulated stock market confronts decision among three different long-term growth strategies.  Read story

The New American Start-up

Profile of a new-type entrepreneur and the beginnings of her children's food company.  Read story

Patent No. 5,524,641: An Inventor's Story

That's Arthur Battaglia's patent number. He applied for it eight years ago, got it six years ago, and has been pushing his idea ever since. So far, no takers.  Read story

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