The World's Oldest Start-Up
An anatomy of start-up Ritz Foods International, a producer of snack chips made from the yuca plant. Includes an overview of the snack food industry and setb... Read story
Frito-Lay Inc.
Who's Eating Whom?
Smartfoods Inc. is bought by Frito-Lay, which plans to market the company's cheese popcorn nationally. Read story
Green 2.0
Think the green movement was just a fad? From tire recycling to biodegradable packing peanuts, these entrepreneurs have turned sustainability into sustainabl... Read story
The Best Ads $2.6 Million Can Buy?
Forget Madison Avenue. Super Bowl advertisers are drawing their inspiration from YouTube this year. Read story
The Snack Food That's Eating America
A portrait of the marketing strategy, research, and development of Smartfood popcorn. Read story
Grist: Wanted: Something New Under the Sun
If we measured consumer excitement about new products and used it as a bona fide economic indicator, we'd all be pretty worried. That's because there's too l... Read story
Hard-Time Start-Ups
Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers a list of some of today's best-known companies that started in the Great Depression. Read story
Equity on Demand
One CEO gives away equity to foster brand loyalty. Read story
Chips Ahoy
Americans spend an estimated $2.5 billion a year on cookies, mostly on packaged supermarket varieties. About 10 years ago, Wally "Famous" Amos opened a s... Read story
Picking a Prime Partner
Entrepreneur teamed up with 'legend' of the cardboard industry to launch his new product, Box Boy. Read story
Yes, You Still Can Go Public
London investors are hungry for U. S. IPOs. Here's what they're buying. Read story
Resources
A guide to more information discussed in articles appearing in the November issue of Inc. magazine. Read story
Cowboy Capitalist
Profile of entrepreneur Ross Perot, how he created EDS, and why he would create a start-up which is threatened by EDS. Read story
Futurist Laurel Cutler
A decade ago she warned her clients of consumers who would shop K mart in the morning, Saks in the afternoon, and define their very being by their choice of ... Read story
Ordinary Business
What would happen, my colleague John Case wondered aloud, if you took the INC. 100 list and stripped off all the obvious hyper-growth companies? Say you clea... Read story
Three Companies In Search Of An Author
Tom Peters' book on excellence has managers and employees alike changing the way they do business. Read story
Stanley Mason Is Growing Oil On Trees
Entrepreneurs like Mason are solving our "insolvable" problems. Read story
Stanley Mason Is Growing Oil On Trees
Entrepreneurs like Mason are solving our "insolvable" problems. Read story
Rolling In Dough
As Tombstone Pizza expanded, its founders discovered that the key to future success was hidden in the company's own past. Read story
Inside-Out Marketing
Mogens Smed, CEO of Smed International Inc., presents his company's chaotic, overcrowded headquarters to customers as a working showroom of the office furnit... Read story
To Market, To Market
Procter Gamble veteran James McManus has an uncanny ability to analyze consumer behavior and parlay his findings into a variety of sucessful vent... Read story
Cookie Monsters
All-natural cookie manufacturer successfully competes with the cookie classics. Read story
Tortilla Flap
Cofounder jeopardized his control of his 3-year-old company when he fired his partner. Read story
Take Two Company Founders. Add 10 Years of 80-Hour Workweeks. Fold in a Formidable Outside Ceo. Mix Carefully. Very Carefully.
How the food company Two Chefs on a Roll grew up, and really started growing. Read story
Doubting Thomas
Tom Peters discusses his experiences in the world of business and the nature of entrepreneurship. Read story
The Entrepreneur of the Year Register
Profiles of recognition-worthy entrepreneurs from the 1993 Entrepreneur of the Year contest. Read story
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