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The Guys Who Beat General Mills

It's a common enough story: big company sues small company; small company heroically stands its ground -- and gets litigated into oblivion. Such was the ...  Read more

Facebook Valuation, Google Vanity, and Tesla on Letterman

What's Facebook worth? Facebook is negotiating with investors as it tries to raise additional capital, the New York Post Read more

One More Reason We're Glad We Don't Work For Big Companies

Inc. staffers come up with the same name for a General Mills cereal that it took a consulting firm a year to find.  Read more

Phew! For a while there it seemed as if this section's observations on the behavior of small-company stocks might never return to its appointed task of f...  Read more

Can Brad Pitt Save an Independent Studio?

A reprieve for the Weinsteins? Most movie studio heads would have been popping bubbly over the opening of Inglorious Basterds this weekend. (The Qu...  Read more

(still) Unsafe At Any Speed

Ralph Nader, the man who killed the Corvair, is now organizing buyers' collaboratives to make big-volume purchases from fuel dealers, and spotting the consum...  Read more

Buy the Boss -- or the Company?

Sure, CEOs affect how their stocks perform. Does that mean you should consider the CEO when picking your portfolio?  Read more

Things I Can't Live Without...

Animator Jeff Nodelman finds that a meal of ribs gets his creative juices flowing. He also has good taste in boats.  Read more

What I Learned at PG

Who says big companies have nothing to teach an entrepreneur? An inside look at Hound Dog Products founder Michael Miller's resume reveals the many lessons l...  Read more

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 more

Outlook 2006: Communication

Get hip to blogs.  Read more

Adman Tom Mcelligott

Advertising's hottest creative director explains why "95% of all advertising doesn't work."  Read more

Selling Software With An Estee Lauder Image

Think of your software program as a can of tomatoes. Or a new skin moisturizer. C. Rowland Hanson does, and he is trying to market software with the same ...  Read more

In the Eye of the Beholder

An up-close look at the 1990s fad, 3-D images, and how one entrepreneur stumbled into it and hit pay dirt.  Read more

Upstarts

A look at how Kelley Dunn launched her corporate concierge service, Consider It Dunn; plus, several shorter articles about the outlook of the corporate conci...  Read more

How Sls Stalk The Business Market

Savings institutions have begun competing for business loans, giving commercial banks a run for their money.  Read more

If The Corporate Image Calls For A Facelift

Three companies find that paying attention to how they look can boost sales as well as egos.  Read more

The Inc. 100 Portfolio;

In 1984, Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. (#74), of Waterbury, Vt., was about to graduate from privately owned purveyor of upscale ice cream to publicly he...  Read more

Meat And Potatoes

In an industry noted for concepts and gimmicks, Ryan's has become one of the hottest restaurant chains around, without franchising, advertising, or leveraging.  Read more

Train Wreck

Mike Wolf always dreamed of running toy-train icon Lionel. Now he's locked in a death struggle with the company he loved. A report from model railroading's t...  Read more

Selling Fun Is Serious Business

Can the founder of the company that brought you the ubiquitous Razor scooter make the phenomenon last?  Read more

When Quality Isn't Everything

Great Midwestern Ice Cream produces a private-label product for supermarkets.  Read more

What's Next: Dreaming of Big Money

All entrepreneurs have a dream. Vergil Daughtery's is to strike it rich with a novel financial instrument he calls XPOs (that's expirationless options, to you).  Read more

Little Big Man

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

Bringing Up Baby

Summary of the myths, realities and benefits of daycare in the workplace.  Read more

Big Game

TO THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE AND SELL IT, TRIVIAL PURSUIT IS NOT WAY TO SPEND A PLEASANT EVENING  Read more

The New Face of Self-Employment

At Indigo Partners, the rules are different. Unlike traditional entrepreneurs, Indigo's partners aren't scrambling to grow a company; their joy is in the wor...  Read more

The Immigrant Prince

From Ellis Island to the corner grocery to the country's largest macaroni company, "JP" Pellegrino's story is the story of American enterprise.  Read more

The Name Of The Game

The year was 1971, and Ralph Anspach, a San Francisco State University economics professor, was sitting in his Berkeley home, playing Monopoly with his se...  Read more

Identity Crisis

Tom's of Maine CEO goes through a period of disillusionment as his company becomes more professionalized.  Read more

The Revenge Of The Fortune 500

When companies as big as Campbell start thinking like entrepreneurs, small companies had better start thinking about new ways to compete.  Read more

The Once And Future King

Wherein the heir to King Arthur Flour sets off to build an empire and almost loses his kingdom.  Read more

Stings Like a Bee

Would you work for this man? Invest in his company? Consider him a role model? Read about a chief executive who boxes for pleasure and tears office doors off...  Read more

Child's Play

Start-up attempts to sell a positive-message-stuffed doll to kids.  Read more

Surviving on Chaos

A company turns itself around after its product is turned away by foreign buyers.  Read more

Buy The Numbers

John Malec and Gerry Eskin had a great idea for a new company. All they had to do was what no marketing-research firm had ever done before.  Read more