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Hartford Launches XactPAY

The application helps monitor cash flow issues associated with workers compensation.  Read more

The Hartford Addresses Small Business

A new retirement plan is designed for business owners with less than 10 employees.  Read more

Hartford Targets Small Businesses

Hartford Financial Services Group (NYSE:HIG)  will begin selling life and retirement insurance to small-business customers that already have commerci...  Read more

Hot Spots;

What are the fastest-growing retail markets around? New York? Houston? Phoenix? Surprise -- none of them even makes the top 10. The hottest retail mar...  Read more

Mayoral Momentum

A primary tenet of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City's (ICIC) philosophy is that the private sector must play a major role in the revitalization...  Read more

Playing Catch-Up

A 50-year-old sole proprietor with an annual income of $300,000 could sock away $178,470 a year, tax-deferred, by investing in both a 401(k) plan and a pensi...  Read more

A Golden Alternative

Using alternative airports is a form of creative ticketing that airlines don't really object to, but they will not offer alternative airport options when ...  Read more

(Borrowed) Dress for Success

New business leases designer clothes to professional women.  Read more

Competing Interests

Several Inner City 100 CEOs explain why they don't fear the influx of new rivals. Close ties to customers, adaptability, and local networking prove powerful ...  Read more

Look to Low-Cost and Niche Airlines for Low Fares

One of the best ways to get the lowest fares is to know where low-cost and niche airlines fly. These carriers allow you to create your own system of airfa...  Read more

Networking Without Wires

Networked computers can be connected by infrared light.  Read more

Feeling The Heat

A new lighting sensor saves energy and even bestows Promethean powers. Called Infracon, it detects body heat and turns lights on when someone enters the r...  Read more

How to Budget for Business Insurance

Having business insurance is vital, but how much coverage do you really need? This guide will help you decide and plan for the cost.  Read more

Owning The Ponies

Last year, two big Wall Street brokerage houses -- Drexel Burnham Lambert; and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette -- put together an unusual partnership. Be...  Read more

The Hall of Fame

For most companies, landing on the Inc 500 list once is accomplishment enough. But an amazing few have made the list five times or more.  Read more

Hotline

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Finance Man

THE FINANCIAL SKILLS THAT A CEO LEARNS ON THE JOB CAN BE USEFUL WHEN AN INVESTMENT DEAL IS ON THE TABLE.  Read more

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Thanksgiving dinner or meeting of the board? When your family members are investors in your business, the lines get blurry.  Read more

As Good As New

Remanufacturing, although an oftignored production strategy, has made some headway in a number of manufacturing arenas. A survey by Robert T. Lund, a res...  Read more

Doctor, Doctor. Give Me the News

An advance in doctor-patient communication.  Read more

Doctor, Doctor. Give Me the News

An advance in doctor-patient communication.  Read more

Hidden Poisons;

It was the ultimate nightmare for any company buying a piece of land. After purchasing the property for $48,000, a lubricating-oil company started o...  Read more

Top Small Business Cities and a Twitter Challenger

The 50 best places to launch a new small business. CNNMoney.com ranks Read more

Hot Tip: Let Your Sales Team Sell

By changing the office duties of their sales team, Giftcorp has increased sales by 30%.  Read more

Risky Business

With the right kind of self-insurance, you can trim as much as 20% off your health insurance bills.  Read more

Avoiding Employee Lawsuits

Protection strategies against hiring and firing lawsuits.  Read more

Top 25 Cities for Doing Business in America

If you're looking for cities large, medium, and small where job growth is robust and economies are strong, head to the ones on this year's Top Cities list. F...  Read more

A New Twist On An Old Cause

As we have noted before, hiring and managing young workers can be a frustrating experience for employer and employee alike (see INC., "The Trouble with Ki...  Read more

In a Former Life: Mitch Kapor

MITCH KAPOR, 49 Present life: Currently a partner at Accel Partners, a prominent venture-capital firm in Palo Alt...  Read more

Why 80 Is the New 30

Forget shuffleboard and croquet. With Americans living longer, a growing number of people are embarking on entrepreneurial second careers -- well into their ...  Read more

Trials By Hire

Business owners typically miscalculate their needs in trying to find the right chief financial officer.  Read more

These Old Houses

Rego Reality, #9 on the 2001 Inner City 100, brings dilapidated buildings back to life -- and livelihood.  Read more

SMALL COMPANY INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS: JUNE 1987 Offering First after- O-T-C Size Pric...  Read more

Terms Of Endearment

By selling peace of mind to Fortune 500, Selecterm has been able to survive a series of shakeouts in the volatile terminal market.  Read more

Reader Mail: June 2011

Readers respond to our cover story about Etsy founder Rob Kalin, a feature about spying on the competition, and Jason Fried's column about running a flat com...  Read more

Marketing: Dialing for Dollars

Brief article examining how an off-the-shelf call-center application tamed an out-of-control telemarketing operation.  Read more

Red Tape: Are You Cheating Your Employees?

Litigation from wage-and-hour disputes is skyrocketing. And you may be breaking the law without even knowing it.  Read more

Comeback Markets

Most companies have taken a pass on an inner-city service market worth tens of billions of dollars. Some smart urban-based businesses are eagerly filling the...  Read more

Intensive Care

By asking its customers what they wanted and then giving it to them--giving it all to them--Griffin Hospital not only made itself over but reinvented the pra...  Read more