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 story
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Hartford Launches XactPAY
The application helps monitor cash flow issues associated with workers compensation. Read story
The Hartford Addresses Small Business
A new retirement plan is designed for business owners with less than 10 employees. Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
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 story
(Borrowed) Dress for Success
New business leases designer clothes to professional women. Read story
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 story
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 story
Networking Without Wires
Networked computers can be connected by infrared light. Read story
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 story
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 story
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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 story
Finance Man
THE FINANCIAL SKILLS THAT A CEO LEARNS ON THE JOB CAN BE USEFUL WHEN AN INVESTMENT DEAL IS ON THE TABLE. Read story
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Think twice before you accept family money to run your business Read story
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 story
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 story
Doctor, Doctor. Give Me the News
An advance in doctor-patient communication. Read story
Risky Business
With the right kind of self-insurance, you can trim as much as 20% off your health insurance bills. Read story
Hot Tip: Let Your Sales Team Sell
By changing the office duties of their sales team, Giftcorp has increased sales by 30%. Read story
Avoiding Employee Lawsuits
Protection strategies against hiring and firing lawsuits. Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
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 story
Trials By Hire
Business owners typically miscalculate their needs in trying to find the right chief financial officer. Read story
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 story
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SMALL COMPANY INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS: JUNE 1987 Offering First after- O-T-C Size Pric... Read story
These Old Houses
Rego Reality, #9 on the 2001 Inner City 100, brings dilapidated buildings back to life -- and livelihood. Read story
Marketing: Dialing for Dollars
Brief article examining how an off-the-shelf call-center application tamed an out-of-control telemarketing operation. Read story
Clueless
A business journalist describes how he thought he was an expert on start-up companies--until he went to work for one. He learned of the unforeseen roles each... Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
Public Companies: $156,000 At The Top
Executives of smaller publicly held companied enjoy fatter paychecks and broader perks than their counterparts in smaller private firms. That's the concl... Read story
Mitch Kapor Spins A New Kind Of Disk
Once a week, Softsel Computer Products Inc. of Inglewood, Calif., publishes a "hot list" of leading software programs. By mid-March, after only a couple o... Read story
The Courts Add A New Threat To Businesses
The damage award -- $1.43 million -- was nothing out of the ordinary considering the chillingly brutal crime: A 22-year-old woman was abducted at gunpoint... Read story
Bookstore Owner Refuses to Grow, Pays Price
A look at why a legendary, community-based bookstore failed after years of success. Read story
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