Horse Race: Branded Entertainment
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Grist: Leno Brands Versus Letterman Brands
Like late-night TV hosts, brands today fall into one of two categories: iconic or ironic. Read story
Web Sites for Home-Based Workers
Here's a sad reality for any home-based entrepreneur hoping to use the Internet to save time and money on essentialbusiness matters: there is so much junk... Read story
Health Care Stocks: "90% Confusion And 10% Opportunity"
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Getting an M.B.A. Via Tivo
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Are You Ready for Some Football Clichés?
Sure, too many coaches write books that try to apply the lessons of football to the world of business. But there really are some management lessons that can ... Read story
Where The Fast Growth Is...by Industry
Here's a ranking of the 1982 INC. 100 companies by industry. While Apple Computer emerges as the overall front-runner, having multiplied its sales 432.5 ... Read story
Grist: A Passport to America
How blue staters and red staters can learn to communicate and do business. Read story
Drop that Desktop Publishing Software and Step Aside
Trendy fonts and cheesy clip art make me grumpy. Thumb through your local paper and note the epidemic usage of the "comic sans" font and those annoying li... Read story
How I Did It: Josh Linkner, CEO, ePrize
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2006 Inc. 500 Ranking:
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Dot Jobs? Not Likely
When the Society for Human Resource Management and EmployMedia launched the new .jobs domain a few months ago, there was a flurry of commentary and much ... Read story
Set Your Sights High
Is your company a network or a cable channel? It's a critical taxonomy, and the question hit me as I was watching the Emmy's a few weeks ago. It's releva... Read story
Grist: What I Learned From The Sopranos
With business leaders trying to clean up their acts, why are they turning to Tony Soprano, management guru? Read story
When Opportunity Knocks with a Pink Slip in Hand
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling and other entrepreneurs launched successful ventures only after losing their day jobs. Who knew getting fired coul... Read story
Return of Giants
Is Hollywood edging out small companies and returning to the studio-dominated days of yesteryear? Read story
Protecting Yourself From Copycat Competitors
Using trade dress and trademarks to protect your intellectual property Read story
How I Did It: Mike Veeck
Midgets? Nuns who give massages? Disco Demolition Night? Free vasectomies on Father's Day? If there's one thing Mike Veeck learned from his father and from b... Read story
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Madison Avenue Memoirs
The life and thoughts of an advertising legend. Read story
What I Learned at P
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Inc. 100 Market Performance
1982 Mean High/Low $100 Rank Company (symbol) 3/81 3/82... Read story
Try Harder, Part II: FilmStar Inc.'s Surprise Ending
Filmstar Inc. set out to change the market for independent-film financing and distribution. All didn't go as planned. Read story
The Inner City 100
100 street-smart companies. Read story
How I Did It: Reed Hastings, Netflix
The founder of Netflix on developing a passion brand, and sustaining it as passions change. Read story
The Leadership Makeover
Growth at First Global Xpress had stalled. And that made CEO James Dowd wonder: Was it time to hand the reins to someone else? Read story
Sold On Rock
The extravagant sums that can be spent on special-events sponsorship suggest how highly many companies value direct access to their target markets. To be ... Read story
Go East, Young Man
First-person account of a joint venture in Eastern Europe. Read story
How To Fuel Growth Through Limited Partners
Tom Keaveney kept control of his business by growing with tax-sheltered partnership dollars. Read story
The Game Of The Name
A look at some of the unlikely ways Inc. 500 CEOs came up with the names for their companies. Read story
Home Grown
Once seen as quaint, home businesses are now run by sophisticated and ambitious company builders. Here's what you need to know to start growing a home busine... Read story
So You Wanna Be in Pictures
An independent entrepreneur creates an inexpensive alternative to the large Hollywood movie studios. Read story
Burning Down the House
A former car dealer launches an on-line start-up that is reshaping the industry. Read story
A Market Worth Fighting For
Gareb Shamus keeps coming up with new ways to reach big-spending, early-adopting, first-in-line 18- to 34-year-old males. His latest is a doozy. Read story
Sugar Ray Leonard's Toughest Fight
The six-time champ is trying to build a business, promote a new generation of fighters, and clean up his sullied sport. It's not as easy as it sounds. Read story
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