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Horatio Alger


Recent Articles about Horatio Alger

Great Expectations;

By Leslie Boltax Aizenman |  Aug 1, 1986

FEW EXECUTIVES WITH EVEN MODest egos could resist the temptation when Iacocca: An Autobiography reached the number one spot on best-seller lists in 1984. ...  Read more

Nature Or Nuture?

By Curtis Hartman |  Aug 1, 1983

'I'm a poor boy from the Bronx, who used the GI bill to go to school and built a $20 million company up from nothing. I believe in the American flag and the ...  Read more

Real Entrepreneurs Don't Plan

By Bruce G. Posner |  Nov 1, 1985

Planning is dull, boring, the province of large-company bureaucrats -- or so goes the entrepreneurial myth. The truth is that planning is the key to being fa...  Read more

The Best of Inc.

By Inc. staff |  Mar 20, 2009

1. The Coolest Small Company in America (200...  Read more

The Spirit Of Independence;

By Curtis Hartman |  Jul 1, 1985

"We have lived through the age of big industry and the age of the giant corporation. But I believe that this is the age of the entrepreneur." -- Ronald Reagan  Read more

Commerce-ial appeal

By Stephanie Clifford |  Nov 30, 2004

Carlos Gutierrez, or, as he's becoming known, The American Dream Personified, starts out a Cuban refugee in Miami. He grows up to drive a Kellogg’s truck,...  Read more

Know When to Fold

By Steven Berglas |  Mar 1, 1998

Entrepreneurs can suffer when they refuse to abandon the product or service that brought them initial success. Here's how to accept defeat and change with th...  Read more

The Hottest Entrepreneurs in America

By Inc. staff |  Dec 1, 1995

An overview of the Seventh Annual Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, including profiles of the judges.  Read more

How eBay, Yahoo, and Amazon Stores Stack Up

By Todd Wasserman |  Feb 1, 2008

For those just starting a small business, or running a business on the side, setting up a virtual storefront under the auspices of online giants eBay, Yahoo,...  Read more

Bulletin Board

By Inc. staff |  Jun 1, 1999

A collection of short articles about technology. Topics include fighting legal battles over meta-tags; using the Internet to cut travel costs; avoiding Y2K s...  Read more

The Entrepreneurial Ego: Pratfalls

By Steven Berglas |  Sep 1, 1996

A clinical psychologist explains why it's good for every leader to stumble through pratfalls.  Read more

Winning in the Asian Era

By Joel Kotkin |  Sep 1, 1988

The U.S. must take a new commerce perspective in regard to the changes taking place in the world economy.  Read more

Present At The Creation

By Robert A. Mamis |  Jul 1, 1982

James Toreson's Microcomputer Systems Corp. spawns new high-technology companies as well as healthy profits. Now eager venture capitalists are lining up outs...  Read more

The Leveraged Buyout Boom

By Craig R. Waters |  Sep 1, 1983

It was too perfect a symbol, too convenient a metaphor to slip into the first paragraph of a story about leveraged buyouts, but there it was, sitting on t...  Read more

Jim Jensen Takes Over

Nov 1, 1981

When the baton is passed in a relay race, both runners have to be moving at roughly the same speed. This condition should be met when a company chairman ...  Read more

Shirt-sleeve Investing

By Lisa R. Sheeran |  May 1, 1985

The year was 1981, and company comptroller Tom Buck figured it was the end of the road for Colorado AMC/Jeep Renault Inc. All of Buck's efforts to find m...  Read more

Unsentimental Journey

By David Whitford |  Oct 15, 1996

A Horatio Alger success story in the extreme that is the story of many an entrepreneur.  Read more