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Would You Fire Someone for Refusing to Dye Gray Hair?

A Houston woman is suing her former employer, claiming the company fired her for refusing to hide her age.  Read more

The Microchip Goes Golden

It's barely a headline anywhere else. But, imagine where we'd be without it. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the microchip; the first integrated circu...  Read more

Feds Will Stamp Out Business, Vendors Say

Many of the 4,500 small, independent U.S. postage stamp vendors -- those who install and service vending machines in supermarkets and covenience stores --...  Read more

Disaster Planning in Six Quick Steps

In addition to the big events – such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 – there are fires, floods, earthquakes and blackouts that can impact your business. Th...  Read more

The Private 500 represent 44 states. Geographically, the West wins again on the strength of California's 84 companies -- more than twice as many as any ot...  Read more

Woe Be Gonefrom Word Processing

Word processing equipment can revolutionize an office. However, when not handled with care, the changeover from manual to automated methods can have nega...  Read more

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth '77-'81 ...  Read more

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read more

The Inc. 500

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales growth 1980-84 ...  Read more

Screening New Hires

Employee-screening companies offer one of the cheapest and fastest ways to help you hire successfully.  Read more

Priced to Sell

With all of the valuation methods out there, you'd think calculating a selling price for you business would be easy. Just sit down with your financial sta...  Read more

More Cities To Get Clearwire 4G WiMax

Clearwire announced today it's adding more cities to its list of "who's getting 4G WiMax service next". They are: Miami, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Salt Lak...  Read more

One Giant Leap For Mankind

40 years ago today, 600 million people worldwide were huddled around their black and white television sets sharing in one of humankind's most glorious acc...  Read more

How To Prepare For The Property Bubble

All but the most stubborn optimist knows that the property bubble of the 2000s is now deflating. This is a cause for concern for just about everyone since...  Read more

Training Young Entrepreneurs, One Lemonade Stand at a Time

Gather a group of successful CEOs in a room and ask how many of them had lemonade stands when they were kids.  According to Michael Holthouse, the fo...  Read more

Reading, Writing, And Revenues

The current crop of student entrepreneurs are determined not to let school get in the way of their education.  Read more

Disaster Planning in Six Quick Steps

In addition to the big events – such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11 – there are fires, floods, earthquakes and blackouts that can impact your business. Th...  Read more

Website Design for the BlackBerry Generation

Most small and mid-size businesses haven't realized how terrible their websites look on handheld devices. Much less, have they registered their Web address w...  Read more

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year.  Read more

George Foreman Kicks Off Inc. GrowCo. Conference

I'm here at Inc.'s GrowCo. Conference where over 400 small business owners have convened to network with other business owners, listen to some great speak...  Read more

Why Start a Company?

Entrepreneurs from the 2009 Inc. 500 say that money is only one reason among many  Read more

Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100

Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit...  Read more

Study: Small Business Bankruptcy Numbers Down

The number of small businesses filing for protection has dropped from last year, though it's still higher than pre-recession.  Read more

New Energy Boomtowns

Economists and businesses around the nation are rightly worried about the impact of high energy prices. But there may be an upside for places who are pos...  Read more

CEOs Favorite Tax Write-offs and Underlings Seek Revenge

Facebook and Twitter rot your brain? From the annals of everything fun is bad for you, a new study conducted by a neuroscience group from the Unive...  Read more