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Chips Ahoy

A telemarketing company plans to set up a national operation to market semiconductors.  Read story

Beats Watching Paint Dry

Chart depicting survey on why small-business owners want to sell their companies.  Read story

New Phones for VoIP

Dec. 18, 2006 -- Linksys, an Irvine, Calif.-based wireless manufacturer, unveiled its iPhone family of VoIP handheld devices on Monday.Read story

Midwest Record-Store Chain

Profile of a record-store chain for sale.  Read story

Las Vegas Commuter Airline

Financial summary and brief description of a Las Vegas commuter airline.  Read story

Southern Short-Line Railroad

Financial summary and brief description of a short-line railroad for sale.  Read story

Custom-made Social Networks

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

Hot Wheels: Fast and Curious

The small companies behind these bewitching motorcycles and sports cars are a bright spot in the American auto industry.  Read story

Acquisitions: A To-Do List for Due Diligence

A lawyer who specializes in acquisitions offers a checklist to aviod the risks involved in corporate acquisitions.  Read story

Acquisitions: A To-Do List for Due Diligence

The risks involved in making a corporate acquisition - whether of a large asset, a division of an existing company, or even a competitor - are enormous, i...  Read story

How to Finance Anything

A comprehensive guide to financing a start-up or rapidly growing small business in the '90s.  Read story

Interacting with Bankers (Revisited)

Familiarizing a company's banker with its industry.  Read story

Are You Being Served?

Here's how to untangle the options available to small businesses in search of a computer server.  Read story

Behind the Credit Crunch

Benchmark chart illustrates the causes of decline in bank lending.  Read story

Mail

Of Minds and Machines After reading about Tan Le, the co-founder of Emotiv, and her vision of a world in which machines respond to our mental com...  Read story

Hot Tip: Piggyback on Training

Partnering with other companies results in low-cost employee training.  Read story

Networked Data Storage

Dec. 20, 2006 -- Transtec AG, a European producer of computer hardware, and Zetera, an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of storage-managemen...  Read story

Internet Users Object to Tailored Ads

Study reveals bad news for companies that track online users in order to tailor advertising.   Read story

The American Dream: Business For Sale

Financial summary and brief description of a lakefront inn and marina on Lake Tahoe.  Read story

Health Costs;

The relentless rise in health care costs is finally producing its own antidote. So serious is the problem -- medical benefits continue to soar 20% o...  Read story

1987 The Inc. 100;

WE'RE AWAITING CONFIRMATION FROM THE observatory at Mount Palomar that all the planets and moons did indeed orbit around Wall Street last year. Certainly...  Read story

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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 story

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Pulling in Profits

New RSS software makes it easier to gather intelligence on clients and competitors.  Read story

I Need Marketing Advice. To Whom Can I Turn?

Try the independent sales reps who represent your company in the marketplace. Instead of wasting time touting his company's products at meetings with his ...  Read story

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 story

Internet: Web Sites We Love: CEOs Pick Their Favorites

Various CEOs share their favorite Web sites with readers.  Read story

Field Marshals

The best folks to turn to for marketing advice may be the independent salespeople who represent your company. Not only are they most familiar with your pr...  Read story

Mail: April 2003

Readers react to recent Inc. magazine articles.  Read story

Planning Your Exit

Management considerations that will help prepare your company for sale.  Read story

Network

Readers react to articles in Inc. Technology , 1999, #4, including "Cell Wall," by Jeffrey L. Seglin; "Make Way for Duck Links," by Leigh Buchanan; "...  Read story

Speed Leader

Peter Wagner, a general partner at Palo Alto venture-capital giant Accel Partners, has seen the future ofInternet hookups for small businesses. It's calle...  Read story

Bored With the Board

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Clip Here and Save Big

How to trim your IT budget without making sacrifices.  Read story

Trading Places: Are America and Japan Locked in a Trade War?

Japanese and American entrepreneurs gather for a freewheeling discussion of the differences that divide them, and the ventures that may bring them together.  Read story

When a Single Bank Won't Do

Four CEOs talk about why they use multiple banks.  Read story

My Employees Are Suspicious of Our Strategic Partners

A quick look at how one company overcame its problems after forming a strategic partnership.  Read story

Reach for the Stars

Can your sales force explain to prospects how much power your gizmo has and how it works? Or do they have to hunt in the manuals to find obscure facts and...  Read story

Communications: Bulking Up

A quick look at how a map-making firm turned to a superfast network to improve its out-dated technical infrastructure.  Read story

Resources

A comprehensive resource guide to topics and issues featured in the May edition of Inc. magazine.  Read story