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When I was a young man of 34, with limitless dreams but a small bank account, I founded my mutual-funds company with a personal investment of $2,000. Toda... Read story
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Inventions `R' Us
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Profile of a start-up retail shop's attempt to create a market for overlooked new products. Read story
Talking Heads
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Texas start-up develops a walk-in video recording booth. Read story
Hotline
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Hotline information paragraphs on the above topics and subtopics. Read story
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Tips on using customer references as marketing tools. Read story
A Little Help from Your Friends
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It takes time and effort to get customer references, but many companies don't use their customer lists to solicit references effectively. This is despite ... Read story
Hands On: Works Well With Others
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Giving employees quarterly goals has helped Revenue Technology Services Corp. to improve cooperation. Read story
Ask What They're Worth
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When John Sample, CEO of Business Interiors, shifted his company from a "lone ranger" approach to a "team-based" organization, one of the scariest aspects... Read story
Get The Bad News, Too
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Negative references on job applicants are often more revealing than positive ones. Read story
Head-On Cooperation
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Many contractors run and hide if a property manager calls with a complaint. But Clem Majerus, founder of GTW Construction, in Irving, Tex., holds a
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From cook-offs to float-building, team building gets creative. Read story
Getting to No
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Y2 Marketing is extra-picky about its customers---so picky that its sales staff often won't take yes for an answer. Read story
Sign of the Times
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Inc. 500 companies are pioneering alternatives to the traditonal suppliers of health-care services. Read story
Taking The Fear Out of Factoring
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With more and more reputable companies entering the factoring business, services have greatly improved. But factors' bottom line use remains the same: provid... Read story
A Product Sampler;
Jan 1, 1988
Sales management programs for microcomputers have been out for several years, gradually becoming integrated as they are today; most now come with word pro... Read story
Passing Fancy
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Has sporting goods manufacturer and distributor RAM Sports invented a better football? Here's what a former football pro-and current Inc. 500 CEO-had to say ... Read story
Tax Shelters With Reservations
By Robert A. Mamis | Jun 1, 1982
Hotel limited partnerships can generate aftertax yields at twice the rate of other commercial purchases. But the risks can be as high as the rewards. Read story
The Best Ads $2.6 Million Can Buy?
By Angus Loten | Feb 2, 2007
Forget Madison Avenue. Super Bowl advertisers are drawing their inspiration from YouTube this year. Read story
Sweet Charity
Aug 1, 1983
Most businesspeople subscribe to the "no free lunch" philosophy, but sometimes it pays to look beyond the bottom line. Last year, Vernon Freeman, presiden... Read story
The Grub-and-games Strategy Still Thrives
By L.M.S. | Sep 1, 1984
The food-and-fun strategy that Pizza Time Theatre Inc. pioneered still has a following in the restaurant business, even though Pizza Time itself filed for... Read story
Anatomy of a Launch: Step One -- Smart Market Research
By Susan Greco | Sep 1, 1995
The first in a series on how a start-up launched a nationwide line of evironmentally correct bath products. 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
What's Next: The Dashboard Dilemma
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Do you manage by the numbers? Be careful if you do: Your data may be playing tricks on you. Read story
Public Companies: $156,000 At The Top
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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
Technology Management in Growth Companies
By Martha E. Mangelsdorf | Dec 1, 1994
Three Inc. 500 CEOs are briefly profiled along with their companies and the technologies they are using. Read story
The Entrepreneur of the Year: Our fifth annual company-building awards
By Teri Lammers | Dec 1, 1993
Introduction and list of judges and winners for Inc.'s 1993 Entrepreneur of Year Award. Read story
Anatomy of a Launch: The Year of Living Dangerously
By Susan Greco | Nov 1, 1995
The last of a three-part series that traces a product's national launch. Read story
E-Mail Grows Up
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Various businesspeople tell how they are using different E-mail packages to handle a variety of tasks. Read story
Surviving the New Economy
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He soared, he crashed, he merged. Then his new parent went bankrupt. Should he buy his company back? Read story
Trading Places: How a Dentist Invented the Export Trading Company
By Sara Delano | Nov 1, 1983
Although Dr. Josepb Blaes considered himself reasonably imaginative, he never dreamed that his design for a more efficient dental clinic would have global si... Read story
A Company of Entrepreneurs
By Karen M. Kroll | Nov 15, 2001
Managing employees who are used to being the boss. Read story
Are Bigger Banks Bad For Small Business?
By JAY FINEGAN | Dec 1, 1987
Our man tests the waters in a place where mergers and consolidations are already a fact of life Read story
Whatever Happened To The Class Of '82?
By Joseph P. Kahn | Dec 1, 1983
Although a sizable number returned to the list, some went public and others were aquired. But most just couldn't meet this year's faster pace. Read story
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From Sauna Pants to the INC. 500: the hilarious confessions of a mail-order maestro. Read story
Tin Men
By Edward O. Welles | Oct 1, 1990
Profile of three businessmen who built reputable businesses in traditionally disreputable industries. Read story
In the Eye of the Beholder
By John Grossman | Oct 1, 1994
An up-close look at the 1990s fad, 3-D images, and how one entrepreneur stumbled into it and hit pay dirt. Read story
America's Owner
By David Whitford | Dec 1, 1993
How the owner of the Dallas Cowboys has turned around this financially crumbling team. Read story
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