Kansas

Fax Scam Targets Business Owners

Jan. 6, 2006 --Business owners beware. If you recently received an unsolicited fax asking if you want to sell your company, you might want...  Read more

Location, Location, Location

The unlikely story of Cobalt Boats, whose secret ingredient to quality is...farmers?  Read more

Angel Investors Heading to Kansas

Entrepreneurs, angel investors, and technology leaders will head to Wichita, Kan., for a capital conference in September, organizers said. The Grea...  Read more

Top 10 metro areas (by median revenue)

Grand Rapids, Mich. ( 16 companies ) $26.2 million San Antonio ( 25 ) $21.3 millionRead more

Small Company Lands Work on Today's Launch

The space shuttle Discovery sits on launch pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center, ready for its date with space, scheduled for 3:51 pm this aft...  Read more

America's Fastest-growing Private Companies

By now, you are familiar with the backbone metaphor. As in: "Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. We must do everything we can'¦to make sure...  Read more

Rating the Governors

With Arnold Schwarzenegger and 25 other governors up for reelection, we look at who among them has earned the entrepreneurial vote.  Read more

Inc.'s Fourth Annual Report On The States

Can states become more attractive breeding grounds for small companies? Increasingly, governors and legislators around the United States have been answering ...  Read more

Where you'll find them

New York metro area 355 companies Washington, D.C., and suburbs 300 Los Angeles 244 ...  Read more

The Best Of Show

Capital: Activity at the money centers 1. California 2. Connecticut 3. New York 4. Texas 5. Massachusetts 6. Minnesota...  Read more

At a Glance

Charts providing information on the features of Inc. 500 companies.  Read more

Labor: Paying Your Dues

1 Wyoming 6. Hawaii 2. South Dakota 7. Idaho 3. Kansas 8. Nebraska 4. Vermont 9. Utah 5. Colorado ...  Read more

Limited-Liability Companies

A Limited-Liability Company (LLC) as an alternative corporate structure.  Read more

Hard-of-hearing travelers often have a tough time in hotels because they don't know when to answer the telephone or the door -- and they can't hear a fire...  Read more

Take Flight To Boost The Bottom Line

Many small companies are discovering the benefits of flying their own aircraft.  Read more

Can You Find The Farmer In This Picture?

Dorothy had to abandon the Kansas wheat fields for Oz in order to find a tin man. Soon, though, the tin man will be right there on the farm -- plowing th...  Read more

Mail

Billionaire of Beloit The inspiring article about Ken Hendricks, a high school dropout who became a billionaire, reminded me again why I read ...  Read more

More Workers Paying for Flu Shots

Employers are shifting workplace health costs onto employees, a study shows.  Read more

The 1988 Inc. 500

Brief profiles of 15 Inc. 500 companies.  Read more

Heart On Ice

When doctors out to retrieve a human heart for a recent transplant operation in Louisville, they carried with them a red plastic picnic cooler. It wasn't...  Read more

This Week's Economic Roundup

Business owners shrug off economic woes; small and midsize businesses continue adding jobs.  Read more

Fewer Workers Getting a Raise

A survey finds payroll budget increases are unchanged from last year.  Read more

The In-House Lottery

Training with a twist--an in-house quiz enters employees with correct answers into a prize lottery.  Read more

Do Your Business Premises Present A Public Hazard?

Juries are handling out larger and larger awards to victims of workplace accidents. And it is not just injured customers who are earning the court's sympathy.  Read more

Images Helped NASA with Discovery Re-entry

August 8, 2005 --As the space shuttle Discovery prepared to re-enter the earth's orbit Tuesday morning at Edwards Air Force Base,...  Read more

Hitting Pay Dirt

At small, fast-growing businesses, where so much rides on key salespeople, it's important to set up a compensation strategy that helps achieve lon...  Read more

Changing State Liability Laws

Not only do states have widely varying laws dealing with liability claims, but these are in flux: some 30 states have made changes in just the past year. Thr...  Read more

Small Business News Round-Up

In the news this week: What do small business owners think are a threat to their success? According to Read more

Exceptions To The Rule

Why some INC. 500 companies are growing in industries that aren't.  Read more

This Week's Economic Roundup

Housing market shows signs of improving; gas prices continue to slide.  Read more

Ordinary Business

What would happen, my colleague John Case wondered aloud, if you took the INC. 100 list and stripped off all the obvious hyper-growth companies? Say you clea...  Read more

It Runs in the Family

The Lacerte clan's four-generation entrepreneurial streak.  Read more

Wichita State to Open Market-Based Management Center

The new MBA program will draw lessons from Koch Industries, the nation's second-largest private company.  Read more

Can't We Have Another?

When to launch a second brand. Plus: The ins and outs of outsourcing.  Read more

Unstatesmanlike Acts; Free The Salina 25

From giving away land in Kansas to building ski resorts in Kentucky, some public officials will pay just about any price for a few jobs.  Read more

No-Strings Reimbursement

Two companies' experiences with reimbursing employees for classes relating to their jobs.  Read more

America’s 10 Most Helpful SBDCs

Here are the centers that stand out as the most active and influential small business development centers across the country—providing exceptional support ...  Read more

Upstarts: The Russian Connection

Entrepreneurs who've emigrated from the former Soviet Union are shrewdly benefiting from the crumbling economy of that once-mighty empire. And they aren't th...  Read more