Safety first
A company improves its work environment by letting employees decide what needs to be done. Read story
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Sit! Stay! Make Money! Good Company
Beginning as an information site for dog owners, SitStay.com has turned into a profitable online pet supply store. Read story
Vintage Capitalist Amusements
Some business owners are collecting these fun artifacts of America’s financial history. (Hint: Do not pass go.) Read story
`Test Driving' the Company
Negotiating provisional purchase deals on acquisitions. Read story
The Office: Silence Is Golden
Try saying this at your next staff meeting: Shhhhhh. Read story
When Less Is More
A clothing distributor saves money--and the environment--by doing away with plastic packing materials. Read story
OSHA Can You See?
Using government experts to help insure compliance with safety and environmental laws. Read story
Comprehensive Environmental Response Cleanup and Liability Act (CERCLA)
Related Terms: Environmenta... Read story
International Exchange Rate
Related Terms: Exporting An international exchange rate, a... Read story
What's It Worth?
When Jim Hotze and Kent Watts decided to merge their businesses, they opted for a quick, relatively cheap "limited valuation" to determine the fair market va... Read story
Speeding Up Technology With Liquid Crystals
The liquid crystals used in the digital displays of watches and hand-held calculators move at speeds measured in tenths of seconds. By increasing that sp... Read story
Mergers and Acquisitions
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Where to Go for Help: Europe
Albania Teuleda http://www.teuleda.org.al/index.php?gjuha=eng <... Read story
Ask Norm
Inc. columnist and CEO Norm Brodsky offers tips on negotiating, overcoming seasonal slumps, giving up stock to investors, keeping employees from ste... Read story
The Inc. 500 Name Game Your annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies not only is great reading, but it also contains many imagina... Read story
Enterprise Is Better The First Time Around
If at first you don't succeed, you're probably not on the INC. 500. Read story
The Growth Industry
The broad greenswards of suburbia are proving to be fertile ground for a new service business. Mowing lawns has remained the province of teenage entrepren... Read story
All He Needs Is Luvs
No wonder Claude Rogers felt frustrated. He thought he had a perfect product to sell to Procter & Gamble Co., the Cincinnati-based household products ... Read story
Survival Tactics: Sales Strategies
In a turbulent economy, marketing and sales strategies must be altered. Here' s a sampling of the new approaches companies in a variety of industries are ... Read story
Mailing Lists
Related Terms: Direct Mail Advertising is all about re... Read story
Tax Planning
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Ready, Willing, and Able
Reader-to-reader advice. Read story
Minority Business Development Agency
Established in 1969 by executive order, the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) works to foster the creation, growth, and expansion of minority-ow... Read story
CEO's Notebook
CEOs give advice on finding the right retirement plan, career planning for employees, learning to take a break from work, and motivating workers with employe... Read story
Small Firm Wins A Round In Patent Case
In 1976, when LAM Inc., of Wakefield, Mass., submitted a bid to supply its patented lighting fixtures to five Florida schools, managers of the closely hel... Read story
Safe Passage
How to make financial transactions secure on your Web site. A look at the technology, registering with certification authorities, and digital cash as an alte... Read story
Hubzone Empowerment Contracting Program
Related Terms: 8(a) Programs ; Read story
Export-Import Bank
The United States Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, originally established in 1945, is an independent agency created to help finance U.S. exports to industriali... Read story
Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)
Related Terms: Inventions and Patents
Letters
Readers react to articles from the June issue of Inc., including Norm Brodsky's "Multilevel Mischief" and Jerry Useem's "Harvard Business School's 'Woman Pro... Read story
Clean Water Act
Related Terms: Environmenta... Read story
Requiem For An Entrepreneur
Allan Gallant was building one of the most successful businesses in Alaska's history -- until his employees turned on him. Read story
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship comes from entrepreneur, anglicized from the original French word. It means someone who undertakes something. Merriam-Webster defines "e... Read story
Limiting Liability
Cheap debt in Switzerland; power from the wind (and from R D limited partnerships); taking the slow track in venture capital. Read story
The Mentors
Kent Sutherland solicited Wal-Mart's Sam Walton as his business mentor 18 years ago and has prospered ever since. Here's where to find a mentor and the great... Read story
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was established as an independent administrative agency pursuant to the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914. The purpo... Read story
The Cutting Edge
Profile of a start-up hair salon. Read story
Case Study: An Indie Record Store Fights for Survival
To save their indie record store chain, the owners of Millennium Music decided to completely change it. Read story
It's Not That Easy Going Green
Duncan Berry, ardent environmentalist and CEO of Apparel Source Inc., describes the ethical dilemma he faced when he learned that his industry causes massive... Read story
A Call To Action
Jim Pinto is betting his company on a humanistic approach to commerce that makes Action Instruments everybody's business. Read story
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