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Top 10 Performers: How Productive, How Profitable?

1981 Productivity * * Excludes capital-intensive energy developers or companies whose primary business leasing or real estate. (Sales per empl...  Read more

Companies On The 1983-84 Inc. Market Index

Ticker Name symbol Aalaska Diversified Resources ADRI AM Cable TV Industries AMTV Apple Compu...  Read more

INC.'s roundup of market data provides instant reference to the behavior of the common stocks of small companies. The INC. Index is derived from the sto...  Read more

Where The Fast Growth Is. . . By Industry

Here is a ranking of the 1983 INC. 100 companies by industry, according to sales. To the right of each industry heading is the average number of times com...  Read more

Martha Stewart's Apprentice - Week 12

Well, I guess Jim did turn out to be insane in the end. He did such an awful job during the interview process. It was embarrassing...all that nonsense abo...  Read more

Getting To The Top -- And Staying There

'I don't think about my weaknesses; it's too easy to turn those into excuses. I don't see obstacles, just minor impediments.'  Read more

Whatever Happened To The Class Of '83?

Led by Healthdyne (#5 this year), Consul (#6), and BRAE (#11), 27 of the 1983 INC. 100 companies graduated to the 1984 listing. Of those, 4 moved up in st...  Read more

Home Is Where The Headquarters Is

'We all like Milwaukee, even though it's hardly a swinging place. At least you know people will be able to get out of bed and come to work in the morning.'  Read more

Where The Fast Growth Is...by Industry

Here's a ranking of the 1982 INC. 100 companies by industry. While Apple Computer emerges as the overall front-runner, having multiplied its sales 432.5 ...  Read more

The 1982 Inc. 100

Despite an ailing economy, America's fastest-growing public companies are keeping a breathless pace.  Read more

An Entrepreneurial King... and Kingmaker

The latest issue of Inc. features reporter Ryan McCarthy's round-up of the notable entrepreneurs who have died this year. The Read more

Big Fish, Bigger Fish

'My father always encouraged me to go to work for a large corporation. He said there was more security in it.'  Read more

Investing In Growth Companies

A look at growth-company stock  Read more

INC.'s roundup of market data provides instant reference to the behavior of the common stocks of small companies. The INC. Index is derived from the stoc...  Read more

The Inc. 500: Class of 2005?

Two 2000 Inc. 500 CEOs demonstrate that spinning off new start-ups from within can give big benefits -- and profits -- to both parent and child.  Read more

In Memoriam

The notable entrepreneurs who died in 2007 helped to shape some of the major trends in business in the past 50 years, from the rise of socially responsible b...  Read more

The Hot Manufacturing Centers

As manufacturing changes, so does the geography of manufacturing. With the help of Cognetics Inc., INC. identified the 10 metropolitan areas that are hom...  Read more

Investing In Growth Companies;

Like the weather, the fortunes of fast-growth stocks can change overnight. Witness the rebound of this year's INC. 100 portfolio.  Read more

The Inc. 100

Surveying America's fastest-growing small public companies.  Read more

Inc. 100 Market Performance

1982 Mean High/Low $100 Rank Company (symbol) 3/81 3/82...  Read more

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Start 2011 By Learning from Failure

The Start-Up Toolkit is above all a resource for start-ups and it is my intent to help them better manage, market, sell, protect their businesses, and pro...  Read more

Head of the Class

Start-up company franchises early childhood education centers, targeting affluent parents.  Read more

A Closet Full of Cash

Think you have to burn through all your funding to develop your brand? Not true, according to Fashionmall.com CEO Ben Narasin, who believes in spending money...  Read more

A Closet Full of Cash

Think you have to burn through all your funding to develop your brand? Not true, according to Fashionmall.com CEO Ben Narasin, who believes in spending money...  Read more

Inc. 100 Index

Trading Company (Rank) OTC Air Florida System ** (14) OTC Alaska Diversified Resources (85) OTC AM Cable TV Industries (49)...  Read more