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Business for Sale: Carpet-and-Upholstery-Cleaning Franchises

Looking for a niche where you can really clean up? Consider this 10-year-old carpet-and upholstery-cleaning business. Profile includes price, how the busines...  Read story

When Bad Management Becomes Criminal

What was once thought of as a "bad management decision" can now land executives in jail.  Read story

Letters

Readers respond to topics and articles from past issues of Inc. magazine.  Read story

Part-time Cops

Once a week, Bill Rasmussen and Mickey Dunlap forget their companies and put on a badge.  Read story

Urban Renewers

Some thoughts on what groups are making it in the inner-city, and why.  Read story

Open the Gates

Reasons why immigration may be the most effective way to boost the economy.  Read story

I Love L.A.

Why Los Angeles is quickly replacing New York City as the economic capital of America in 1989.  Read story

The New Ellis Islands

LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles has always been a city of transplants, but now it has become a city of immigrants. You can see them at the border check-point, M...  Read story

Small-Business Research--Job Detection

An urban economist offers a way to identifying start-ups and counting the jobs they create.  Read story

39 Great Business Bargains

How to get a deal on just about everything.  Read story

Business for Sale: A California Ski Resort

Rick Metcalf is selling his Mount Waterman ski resort for $1.65 million  Read story

Franchisee Battles Quiznos Over Location Policy

September 2, 2005 --Franchisees of sandwich chain Quiznos are fighting what they say are policies that allow the Denver, Colorado company ...  Read story

Still the Best Places to Do Business

A public-policy expert explains why some big cities are the best place for successful entrepreneurial commerce.  Read story

Now That They've Fixed Miss Liberty, Who Will Fix New York?

The gateway to the "American dream" may have become the worst place to start a company.  Read story

The Knowledge Factory

How gathering dispersing the routine, nuts-and-bolts information of daily operations is transforming a business.  Read story

Why Every Business Will Be Like Show Business

Study of the network of flexible small businesses that make up Hollywood's entertainment industry.  Read story

Divorce;

TO PLAN FOR IT MAY RUIN YOUR MARRIAGE NOT TO PLAN FOR IT MAY DESTROY YOUR COMPANY  Read story

CEO's Notebook

Various senior businesspeople answer topical questions about such areas as taxes, banking, and training.  Read story

Emergency, Inc.;

An odd-looking trophy adorns the desk of Stanley R. Gold, M.D., founder and president of American Emergicenter Inc., a chain of publicly owned walk-in med...  Read story

The Reluctant Entrepreneurs

Are American blacks still stuck on the bottom rung of the economic ladder because so few start businesses of their own?  Read story

Fear Of Franchising

How Carol Brothers seduced the press, the industry, and scores of franchisees with the false promise of 'the next McDonald's'  Read story

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