All the World's a Niche
In 1980, when I founded BET Holdings II with financial support from JohnMalone, CEO of Telecommunications Inc. (TCI), MTV, theleading entertainment cable ... Read story
MTV Networks Company
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Excerpt from an article by John Seabrook about what it's like to work at MTV. Read story
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What Do Anita Roddick and Madonna Have in Common?
Both Madonna and Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, fail to have their videos approved for MTV. Read story
You-Do-It Video
A new computer system enables small companies to produce their own promotional or training videos. Read story
Can TV Handle Another Madonna?
Publishing company announces it is considering using infomercials to promote the Bible. Read story
Upstarts: Tapping Generation Y
A new wave of start-ups is courting an unprecedented swell of cash-rich teens. But even if these teen-obsessed ventures strike the adolescent mother lode, ca... Read story
What Business Would You Start?
Nearly 50 business luminaries, ranging from H. Ross Perot to Ed McMahon, are asked what businesses to start. Read story
MTV Start-up Flops; Ratings Soar
Here's why a high-end dessert-delivery service proposed by a TV-series cast failed before it started. Read story
Cable's Quality Time
I enjoyed Sara Delano's article on Cable TV advertising (Selling & Marketing, May). While current research data does not accurately measure cable audi... Read story
What Business Would You Start Today?
One Inc 500 CEO explains how he would like to start an all-dance T.V. network as his next start-up. Read story
Cable Meets CD
New business capitalizes on emerging field of digital audio technology. Read story
Letters
Readers react to articles from the September 1999 issue of Inc. , including Susan Greco's "Get$$$Now.com," Nancy K. Austin's "First Aide," George Gen... Read story
The Next Generation
Results of a survey of high school students on their attitudes about entrepreneurship. Read story
Agenda 8/06
August is historically a dicey month in terms of labor strife. So throw a company cookout and make peace, already. Read story
Business for Sale: Mid-Atlantic Violin Shop
An overview of a violin shop offered for sale. Includes the price, how the business was valued, the outlook of future sales, and the pros and cons of the pur... Read story
So Long, Jukebox
Start-up sells video jukeboxes. Read story
Why Bargain Prices Lure Cable Advertisers
Businesses find cable television a successful, low-cost way to reach key prospects. Read story
The Right Attitude
Production company discovers a market for motivational entertainment videos designed for inner-city children. Read story
Captivate Audiences with Powerful Presentations
Today's audiences have short attention spans. They are stimulation junkies. Their television habits have coined a new term -- channel surfing. With the ad... Read story
Sold On Rock
The extravagant sums that can be spent on special-events sponsorship suggest how highly many companies value direct access to their target markets. To be ... Read story
How I Did It: Dany Levy
Marrying the immediacy of the Internet to the ephemera of what's hot created one sweet, and profitable, company. Read story
Small Company Initial Public Offerings: August 1984
Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Offering O-T-C ... Read story
Gear: Tune In, Tune Out
The latest gadgets to help you shut out the world. Read story
Computer Literacy: From Technophobe to Technophile
An entrepreneur retells her story of becoming computer literate and what it has meant to her business practices. Read story
They Were the Best of Times, They Were...Oh, You Know
Contributors to the 20th Anniversary issue proffer what they consider to be the finest--and darkest--hours of the past two decades. Read story
FCC Turns TV Off on Small Businesses
Hey, what about us? Regular readers of my column know I get really irked at how small business is overlooked by the government. Legislation and regulation... Read story
Upstarts: New-Biz Watch
A look at Mark Begelman's MARS, a music and recording superstore that encourages customers to touch the merchandise, plus four shorter articles about the ret... Read story
Get$$$Now.com
New online intermediaries are closing the capital gap for companies that have outgrown friends-and-family financing but can't get a backward glance from vent... Read story
Genrational Marketing
An offering from the recent book on marketing, Rocking the Ages. Read story
Pay Attention to Not Paying Attention
Are your employees regulated by a different clock than you are? Is there something about today's short-term, instant gratification, now-not-later culture... Read story
30 Under 30 2009 - Alumni Updates
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TV Advertising For the Rest of Us
An innovative new start-up makes the 30-second spot available to everyone, regardless of budget. Read story
Forget the Glitz -- Deliver the Gold
What do the Pentagon, corporate CEOs, and Patricia Fripp have in common? We all deplore the current trend toward replacing solid presentation content with... Read story
The 1985 Inc. 100
Introducing the fastest-growing public companies in America. Read story
The Anti-Hallmark
In the multibillion-dollar greeting card business, Smart Alex has carved a niche by boldly going where no big company has gone before. Founder Jay Blumenfeld... Read story
Update: Firing Up Sales
When we wrote about Zippo Manufacturing in September 2004, the Bradford, Pennsylvania, ligh... Read story
Why You Feel the Way You Do
In an excerpt from his book, "Data Smog," David Shenk explains why the surplus of information available through technology each day stresses us out and impai... Read story
Just Play
As the makers of the games Guitar Hero and now Rock Band settle into their success -- check that, their utter domination of the world's basements and dorm ro... Read story
The Success Gene
Why some family businesses thrive year after year after year. Read story
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