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A Boardroom " Bill Of Rights"

By Ralph Ward |  Apr 1, 2001

You probably hear plenty about your duties and responsibilities as a corporate director. But what about your rights as a board member? Even good governanc...  Read story

Can Your Bank Do This?

By Robert A. Mamis |  Mar 1, 1996

A number of entrepreneurs define for Inc. what makes an exceptional small-business commercial bank.  Read story

Plant Management: A Budding Industry

By Michael P. Cronin |  Oct 1, 1992

How various companies keep office plants healthy.  Read story

800 356-9377

Jul 1, 1983

It looks like an ordinary toll-free telephone number, but for florist Al Felly it spells 800 FLOWERS -- and trouble in the form of a legal and marketing war ...  Read story

Dial 800 Toll-free

Jul 1, 1983

Telemarketing has become big business, with big numbers (nearly a quarter of a million 800-number lines in the United States today, with 1.9 billion calls...  Read story

Young Entrepreneurs Compete for Seed Money

Mar 14, 2007

March 14, 2007 -- College and high school students are invited to compete for up to $7,500 in start-up capital in an annual business-plan...  Read story

Using Your Noodle

By Kate O'Sullivan |  Sep 1, 2001

One start-up team did everything wrong -- except for the one thing that mattered most: they took a cold, hard look at their mistakes.  Read story

The Scoop on `Info Brokers'

By Vera B. Gibbons |  Dec 1, 1992

A list of information brokers and low-cost alternatives to large market research houses.  Read story

Upstarts: Highlighting New Companies

By Virginia Inman |  Apr 1, 1985

Some companies really do benefit from stiffer Internal Revenue Service regulations. Last year's tax law (see "Your Money or Your Car, page tk) requires p...  Read story

Who Needs Silicon Valley?

By Renuka Rayasam |  Aug 1, 2008

Thanks to new state programs, companies are finding funds outside of traditional VC hubs.  Read story

Roses Are Blue

By Joseph P. Kahn |  Jan 1, 1984

The War of the Roses is over, and the roses lost. On October 24, 1983, a federal judge in Madison, Wis., ruled against florist Al Felly in his attempt to ...  Read story

The Judgment Group Will Make Sure You Get Paid What the Court Ordered

By Athena Schindelheim |  Jun 1, 2008

Can it raise $5 million?  Read story

Name Your Price

By Ralph Whitehead Jr. |  Dec 1, 1984

Buyers shop at Lenny Mattioli's American TV stores as much for the bargaining as for the bargains.  Read story

The Onion's Online Anniversary

By Stephanie Clifford |  May 1, 2006

How your favorite workday diversion almost missed out on the Internet.  Read story

Letters

May 1, 2001

Readers respond to our February cover story, "An American Start-Up," and Norm Brodsky's Street Smarts column "Ask Norm." Also, CEO's from the March issue get...  Read story

The 500

Dec 1, 1987

#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ...  Read story

Boomtowns '06: Hottest Midsize Cities

By Joel Kotkin and Michael A. Shires |  May 1, 2006

Employment Base of 150,000-450,000.  Read story

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

By Inc Staff |  Dec 1, 1992

A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year.  Read story

Venture-Backed IPOs Top $4.27 Billion

By Angus Loten |  Jul 9, 2007

More companies are going public, led by the technology sector, but mergers and acquisitions have slowed.  Read story

Local-Tax Nightmares

By Inc Staff |  Sep 1, 1993

Chart showing 10 cities in which small businesses had to pay the most taxes nationwide in 1990.  Read story

Upcoming Events

May 1, 1982

The National Association of Women Business Owners (co-sponsored by Triton College) three-day business symposium, May 14-16, Chicago, III. Call Joyce...  Read story

Big Cities Tops for Bioscience Jobs

By Leslie Taylor |  Feb 26, 2007

New York, Los Angeles, and other big metropolitan centers are cashing in on a booming bioscience industry producing everything from medical devices to livest...  Read story

Filling the Blanks

Jan 1, 1998

There's nothing like vague communication to gum up a company's operations and ruin customer relationships. Just ask the folks at EconoPrint, in Madison, W...  Read story

Index

By Inc Staff |  Jan 1, 1998

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the January issue.  Read story

Should Norm Sell? The Readers Have Spoken

By Norm Brodsky |  Feb 1, 2007

By better than a five-to-one ratio, readers who wrote in think Norm should sell. Here's what some of them had to say:  Read story

Puppy Power

By Dan Briody |  Nov 1, 2007

Using a new tool called a widget to boost your brand.  Read story

As Good As New

Aug 1, 1984

Remanufacturing, although an oftignored production strategy, has made some headway in a number of manufacturing arenas. A survey by Robert T. Lund, a res...  Read story

How To Buy A Little Computer

By Jay Conway |  Oct 1, 1981

Walk into a store, plunk your money down, and carry it out under your arm.  Read story

Ahead Of The Pack

Jan 1, 1986

How some banks are prospering under deregulation  Read story

Rubble With a Cause

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Jul 1, 1993

Company manufactures a molded structural material made of recycled materials.  Read story

Will SBA Be Kinder to VC Industry?

By Keaton Gray |  Jun 5, 2009

New SBA chief counsel for advocacy may open up grants to companies with VC investors, if confirmed.  Read story

Suddenly Solo

By Krysten Crawford |  Nov 15, 2001

Surviving a messy partnership split isn't easy. But a Handful of this year's Inc 500 entrepreneurs have discovered the joys of going it alone.  Read story

Customer Service: The Staff-Written Job-Order Form

By Stephanie L. Gruner |  Apr 1, 1996

A quick look at how a printing company turned to its employees to solve problems they had with a job-order form.  Read story

Origins of the Inc. 500: Company Names

By Jennifer McFarland |  Oct 15, 1999

Follow the Leaders It's an oddity of Rochester, N.Y., that the names of its two premier corporations, Kodak and Xerox, are strange...  Read story

For Specialty Retailers, Love Is in the Air

By Angus Loten |  Jan 22, 2007

Americans now spend more than $13 billion on Valentine's Day. That's good news for companies that make teddy bears, chocolates, and other romantic gifts.  Read story

They Recycle Whole Trees

By Phaedra Hise |  Jun 1, 1993

Kinko's Copy Centers plants trees to replace those destroyed to produce the paper used by the company.  Read story

The Inc. Second 100

By Bradford W. Ketchum |  Jun 1, 1981

The runners-up to the 1981 INC. 100 are more profitable, more productive, and more stable.  Read story

Professional Help: Cross That Off Your To-Do List

By Alison Stein Wellner |  Nov 1, 2007

Why spend your precious personal time picking up after pets or running errands? Outsource it!  Read story

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Dec 1, 1986

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read story

Mail

By Inc Staff |  Apr 1, 2009

Built to Scale I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your cover story on Markus Frind, the founder of Plenty of Fish ["Read story

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