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Lease Is More

Travelers find more space, more charm, and less expensive rates when they check into an apartment instead of a hotel.  Read story

What's Next: Upgrade Madness

Software makers offer new, allegedly better, versions all the time. Is it always smart to buy?  Read story

Talking Opportunity

Rental car start-up switches focus to a more profitable cellular-phone-rental venture.  Read story

In Search of Equity

Sharing equity with employees has been good medicine for any number of organizational ills. Now, about the side effects...  Read story

The Inc. Network

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Jockeying for Position, Keeping Tabs, Speaking Out

Three CEOs each review a different business software package--HR Task Counselor, WebTalk, CRUSH.  Read story

Upstarts: Voting Systems

In the nonpartisan spirit of entrepreneurship, some companies offer ingenious responses to last year's unpleasantness at the polls.  Read story

Web Development on the Cheap

A technology analyst explains that getting your company on the World Wide Web doesn't have to be difficult or costly.  Read story

No Tech, No Takers

Various Inc. writers examine eight myths about going public that the 1996 market shatters.  Read story

Myth 3: Smart Money Makes You Smart

Think any Internet start-up can get venture capital? Not true. Entrepreneur Cliff Young had to grow his company before the VCs came calling.  Read story

How I Did It: Gregg Buchbinder

And sometimes your market finds you.  Read story

Customer Service: Quick Recovery

A vice-president explains how his courier company uses technology to shorten lag times on customer pickups.  Read story

Browser Beware

Before you rely on an online ratings service, get to know the source -- and how it makes money.  Read story

Going Through Customs

Americans are selling the Japanese everything from shampoo to catering trucks. The trick is to play by their rules.  Read story

The Best-managed Franchises in America

A profile of Gary Grace, whose 20 hair salons are the top performers in the Supercuts franchise chain.  Read story

Sweet Deals

Mrs. Beasley's has created a stellar blueprint for integrating "bricks" and "clicks" businesses through strategic partnerships, superior logistics, and some ...  Read story

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