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Workers Fret Over Gas Prices

A survey finds prices at the pumps are a bigger concern than unemployment.  Read more

Benchmark: The Costs of Understaffing

Some statistics concerning the adverse effects of understaffing.  Read more

Benchmark: What Drives the Skills Gap?

A look at some data showing the adverse affects on businesses of the current skills gap.  Read more

A Tale Of Hackers, Robbers, And Spies

The people trying to break into computers these days aren't just kids hacking for kicks. They are nosy competitors, disgruntled former employees, and ele...  Read more

Younger Employees More Loyal

Companies may be placing greater emphasis on retention, according to a new survey.  Read more

Workers Question Diversity Efforts

Many employees still complain of age, gender and race discrimination on the job, a survey finds.  Read more

Forget VC Money, Fund Yourself

Forget VC Money, Fund Yourself It was 1999, at the height of the boom, a few months before the bust of April 2000 so he can be forgiven. I stoo...  Read more

Workers: Employers Not Green Enough

A majority of U.S. employees feel businesses could be doing more for the environment.  Read more

Here Comes The Neighborhood

A listing of nine high-growth neighborhoods in and around older, slower-growth cities.  Read more

Finding Your Voice

Like Melville or Hemingway, companies need a unique voice to reach customers in a meaningful way.  Read more

Year 2000 Costs: The Silver Lining

If your company is dealing with the headaches caused by the infamous Year 2000 bug -- the problems that will strike a lot of hardware and software o...  Read more

Is Your State Entrepreneur-Friendly?

How not to get your ideas stolen . Don't spell them out in PowerPoint slides. That's the Read more

Credit Where Credit is Due

Why community banks may well be your best source of financing in today's economy.  Read more

CEO's Notebook

CEOs give advice on: selling stock on a European exchange, attracting new hires, protecting yourself from making bad investments, deducting Year 2000 bug rep...  Read more

For Holiday Cheer, Keep Customer Data Safe

To stand out this Christmas, small merchants are putting shoppers’ safety first. E-tailers are beefing up anti-fraud programs and other security measures t...  Read more

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1987 The Inc. 100;

WE'RE AWAITING CONFIRMATION FROM THE observatory at Mount Palomar that all the planets and moons did indeed orbit around Wall Street last year. Certainly...  Read more

A Helping Hand With Taxing Matters

Inc. asked 12 small business owners to evaluate the most popular tax advice Web sites.  Read more

A Helping Hand With Taxing Matters

Inc. asked 12 small business owners to evaluate the most popular tax advice Web sites.  Read more

Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100

Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit...  Read more

Put a Hacker to Work

TopCoder has an unusual way of finding talent. It hosts code-writing contests, in which geeks around the world compete for bragging rights and cash.  Read more

Business Made Easy

A review of resource books which include management tips on starting a small business.  Read more

The Selling Of The Entrepreneur, 1986

Everyone loves an entrepreneur -- even an entrepreneur who really isn't. Just ask Frank Bartles, Ed Jaymes, or the little guys at Rockwell.  Read more

Capital: Shell Game

Now that the window for initial public offerings has all but closed, more Wall Street-bound companies are flirting with controversial reverse mergers.  Read more

Riding the Economic Roller Coaster

Turbulent world economic markets can affect your growing business -- even if you don't sell overseas. Here's how to shelter your company from adverse economi...  Read more

Trading Places: How a Dentist Invented the Export Trading Company

Although Dr. Josepb Blaes considered himself reasonably imaginative, he never dreamed that his design for a more efficient dental clinic would have global si...  Read more

Paging Dr. Wireless

Long resistant to technology, the medical field is finally getting wired. But can anything short of a complete overhaul make a difference?  Read more

Paging Dr. Wireless

Long resistant to technology, the medical field is finally getting wired. But can anything short of a complete overhaul make a difference?  Read more

The Inc. 100

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