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Efficiency By Design

For a Miami entrepreneur, uniform describes both a product line and a lifestyle.  Read story

Corrections

Due to an inadvertent error in transcription (6-month figures were transcribed as 12-month figures), Key Pharmaceuticals inc. of Miami, Fla., which ranked...  Read story

"you'd Be Surprised How Easy It Is To Succeed"

David Wolfberg had big plans for his Miami architectural firm. Too big, as it turned out.  Read story

Open the Gates

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

Funds Source for Service Businesses

Alternative sources of capital for service businesses.  Read story

A Wise Consistency

Lely Barea, owner of Ibiley Uniforms, achieves efficiency by demanding uniformity in everything in her life, including her wardrobe, communications with empl...  Read story

Computer Security for Small Business

Dec. 8, 2006 -- The Federal Business Council's 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference will be held Dec. 11-15 in Miami, or...  Read story

In Time For Valentine's Day, the Next Wave Of Online Dating

Match-making has become a huge industry online, and continues to evolve as technology improves.  Read story

Gone Fishing

Fishing for vacations.  Read story

Pick a car, arrive in style

New service lets you borrow a range of vintage cars.  Read story

The Hot Manufacturing Centers

As manufacturing changes, so does the geography of manufacturing. With the help of Cognetics Inc., INC. identified the 10 metropolitan areas that are hom...  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

Selling To The New America

A new wave of immigration is changing the complexion of the American consumer market, turning 'minority' markets into 'majority' ones  Read story

Millionaires Upbeat About Economy

Shrugging off financial market volatility, wealthy Americans are not curtailing plans to purchase luxury cars, go on cruises, or remodel their homes -- th...  Read story

The Thomas Kron Affair

Chocolatier Kron makes a sweet chocolate-covered cherry but is learning the hard way just how fast a franchise deal can sour.  Read story

Why Companies Fail

Judgment calls, reality tests and mistakes of the heart that doom companies to failure.  Read story

When a Single Bank Won't Do

Four CEOs talk about why they use multiple banks.  Read story

On Balance

The benefits of hiring a diverse workforce are detailed by a CEO who explains how his company achieved this goal.  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

Blacks In Business: Are They Reluctant Entrepreneurs?

Paramount among the factors affecting the development of black business enterprise has been the postindustrial restructuring of the U.S. economic system. ...  Read story

Look to Low-Cost and Niche Airlines for Low Fares

One of the best ways to get the lowest fares is to know where low-cost and niche airlines fly. These carriers allow you to create your own system of airfa...  Read story

Law and Disorder

How company owners can protect themselves from employee litigation.  Read story

Getting The Bugs Out

In the extermination business, there is Al Burger and there is everybody else. What does he know that the others don't?  Read story

Glenda Johnson

Age: 27 Hometown: Miami Undergraduate Degree: Florida A & M University Business School: The Wharton School of Business, University o...  Read story

Network: April 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Flow Charts

While some companies are carried up on a rising tide, others succeed by bucking the industry trends.  Read story

Frequently Asked Lending Questions

Our columnist addresses a few frequently asked questions regarding small business loans and financing strategies.  Read story

15 Tips for Smarter Tradeshow Travel

From booking a flight to working the exhibit hall, here's how to make the most of your conferences.  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

Media, Mid-Perm

Hair salons: hot media market?  Read story

Hard Schlock Cafe

Dick Clark productions and a New Jersey real estate firm link up to create a chain of diners.  Read story

Affordable Escapes to Europe

Interested in an excursion to Europe that won't break your budget? Here are three transatlantic airline promotions worth checking out. Free...  Read story

Speed Demon

A look at how a courier company turned to technology to gain a competitive edge.  Read story

Will Banking Go Virtual?

Inc. magazine's finance editor points out some of the pitfalls that go with electronic banking.  Read story

Mail

The Votes Are In The four young entrepreneurs you profiled are inspiring ["Read story

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In this issue, for the first time, INC. has expanded its list of the fastest-growing public companies to the next 100 growth companies. We've called it t...  Read story

Vanishing Act

Plastigone Technologies hopes to ride the environmental wave with an additive that helps plastic to biodegrade.  Read story

The Inc. 500

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales growth 1980-84 ...  Read story

"taking Care Of Our Own"

Black networks spring up to help the "best and the brightest" start new firms and lure black customers to black businesses.  Read story

30 Memorable Marketing Campaigns

A look at bold and unusual marketing campaigns from Ben & Jerry's, Pizza Patron, and Virgin  Read story