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Safe House

A good data backup system can preserve not just your company but your sanity.  Read story

Dedicated Hosting Essentials

If you're running an e-commerce or database-driven site, or if you need greater access to software choices and the hardware itself, you're probably shoppi...  Read story

ABCs of Cost Control

New software promises to expose your true costs and tell you which customers are profitable.  Read story

Snapshots: Late Bloomers

These entrepreneurs are hitting their stride later in life.  Read story

Real Time

Indigo Technologies Ltd. was shooting itself in the foot. The Toronto-based custom software house charges its clients based on projected costs, but the co...  Read story

Upstarts: The Russian Connection

Entrepreneurs who've emigrated from the former Soviet Union are shrewdly benefiting from the crumbling economy of that once-mighty empire. And they aren't th...  Read story

Best of the Small Business Web: Pitching Camp

US Sports Camps, a profitable and elegantly designed sports camp site, has turned a summer program into year-round sales.  Read story

Best of the Small Business Web: Personnel Best

Pinnacle Decision Systems' staff site eases new employees in and lessens current workers' growing pains.  Read story

Technology Redux

The president of a manufacturing firm explains why sometimes the way to upgrade is to resurrect what used to work.  Read story

Pulp Addiction

A close-up look at the struggles one job-placement firm endured as it moved toward a paperless workplace.  Read story

The Next Big Thing

Animation may just add what's been missing from your Web site.  Read story

VARs Under the Influence?

Microsoft has a new strategy for capturing the small-business market: capture the hearts and minds of consultants, integrators, and value-added resellers.  Read story

While You Were Out

Here's how two companies purchased their voice-mail systems. Includes the options they faced, the cost of each system, and technical glitches that arose duri...  Read story

Free Hosts: 4 to Grow On

You're running a successful business and you're thinking about taking it online. Maybe you want to test the waters before shelling out large sums o...  Read story

Intranets Explained

While intranet seems to be today's business buzzword, it's also a useful business tool.  Read story

Bulletin Board

A collection of eight short articles about technology. Topics include a free online consumer buying guide, predicting project costs, online psychologists and...  Read story

Inc. Technology Index

Some data showing how hardware and software has changed from 1995 to 1996 in small-business offices.  Read story

The Ties That Bind

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) can speed up work flow by uniting different corporate divisions under a single family of software modules. Now, smaller co...  Read story

Markets: Who Are the High-Tech Workers?

Some results from a survey of single-person business people working out of their homes.  Read story

Surveying the Scene, Projecting the Future, Bending Your Will

Various professionals review an assortment of hardware and software.  Read story

Little Giant

Web design firm USWeb/CKS grew at an astonishing rate by gobbling up existing businesses. Now it's using technology to keep its far-flung components all work...  Read story

Intranet Solves Record-Keeping Problem

How does one small organization use an intranet, or internal Web site, to keep human resources operations up to par? Before Forsyth Dental Center, a nonpr...  Read story

The Suite Spot

A guide to office suite software packages. Includes a review of Microsoft Office 97 Professional Edition, Microsoft Office 97 Small Business Edition, and Lot...  Read story

Inner Beauties

Here's how Children's Orchard, a franchiser of children's discount stores, uses an intranet to alert franchisees to news about new products and unite them un...  Read story

Best of the Small Business Web: A Room with a SKU

Industrial distributor Livingston Haven has created a self-service dream with superfunctional client pages.  Read story

Get With the Programmers

Can Linux really take on Microsoft's Windows? Our man in the Valley risked possible sunburn and certain embarrassment to find out.  Read story

Born Again with Microsoft

Company: UltraBac.com Year founded: 1983 Quiet period: 13 years Turning point:Read story

Best of the Small Business Web: The Heat Is Online

Advanced Radiant Technology's heating guru wins local customers and far-flung admirers by waxing eloquent on his art and craft.  Read story

Can I use microwave technology to connect two offices?

An inc.com user asks: I need to network offices located three and ten miles apart. Can I connect them via microwave? Read story

When Slow and Steady Wins the Race

A company profile showing that not every business has to make furious high-tech changes to thrive.  Read story

Dream Weaver

The president of Create-It! Inc. reviews MindMan--The Creative MindManager, a software product that helps groups organize the thoughts and ideas that occur d...  Read story

Making the Switch to VoIP

In the March 2003 Inc article, "Good Call," Hamon Corp.'s move to voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) helped the company more effectively -- and ...  Read story

LAN of Opportunity

Four business people tell how they selected their local area networks and offer advice in the selection process.  Read story

The Two Hundred Million Dollar Dash

The story of how a pharmaceutical start-up turned to technology to bring its drugs to market quicker.  Read story

The Right Stuff

A business owner reviews a software package that helps search the Internet for information without getting junk.  Read story

Best of the Small Business Web: Show Me the Monet

ArtSource offers build-your-own art galleries that help corporate customers make smart decisions.  Read story

Bidding on Linux

It's cheap and it works. But can you run your company on Linux?  Read story

Safe Passage

How to make financial transactions secure on your Web site. A look at the technology, registering with certification authorities, and digital cash as an alte...  Read story

Best of the Small Business Web: Pens and Tellers

WaterMark Group, a small vendor of automatic-teller supplies, didn't bank on becoming a profitable online publisher, but now its Web magazine brings in 40% o...  Read story

Dressed for Success

The CEO of Executive Fashions explains why he designed his fledgling company's operations around a software product--instead of installing it after the busin...  Read story

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