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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

Videoconferencing for the Rest of Us

A close-up look at some new technology making the face-to-face phone call affordable.  Read more

Frame of reference

Measuring the credibility and work ethic of potential employee's references.  Read more

When The Magic Goes

The adoring crowd of 300 engineers executives, and reporters fell silent. They had gathered this Friday night in the bright new site of Sente Technologies...  Read more

Pop Art

Next time you're with a bunch of frequent Internet users, try this survey. First, request a show of hands from those who like pop-ups -- t...  Read more

Pop Art

Next time you're with a bunch of frequent Internet users, try this survey. First, request a show of hands from those who like pop-ups -- t...  Read more

#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 more

The Third Wave

U.S. entrepreneurs are filling new niches in the semiconductor industry.  Read more

Out Of Stock

Three years ago, top executives at cash-hungry West Coast companies thought they had found the perfect device for luring and locking up key employees with...  Read more

Making A Big Machine Act Like A Small One

A new company has introduced a product for minicomputers -- those now-inaptly named machines that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars -- to make them pe...  Read more

Different Routes: Xicor Inc.

At a time when heavily financed, venture-backed companies are failing right and left, Xicor Inc. president and chairman Raphael Klein has emerged as a new...  Read more

Fast Track;

SCOTT VOSS USED TO WORK AS director of engineering at a semiconductor plant in the Philippines, where the turnaround time to his U.S. customers was 25 day...  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

SBA Relief Lending Questioned

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America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies

A user's guide to the 12th annual Inc. 500 list.  Read more

The Hottest Entrepreneur In America Is The "smart Team" At Compaq Computer

Companies like Compaq are emerging from the high-tech shakeout stronger than ever. Their secret: avoiding the one-man shown. Is there a lesson here for the r...  Read more

The Age Of Alliances

The new semiconductor companies are getting their funding from a powerful combination of hungry venture capitalists, aggressive bankers, and -- suprisingly e...  Read more

Wi-Fi for the Masses

Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it--one city at a time.  Read more

Wi-Fi for the Masses

Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it--one city at a time.  Read more

A Call To Action

Jim Pinto is betting his company on a humanistic approach to commerce that makes Action Instruments everybody's business.  Read more

Greer vs. Nemeth

Why a haphazardly made venture capital deal may cost a successful entrepreneur her company.  Read more

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 more

Mutual Benefits

Analog Device's daring strategy for coping with change has led to unique relationships with small companies around the country.  Read more

The Dark Side

Some common fears of private companies who go public.  Read more

The 500

#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 more