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No Receptionist Necessary

Don't miss out on an opportunity. Use a Web-based reservation system to schedule activities for clients.  Read more

No Receptionist Necessary

Don't miss out on an opportunity. Use a Web-based reservation system to schedule activities for clients.  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 1992 Inc. 500 Index

Alphabetical listing of the 1992 Inc. 500 companies, names only.  Read more

Street-Smart Pricing

Marketing to universities, a CEO sold colleges licenses to copy her software and sell it cheaply to students.  Read more

Upstarts: New-Biz Watch

A look at Mark Begelman's MARS, a music and recording superstore that encourages customers to touch the merchandise, plus four shorter articles about the ret...  Read more

Mail

The Anticapitalist CEO and Her Seditious Shirt The Planned Parenthood "I had an abortion" T-shirt Ani DiFranco wears in the lead photo for the s...  Read more

Slim Pickings In The Software Garden

Like June in the old Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune, personal computers are bustin' out all over. An estimated 6.5 million units -- what the industry ...  Read more

America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies

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

Case Study Update: Selling a Successful Widget

Back to Business: A marketing gimmick became a hot side act for this software maker. Selling it meant the company could refocus and grow eve...  Read more

Appraisal Software Versus Pen and Paper

The advantages of using employee appraisal software.  Read more

In Search Of A Better Business Plan

With more money to invest than ever before, venture capitalists are going on the regional conference circuit to find new deals, providing entrepreneurs with ...  Read more

Southern Comfort: Savannah's Squares and Parks

Our guide to Savannah's top attractions continues.  Read more

How're We Doing?

One company's use of an annual report card from customers to measure competitive performance.  Read more

A Software Company's Whimsical Widgets Were an Instant Hit. But Its Core Product was Getting Overshadowed.

To embrace or flee Facebook?  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

Emergency, Inc.;

An odd-looking trophy adorns the desk of Stanley R. Gold, M.D., founder and president of American Emergicenter Inc., a chain of publicly owned walk-in med...  Read more

Pressure-point Marketing

What do you do when your potential customers are small companies spread out all over the country? Skyway Freight's strategy: One sale closes a thousand deals.  Read more

The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker

Keith Ferrazzi needs two PalmPilots to keep track of all his contacts, people like Bill Clinton and Michael Milken.  Read more

The 9-to-5 Start-up

Chip Wolfe, founder of Sterling Information Group, Inc., wanted his company to adhere to a 40-hour work-week for all employees. Can a fast-growing start-up t...  Read more

The Most Entrepreneurial Cities in America

Inc.'s 1990 ranking of metropolitan regions by job growth, business starts, and proportion of high-growth companies.  Read more

Inc. 500 by Industry

A listing by industry of the companies on the 12th annual Inc. 500 list.  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

Hot Spots

INC.'s annual ranking of America's cities  Read more