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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 story

Mutual Benefits

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

The 1992 Inc. 500 Index

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

Street-Smart Pricing

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies

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

Southern Comfort: Savannah's Squares and Parks

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

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 story

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 story

Appraisal Software Versus Pen and Paper

The advantages of using employee appraisal software.  Read story

How're We Doing?

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

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 story

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 story

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#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 story

Anything Could Happen

Evan Williams's first little idea shifted the culture. (You can thank him for the ubiquity of blogging.) His new business, called Twitter, will be entering y...  Read story

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 story

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 story

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. But there's far more to cracking the inne...  Read story

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 story

Inc. 500 by Industry

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

Hot Spots

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

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