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Where Does The Money Go?

Since you can't take it with you, for entrepreneurs on whom newly created net worth weighs heavily, the problem is what to do with it while you are here. ...  Read more

Industries In Transition

The divesture of AT T has created a maze for manufacturer and customer alike -- and new market opportunities for those who can see them.  Read more

Fighting the War on Postage

Catalog houses suggest alternative marketing tactics to offset the high cost of mailing.  Read more

Defense Software Companies Look Election-proof

With the Democrats pledging to eliminate "big-ticket" defense-budget items, many defense contractors have reason to hope that President Reagan and the Rep...  Read more

Keeping Tabs on the Joneses

Finding out what your rivals are up to is one of the trickiest tasks of running a business. Most companies gather intelligence bytalking to their salespeo...  Read more

Get Dumb and Grow Rich

Inc.'s executive editor spends some time with an entrepreneur who sells his ignorance, not his expertise.  Read more

Best Love of Product: True Believers

How some companies cultivate their employees' pride in and passion for their employer and/or product.  Read more

Scouting Out the Competition

Advice on checking out the competition.  Read more

Leisure Pursuits

Why marketers are increasingly trying to reach people on vacation.  Read more

Letters

Inc. readers react to articles from the July 1998 issue of Inc., including Christopher Caggiano's "Psycho Path" and Burton L. Visotzky's "Bible in the Boardr...  Read more

Raising Capital for Home-Based Businesses

Sheila Lovell had already founded, grown, and sold one successful home-based business, a landscaping company in Massachusetts, when in late 1996 she purch...  Read more

Blast In, Write On, Litigate Out

Three CEOs each review a new software package.  Read more

The Company That Saved The Farm

A fast growing wharf-building business started to preserve a condemned farmhouse in Vermont.  Read more

Making Moves, Doing Deals, Screening the News

Three CEOs each review a new software package.  Read more

Computer Literacy?

If you can trust the "M*A*S*H" team, you already know that the entire universe needs a personal computer. Nevertheless, it still seems that for each pers...  Read more

Pricing Your Service for Profits

Company analyzes its profitability and discovers that mistakes in pricing can be costly.  Read more

Network: June 1992

Network questions and answers.  Read more

Home Grown

Once seen as quaint, home businesses are now run by sophisticated and ambitious company builders. Here's what you need to know to start growing a home busine...  Read more

The 1988 Inc. 500

Brief profiles of 15 Inc. 500 companies.  Read more

IM Is Here. RU Ready 2 Try It?

Instant messages -- those cryptic little on-line conversations -- are traveling from teenagers' computers into businesses like yours.  Read more

IM Is Here. RU Ready 2 Try It?

Instant messages -- those cryptic little on-line conversations -- are traveling from teenagers' computers into businesses like yours.  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

The Trouble with Angels

A new breed of private investor has emerged from today's bull market. These angels can behave more like venture capitalists, demanding quick turnaround on th...  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