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Health Insurance;

When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping," as the saying goes, and now is a good time to be shopping for health insurance, but not because the goi...  Read more

Tracking Flexible Fliers

A new software program accommodates uneven telecommuting and flextime work schedules.  Read more

Index

How to contact companies, people, and organizations mentioned prominently in this issue.  Read more

Network: July 1990

Network new queries.  Read more

Network: January 1992

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Green Travels

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

Network: October 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

My Own Private Buyout

How one CEO bought his father's business.  Read more

Distribution: Cash In with a Cause

A quick look at how some entreprenuers are using local fund-raising markets as distribution opportunities.  Read more

Mcpawnbroker

Gerald M. Kagan is taking pawnshops out of seedy city storefronts and bringing them to suburban shopping centers. He and his partner, Daniel M. Naygrow, a...  Read more

Things We Love: Home-Phone-Line Networking

Finding his wireless local area network to be too slow and unreliable, Kurt Delsack turned to home-phone-line networking with pleasing results.  Read more

Things We Love: Home-Phone-Line Networking

Finding his wireless local area network to be too slow and unreliable, Kurt Delsack turned to home-phone-line networking with pleasing results.  Read more

Edge Cities

List of the 10 U.S. cities with the greatest concentration of small companies.  Read more

Pinkberry's Unnatural Flavor Leaves a Sour Taste

Pinkberry, the frozen yogurt chain known for its addictive sour flavor, long lines, and cultish band of devotees (Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, much of the...  Read more

Games Businesspeople Play

Some talk about it; some don't. But without question, there are more than a few who are doing something other than VisiCalc down at the shop.  Read more

Hotline

Current trends and government programs affecting small business.  Read more

Indecent Exposure

A look at investing in a turbulent stock market. Here are some suggestions for protecting yourself from a sudden downturn. Also: alternatives to stock invest...  Read more

Planning Tools

Resources for helping write successful business plans.  Read more

The Never-ending Controversy

Why the Pentagon will keep spending $7,600 for a coffee maker.  Read more

How to Find a Business to Buy

An overview of how to determine what business suits you, what you can afford, and how to perform due diligence.  Read more

Resources

A guide to more information on subjects covered in the Inc. magazine special issue: The State of Small Business 1997.  Read more

Public Relations: Getting Your Company On TV

A CEO and his video-production expert explain how they created a video that caught national attention.  Read more

The Best 4 Small-Business Neighborhoods in America

Here's what entrepreneurs are looking for when selecting a community for start-ups, and what they're finding.  Read more

Selling Out

Inc.'s finance editor examines what has happened to those businesses that are offered for sale at the end of each issue.  Read more

No IPO Plan for Twitter

Biz Stone deflects rumors of a deal with J.P. Morgan, a bleak outlook for small-business lending and the rest of the day's news.  Read more

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth '77-'81 ...  Read more

The Swifty Lazars Of Software

One of the hottest agents around these days is a fellow by the name of John Brockman. He does not represent movie stars, or rock singers, or professional ...  Read more

'Tis the Season for Hard Core Capitalism?

Jake Kloberdanz, the 25-year-old CEO of Hope Wine , doesn't think the holidays are a particularly great time to engag...  Read more

When Retirement Goes Wrong

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: Bad...  Read more

Multimedia Is the Message

Several small businesses are highlighted as readers see how to maximize the affects of marketing with multimedia.  Read more

Dream Machine

R J Corvette is one of the fastest-growing private companies in America, but the real growth curve is being charted in employee expectations.  Read more

Investors Meet Small Companies At Seminar

Sometime this month, a half-dozen or more entrepreneurs around the country expect to receive investment checks ranging from $300,000 to $1.5 million. The...  Read more

Public Companies: $156,000 At The Top

Executives of smaller publicly held companied enjoy fatter paychecks and broader perks than their counterparts in smaller private firms. That's the concl...  Read more

For CEOs Only

A CEO peer group can be an invaluable learning and networking experience, but a waste of time if it doesn't fit a CEO's specific needs. Here's what to consid...  Read more

Garbage In, Garbage Out

Bankers and entrepreneurs explain why business-plan software can never deliver what it promises.  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

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