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Chair Today, Gone Tomorrow

If your company is new and fast-growing, think twice before buying office furniture. It might make more sense to rent what you need until the dust settle...  Read more

Here Comes The Neighborhood

A listing of nine high-growth neighborhoods in and around older, slower-growth cities.  Read more

Tax Baedekers

Resources for planning international tax strategies.  Read more

Electronic House Calls

Company develops a telemonitor for at-home health care.  Read more

Crash-proofing Your Fleet

Available electronic systems warn drivers of impending collisions.  Read more

House Calls

Can Buddy Systems Inc. convince doctors, insurers, and patients to accept its new home monitoring device?  Read more

Rushing Your Cash Back Home

Advice for companies doing business abroad on collection and transfer of funds to the U.S.  Read more

Best Compensation: Cashing In

Pay alone does not qualify a company as a great place to work.  Read more

Network: Reader Responses

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

The Real Cost of Layoffs

Many companies use layoffs to help boost the bottom line, but in the long run, such hasty measures cost a company more than they save.  Read more

Managing People;

Major-league athletes may get the headlines, but they're not alone in their susceptibility to drug abuse. High-flying brokers, top executives, foremen, s...  Read more

Confessions of a Passionate Shopper

Introduction to Inc.'s first annual small company design awards.  Read more

Watch Your Language

If little Joey wants IBM's high-powered Personal Computer/XT for Christmas, watch out. He may be scheming to cheat on his Spanish papers. Even if he gets ...  Read more

Mail

Of Minds and Machines After reading about Tan Le, the co-founder of Emotiv, and her vision of a world in which machines respond to our mental com...  Read more

Hire That Jerk

The next time an uncouth motor mouth applies for a sales job, you should think twice before throwing him out. That, at any rate, is one way to read the f...  Read more

Tear Down the Walls

Faced with poor internal communications, accounting firm Lipschultz, Levin Gray created a whole new way of doing business by eliminating all wall...  Read more

Street Marketing

Street marketing as a cost-effective alternative to conventional television, print, and direct-mail advertising.  Read more

Bonuses for Breaking New Ground

Sales reps receive bonuses for opening new accounts or selling new products.  Read more

How to Obtain an H1B Visa

As 2010 nears its end, the number of available H-1B visas is dwindling. Here's how to go about some last-minute shopping for one.  Read more

Class Of '82: Who's Who Among The Acquired

1982 Rank Company Location Acquirer 413. Basic Concept Paterson, NJ Lightolier, subs. Bairnco <...  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

In A Former Life: S. Kenneth Kannappan

CEO S. Kenneth Kannappan discusses how he discovered the key to motivating employees while working at his first job.  Read more

Choosing an Operating System

A company wrestles with the difficult and potentially costly decision of which network operating system to install.  Read more

Laying the Groundwork

Inc. revisits a health-care products start-up to find that sales growth is taking longer than projected.  Read more

On Display

Founder Gordon Segal's sense of selling as theater has made Crate Barrel one of the world's most admired and imitated retailing operations.  Read more

Small Talk

Various entrepreneurs share their thoughts on the changing role of small businesses in the U.S.  Read more

Striking Out With VCs?

You're not alone. As venture capitalists become more risk averse, more early-stage companies are tapping the hot hedge fund market.  Read more

Test Your Financial Fitness

Take this test to find out how you're doing financially, and what to do if you don't like the results.  Read more

Resources

A guide to finding more information on various topics featured in the Oct. 1996 issue of Inc. magazine.  Read more

The Productivity-Boosting Gain-Sharing Report

A well-designed weekly gain-sharing report to encourage labor-cost savings that benefit employers and employees.  Read more

Friendly Skies;

Hanna Turner felt that travel agents were taking her company for a ride -- a needlessly costly one. "We had always been assured we would get the lowest f...  Read more

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

What I Do In Public Isn't So Bad, Either

The Class of '83 went public during the last hot IPO market, and its members claim things have worked out just fine.  Read more

The 50 Most Active Venture Capitalists

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Time from first contact ...  Read more

The Case for Customized Software

A customized software system helps a company owner run his business more efficiently.  Read more

Taking The Fear Out of Factoring

With more and more reputable companies entering the factoring business, services have greatly improved. But factors' bottom line use remains the same: provid...  Read more

A New Lift For Small-company Irbs

Since the congressional reprieve last summer for most industrial revenue bonds, two innovations may make small issues more appealing to national investors.  Read more

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year.  Read more

Going Private

Last year a record 90 companies were bought out of corporate empires. When Walter Lovejoy cut loose from Beatrice Foods with his little mold-making company t...  Read more