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Chair Today, Gone Tomorrow

By John F. Persinos |  Jul 1, 1984

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 story

Here Comes The Neighborhood

By DAVID L. BIRCH |  Mar 1, 1990

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

Electronic House Calls

By Leslie Brokaw |  Apr 1, 1989

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

Tax Baedekers

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1992

Resources for planning international tax strategies.  Read story

Crash-proofing Your Fleet

By Robert A. Mamis |  Nov 1, 1991

Available electronic systems warn drivers of impending collisions.  Read story

House Calls

By Anne B. Fisher |  Jul 1, 1989

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

Rushing Your Cash Back Home

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Nov 1, 1993

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

Best Compensation: Cashing In

By Tom Ehrenfeld |  Jul 1, 1993

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

Network: Reader Responses

By Inc Staff |  Aug 1, 1994

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

The Real Cost of Layoffs

By Carole Matthews |  Jul 19, 2002

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 story

Managing People;

By Richard Kreisman |  Apr 1, 1986

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 story

Confessions of a Passionate Shopper

By George Gendron |  Jan 1, 1993

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

Watch Your Language

By V.I. |  Nov 1, 1984

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 story

Hire That Jerk

By PAUL B. BROWN |  Jun 1, 1988

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 story

Mail

By Inc Staff |  Mar 1, 2009

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 story

Tear Down the Walls

By Nancy K. Austin |  Apr 1, 1999

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

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

Dec 1, 1983

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

Street Marketing

By Susan Greco |  Feb 1, 1993

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

Bonuses for Breaking New Ground

By Susan Greco |  Mar 1, 1993

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

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Dec 1, 1986

#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

Choosing an Operating System

By David Abrahamson |  Apr 1, 1995

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

In A Former Life: S. Kenneth Kannappan

By Ilan Mochari |  Jun 1, 2001

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

On Display

By Joseph P. Kahn |  Nov 1, 1985

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 story

Laying the Groundwork

By Leslie Brokaw |  Jul 1, 1990

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

Small Talk

By Inc Staff |  May 15, 1996

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

Test Your Financial Fitness

By Inc Staff |  Oct 1, 1996

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

Striking Out With VCs?

By Jennifer Gill |  Jan 1, 2006

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

Friendly Skies;

By Joe Rosenbloom III |  Feb 1, 1986

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 story

The Productivity-Boosting Gain-Sharing Report

By Tom Ehrenfeld |  Aug 1, 1993

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

Resources

By Inc Staff |  Oct 1, 1996

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

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

By Tom Richman |  Nov 1, 1986

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

1987 The Inc. 100;

May 1, 1987

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 story

The 50 Most Active Venture Capitalists

Sep 1, 1981

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 story

The Case for Customized Software

By Robert A. Mamis |  Feb 1, 1993

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

A New Lift For Small-company Irbs

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jan 1, 1983

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

Taking The Fear Out of Factoring

By Martin Mayer |  Dec 1, 2003

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

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

By Inc Staff |  Dec 1, 1992

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

The Comics Commando

Jun 1, 1982

Cartoonist Dick Hafer likes underdogs, including small companies he thinks are being pushed around. Bullies beware!  Read story

Going Private

By Craig R. Waters |  Feb 1, 1983

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 story

Net Profit

By Phaedra Hise |  Oct 1, 1994

An in-depth look at a start-up that offers customers Internet access, shareware and technical support.  Read story

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