Pasadena

NASA Conference for Small Businesses

Feb. 9, 2007 -- The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a NASA facility located at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, wil...  Read more

Hot Tip: Recruiting with Bonuses

As payments to headhunters have skyrocketed, companies have become much more generous with bonuses and perks for employees who help find recruits. EarthLi...  Read more

California Small-Business Conference Set for May

April 18, 2007 -- The first-ever California Small Business Success Conference is expected to draw over 5,000 small-business owners from t...  Read more

Together in Technology

Technology purchases can price a small start-up right out of business, but without those high-tech tools, most start-ups can't expect to compete in the gl...  Read more

Percolating Profits

A new generation of "virtual" business incubators is jump-starting start-ups nationwide.  Read more

Flowering Power

Penny and Frank Burkard, of Burkard Nurseries, in Pasadena, Calif., nurture sales as carefully as they tend their perennials, roses, and Japanese maple sa...  Read more

Easy Listenin' On The Software Circuit

Over the years, we have gotten used to losing senior writer Robert Mamis to a variety of hardware -- airplanes, windsurfers, his 34-foot ocean racer, Fido...  Read more

A Business Owner's Guide to Preventive Law

A look at some ongoing steps you need to take to trim your legal bills.  Read more

Outlook 2006: Communication

Get hip to blogs.  Read more

Internet Superstart Enlists Locals to Battle Giants

An overview of a Web business that is banking on networking with local businesses to overcome giant competition.  Read more

A Model for Smart Growth

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

'Tis Better to Give

Special section devoted to building customer and employee relations through holiday gifts and parties.  Read more

Is Municipal Wi-Fi Right for Your Business?

Cities from Philadelphia to San Francisco are undertaking public projects to offer residents and businesses cheap municipal wireless broadband Internet service.  Read more

Keeping Up, With NASA's Help

Information regarding database searching agency for the high-tech information age  Read more

April Fools' Day Joke Gone Awry

UPDATE: Zecco reports in its company blog th...  Read more

A New Chapter for E-Books

After falling flat in the early 1990s, are digital books ready to fly? Entrepreneurs are betting that new technology is creating a legitimate market.  Read more

Mail

This month's letters to the editor.  Read more

A New Way to Make Yourself Heard on Twitter

After months of speculation, Twitter announces its plan to make money: Promoted Tweets. What does it mean for you?  Read more

Presto Change-O, Marketing Magic

New business creates a device to simplify VCR recording.  Read more

Parents Who Worry Less Work More

Not every company has the time, interest, or recources to get into the child-care business. Still, a recent study by the National Employer Supported Chil...  Read more

Where Are They Now?

What happens to a company after reaching number one on the Inc. 500? Find out the current status of the past 14 top-spot holders.  Read more

Have I Got A (used) Computer For You!

"Used gold mine . . slashing prices . . . move 'em now. . . " Banners at a used-car lot? No, the high-powered hype from a recent brochure put out by a use...  Read more

Upstarts: New-Biz Watch

A look at how Toby Lenk founded eToys.com, an online toy retailer that's taking lessons from Amazon.com. Plus, several shorter articles about the unlikely pr...  Read more

Network: April 1990

Network new queries.  Read more

Update

September 2007 Additions to the Inc. 500 We'd like to welcome two more companies to the 2007 Inc. 500: Ascendant Technolo...  Read more

Can You Survive the Ebay Economy?

If you think Web auctions are only for collectibles, you're in for a surprise. These online agoras now sell everything from moving services to real estate wh...  Read more

The Well-Merchandised Web Site

A look at how a speciality store is selling its goods on the World Wide Web and what it requires to make such sales.  Read more

How Health-Insurance Costs Compare

Chart showing how a company's location affects its insurance rates.  Read more

Contributors

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The Chinese Way Of Business

What appears to be a good old-fashioned family business may be a $100-million international conglomerate  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

The Futurists

From solar panels to clean coal, betting big on the future of energy.  Read more

All Business Is Local

Vroman's bookstore, in Pasadena, Calif., is surrounded by enemies. Big enemies. Half a mile to the west is a Barnes & Noble superstore; half a mile to the...  Read more

Making A List

CEO implements a weekly to-do list strategy within his company. The list is shared between managers and workers.  Read more

Born-again Dealers

To solve marketing and distribution problems, a growing number of companies are converting their dealers into franchisees.  Read more

The Tropical Tax Paradise

Beehive's new manufacturing facility in the Republic of Ireland wouldn't be nearly as attractive an investment if it weren't for Beehive International Ltd...  Read more

Mobile Messages

The lumber and chicken-wire antenna on the roof of Gary Noreen's car drew a lot of attention on southern California freeways last fall. With $5,000 worth...  Read more

Video Moves From Home To Office

Four companies solve problems and impress customers with video equipment.  Read more

Stop Bellyaching!

If the day-to-day grind hits you where it hurts, you don't have to grimace and bear it.  Read more