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Forget those booming Sunbelt cities. Whatever you may read elsewhere in this magazine, the best place to be from when you start a business is clearly Per... Read story
Forget those booming Sunbelt cities. Whatever you may read elsewhere in this magazine, the best place to be from when you start a business is clearly Per... Read story
Expanding global markets have businesses concerned about losing workers to competing nations, a survey finds. Read story
Who has petrodollars to spend? Where can you sell construction equipment? Jewelry? Management consulting? And where is the market that grew an astounding 55,... Read story
Go behind the scenes with one of the judges at Moot Corp., a world-renowned business-plan contest hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. Read story
Bill Clinton's favorite economist believes that growth companies are the answer to terrorism. Read story
June 2008 Boss School You wake up ... Read story
Quote from Mario Vargas Llosa's foreword to 'The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World.' Read story
Three companies will appear on the Inner City 100 for the fifth time out of the seven years that the list has been in existence: Read story
Check every hotel personally, says Brian Morgan of Adventure Life. Same goes for the zip lines. Read story
Barriers to succeeding in business include regulation, special interests, protectionism, access to capital and welfare. Read story
A look at entrepreneurs who have found business opportunities from the North Sea to Antarctica Read story
Like risk? We've got some vacation ideas for you. Update your will and pack your bags. Read story
A CEO tells how the lessons he learned climbing mountains helped him turn around a company. Read story
Start-up activity grew in China and India in 2006, but fell slightly in the U.S., according to a new study. Read story
Our guide to Savannah's top attractions continues. Read story
The Coleman Foundation Chair of Entrepreneurial Studies explains the results of studies on regional economies. Read story
Communication is tough. It's even tougher when workers don't speak your language Managing workers who don't speak English as their... Read story
Selling an undifferentiated product in a crowded niche to price-conscious customers isn't an ideal business. But Edy Bedoya, founder of EBC Computers, has sp... Read story
CEOs' tales of negotiation terrors, collection nightmares and jet-lag cures. Read story
NO. 21 Intelliseek Cincinnati Blog analysis and research Read story
Thanks to a microloan from half a world away, a Cambodian rice winemaker named Phal An is ready to expand her growing business. Read story
Overseas Adventure Travel includes a contest in its mailings to ensure that their material is read. Read story
A credit bureau is an agency that collects and sells information about the credit-worthiness, or the ability to meet debt obligations, of individuals and ... Read story
Readers react to articles from the September 1998 issue of Inc., including Donna Fenn's "Built for Speed" and Edward O. Welles' "Ben's Big Flop." Read story
The founder of EBC Computers, from the 2000 Inc. 500, knew he could continue to eke a profit out of selling commodity computer parts, but instead he... Read story
THE OBAMA AGENDA, IN DETAIL In speeches, Obama Read story
The Body Shop mixes business with a devotion to social causes, inspiring both employees and customers. Read story
A plan to get rural businesses online. Read story
A story of how a manufacturer promised customers money-back guarantees and in so doing transformed his company. Read story
The simple, sincere, and unwavering approach that turned the T-shirt company Life Is Good into an $80 million cultural phenomenon, OR, How I learned to stifl... Read story
Interview with Steve Bostic, who has launched innumerable start-ups, in which he advocates intensive planning. Read story
CEOs discuss: Avoiding audits; communicating with non-English-speaking employees; fishing for big-name partners; and a can't-miss plan for cutting costs. Plu... Read story
Three big-time investors have rolled into Miami to listen to 33-year-old whiz kid Marcelo Claure try to sell them a chunk of his company--and, my God, he's l... Read story
Despite the extra effort, many companies are raising capital by selling their own stock. Read story
No one coddles employees like the French, right? Well, you may be surprised. The table at right lists the cost of firing workers, including mandatory severan... Read story
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