Mayoral Momentum
A primary tenet of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City's (ICIC) philosophy is that the private sector must play a major role in the revitalization... Read story
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Times Change: In Pittsburgh, the spiritual center of the Rust Belt, high-technology workers now outnumber steelworkers. While the steel business continue... Read story
Steve Prelosky
Age: 30 Hometown: Pittsburgh Undergraduate Degree: Pennsylvania State University Business School: Graduate School of Industrial Administ... Read story
Fast Rising
Profile and analysis of an employee-founded bakery: the struggles to gain financing and customers. Read story
It's Geek-O-Rama Time!
A bioremediation company makes the most out of its industry's esoteric jargon by making it a contest. Read story
Benchmark: Meaningful Meetings
Some data from a survey of managers asking how they run meetings, and percentages for various techniques used. Read story
Owners Shrug Off Stimulus Plan
A survey finds most small businesses expect to see little benefit from the $160 billion tax-relief package. Read story
Survey: Wage Hike Would Hit Small Retailers
April 5, 2007 -- Small retailers say they will be forced to raise prices and reduce hiring if Congress approves legislation to boost the ... Read story
Small Firms Unscathed by Housing, Credit Crunch
Despite trouble in the credit and housing markets, small-business owners are maintaining a positive outlook for the months ahead, according to a recent su... Read story
Nice Guys Finish First
Profiles of the four runners-up for "Best-managed Franchises in America." Read story
What One Man Can Do
Bill Strickland is in the business of saving lives. After almost 40 years of teaching kids, training adults, and telling his story, he's looking to "franchis... Read story
It Takes a Cybervillage
An overview of three cities, Pittsburgh, Boulder, and Montreal, that experts believe could be hot spots for new-media industries. Read story
Very Tightly Wound
How the watch business works. Read story
The 2007 Inner City 100 Profiles: 51-60
The Inner City 100 Profiles: 91-100
NO. 91 Sun Coast Resources Houston Petroleum products wholesaling Read story
Keep the Boss Quiet
In the start-up days of any company, it's perfectly logical for a CEO to double as chief salesperson. But once business starts to take off, it makes littl... Read story
The Diary of a Small-Company Owner
First of a two-part series detailing an entrepreneur's use of an outside board as she struggles to grow her company. Read story
Here Comes The Neighborhood
A listing of nine high-growth neighborhoods in and around older, slower-growth cities. Read story
Big Problems and How Startups Solved Them
Even the most realistic entrepreneur underestimates the difficulties in building a business. Sure, everyone foresees challenges in raising capital,... Read story
License to Kilt
As Robert Burns might put it: Gie me ae lad wi' ae song O auld; gie me ae man wi' pipes O guld. Read story
The Shotgun Solution
To try a different approach, an architecture firm runs commercials that are informative and educational. Read story
Pipe Covering
Engineer has created a new form-fitting pipe insulation foam called FoamPak. Read story
Back Me Up, Scotty
Company creates computers that continually back-up data. Read story
CEO's Notebook
CEOs give advice on building a brand through custom publishing; limiting your number of all-staff functions; maximizing brainstorming sessions; and advertisi... Read story
Scoring on the Net
Inc. magazine's editor-at-large explains how he hit a home run while shopping on-line. Read story
The Inner City 100
100 street-smart companies. Read story
Managing Information Security
Protecting proprietary information is becoming evermore important, so many companies are looking beyond technology -- and their technology managers. Read story
The Inc. Network
Reader-to-reader advice. Read story
The Bag Man
Inc. 's Road Warrior reviews two laptop cases that convert to portable offices. Read story
Local Ads Are Fresher
It's pretty common these days for deep-pocketed chain stores to wreak havoc on local independent retailers. When Pearle Vision and LensCrafters started mo... Read story
The Forks in Their Roads
Inc. reports on the progress of five start-ups featured in the January issue. Read story
Seduction by the Numbers
Tearing into "breaking free of budgets," and more. Read story
Managing Business Insolvency and Bankruptcy
Most entrepreneurs fight valiantly to keep their companies afloat in the face of mounting expenses and declining revenue. But when finally forced to accep... Read story
Women And The Numbers
A women's business group stresses a focus on sales rather than marketing and personnel. Read story
Data Bank
A quick look at a new service that allows companies to backup data to an off-site workstation. Read story
I'm stuck.
Can you pass the Play-Doh? Read story
My Terrible Vacation
'It must be every entrepreneur's fantasy: you and your spouse spend years building a fast-growth, INC. 500-level company. As the business matures, you go ... Read story
Hall of Fame
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
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SMALL SUPPLIERS TO DECLINing industries have had a brutal time in the 1980s. But beyond the fields littered with casualties are some companies that used t... Read story
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