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Small-Business Mood Brightens

Owners and workers are upbeat about conditions in their own market, a study finds.  Read story

The Coolest Little Start-Up in America

For TerraCycle's Tom Szaky, nothing could be cooler--or sweeter--than selling garbage packaged in garbage.  Read story

Enemies, a Love Story

Why the rivalry between two test-prep services makes them both more competitive.  Read story

Drives: We'll Turn This Family Car Right Around

The Mercedes-Benz R350 makes family getaways a little easier and more elegant.  Read story

Pay Now, Learn Later

You can protect yourself against college tuition hikes. But the scheme backfires if your kid goes to the state university By now you probably kno...  Read story

The Secrets of Super-Productive CEOs

In 2001, a recent Princeton graduate named Timothy Ferriss started a little company that sold vitamins on the Internet. Things went well, but instead of t...  Read story

Fighting Flu Season with Flexible Leave Policy

To keep the bottom line healthy, a company needs a sick leave policy that works -- that means a flexible policy thatallows employees to take responsibilit...  Read story

As Good As New

Remanufacturing, although an oftignored production strategy, has made some headway in a number of manufacturing arenas. A survey by Robert T. Lund, a res...  Read story

Sign of the Times

Inc. 500 companies are pioneering alternatives to the traditonal suppliers of health-care services.  Read story

Meet Glenn Weadock

Glenn Weadock is president of Independent Software, Inc. (ISI) , a Denver-area computer consulting firm...  Read story

Relax. Let Your Guard Down

Why patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property protections are bad--that's right, bad --for business.  Read story

How I Did It: Steven Sliwa, CEO and president, The Insitu Group

As told to Kasey Wehrum Industry: Defense 2006 Inc. 500 Ranking: ...  Read story

America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies

A user's guide to the 12th annual Inc. 500 list.  Read story

Edged Out

When Jim Heard and Gregg Trueman, founding partners of the Buoyant Co., began to battle over key company decisions, their staff decided to oust them both.  Read story

Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 - Aaron Patzer, Mint.com

#5 Aaron Patzer Mint.com Age: 27 Location...  Read story

The Recyclers

Most people see refuse. These entrepreneurs see raw materials.  Read story

On The Board

One company keeps itself in check.  Read story

Ed Zschau

"I had an awful lot to learn about business . . . I had the conglomerate mentality -- the view that, if you just build one product for one market, you weren'...  Read story

Network: August 1990

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Touchy Subject

Computers allow us to see and hear what's on our monitors. Why not touch it, too? Here's how Thomas Massie, founder of SensAble Technologies, turned his odd ...  Read story

How I Did It: Laurel Touby, Mediabistro

New York Story: From poor, lonely writer to hostess with the mostest.  Read story

The Great Leaders Series: Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com

Jeff Bezos is an e-commerce pioneer who started Amazon.com to sell books, and expanded into just about everything else.  Read story

Go Sell It on the Mountain

A look at Blue Mountain Arts' bold plans for turning its popular Web site into an E-commerce moneymaker.  Read story

Grand Plans

Shoestring start-ups: seven fast-growing companies that were started for $1,000 or less, and tactics to borrow for your own start-up.  Read story

When the Boss is an Adrenaline Junkie, inc5000 Article - Inc. Article

Ron Farmer is a speed freak. When his knees failed at 52 years old, he quit running marathons and began racing cars. Ten years later, he is headed to Ohio...  Read story

60-Second Business Plan: Talking Trash

Tom Szaky is working with some pretty slimy partners in his new venture. But TerraCycle, and its worms -- yes, worms -- may just create a whole new niche in ...  Read story

The Number-Cruncher

America is drowning in a sea of debt. Aaron Patzer created a program to simplify people's finances -- and help them make smarter spending decisions.  Read story

Hitched to Someone Else's Dream

The people who run fast-growing companies are driven by optimism and a passion for what they do. And the people married to them? The author remembers worryin...  Read story

Putting Customers to Work

Why customers may be your star employees.  Read story

Back to School

Successful executives head back to business school for further education in management issues.  Read story

Putting The Customer In The Driver's Seat

Rob Mancuso's approach to running his dealership is so successful that he has begun to package parts of it for sale. Even competitors are lining up to buy.  Read story

Coming Of Age

Entrepreneurs and business experts discuss how the 80s changed the way they think about business.  Read story

Playing Hard to Get

In a highly creative arrangement, an upstart apparel maker manages to sell its brand to footwear giant Timberland--without actually giving up the brand. The ...  Read story

He Took On the Whole Power-Tool Industry

Why wasn't anyone else interested in building a safer saw?  Read story

Nolan Bushnell is Back in the Game

Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, employed Steve Jobs, built a bunch of robots, and pretty much invented the whole cocky-young-entrepreneurial-genius pose. He's ...  Read story

Raiders Of The Lost Arp

Once the leading producer of musical synthesizers, Arp Instruments fell victim to managerial incompetence, infighting, and miscalculation.  Read story

A Whole New Game

A Mexican media magnate and a New York publisher team up to start a national daily sports newspaper called The National.  Read story

Inc. 500 by Industry

A listing by industry of the companies on the 12th annual Inc. 500 list.  Read story

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