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Small Firms Can Breed Other Small Firms

May 1, 1982

Small businesses are more likely to be breeding grounds for potential entrepreneurs than are larger companies, reports a study by two Purdue University pr...  Read story

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By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Jun 1, 1988

A new study has uncovered what may be the secret ingredient of entrepreneurship: euphoria. In a nationwide survey of 3,000 entrepreneurs with businesses ...  Read story

Consumer Bankruptcy Stirs A New Fight

Sep 1, 1982

The delicate relationship between creditors' legal rights and those of debtors has always been tense. But the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 may have unba...  Read story

Letters

By Various Inc Staff |  Nov 1, 1999

Readers react to articles from the August 1999 issue of Inc. , including "The Taming of the Crew," by Leigh Buchanan, "The Best Business Plan on the ...  Read story

Kauffman Donates $25.5 Million to Universities

By Angus Loten |  Dec 15, 2006

The grants, part of a $200 million initiative, will help foster entrepreneurship programs at nine schools nationwide.  Read story

Even If The Prime Drops, Small Firms Will Suffer

Sep 1, 1981

The average rate small businesses have to pay on loans could continue to rise even if the prime rate drops, a Purdue University professor says. Beca...  Read story

A Rose.com by Any Other Name

By Mary Kwak |  Jun 15, 2000

What's in a name? Possibly returns that beat the market by nearly 100%. That's the conclusion reached by Michael Cooper, Orlin Dimitrov, and P. Raghavendr...  Read story

New! Improved! Manufacturing

By Craig R. Waters |  Jan 1, 1986

Suddenly, the shop floor is where the action is.  Read story

Dear Jon,

By Susan Benner |  Feb 1, 1985

Three years after founding Northwest Instrument Systems, Jon Birck became a cliche -- one more entrepreneur squeezed out of his fast-growing company.  Read story

What's Going To Happen In '82?

Jan 1, 1982

INC. asked hundreds of business people what they think this year will be like.  Read story

Pilot. Hero. Entrepreneur?

By Andrew Leigh |  Jan 16, 2009

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, who successfully landed a US Airways plane in New York's Hudson River, is also the founder and president of -- surprise, su...  Read story

The Making of an Inc. 500 CEO: My Favorite Job

By David Whitford |  Oct 15, 1994

A close-up article that features one CEO, and how he took his start-up publication to the top of the heap.  Read story

Retail Watchers Baffled by Holiday Shopping Season

By Walter Alarkon |  Dec 22, 2005

Dec. 22, 2005-- With Christmas and Hanukkah falling on the same Sunday and shoppers feeling the fallout from hurricanes and a transit stri...  Read story

What's Next: The Idiocy of Crowds

By David H. Freedman |  Sep 1, 2006

Collaboration is the hottest buzzword in business today. Too bad it doesn't work.  Read story

Unbridled Growth

By Curtis Hartman |  Dec 1, 1985

For five years, Herbalife International's health and diet pitch has made it one of the fastest-growing companies in American history. Now a series of investi...  Read story

Bringing It All Back Home

By Milton D. Stewart |  Jun 1, 1982

When was the last time you took a member of your state legislature to lunch? If you haven't yet, you probably should. Increasingly, if slowly, stat...  Read story

Why We Lose

By Tom Richman |  Jul 1, 1989

Book review: The Silent War: Inside The Global Business Battles Shaping America's Future. (Random House 1989)  Read story

The Spirit Of Independence; Workers

By Curtis Hartman |  Jul 1, 1985

"In general it is impossible that manufactures should succeed in America from the high price of labour." -- Thomas Jefferson  Read story

The Start-Up Diaries: Moonlight over Indiana

By Nancy J. Lyons |  Jan 1, 2000

Luis Espinoza has been moonlighting for the past few years to build Inca Quality Foods, a Hispanic food-distribution business. But he would never dream of qu...  Read story

The New Owners Speak German

By Michael Rosenbaum |  Sep 1, 1981

The next time someone offers to buy your company, there's a one-in-five chance that he'll be from another country.  Read story

The New Yankee Traders

By Joel Kotkin |  Mar 1, 1986

Chinese-Americans are using family ties to beat the Japanese and Big Business for a share of the burgeoning Chinese market.  Read story

Seeing Red

By Bruce G. Posner |  May 1, 1989

Animalens Inc. makes and markets red-tinted contact lenses for egg-laying chickens.  Read story

Bulletin Board

By Various Inc Staff |  Jun 15, 2000

This collection includes short articles about conducting background checks, an online matchmaker for developing technologies, electronic whiteboards, powder ...  Read story

The Customer is the Company

By Max Chafkin |  Jun 1, 2008

Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month -- with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retail distribution. And it's neve...  Read story

Least Likely to Succeed

By Edward O. Welles |  Dec 1, 1992

Entrepreneur of the Year Jerry Ehrlich manufactures truck trailers with innovation, efficiency, and quality.  Read story

Let Them Make Mudpies

By Bo Burlingham |  Jul 1, 1983

Jack Wells shifted uneasily in his chair. He was not happy about this. Not one bit. "They say a bureaucrat knows he's going to have a bad day when he show...  Read story

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