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TV or Not TV

How businesses are selling products through TV shopping channels such as QVC and Home Shopping Network.  Read story

Getting Ready for Prime Time

Selling a new product? QVC's stamp of approval is increasingly powerful  Read story

Tap TV Shopping Channels

Mark Sneider's new products were definitely quirky--a Warm-up Scarf with a heating element and a bandanna with a cold packattached called a "Cooldana." Th...  Read story

CIC 101: Enhancing the Customer Experience

Telephone-based retailer QVC saw $3.9 billion in sales in 2001. So why is it investing in its contact center?  Read story

Notebook

Statistics and miscellaneous information about start-ups.  Read story

The Inc. 100

Overview of the 1992 Inc. 100 with profiles of selected companies.  Read story

The Other Amazon

Got a hot new consumer product? The electronic retailers need you. They simply can't add product categories and suppliers fast enough. What does it take t...  Read story

The Ride of His Life

Robert Klick's fifth business wowed Oprah, bowled over Kelly Ripa, and put him cheek by jowl with Russell Crowe. Too bad this amazing celebrity run had to en...  Read story

Channel Surfers

Investigation of how seven different entrepreneurs found distribution the key to maintaining a competitive edge.  Read story

The Innovation Factor: Innovative Minds

Who innovates? A look at the personalities (and brains) behind America's most creative businesses.  Read story

Planning for the Perfect Online Store

Here are several successful online stores and the site features that helped make them a success.  Read story

The Company That Grew Too Fast

The thing about growth is that you have to finance it. And that, as Brian Le Gette learned the hard way with one-time Inc. 500 company 180s, can be tricky.  Read story

Wall Street Goes 'hollywood"

Last year, we told you investors were looking for proven management and a history of solid performance. Well, they changed their minds.  Read story

The Discomfort Zone

CEO of nation's sixth-largest broadcast group tells how the fear of failure must be overcome in order to be successful.  Read story

Entrepreneurship Lived Deep

Sometimes, ponds reflect the philosophies of their beholders. Consider Henry David Thoreau. Consider Greg Wittstock.  Read story

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SMALL COMPANY INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS: SEPTEMBER 1986 Offering First Size Price after O-T-C ...  Read story

Most Likely to Succeed

Products for anxious parents.  Read story

Inc. 500 Online Retailer Bought by Media Firm

Backcountry.com, a Park City, Utah-based online outdoor-gear retailer, was recently acquired by Liberty Media, an Englewood, Colo.-based firm that owns in...  Read story

Revamp Your Annual Meeting

How to give a meeting meaning and how to choose a marketer.  Read story

Perfect Form

An operation manager explains how he creates customized invoices and purchase orders to fit each customer's need.  Read story

The Rent-To-Own CFO Program

Think you can't afford to bring on a CFO? No problem: Rent one instead.  Read story

How to Start a Beauty Company

If you have smarts, style, and nerve, then Maureen Kelly of Tarte Cosmetics says that you could hit it big  Read story

The Inner City 100

100 street-smart companies.  Read story

A Sales Force of One

Scott Rosen fired his entire sales staff, figuring he could do better all by himself.  Read story

Own the Code

How to fine-tune your tech.  Read story

How I Did It: Ron Popeil, Ronco

He Slices and Dices, and That's Not All!  Read story

An American Start-Up

In 1999, a pair of Wharton grads started a company to build and sell a specialized computer mouse. They chronicled their experiences -- the trials and triump...  Read story

The Snack Food That's Packing America

A profile of a start-up that is producing an all-natural packaging material.  Read story

How I Did It: Wolfgang Puck

The famed chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck of Spago in Hollywood reveals how he built his culinary empire  Read story

Catching Up with the 2006 30 Under 30 Alumni

For many of the rising stars on our inaugural 30 Under 30 list, the success has only continued. We asked our past honorees to send in updates about their com...  Read story

Growing Up in Public

Discussion of the 100 fastest-growing small public companies in the U.S.  Read story

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