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The Big Cities of the Future

The standouts on this year's list are the cities that know how to attract entrepreneurs.  Read more

The Best Places For Doing Business in America 2005

We examined 274 population centers, looking for job creation and other signs that businesses are thriving. Here's what we found.  Read more

A Californian Rolls the Dice

Report from Reno.  Read more

How to Start an Airline of Your Own

In an industry in which 117 airlines have filed bankruptcy since 1979, Joseph Lorenzo thinks he can make Reno Air work.  Read more

How To Prepare For The Property Bubble

All but the most stubborn optimist knows that the property bubble of the 2000s is now deflating. This is a cause for concern for just about everyone since...  Read more

Buying, Selling, and Telling

Tattling on the owner's kid and acquisition binges.  Read more

Tips on Finding Speakers for Your Next Sales Meeting

How should you select a guest speaker? Some tips.  Read more

Look to Low-Cost and Niche Airlines for Low Fares

One of the best ways to get the lowest fares is to know where low-cost and niche airlines fly. These carriers allow you to create your own system of airfa...  Read more

Home Is Where The Headquarters Is

'We all like Milwaukee, even though it's hardly a swinging place. At least you know people will be able to get out of bed and come to work in the morning.'  Read more

Economy Got You Stressed?

Experts suggest ways for CEOs to relax during the recession.  Read more

Going For Broke

Is now a good time to start a company?  Read more

A Moving Experience

Ken Hawk's rechargeable-batteries mail-order business had outgrown its tiny location in a former grocery store in Silicon Valley. Given t...  Read more

Taxing Matters for the Home Office

Let's face it: the tax deduction for business use of your home may be used, abused, and fantasized about more than any other deduction in the rule books. ...  Read more

Hot Spots

Summary of metropolitan economies for 1989; the most growth was seen in the 'edge cities', where cattle once grazed.  Read more

The Next Silicon Valley? Part 1

Sometimes an article comes out that is so wrong headed, even delusional, that someone has to respond. In a recent piece posted on the Planetizen Read more

Made In Usa

THE CASE FOR MANUFACTURING IN AMERICA  Read more

Put Your Policies in Writing

1. See the Big Picture The tradeoff at the center of any employment manual pits consistency against flexibility. Codifying policies and then foll...  Read more

Can You Get a Patent without a Lawyer?

You have an invention -- something that would fill a need and make life easier. It might even make you some money, if you could get the exclusive right to...  Read more

Shell Games

She sells seashells down by the seashore, as the famous tongue-twister goes. He, on the other hand, sells corporate shells in Salt Lake City and Denver, a...  Read more

Readers' Questions: War. Who Is It Good For?

Absolutely nobody. But there are some things you can do to protect your business.  Read more

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth '77-'81 ...  Read more

How to Steal Back Your Time

How Steve Jobs does customer service . Personally—and wi...  Read more

Letters

Inc. readers comment and question various topics and articles covered in past issues of the magazine.  Read more

Bulletin Board

This collection includes short articles about sharing your mailing list, affordable video on the Web, online copyright clearance, memorable computer password...  Read more

CEO's Notebook

CEOs give advice on employee sabbaticals, recruiting at trade shows, speeding up collections, taking advantage of electricity deregulation, and cutting costs...  Read more

Fanatics!

During these soft economic times, small businesses are uniquely positioned to offer something that many lumbering giants can't: peerless customer service. He...  Read more

Top 25 Cities for Doing Business in America

If you're looking for cities large, medium, and small where job growth is robust and economies are strong, head to the ones on this year's Top Cities list. F...  Read more

Hot Cities, Hot Sites

The cover story of the December 2000 issue of Inc. magazine, " Best Cities to Start and ...  Read more

New Faces Of 1985

AMERICAN SOLAR KING (84) When Brian Pardo talks about building American Solar King Corp. -- a Waco, Tex., manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of...  Read more

The Cultural Evolution

Michael May of Empower Trainers & Consultants has developed an extraordinary corporate culture that helped put his company on the 1997 Inc 500 list.  Read more

Drive-in Movies

The launch of a hits-only, drive-through video chain.  Read more

Home Grown

Once seen as quaint, home businesses are now run by sophisticated and ambitious company builders. Here's what you need to know to start growing a home busine...  Read more

The Long Good-bye

When four friends started Inc. 500 company IRIS (#192), they decided to sell the company ASAP. Eight years later, they've finally succeeded.  Read more

Almanac

A statistical guide to the metro areas and states that are home to the most start-ups per capita, the top 20 types of new ventures, and the most popular home...  Read more

On A Wing And A Prayer

Bob Adickes and Avtek Corp.'s other founders are in a race with Beech, Lear, and the clock to produce the next generation of corporate aircraft.  Read more