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The Problem With Confidence

Entrepreneurs are proud of their appetites for risk. But how much is enough?  Read story

Labor Pain;

THE COMMUNICATIONS WORKers of America (CWA) used to have a simple answer for employees of small companies who asked to join: Forget it. Such workpla...  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

From Employee to Entrepreneur

When I graduated from Rutgers University in 1985 with a degree in electrical engineering, I immediately did what came naturally back then: I joined a larg...  Read story

"It's Going to Be Big"

Marc Ecko always had the dream. Over time -- it wasn't easy -- he developed the skills. Here, he talks about how he got smart, why his billion-dollar clothin...  Read story

Recession Closing the Sex Gap in the Workforce?

Women are on the brink of surpassing men as the majority of the workforce.  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the January 1999 issue.  Read story

Making Social Marketing Work

Are your social media marketing strategies well targeted, or are they backfiring? Many small businesses have embraced blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other o...  Read story

What You Don't Know Might Help You

How People of All Abilities Can Strengthen Your Workplace  Read story

The Inc. 500 Honor Roll

You could write the book on business growth from the strategies of the companies that have made the INC. 500 five years running.  Read story

The Boom in Employee Ownership

Inc. gets the scoop on the effects of stock options from Corey Rosen, cofounder of the National Center for Employee Ownership.  Read story

Gauging Your Strategy in the Global Economy

How should you think about your foreign endeavors in a time of economic upheaval? Economists tackle a question on global strategies for turbulent time...  Read story

What's Love Got to Do with It?

With no business plan and little money a young publisher launched a music magazine.  Read story

How to Conduct Market Research

A guide to using market research to understand who your customers are and what they want  Read story

Up From Drudgery

Are your best employees leaving to join competitors or to start their own companies? Stephen Reuning has a solution  Read story

Managing: Treating Temporary Work as a Permanent Fixture

Here is a start-up non-profit that just may do for temp work what the labor unions did for employees in the 1930s.  Read story

Managing through Turbulent Times

To keep your growing company on track during a volatile economic period, you should know the answers to these six basic questions.  Read story

What's Next: Web of Lawyers

Somewhere, for some reason, someone is thinking of suing you. Just thought you'd like to know.  Read story

Big Plans

Catch up with some of the companies profiled in our Anatomy of a Start-Up series, and here's what you'll discover: Plans are one thing, executing them is ano...  Read story

Personal Finance Extra: Real Estate

Does real estate deserve a place in your investment portfolio?  Read story

A Good Word About Consultants

Everybody likes to kick consultants these days, but a new breed of management consultant has some companies singing their praises.  Read story

How I Did It: R. Donahue Peebles

R. Donahue Peebles built the largest African American-owned real estate development firm in the U.S. by mastering the art of taking risk -- but not too much ...  Read story

The Disability Advantage

Even as the number of workers with disabilities grows because of factors like the Iraq war, fewer of them are finding jobs. Here's one employer that bucks th...  Read story

The Ultimate Employee Buy-in

Sell the company to your employees? It's a great idea--both for you and for the business you're leaving behind.  Read story

A Touch Of Class

There were cheaper, easier ways to get the message across. They could have sent out a memo, headlining it "Company to Increase Commitment to Employee Educ...  Read story

I Love L.A.

Why Los Angeles is quickly replacing New York City as the economic capital of America in 1989.  Read story

The Happiest Workers in the World

Inc. 's editor-at-large examines the results of a recent Inc. Gallup survey that suggests worker confidence is good.  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

Hot Links

Sarah Gerdes, CEO of Business Marketing Group, is among a new breed of corporate matchmaker who is helping small companies get into the right strategic allia...  Read story

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