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"Technology, especially electronics, is not what you might call my strong point. . . . I mean all I know about computers wouldn't cover a silicon chip."<...  Read story

Entrepreneurs, VCs Gather in Silicon Valley

More than 4,000 entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors are expected to attend an annual Silicon Valley entrepreneurship convention this week in Sa...  Read story

The Inc. Second 100

The runners-up to the 1981 INC. 100 are more profitable, more productive, and more stable.  Read story

Royalty-Free Design Templates for Macs

Dec. 4, 2006 -- McAfee, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based security technology firm, released an updated online-security package for business on...  Read story

Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley

As blind faith in the infallibility of high-tech companies falters, the era of unrestrained growth in the Valley may be over.  Read story

Budget Databases

Controlling costs by using a word processor as a database.  Read story

Survey: Employees Want to Go Green

Most U.S. employees want to work for businesses that are environmentally-friendly, though many admit they are not doing enough to help create a greener wo...  Read story

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Remote Desktop PC Access

March 5, 2007 -- WebEx, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based software company, has partnered with mobile-technology provider SoonR to launch an ap...  Read story

New Corporate-Class VoIP Service

Dec. 7, 2006 -- 8x8, Santa Clara-based broadband VoIP services firm, has released a new a service plan that allows businesses to implemen...  Read story

Hotline

Hotline information paragraphs: April 1990  Read story

Silicon Valley's Silver Lining

Susan Benner's article "Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley" (September) portrayed the Santa Clara Valley as an area of congestion, pollution, greed, and cri...  Read story

Network: Reader Responses

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

McAfee SiteAdivsor for Firefox, AIM, and AOL Mail

Dec. 20, 2006 -- McAfee, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based security-technology company, announced Tuesday the release of a version of McAfee ...  Read story

The World is Not Enough

Bülent Çelebi is a worldly guy, having lived in Turkey, Hong Kong, and the U.S. before returning to Istanbul to establish AirTies--which has a su...  Read story

Shoe-In

Silicon Valley is notorious for its fluid job market in which workers move from company to company. That can make it hard for small companies to retain va...  Read story

The Inc. 500

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth 197781 Perc...  Read story

Internet: Web Sites We Love: CEOs Pick Their Favorites

Various CEOs share their favorite Web sites with readers.  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

Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100

Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit...  Read story

How to Spend Your Summer Vacation

Inc.'s guide to great company tours.  Read story

Letter From Silicon Valley: What's a Nice Systems Engineer Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

Every month a Silicon Valley club or hotel plays host to a networking party called the Layoff Lounge. Just another pink-slip party? Not really. Here's what h...  Read story

Adventures in Never NeverLost Land

Inc.'s Road Warrior abandons maps in favor of the NeverLost global positioning system available in Hertz rental cars.  Read story

California Leads Tech Jobs

A report shows the state's high-tech employers create more jobs with higher wages.  Read story

The Third Wave

U.S. entrepreneurs are filling new niches in the semiconductor industry.  Read story

E-Mail Grows Up

Various businesspeople tell how they are using different E-mail packages to handle a variety of tasks.  Read story

The Savvy CEO's Loan Pitch

Tips for fine-tuning your loan pitch, including seven things bankers look for when a business seeks financing.  Read story

The Return of the Floppies

Floppy disk drive company looks to innovate to compete with Japanese manufacturers.  Read story

Different Routes: Perennial Software Services Group

For David Fast, the issue is quality of growth. Fast is the founder and president of Perennial Software Services Group, in Santa Clara, Calif., a leading...  Read story

Software

A Santa Clara, Calif., company called Lightyear Inc., with a software product of the same name, is convinced that managers need help making decisions that...  Read story

Communications: Bulking Up

A quick look at how a map-making firm turned to a superfast network to improve its out-dated technical infrastructure.  Read story

What's Next: Paving the Information Highway

A high-tech expert predicts that the next wave in high-tech innovation will be in networks and what they will look like.  Read story

One-Stop Shop for Small-Business Jobs

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

Family-Friendly Office

Child care for two-career couples and single parents is one of the most daunting issues that parents and businesses face. Some large companies have onsite...  Read story

Network: June 1993

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Vancouver Maneuver

Many young companies see Canada's Vancouver Stock Exchange as an attractive place to raise capital.  Read story

Voters To High-tech Firms: Stay Away!

In many parts of the United States, the high-technology industry is considered an almost ideal neighbor because its plants are relatively clean and genera...  Read story