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SCORE with Mentors

Need advice on planning, marketing, pricing? Many people find informal advisers who help guide them, butthere are also formal ways to hook up with mentors...  Read story

Patent No. 5,524,641: An Inventor's Story

That's Arthur Battaglia's patent number. He applied for it eight years ago, got it six years ago, and has been pushing his idea ever since. So far, no takers.  Read story

Where the Growth Is

The best cities for growing a business and how to follow the signs to thriving markets.  Read story

Network: August 1990

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Kudos for the Kid

Comments on Sundance, spam, and the SBA.  Read story

Letters

Readers react to articles from the May issue of Inc., including Nancy K. Austin's "Buzz," Jerry Useem's "Failure: The Secret of My Success," and D. M. Osborn...  Read story

Form an Inventors Group

An inventors group offers the opportunity to build and improve business skills and to brainstorm and network with other inventors.  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the April 2000 issue of Inc.   Read story

Far and Away

When employees have been very, very good, send them to one of these fabulous destination resorts.  Read story

Don't Quit Your Day Job

How to launch your start-up--without losing your day job.  Read story

How to Get a Good Deal on a Lease

What it takes to negotiate a commercial lease in a renter's market  Read story

Opening the Kimono

How much should you reveal when negotiating with potential partners? Here's how to "open the kimono" now -- without feeling taken advantage of later.  Read story

Start-Ups from Scratch

Eight brief profiles of companies launched with almost no money down.  Read story

One Step at a Time

The story of how a new president was called in to help bring a manufacturing firm from the brink of failure.  Read story

Kevin Rose of Digg: The Most Famous Man on the Internet

Digg founder Kevin Rose is having so much fun, you could almost miss the fact that he's setting himself up to be an Internet-age media mogul.  Read story

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 story

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 story

Seven Entrepreneurs in Search of a Deal

From new twists on time-honed tactics to the brave new world of Internet financing, here are strategies that can help land your business in the money.  Read story

Milking the Profits

How a group of family farmers joined forces to create and market a premium brand of milk.  Read story

Then and Now

This article looks at how individual bootstrappers have changed business practices as their companies have grown.  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 1980-84 ...  Read story

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