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Intangible Measures

If certain data cannot be converted to money, are they still important? Many organizations are realizing the importance of intang...  Read more

Hot Commodity;

Pity, please, marketers trying to sell a commodity. They can't scream that their product is new and improved -- because it isn't. They can't say it'...  Read more

Words from the Wise

Profile of two company founders who use mentors to give them a competitive advantage.  Read more

The Dead Have Customers, Too

A look at the business organization behind the rock band The Grateful Dead, which grossed over $50 million in 1993.  Read more

Tin Men

Profile of three businessmen who built reputable businesses in traditionally disreputable industries.  Read more

Why Companies Fail

Judgment calls, reality tests and mistakes of the heart that doom companies to failure.  Read more

It's 1983. Look At The Kinds Of Companies That Are After Your Money

If you are in the market for a house, the chances are fair that you can find one through a Merrill Lynch & Co. real estate agent, and that you can arr...  Read more

The Product Nobody Wanted

Innovation tends to create sales and distribution problems. New products often cannot find retailers or they violate accepted distribution cycles.  I...  Read more

Enterprise Is Better The First Time Around

If at first you don't succeed, you're probably not on the INC. 500.  Read more

Made In The U.S.A.

Profile of a company aspiring to keep manufacturing cheap and effective in the appliance market.  Read more

Charges And Discharges

If you want to avoid employee lawsuits, a good starting place is to understand recent court decisions about 'wrongful discharge'  Read more

Ideas For Sale

Is the world ready for an eBay of ideas?  Read more

Ideas For Sale

Is the world ready for an eBay of ideas?  Read more

Father, Son, Co.

Quote on the relationship between an entrepreneurial father and son.  Read more

Picking The Right Small Stock

If William G. Shepherd Jr. owned all the stocks he has recommended in his newsletter, Ground Floor, he might be worrying about the Mexican peso, or about ...  Read more

Patent Fending

A look at some famous legal battles between inventors and the corporations that stole their patented ideas.  Read more

Business for Sale: Pocket Change?

A Washington, D.C.-area pool table retail chain priced at $5 million.  Read more

How to Start an Inc. 500 Company: Six Common Questions

Six Inc. writers each examine one common question about starting a successful business.  Read more

Private Lives

Microcomputers, welding equipment, wheelcharis, prefabricated churches, and five other businesses earned their companies a spot on this year's INC. 500.  Read more

Courting the Power Retailers

Mass merchandisers book about 40% of all U.S. retail sales, and discount retailers--chains with 50 stores or more--book 11% to 13% of all retail sales, ev...  Read more

The Biggest TV Network You've Never Heard Of

Michael Stern started PRN with this insight: If most people make their buying decisions inside the store, why not show them commercials inside the store? Bec...  Read more

Press release of the month. A behind-the-scenes account of journalism's splashiest start-up in recent years -- Gannett Co.'s USA Today -- might make temp...  Read more

Small Technical Firms Get New Export Boost

Just 12% of this country's gross national product is generated by international trade, and almost all of it is carried out by our largest corporations. T...  Read more

Information, Please

How to give useful job references without getting in to hot water.  Read more

Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places

Government should foster innovation and entrepreneurship instead of focusing on companies' sizes.  Read more

Piggyback

A store within a store serves as a joint venture providing benefits to both companies.  Read more

For Sale: The American Dream

Need help selling your company? Lots of folks out there claim they can help you get the most for your business. Don't believe everything you hear.  Read more

By The Numbers

Segal's Secret: More Bang for the Square Foot  Read more

Trading, American Style

I'm rather struck by the fact that the author of the article on Jack Boles's trading company ("Our Man in Zurich, Tokyo, and Hong Kong," January) focuses ...  Read more

What Makes a Company Great?

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers an overview and review of J. Collins and J. Porras's book 'Built to Last.'  Read more

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Focus: Master of the Ordinary

A quick look at a start-up that is built around a new and improved ratchet wrench.  Read more

Sole Survivor

One third-generation family business has survived imports, mergers, offshore manufacturing and new technologies.  Read more

Google Opens Local Shopping Feature to Small Businesses

New feature aims to help turn shoppers browsing online into in-store buyers by showing what products local shops have in stock.  Read more

Upstarts: Highlighting New Companies

Some companies really do benefit from stiffer Internal Revenue Service regulations. Last year's tax law (see "Your Money or Your Car, page tk) requires p...  Read more

Darn Those Pop-Up Ads! They're Maddening, But Do They Work?

They create as much clutter as those slippery advertising inserts that fatten a Sunday newspaper and are as inescapable as humidity in August. But just ho...  Read more

Case Study: Was Bankruptcy the Answer?

Her line of credit was in default. Her partnership with her mom was faltering. Could Heather Antonelli save her business?  Read more

Darn Those Pop-Up Ads! They're Maddening, But Do They Work?

They create as much clutter as those slippery advertising inserts that fatten a Sunday newspaper and are as inescapable as humidity in August. But just ho...  Read more