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The Virtual Road Show

A quick look at how another piece of the capital-raising process, the road show, may move into cyberspace.  Read story

Directory Assistance

Corporate Contacts acquires and sells coveted corporate telephone directories.  Read story

Ask Inc.

Divorcing a partner; keeping the secret sauce safe.  Read story

In Search Of The Perfect Mate

Computerized matchmaking has gone into business. Once the last resort of the lovelorn, high-technology partner searches are now the rage in fields as dive...  Read story

Money for 'Pre-Export'

Barry Grimes-Hardie went to a specialized trading company for capital to front an export deal.  Read story

Benchmark: When Voice Mail Answers the Phones

Several CEOs from different industries explain how they use voice-mail to answer their companies' incoming calls.  Read story

Affordable Health Insurance

Five years ago, Andrea Keating crafted a self-insured company health plan. The idea was to pay for out-of-pocket expenses on such costly items as a child'...  Read story

Network: March 1992

Network resources.  Read story

Excellent Service from External Accountants

Gina Slater Parker, CEO of $1 million Hill Slater, in Great Neck, N.Y., appreciates the value of outsourcing her accounting department . S...  Read story

Network: July 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Facing a Tight Labor Market, Employers Dish Out the Perks

Innovative companies are discovering that benefits like mandatory paid vacations and free carwashes -- not salary -- are the best ways to lure the best emplo...  Read story

Letters

Inc. magazine readers comment on past topics and articles, including issues such as performance reviews and morality.  Read story

Mail

This month's letters to the editor.  Read story

The Inc. Second 100

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

Public Companies: $156,000 At The Top

Executives of smaller publicly held companied enjoy fatter paychecks and broader perks than their counterparts in smaller private firms. That's the concl...  Read story

Rent a Phone, Lose a Headache

Here's how the CEO of Virtuoso Travel cuts through the tangled web of overlapping cellular networks around the world.  Read story

Teens Pitch Million-Dollar Ideas

The 17-year-old inventor of a nail-polish pen took first place at the National Youth Business Competition.  Read story

Talk Is Cheap

Communication is a substantial but rarely considered cost of doing business; electronic mail is changing all that.  Read story

Hot Spots: A Field Guide to Your Local Economy

Some signs to look for suggesting a community's vitality and opportunity, and those signaling economic collapse.  Read story

Going Carbon Neutral

It's easier than you think  Read story

Controversial IPA Silences a Watchdog

One of the most controversial Inc. 500 companies ever wins a legal battle.  Read story

The Best Little Advocacy Group in America

NAWBO, with its assertive marketing and effective consensus building, could best represent small business in Washington.  Read story

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year.  Read story

Upstarts: Internet Salvage

Online companies are falling left and right. But for some start-ups, that spells opportunity.  Read story

Psycho Path

Although psychological tests have long been dismissed by skeptics, many companies are using them--with great success--to match employees to jobs that they wo...  Read story

Graduation Day

Joshua Smith built the fastest-growing black-owned business in America. But can Maxima survive its graduation from the government program that made success p...  Read story

On the Wired Front

Looking for low-cost real estate, plenty of bandwidth, and a terrific quality of life? These blue-collar communities are designing their own high-tech networ...  Read story

Buying a Business

The firsthand account of one man's search for and subsequent purchase of a company.  Read story

Growth Happens

A senior Inc. writer learns that many Inc. 500 company owners would have never guess their firms would grow so fast.  Read story

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