The Virtual Road Show
A quick look at how another piece of the capital-raising process, the road show, may move into cyberspace. Read more
Silver Spring
Recent Articles about Silver Spring
Directory Assistance
Corporate Contacts acquires and sells coveted corporate telephone directories. Read more
Reader Mail: February 2011
Responses to recent stories, including Jason Fried’s column about raising prices and Meg Hirshberg’s column about entrepreneurship and divorce. Read more
VC Money Heads East; The Bar Code Turns 35
A dozen cleantech IPOs That's what we'll see over the next year, according to the fervently bullish Steve Westly, former eBay marketing director an... Read more
For the Love of Cake
Warren Brown walked away from a secure job as a federal litigator four years ago to pursue a less stressful career as a baker. Today, he owns Cake Love Ba... Read more
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 more
How to Red-Line a Contract
How to keep a level head and a steady hand when editing a business contract. Read more
Money for 'Pre-Export'
Barry Grimes-Hardie went to a specialized trading company for capital to front an export deal. Read more
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 more
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 more
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 more
Network: March 1992
Network resources. Read more
Network: July 1991
Network reader-to-reader advice. Read more
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 more
The Inc. Second 100
The runners-up to the 1981 INC. 100 are more profitable, more productive, and more stable. Read more
Start-Ups 2010: Publishing Children's Books for the iPhone
Lynette Mattke of PicPocket Books is hoping to expand beyond 100 downloads a day. Read more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
Talk Is Cheap
Communication is a substantial but rarely considered cost of doing business; electronic mail is changing all that. Read more
Going Carbon Neutral
It's easier than you think Read more
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 more
Controversial IPA Silences a Watchdog
One of the most controversial Inc. 500 companies ever wins a legal battle. Read more
The Best Little Advocacy Group in America
NAWBO, with its assertive marketing and effective consensus building, could best represent small business in Washington. Read more
Upstarts: Internet Salvage
Online companies are falling left and right. But for some start-ups, that spells opportunity. Read more
Upstarts: Internet Salvage
Online companies are falling left and right. But for some start-ups, that spells opportunity. Read more
Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year
A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year. Read more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
Buying a Business
The firsthand account of one man's search for and subsequent purchase of a company. Read more
Growth Happens
A senior Inc. writer learns that many Inc. 500 company owners would have never guess their firms would grow so fast. Read more
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