Talking Alarm
New Business paragraph regarding a battery-operated talking smoke alarm. Read story
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Digital Security
An overview of several new approaches to protecting your computer from unauthorized users. Read story
Sign of the Times
U.S. entrepreneur markets Soviet souvenir tee-shirts in Russia. Read story
Business in a Box
A product review of ProvenEdge, a single software package that handles accounting, bill paying, invoice tracking, financial reporting, and word processing. Read story
Ask Inc: Do I Still Have the Right Stuff?
A company founder wonders whether the time has come to fire himself. Plus: How to handle problem employees. Read story
Of Minds and Machines After reading about Tan Le, the co-founder of Emotiv, and her vision of a world in which machines respond to our mental com... Read story
Upstarts: The Russian Connection
Entrepreneurs who've emigrated from the former Soviet Union are shrewdly benefiting from the crumbling economy of that once-mighty empire. And they aren't th... Read story
Lights, Cameras In The Boardroom
Lunch hour is movie time at Charles River Associates, a Boston consulting firm where screenings take place every two or three months. Movies on all sorts... Read story
Which Cities Will the High Cost of Energy Hurt (and Help) the Most?
A high cost energy future will profoundly impact the cost of doing business and create new opportunities, but not necessarily in the way most people expect. Read story
TV or Not TV
How businesses are selling products through TV shopping channels such as QVC and Home Shopping Network. Read story
Ayn of a Thousand Pages
Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her abhorrence of collectivism and admiration for the heroic individualist emerged at an early age, w... Read story
Succession Planning Not Just for Top Execs
The words "succession planning" are usually associated with finding the right people to fill the highest-level positions. But planning for future s... Read story
Most Likely to Succeed
Products for anxious parents. Read story
The Good, the Bad, the Underfunded Robb Mandelbaum's feature about the Small Business Administration was the most balanced article I have read... Read story
Look to Low-Cost and Niche Airlines for Low Fares
One of the best ways to get the lowest fares is to know where low-cost and niche airlines fly. These carriers allow you to create your own system of airfa... Read story
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Letters
Readers react to articles from the November issue of Inc., including Russ Baker's "Surfer's Paradise," Dr. Steven Berglas' "Your Work Is Never Done," and Nor... Read story
The Case for Standardized PC Configuration
Making sure all your company's desktops and laptops are running exactly the same software can hold down maintenance costs, keep IT staff happy, and help equi... Read story
Contributors
When Brian Finke went to Starlight Tattoo in New Jersey to photograph this m... Read story
Red Stars Rising
The president of a Russian telephone company explains the challenge of finding employees in the former USSR. Read story
Specialty Delivery
Information on various regional next-day delivery services. Read story
The Stubborn Eventually Prosper
When a beanbag salesman and a Nevada gambling man join forces to make millions off a Russian miracle fabric, something bizarre is bound to happen. It did, an... Read story
Married with Companies
Profiles of couples who both run their own businesses. Read story
How Bribery and Other Types of Corruption Threaten the Global Marketplace
In Turkey, the apartment buildings that collapse during earthquakes are known as "bribe buildings." In Africa, bridges dot the landscape with no roads to con... Read story
The Personals Touch
The winner and runners-up of the award for the company that promises continued rapid growth, Emerging EOY. Read story
Hot Spots
Summary of metropolitan economies for 1989; the most growth was seen in the 'edge cities', where cattle once grazed. Read story
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HOW THE CITIES WERE RANKED Like our annual states report, this ranking of metropolitan areas is based on three factors: job generation, rate of significan... Read story
One-Stop Dialing
Competitive local exchange carriers, a new kind of telephone company, are willing to go to great lengths to get your company's business. Read story
Taking The Fear Out of Factoring
With more and more reputable companies entering the factoring business, services have greatly improved. But factors' bottom line use remains the same: provid... Read story
The No.1 Companies From 1982 -- 2005: Where Are They Now?
Seven are still private, twelve have been acquired, three went public, and one was shut down by the Feds. 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
The Real Ayn Rand
A groundbreaking new biography paints a surprising -- and surprisingly lurid -- picture of the writer and thinker Read story
Hot Cities, Hot Sites
The cover story of the December 2000 issue of Inc. magazine, " Best Cities to Start and ... Read story
Cities that Have Soared or Sunk as a Place to Start a Business
A look at the big and small cities that have shown the greatest rise or fall on Inc. 's list of the best cities in which to start a business, from 19... Read story
Independents' Day
Want to start your own revolution? It's easy. Just bring together a group of strong-willed entrepreneurs and form an alliance. Your independence may depend o... Read story
The Origins of Entrepreneurship
Where do America's fastest-growing private companies and their founders come from? Not where you think. 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
Confessions of an Information Sinner
With his first business, Ron Bienvenu overloaded his newsletter subscribers with reams of extraneous information. Now his software system, SageMaker, sends o... Read story
The Believer
Flat broke at the age of 21, Joe Cirulli made a list of 10 things he wanted to accomplish in life. One by one, he pulled them off -- and built a health and... Read story
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