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Talking Alarm

New Business paragraph regarding a battery-operated talking smoke alarm.  Read more

Digital Security

An overview of several new approaches to protecting your computer from unauthorized users.  Read more

Sign of the Times

U.S. entrepreneur markets Soviet souvenir tee-shirts in Russia.  Read more

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 more

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 more

The Top 25 Cities for Doing Business

Inc . contributing editor Joel Kotkin will be appear on NPR's most popular show, "Morning Edition," tomorrow, Thursday, February 26, between 8 and...  Read more

Mail

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

TV or Not TV

How businesses are selling products through TV shopping channels such as QVC and Home Shopping Network.  Read more

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 more

Most Likely to Succeed

Products for anxious parents.  Read more

Most Likely to Succeed

Products for anxious parents.  Read more

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 more

Mail

The Good, the Bad, the Underfunded Robb Mandelbaum's feature about the Small Business Administration was the most balanced article I have read...  Read more

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 more

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 more

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 more

Estonia's Online Outpost

Innovation clearly flourishes within energetic, youthful societies that embrace technology as a means of transforming great ideas into major businesses. T...  Read more

Contributors

When Brian Finke went to Starlight Tattoo in New Jersey to photograph this month's cover story , he q...  Read more

Tech Talk: TV Frame Maker Shares Files

A business that custom designs frames and mounts for flat panel TVs avoided hiring IT personnel by outsourcing file sharing and management to an on-demand pr...  Read more

Red Stars Rising

The president of a Russian telephone company explains the challenge of finding employees in the former USSR.  Read more

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 more

Specialty Delivery

Information on various regional next-day delivery services.  Read more

Married with Companies

Profiles of couples who both run their own businesses.  Read more

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 more

The Personals Touch

The winner and runners-up of the award for the company that promises continued rapid growth, Emerging EOY.  Read more

Hot Spots

Summary of metropolitan economies for 1989; the most growth was seen in the 'edge cities', where cattle once grazed.  Read more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more