Sunnyvale


Inventive Ideas

May 1, 1982

Independent inventors and small businesses that need help conducting patent searches or finding information on the best ways to market, finance, and licen...  Read story

Movers, Not Shakers

By Robert A. Mamis |  Jun 1, 1991

Movers that specialize in office equipment and the importance of hiring a specialist.  Read story

The New Software: A Powerful Ally

By Steve Ditlea |  Nov 1, 1981

These little disks can help you analyze finances and manage information.  Read story

Fax Me Back

By Leslie Brokaw |  Jan 1, 1991

New business replaces reader service cards with a technology that automates the response process.  Read story

Mighty Mouse

By Leslie Brokaw |  Nov 1, 1989

High-tech company plans to introduce the first mouse with a full-function, built-in keypad.  Read story

Encouraging Volunteerism

Jan 1, 1995

If you want to get your company involved in your community but either can't afford cashdonations or want to give something that won't be forgotten as easi...  Read story

Clean Me Up, Scotty

By Leslie Brokaw |  Aug 1, 1989

Company has developed a laser that vaporizes decayed areas of a tooth without agravating nerves.  Read story

Online Payments: Plastic or Digital Cash?

Jan 1, 1998

Few consumers have embraced the idea of using digital cash. CDnow, an online retailer in Jenkintown, Pa., has received next to nothing in digital cash sin...  Read story

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May 1, 1984

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales growth (1979-83) R...  Read story

An Online Networking Sampler

Jun 1, 2004

Web sites Friendster, Sunnyvale, Calif.: Popular free site is primarily for social, rather than ...  Read story

Computing With Light

By Virginia Inman |  Dec 1, 1984

In old science-fiction movies, the computer of the future is often a mysterious metal box with a bevy of blinking lights on the outside. In the real futu...  Read story

Uncommon Carriers

May 1, 1982

Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., long a pioneer in space travel and modern computer communications, has come up with a new communications system that's ol...  Read story

Business, Bureaucrats Reinvent Local Gov't

By Hal Plotkin |  Nov 1, 1996

A look at how an assemblage of local business leaders are teaming up with local government to effect a change.  Read story

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May 1, 1983

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Rank ...  Read story

Selling To Japan

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Nov 1, 1988

Sample of small American companies selling wares in Japan.  Read story

The Inc. Second 100

By Bradford W. Ketchum |  Jun 1, 1981

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

Use Of Temp Workers Steadily Increasing

Nov 1, 1981

Temporary workers are no longer just short-term fill-ins for members of the typing pool who go on vacation. In countless small companies, temps have beco...  Read story

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Sep 1, 1983

Chuck E. Cheese's 1982 Annual Report for Kids is out. Published by Nolan Bushnell's Pizza Time Theatre Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., it has the essentials of...  Read story

2008 Inc. 500| 5000 Top 100 Lists

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Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley

By Susan Benner |  Sep 1, 1982

As blind faith in the infallibility of high-tech companies falters, the era of unrestrained growth in the Valley may be over.  Read story

$500 Start-up Becomes Software Market Leader

Jul 1, 1981

When they first hit the market personal computers seemed to produce more problems than they solved. Executives in particular were put off by the necessit...  Read story

The Pied Piper Of Sunnyvale

By Robert A. Mamis |  Mar 1, 1983

Two bearded tinkerers with electronic gadgets getting together to discuss the future is not, by Silicon Valley standards, extraordinary. So when entrepren...  Read story

Advisers: Taxes 'R' Us

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1995

A CFO explains why she feels that having only one tax advisory firm can keep costs down.  Read story

Interactive Maps Archive

Today's Feat...  Read story

On-line: Who Owns a Web Site?

By Phaedra Hise |  Feb 1, 1996

Two Web site experts explain how to avoid someone stealing your home page.  Read story

The Family Plan

By Donna Fenn |  Apr 1, 1986

The owner of Capsco Sales hopes her kids will take over the company in a couple of years. If they don't, it won't be for lack of planning.  Read story

Your PayPal Buddy

By Laura Palotie |  May 21, 2008

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

The Challenge Of Cartridges

Dec 1, 1982

Ever since video games were first introduced to the market, the industry has been especially fertile ground for company start-ups. From 1977 to 1981 indus...  Read story

What's The Difference Between An Aggressive And An Obnoxious Entrepeneur

Nov 1, 1983

That was the question posed to venture capitalists at a recent meeting in Sunnyvale, Calif. "It's important to be aggressive," said James C. Anderson, of ...  Read story

The Tokyo Connection

By Edward O. Welles |  Feb 1, 1990

The ramifications of small high-tech companies looking to Japan to fund their development.  Read story

Taking Care of Sick Kids

By Michael P. Cronin |  Aug 1, 1993

Company collaborated with other area companies to provide emergency child care for employees.  Read story

Network

By Inc Staff |  Jun 1, 1999

Inc. Technology readers react to articles from Inc. Technology #1, 1999, including "Sharer Beware," by Thea Singer and "Looking for Mr. Sit...  Read story

The Wrong Stuff

By Tom Richman |  Jul 1, 1982

When space buff Gary Hudson dared to go where no businessman had gone before, the results were a real blast.  Read story

Stanford Preps for Silicon Valley

By Marc Ballon |  Mar 1, 1998

Stanford University's entrepreneurial internship program primes engineering students for aggressive recruitment by Silicon Valley companies.  Read story

Raising Capital Online

By Mark Henricks |  Aug 1, 2007

From angel directories to person-to-person lending, entrepreneurs' options are growing for finding and research financing options on the Web.  Read story

Made In Usa

By Joel Kotkin |  Mar 1, 1985

THE CASE FOR MANUFACTURING IN AMERICA  Read story

The Spirit Of Independence; The Valley

By Curtis Hartman |  Jul 1, 1985

"The man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds." -- Mark Twain  Read story

The Almost-Eternal Light

By Robert A. Mamis |  Feb 1, 1993

A new light bulb lasts 20 times longer than today's most durable incandescent.  Read story

Fast-Growing Companies Creating More Jobs

By Angus Loten |  Oct 19, 2005

Oct. 19, 2005 --Today's most successful small and mid-size companies are also engines of job growth, this year's Read story

Fast-Growing Companies Creating More Jobs

By Angus Loten |  Oct 19, 2005

Oct. 19, 2005 --Today's most successful small and mid-size companies are also engines of job growth, this year's Read story