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In a Time of Fear, Some Perspective

Turn on the television, pick up a newspaper, or stop by your local water cooler and it's all around you. There are a lot of Chicken Little's predicting fi...  Read more

Relocating Brings Big Savings for Company

Relocating only part of a company can free up an entrepreneur to pursue new opportunities more easily. Take Tom Hursman of Spectrum MedSystems Corp. He wa...  Read more

Are Bigger Banks Bad For Small Business?

Our man tests the waters in a place where mergers and consolidations are already a fact of life  Read more

Prime Time

If interest rates were the number one thing on your mind last year, you weren't alone. The Small Business Foundation's award-winning cartoonists felt the sam...  Read more

Business And The Business Press

When I'm out on speaking engagements, I'm often asked why the general business press pays so little attention not just to women-owned companies, but to em...  Read more

Paid Vacations Gain as Recruiting Incentive

A Lincoln Park, MI, company that needed to hire about 50 engineers wanted to set itself apart from itscompetitors. Its solution? Offer four-day, three-nig...  Read more

Kauffman Donates $25.5 Million to Universities

The grants, part of a $200 million initiative, will help foster entrepreneurship programs at nine schools nationwide.  Read more

The Best Little Grocery Store In America

Green Hills Farms, a small family grocery in upstate New York, has big companies around the country clamoring to know the secrets behind its powerful custome...  Read more

Get Help From Business Peers

Ever catch yourself wishing for a board of directors, just so you'd have more than your own opinion when it came time for hard decisions? Many chief exec...  Read more

Valuations: When a Valuation Makes Sense

A business broker and appraiser explains when it might be time to pay for a full-scale valuation for your company.  Read more

The Trouble With Bankers

Finally, we received several letters in response to two articles on the subject of banks and their relationships with growing companies. One of those let...  Read more

Relocation

Whether you're moving your company by choice (say, you're heeding the call of one of Inc .'s "Read more

Relocation

Whether you're moving your company by choice (say, you're heeding the call of one of Inc .'s "Read more

The 1989 Inc. 500 Index

Alphabetical listing of the 1989 Inc. 500 companies, names only.  Read more

Employment Lines

Some guidelines for getting the information you need from job applicants -- without breaking the law  Read more

Seduction by the Numbers

Tearing into "breaking free of budgets," and more.  Read more

A Mid-Sized Retailer Goes One to One

Independent grocer Green Hills Farms combines old-fashioned hospitality and some newfangled one-to-one marketing to compete with the big supermarket chains.  Read more

Network: March 1990

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Hands Off

Cleaning up dog droppings in backyards proves to be a profitable business.  Read more

IRS Business Audits Declined Through First Half of 2004

November 4, 2004 -- Despite repeated promises from the Internal Revenue Service that it was going to crackdown on corporate tax violators...  Read more

Network: April 1992

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

The Designer

Ryan Dickerson, a 20-year-old junior at Syracuse University, founded Rylaxing in 2009 to enhance his dorm room space.  Read more

How To Know Your Customers Better

Demographics sounds expensive and frightening, but it's a useful tool even for small companies.  Read more

Meet the Start-up Stalkers

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: S...  Read more

Management In Training

They may be successful chief executive officers, but they are still anchored by childhood memories of train whistles in the night, of locomotives bound fo...  Read more

Seasonal Businesses

Related Terms: Business Cycles ; Read more

Best Cities: The Location Advantage

Is it time to make your move? These CEOs bet that their companies would thrive in a new location.  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

How To Do Without Employeess

A new breed of service for staffing by contract tries to make personnel management easy for small companies.  Read more

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read more

Addresses: Making Second Choice Fly

We knew the domain we wanted and put it on the registration application," says Shawn Carpenter, sales and marketing director at Sonnet Software, a $2.5-mi...  Read more

Addresses: Making Second Choice Fly

We knew the domain we wanted and put it on the registration application," says Shawn Carpenter, sales and marketing director at Sonnet Software, a $2.5-mi...  Read more

Hot Spots

INC.'s annual ranking of America's cities  Read more

Purse Strings;

FROM ALL THE FUSS, YOU might think that Sutton State Bank was more important than BankAmerica Corp. It is -- at least to business owners in Attica, ...  Read more

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth '77-'81 ...  Read more

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Toscanini's Rocky Road For the April issue, Gus Rancatore, the owner of Toscanini's, a beloved ice cream parlor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, ...  Read more