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Letters

Readers respond to recent Inc. articles, including the "South Shall Ride Again," "What Do Teens Really Want?" and "The ABCs of Profit".  Read more

Nice Guys Finish First

Profiles of the four runners-up for "Best-managed Franchises in America."  Read more

Network: November 1991

Network new queries.  Read more

Hot Tip: Hole Up at Home

Not only did Michael Knowles start his security guard staffing company in the guest room of his house in Tallahassee, Fla., but he didn't relocate it to l...  Read more

Boomtowns '06: Hottest Midsize Cities

Employment Base of 150,000-450,000.  Read more

The Most Entrepreneurial Cities in America

Inc.'s 1990 ranking of metropolitan regions by job growth, business starts, and proportion of high-growth companies.  Read more

Tech Talk: Wireless Office Better Serves Clients

A marketing company in Florida discovers that a wireless network not only lets clients have Internet access, but allows employees to work outside if they want.  Read more

If You Build It, Will They Stay?

Rick Kearney is applying a radical solution to employee turnover: He's building an "employee-centric" office park to house his business, Mainline Information...  Read more

Grand Plans

Shoestring start-ups: seven fast-growing companies that were started for $1,000 or less, and tactics to borrow for your own start-up.  Read more

Network: September 1991

Network resources.  Read more

A Guarantee with Teeth

In any service business, customers appreciate the little things. But what was missing--the small, common errors--was plaguing Fringe Benefits Management, ...  Read more

Real-World Reengineering

Profile of a turnaround that involved the reengineering of the company's culture.  Read more

Advisers: Rent a CFO

A company president explains how his business brought in a short-term CFO.  Read more

A Guarantee with Teeth

Placing monetary guarantees on service.  Read more

Executive Temps

Growing entrepreneurial companies often need a certain type of professional skill but aren't ready to add someone long-term to the payroll and company ben...  Read more

Payback

When Wal-Mart tried to push around Chuck Mitchell's company, GTO, one time too many, he did what few small businesses have dared to do: he fought back.  Read more

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth 1976-80 Per...  Read more

The Inc. 500

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth 197781 Perc...  Read more

Letters

Readers react to articles from the June issue of Inc., including Norm Brodsky's "Multilevel Mischief" and Jerry Useem's "Harvard Business School's 'Woman Pro...  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

Inc. 500 All-Stars: Then and Now

What happens to entrepreneurs after their companies make the Inc . 500 list? Interviews with 12 past and present Inc. 500 CEOs show that mos...  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

Gold Medal Millionaires

For many past and present Olympic athletes, running a business can be just as challenging -- and rewarding -- as competing in the world's biggest sporting ev...  Read more

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 more

The Ride of Your Life

Trouble's inevitable. What do you do when a crisis hits? Take advantage of it -- and hang on tight.  Read more

Mississippi Motivators

When profits fell at a hotel management company, it was time to slash human-resources spending. Or was it?  Read more

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 more

Almanac

A statistical look at 1998's Inc. 500 companies and the CEOs who run them.  Read more

Out of the Blue

Several former IBM employees are featured in an attempt to see why past Big Blue employees often become entrepreneurs.  Read more

Where the Growth Is

The best cities for growing a business and how to follow the signs to thriving markets.  Read more

Hot Spots

INC.'s annual ranking of America's cities  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

Hot Zones

A look at the best cities in America for starting and growing a business. Plus: CEOs discuss their reasons for locating their business where they did.  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

#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