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Business 101: Capitalization Plans

Guidlines for projecting your company's capital needs Some business owners conduct their capital searches along the philosop...  Read more

Live and Learn: Perfect Isn't Unless Perfect Does

A CEO explains how he found customizing an off-the-shelf software as the answer to his software needs.  Read more

Dress for Success

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

Hot Tip: Hiring Salespeople

Want to hire good salespeople? During the interview, ask the job candidate to try to sell you your own product -- or something like it.  Read more

Costs Rising for Contractors

The escalating prices of commodities like steel, iron, drywall, plywood and concrete is hitting contractors' bottom lines pretty hard these days. Add to t...  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

Why Take Sides?

Column discussing customer service and whether the customer is really always right.  Read more

Can Your Bank Do This?

A number of entrepreneurs define for Inc. what makes an exceptional small-business commercial bank.  Read more

Online Licenses Manager

Jan. 30, 2007 -- Redvector.com, a Tampa, Fla.-based e-learning software company, has launched a new Professional License Management Servi...  Read more

Capitalization Plan

Some business owners conduct their capital searches along the philosophical lines of "Whatever I can raise, I canuse." Others rely on their business plans...  Read more

Watch 'n' Wait

Healthcare Television Network produces and distributes health programs on video.  Read more

Move Over, Madonna

Start-up company introduces classical-music home videos.  Read more

Aspirations for '05

CEOs' new year's resolutions.  Read more

Don Shula: My Biggest Mistake

In 1989 my partner, David Younts, and I opened our first Shula's Steak House, in Miami Lakes, Fla. It should have been the beginning of a big chain, but I...  Read more

A Moral Debt

In politics we all notice the precarious balance between "church and state." We may not have understood it as children, but watching the world events unfo...  Read more

Hotline

Current trends affecting small business.  Read more

You-Do-It Brewery Slips Down Hatch

Faulty market research, tricky regulations, and a bad location helped drive Brew Doctors, a brew-your-own-beer store, into bankruptcy. A business obit.  Read more

Desktop Shopping by Fax

New technology provides a quick way for office-goods makers and merchants to process queries about their products.  Read more

Xerox Buys Small-Business Tech Retailer

Xerox is expanding into the small-business market with a $1.5 billion deal to buy a company that sells office technology products to small and midsize busine...  Read more

Ask Inc.

Divorcing a partner; keeping the secret sauce safe.  Read more

Ask Inc.

Thwarting office theft, and making the most of revolving credit lines.  Read more

Report: Employee Turnover Persists

Despite a shrinking job market, many workers will quit their jobs this year, a study finds.  Read more

Specialty Delivery

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

Inc. 500 CEO Donates $1 Million to Alma Mater

April 24, 2007 -- The founder of an Inc. 500 software firm has donated $1 million to the entrepreneurship program at Wake Forest Universi...  Read more

Inc.com's Quick Guide to Wine Online

Now that you can , where should you shop for wine online? With the help of four exper...  Read more

Informing Investors

Keeping outside investors informed through newsletters, videotapes, fax lines, tours, etc.  Read more

A Golden Alternative

Using alternative airports is a form of creative ticketing that airlines don't really object to, but they will not offer alternative airport options when ...  Read more

The Ticker

Despite a grim market, HomeAway, an Austin-based company that helps users rent vacation homes online, has raised $250 million in venture ...  Read more

The Inc. Second 100

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

Inc. 500 Company Becomes GSA Contractor

Dec. 5, 2006 -- Network Liquidators, a Tampa-based firm that buys and sells used networking equipment, announced Tuesday that it has been...  Read more

Inc. 500 Firm Buys Telecomm Equipment Distributor

Dec. 19, 2006 -- Network Liquidators, a Tampa-based company that sells pre-owned and refurbished networking equipment, has acquired 1 Nat...  Read more

Etiquette: Pick Me!

A boss's guide to buying flowers.  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

An Inside Job

Once Jack McDonald stepped in as CEO of Austin-based Internet services firm Perficient, he grew the company fast: from 9 workers to 180 in 10 months. But ...  Read more

Turnover Happens

The problem of high personnel turnover is examined by a CEO who finds a silver lining in this staffing dark cloud.  Read more

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the November 1998 issue.  Read more

Bloodstock

One way to participate in a piece of the thoroughbred action is through publicly traded stock. There aren't a lot of equity opportunities in the industry,...  Read more

A Rare Glimpse Into the Mind of Steve Jobs

Why doesn't the SBA lend directly to small businesses? It's a reasonable question, according to a recent Read more

Ordinary Business

What would happen, my colleague John Case wondered aloud, if you took the INC. 100 list and stripped off all the obvious hyper-growth companies? Say you clea...  Read more