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As stocks headed into what was hoped would not be summer doldrums, many issues showed signs of needing some time out in the sun. Weariness in the list was...  Read story

Intimate Relations

Global pressures are forcing even the fiercest competitors to create strategic alliances.  Read story

Communicating Your Ethics Philosophy

Holt Company is recognized for initiating a "values-based leadership process" in 1989 to both promote ethics as a priority business issue...  Read story

Beyond The Keyboard

You don't use a computer because you can't type? Some companies are turning the lack of typing skills into a business opportunity by selling unusual alte...  Read story

The Hottest Entrepreneur In America Is The "smart Team" At Compaq Computer

Companies like Compaq are emerging from the high-tech shakeout stronger than ever. Their secret: avoiding the one-man shown. Is there a lesson here for the r...  Read story

A Chip off the Old Motherboard

A quick look at how a small company is thriving as it upgrades old machines and then recycles the old parts.  Read story

A Buyer's Guide To Personal Business Computers

The following 14 personal business computers can handle a variety of useful business applications. Yet they involve no more setup than a component stereo...  Read story

Silibubble

Chipmakers are looking at one of their best years in 2004. That's why you should avoid them--with certain exceptions Christmas came early for chi...  Read story

The Littlest PC

Computer company has created a one-pound portable IBM compatible computer.  Read story

Patent Licensing: Another Way to Enhance Return on Investment

Diversification applies not only to stock holdings but to revenue streams as well. Increased competition, rising sales costs, research and development cos...  Read story

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On the first anniversary of 1982's spectacular market launch, stocks were on their way down. But the nature of any market -- bull or bear -- is to correct...  Read story

Productivity Tools

Gearing Up for Growth Effective project management and scheduling are a challenge for most rapidly expanding enterprises. Read story

The World is Not Enough

Bülent Çelebi is a worldly guy, having lived in Turkey, Hong Kong, and the U.S. before returning to Istanbul to establish AirTies--which has a su...  Read story

Our Real Competitive Edge

Start-ups may be the U.S.' best hope in the high-tech production competition against Japan.  Read story

Manufacturing: Here, There, Or Everywhere?

Certainly, such entrepreneurial leaders as Jim Toreson should be congratulated for not being overcome by the seemingly magic spell of offshore production....  Read story

A Closer Look at IT Recruitment: Clouds on the Horizon

One of the outgrowths of Internet technology was the development of "IT groups." Suddenly, IT professionals became the engines that fired the fortunes of ...  Read story

EPA Pushes Dozing Desktops That Use Less Juice

Semiconductor vendors are building computers that power down when idle to save electricity and meet EPA goals.  Read story

Upstarts

A look at how Kelley Dunn launched her corporate concierge service, Consider It Dunn; plus, several shorter articles about the outlook of the corporate conci...  Read story

Courting Disaster

With a ragtag band of failing companies snatched from the steps of bankruptcy courts, Applied Technology Ventures has constructed a robust corporation.  Read story

Choosing Workstyle

For many, the road begins in a big company.  Read story

NEC Introduces New Projectors

The NP Value Series mobile projectors are designed for smaller offices.  Read story

Perspective: Doing well by doing nothing.

Meditation at work.  Read story

Drives Provide New Electronics Avenue

A Colorado company brings new circuitry to MP3 players near you.  Read story

A Texas-Sized Economic Plan

Dec. 20, 2004 --Texas Governor Rick Perry has proposed a bold new measure that would double the state's current commitment to economic dev...  Read story

Hard-Time Start-Ups

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers a list of some of today's best-known companies that started in the Great Depression.  Read story

Made In The U.S.A.

Profile of a company aspiring to keep manufacturing cheap and effective in the appliance market.  Read story

Betting the Farm

Profile of Gateway 2000, the #1 Inc. 500 company.  Read story

Great Expectations

With one tool that makes job expectations crystal clear, MTW Corp. has figured out a way to turn the softer side of managing people into something concrete e...  Read story

New Trade Marts To Show Computer Wares

As computer hardware and software product offering proliferate in the United States, picking the system best-suited for a small company's particular needs...  Read story

Computer Applications

According to The History of Computing Project, the prototype of the first microcomputer was introduced by the aptly named Micro Computer Inc., Los Angele...  Read story

The Third Wave

U.S. entrepreneurs are filling new niches in the semiconductor industry.  Read story

The Challenge Of Cartridges

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

Going Through Customs

Americans are selling the Japanese everything from shampoo to catering trucks. The trick is to play by their rules.  Read story

Sources of Innovation

Although small firms are more innovative, it can be advantageous for them to team up with larger companies.  Read story

Catching A Post-boom Chill

When Big Oil sneezes, many of Houston's small companies catch pneumonia.  Read story

The Year Of The Fast-growth Bear

When the Big Board sniffles, it's the INC. 100 that gets pneumonia. This year's 16% drop can in part be blamed on the earnings ailments of larger companies.  Read story

Risky Business

A venture capitalist discusses marketplace trends and the venture capital business.  Read story

The Importance Of Being Excellent

Just when you were getting used to Theory Z and the Japanese style of management, along come Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman to say that some Americans ...  Read story

Dear Jon,

Three years after founding Northwest Instrument Systems, Jon Birck became a cliche -- one more entrepreneur squeezed out of his fast-growing company.  Read story

The Great American Revival

While the pundits debate how to restore U.S. industrial competitiveness, thousands of small, flexible, market-driven manufacturers are already doing it  Read story

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