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The Start-Up Diaries: Moonlight over Indiana

Luis Espinoza has been moonlighting for the past few years to build Inca Quality Foods, a Hispanic food-distribution business. But he would never dream of qu...  Read story

High Concept: Tapping a New Market

Will new features and pumped-up distribution enable a niche product to reach the masses?  Read story

Waste Not

Ordering information for Making Less Garbage by Bette K. Fishbein and Caroline Gelb, and tips on reducing waste.  Read story

Gold-Medal Marketing

For companies looking to profit from the Beijing Olympics, the race is on.  Read story

It's 1983. Look At The Kinds Of Companies That Are After Your Money

If you are in the market for a house, the chances are fair that you can find one through a Merrill Lynch & Co. real estate agent, and that you can arr...  Read story

Carving a Real Niche

Sarah Talley runs one of the nation's largest pumpkin patches and counts Wal-Mart and Kroger among her customers. While Halloween remains the busy season, sh...  Read story

The Forks in Their Roads

Inc. reports on the progress of five start-ups featured in the January issue.  Read story

One Company's Budget: A Nice Consistency

Organic ice cream maker PJ Madison's looks to bring discipline to its marketing  Read story

Wal-Mart Goes Organic

The small companies that make their livelihood growing and peddling organic food fear the entrance of major retailers will destroy the industry.  Read story

Private Labeling

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The Product: Grilling Planks

They're hot, but are they supermarket material?  Read story

The Inner City 100 Profiles: 91-100

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Cookie Monsters

All-natural cookie manufacturer successfully competes with the cookie classics.  Read story

Catching Up with the 2006 30 Under 30 Alumni

For many of the rising stars on our inaugural 30 Under 30 list, the success has only continued. We asked our past honorees to send in updates about their com...  Read story

Where Do Great Ideas Come From?

To hear these Inc 500 all-stars tell it, it's not from books or market research; it's from keeping your eyes and ears open.  Read story

Dossier: Praising the Bar

Sure, everybody needs a passion, but some passions are of a decidedly different stripe. Meet Steven Schmidt, an ardent admirer of all things bar-coded.  Read story

Case Study: Skinner Baking Builds a Brand

For years, a family bakery sold unbranded pastries to supermarkets. Should the owner now put his name on the box?  Read story

High Noon in Aisle Five

If Rupert Murdoch's boys rode into your company's territory, what would you do: run for the hills or stay and fight? In the tradition of Gary Cooper's greate...  Read story

Errand Boy

This start-up wants to do your shopping, get your dry cleaning and more, all for a small fee. But, will it fly?  Read story

Sugar Baby

Jimmy Spradly's candy bar has already charmed the South. Can it sweet-talk its way into the national market as well?  Read story

Private Lives;

For Susan Bowen, success was as simple as bringing quality to a fly-by-night industry.  Read story

Mighty Leaf is a Darling of Upscale Restaurants and Natural-Food Stores

Should its creators sell their luxe tea in the cutthroat world of supermarkets?  Read story

Out of Control

Travis Parsons lost his CEO title when he sold to a rival. Now, he's trying to stay on --- and stay relevant.  Read story

Brief Profiles of 2003 Inc. 500 Companies

Helpful tips and fun facts from the 2003 Inc. 500 list.  Read story

Targeting the Giant

Drypers won the top spot on the Inc. 500 by going up against Procter Gamble.  Read story

Jump Start Your Business

Spend 48 sleepless hours with America's top new-product idea man.  Read story

Is This Any Way to Run a Family?

Hoping to inspire, to teach responsibility and instill determination, Tom Parsons decided to start a business with his 15-year-old son. It seemed like a good...  Read story

The Heart of a Company

The birth of a seriously ill child set Kenny Kramm on a course from ordinary guy to extraordinary entrepreneur.  Read story

Lucky Junki

He has 20 thriving companies, a fourth-degree black belt, and a plan -- always a plan. Which is why this former Japanese gang leader is a teriyaki-sauce-maki...  Read story

Spend and Save

A start-up company that allows people to save for retirement when they make consumer purchases.  Read story

It's Not Easy Being Green

Jeffrey Hollender and Alan Newman disagreed about strategy, fought bitterly -- and created two successful companies. They'd set out to change the world, but ...  Read story

Confessions of an Entrepreneur's Wife

She was proud to support her husband's dream of building a great business. But five years is a long time to watch someone focus on his company at the expense...  Read story

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