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Why Disney and ATT Went Astray in Dot-comland

Newspaper headlines are filled with reports describing the demise of dot-com firms. The rapid reversal of fortunes, however, has not been limited to pure-...  Read story

Copying Web Design: How Much Is Too Much?

Jonathan Hudis, chairman of the American Intellectual Property Association, discusses stepping over the fine line of trademark infringement in Web site design.  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

Licensing: Rent a Brand

The president of bird-feeder company that negotiated a license deal with Disney explains why it was a success.  Read story

Hollywood Lures High School Animators with Sweet Deals

An innovative training program in a California high school is churning out graduates who command high salaries.  Read story

Upstarts: New-Biz Watch

A look at Mark Begelman's MARS, a music and recording superstore that encourages customers to touch the merchandise, plus four shorter articles about the ret...  Read story

Mickey Mouse Needs to Eat His Vegetables

"I write a column about small business. A question I often get is, 'What's the biggest problem facing a small business?' ... My answer always surprises pe...  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

Saving Money in the Magic Kingdom

Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (and friends) are the big draws as families all over North America make room for Orlando in their summer vacation plans. The ki...  Read story

Leadership: Building Companies to Last

A study of companies that shows certain traits in visionary companies suggest basic rules for success.  Read story

Book Value: So You Say People Are Your Most Important Asset

According to some recent books, thinking of people as just another asset is a mistake. Plus: What Tim Keyes of Aim Technologies reads.  Read story

How I Did It: Stan Lee of Marvel Comics

The creator of Spider-Man, the Hulk, and the X-Men talks about how he has stayed creative for more than 60 years.  Read story

7 New Technology Marvels , inc5000 Article - Inc. Article

Our Inc. 500|5000 CEOs don't settle for what's already on the market. They seek out new and efficient technologies that make our lives easier. Here are a ...  Read story

Family Fare

It was all that Elvin Feltner needed to hear. Walt Disney Pictures was beginning to expand beyond the G rating of family films and into the spicier PG an...  Read story

Defying Gravity

Some of America's iconic companies took flight in gloomy times.  Read story

Upstarts: New-Biz Watch

A look at how Toby Lenk founded eToys.com, an online toy retailer that's taking lessons from Amazon.com. Plus, several shorter articles about the unlikely pr...  Read story

Book Of The Month

Fiascos on the scale of William H. Millard's ComputerLand (see main story) are rare. But how many businesses are plagued with equally troubled CEOs? Plen...  Read story

How Pixar Cheated Death

Pixar's a great success story, but it's worth remembering how close Steve Jobs & Co. came to an unhappy ending.  Read story

The Big Read

New business information on children's bookstores.  Read story

Plan B

Marketing information on appealing to the right consumer at the right time.  Read story

Letters

Readers respond to Norm Brodsky's March Street Smarts column, "Deciding To Grow." Also responses to recent stories on customer service and recruitment.  Read story

When The Magic Goes

The adoring crowd of 300 engineers executives, and reporters fell silent. They had gathered this Friday night in the bright new site of Sente Technologies...  Read story

How I Did It: Kenneth Feld, CEO, Feld Entertainment

He hires fire-eaters and acrobats! He breeds elephants! Plus this daring feat: As boss of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Ken Feld turned a castoff circu...  Read story

Diversity: Gays in the Workplace

Two books are reviewed that examine the issues surrounding homophobia in the workplace.  Read story

Return of Giants

Is Hollywood edging out small companies and returning to the studio-dominated days of yesteryear?  Read story

Setting the Stage

Jim Henson's son Brian writes about how he and his siblings filled his famous father's shoes in the family business.  Read story

Star Boards -- Nothing but Star Boards

Operating under the theory that celebrities are money magnets, America's largest companies have long stocked their boardrooms with a ration of star power....  Read story

Eight Keys to Creating a Customer Service Culture

Management must make the measurement of service quality and feedback from the customer a basic part of everyone's work experience. This information ...  Read story

Steal This Strategy

How one company grows and prospers by taking the best ideas from big companies.  Read story

Look Ma--No Bankers

Manufacturer of candy boxes learns why banks take a dim of limited partnerships.  Read story

Upstarts: Mompreneurs

Motherhood is a decidedly creative process-and in more than just the biological way. Here's a sampling of the numerous start-up ideas it has given birth to, ...  Read story

Babies

* By year-end, each of the more than 3.8 million babies born in 1986 will gobble up 552 jars of baby food, dirty approximately 3,000 diapers, and grow out...  Read story

Obit: Travel Service Folds When Friend Turns Foe

Here's why Suncoast Representation Services went down in flames when a large competitor entered the market and slashed the commissions it paid.  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without...

Animator Jeff Nodelman finds that a meal of ribs gets his creative juices flowing. He also has good taste in boats.  Read story

Movers and Shakers

The 2000 Inc. 500 list can count an impressive sampling of famous acquaintances. Think of it as a professional "six degrees of separation" game.  Read story

Cool, Determined & Under 30

They are collaborative, creative, and -- above all -- confident. And all of them were born after October 31, 1978.  Read story

Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 - Rachel Hollis, Chic Events

#28 Rachel Hollis Chic Events Age: 25 Location: Los...  Read story

Little Big Man

When Pizza King Jeno Paulucci sets out to do "good works," it can be hard to tell philanthropy from business.  Read story

For-Your-Own-Good Innovation

If you forgot to send in your car payment, look out. New devices are making the repo man look positively benign.  Read story

The Next Big Thing

Animation may just add what's been missing from your Web site.  Read story