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Advertise Wisely: Less Can Be More

The fact that you don't have the budget to support half-page newspaper ads doesn't mean you should resign yourself to obscurity. In fact, since the newsp...  Read story

Modem

Modem, an acronym for modulator/demodulator, is a device that allows one computer to "talk" with another over a standard telephone line. Modems act as a k...  Read story

The State of Small Business 1995

Inc.'s editor-in-chief profiles the writers appearing in this special annual report, The State of Small Business.  Read story

Let's Get Rid Of The Corporate Income Tax

Politicians talk boastfully about taxing wealthy corporations, when they are really just using smoke and mirrors to obfuscate the issue.  Read story

Everything Old Is New Again

Has the e-commerce bubble burst? If recent reports are to be believed, online business-to-consumer (B2C) businesses are in a slump. Stock prices of many l...  Read story

UNTITLED

What do Coca-Cola , Gillette and The Washington Post Co. have in common? For one thing, they all boast W...  Read story

Business Hours

The term "business hours" refers to the "open" and "closed" schedule that a business determines for its operations. Small and large businesses adhere to a...  Read story

Who's Next

They are transforming the Web, empowering other start-ups, and turning your conference room into one big whiteboard. A sneak preview of the latest generation...  Read story

Barbarians at the Watergate

It may have taken awhile, but Washington society is finally adjusting to a new breed: the fast-moving, different-thinking, so very dot-com riche.   Read story

Oprah Gets Psyched

How Oprah gets psyched for boardroom showdowns -- and other pearls overheard at the nation's top daylong conference of female execs.  Read story

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Extra! Extra! U.S. Wins Semiconductor Wars

News of the United States' victory in the semiconductor wars goes unreported.  Read story

You Don't Need Technology to Tell the Truth

Mike Wallace on the Internet and life inside 60 Minutes .  Read story

Club Fed

A Washington, D.C., tip sheet from ultimate insider Mary Naylor, capital native and founder of her own corporate-concierge business.  Read story

Big Fish, Bigger Fish

'My father always encouraged me to go to work for a large corporation. He said there was more security in it.'  Read story

Tariffs

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Going For Broke

American weapons, not Russian, will be the death of us yet, and part of the reason is the unblinking support of the business community  Read story

Contributors

Liz Welch has gotten glimpses into myriad entrepreneurial lives by shadowing CEOs for The Way I Work. For this issue, she learned what's ...  Read story

Preparing For Out Future

We need a national commitment to modernize our skills as well as our industries. Without one, we face continuing unemployment, a further drop in productivity...  Read story

In This Issue

The financial and emotional concerns of running a business are often enmeshed, and that is certainly the case when the subject is how much money the boss ...  Read story

Passing It On

Using life insurance as an estate planning tool.  Read story

Contributors

When photographer Beth Perkins entered the salt mines at Redmond Minerals in central Utah, she had a problem. Other than the headlamps w...  Read story

Brett Zamore Designed a Stylish, Affordable Kit Home.

Now he wants to go national.  Read story

States Report: Turning The Tables

We were halfway through a breakfast interview in Baton Rouge, La., when Kevin Couhig the assistant secretary of industry and commerce for Louisiana, solem...  Read story

The Future of Banking

Ordering information for Banking on the Brink and how to assess the health of a bank.  Read story

In This Issue

Art and commerce aren't the natural enemies they are often made out to be.  Read story

The Disciples of David Birch

A new generation of researchers discover the effect of small business on the economy.  Read story

Inc.com Named EPpy Award Finalist

The awards, sponsored by Editor & Publisher and MediaWeek , recognize the media's best Internet sites.  Read story

With Friends Like These

They are in a position to help, but lately they haven't done much.  Read story

For Young Entrepreneurs, Safety in Numbers

Despite the economic gloom and doom, the honorees on this year's 30 Under 30 list are building wildly successful ventures with the help of their peers, paren...  Read story

Managing Your Stock Portfolio

With today's software it's not hard to become your own financial adviser.  Read story

Letter from the Editor: Growth Odyssey

How Zingerman's found a breakthrough strategy.  Read story

Letter from the Editor: The King of Confidence

It's about more than just winning.  Read story

Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places

Government should foster innovation and entrepreneurship instead of focusing on companies' sizes.  Read story

Meet Your Silent Partner

The National Small Business Association works hard and gets results. But a low profile keeps the group from getting the credit it deserves.  Read story

Small Business -- And The Nation -- Win A Very Big One

What is the most important piece of small business legislation yet enacted in our life-time? My vote goes to the Small Business Innovation Development Ac...  Read story

The White House Small Business Conference;

THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE White House Conference on Small Business that met last August and the conference of the same name that met under Jimmy Carter...  Read story

Smoke Free Environment

The term smoke free environment is sometimes used indiscriminately to discuss both 100 percent smoke free areas as well as segregated and ventilated areas...  Read story

Marching On Washington, '80s Style

Will this be the small-business conference that finally figures out the difference between being small and thinking small?  Read story