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Updated Time-Billing Software

March 15, 2007 -- BQE Software, a Torrance, Calif.-based software company, has released an updated version of its time-billing and projec...  Read more

Exit Planning: Three Ways to Plan Ahead

A lawyer offers three essential safeguards for both your family's and your company's future should your life end.  Read more

A Simple Little System

By going back to basics, one company created a blueprint for saving boatloads of cash Three years ago the management of Hi-Shear T...  Read more

Tech Talk: Upgrading an Aging Infrastructure

Pentel's Information Technology Manager Matthew Staver discusses why his company invested in a more scalable infrastructure.  Read more

1987 The Inc. 100;

WE'RE AWAITING CONFIRMATION FROM THE observatory at Mount Palomar that all the planets and moons did indeed orbit around Wall Street last year. Certainly...  Read more

Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100

Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit...  Read more

Mergers;

When two companies merge, there's often a temptation to gloss over tough questions about which company's culture will be dominant after the merger. But t...  Read more

Skype Conference Phone

Jan. 18, 2007 – TRENDnet, a Torrance, Calif.-based manufacturer of wired and wireless networking products, announced Thursday the r...  Read more

CEO's Notebook

CEOs give advice on: cost cutting; encouraging employees to be entrepreneurs; speeding up collections; and overseas recruiting. Plus: Steppenwolf founder Joh...  Read more

The Next Big Thing

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

Hiring a Web Designer

Five things to look for when hiring someone to design your business website.  Read more

The Global X-ray Village

New business scans X-rays onto a computer screen.  Read more

Why Distributors Sue Manufacturers

The wrong move when selecting or terminating a dealer can lead to litigation.  Read more

How Health-Insurance Costs Compare

Chart showing how a company's location affects its insurance rates.  Read more

The Inc. Second 100

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

Twitter's Revenue Problem; The Right Way to Fail

The Return of Steve Jobs? Apple is widely Read more

Upstarts: Tapping Generation Y

A new wave of start-ups is courting an unprecedented swell of cash-rich teens. But even if these teen-obsessed ventures strike the adolescent mother lode, ca...  Read more

Married with Companies

Profiles of couples who both run their own businesses.  Read more

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read more

When You Can't Afford a CFO

CEO hired a consultant to upgrade the company's financial software and her skills, instead of hiring a CFO.  Read more

All That Glitters

RARE COINS ARE TOUTED AS A GREAT HOBBY AND A SUREFIRE INVESTMENT. THEY MAY BE A GREAT HOBBY.  Read more

The 500

#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ...  Read more

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Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth '77-'81 ...  Read more

Origins of the 500: Partners

Where do America's fastest growing private companies get all those great ideas? A look at some of the strange ways Inc. 500 company cofounders came together.  Read more

The Lure and Danger of Big-Client Projects

It's every small-business owner's dream to land a big contract with a big corporation -- or is it? Three years ago, Leslie Saunders, president of L...  Read more

CEO's Notebook

CEOs give advice on: great interview questions; getting customer feedback; modifying an open-door policy; finding salary-surveys; resolving customer complain...  Read more

Supercharged Sell

Sales-force automation is a powerful tool but succeeding with it is no easy matter.  Read more

The Private 500 represent 44 states. Geographically, the West wins again on the strength of California's 84 companies -- more than twice as many as any ot...  Read more

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back In The Office

Companies that have gone electronic discover a host of environmental problems. You may be sitting on one, reading under another, and have your feet up on a t...  Read more

Hail to the Chiefs

A CIO can help a small company use technology to fully realize competitive opportunities. Here's how to know when you need a CIO. Also: three companies that ...  Read more

Whatever Happened To The Class Of '83?

Fifteen companies were acquired. Fourteen companies went public. Two companies went under.  Read more

Comdex/fall '82: More Byte For The Buck

The year's largest microcomputer show demonstrates that small businesspeople can get more capability in systems that are easier to use.  Read more

Of Mice And Apples

When Apple Computer Inc. finally decided to drop the wraps from Lisa, its new computer, after several guarded years, vice-president John Couch proclaimed ...  Read more

When Something Clicks

A look at how digital cameras helped streamline operations at two businesses and the process the CEOs went through to select the best cameras for their speci...  Read more

The Direct Approach

New personal computer software programs can transform notoriously inefficient direct-mail efforts into a finely tuned sales strategy.  Read more

Beauty and the Best

Marla Malcolm, a "clicks and bricks" CEO, outfits her fast-growing online and offline business. Her experience has generated useful lessons for start-ups of ...  Read more

Beauty and the Best

Marla Malcolm, a "clicks and bricks" CEO, outfits her fast-growing online and offline business. Her experience has generated useful lessons for start-ups of ...  Read more