Seattle Bookstore
Financial summary brief description of a Seattle bookstore. Read story
University of Washington
Class Action
DON'T EXPECT TO SEE STUdents rushing to start businesses after taking one of those new courses in entrepreneurship. Such offerings have become a gro... Read story
Taking On The Network Giants
Digital Microsystems Inc. and Corvus Systems Inc,, both founded less than eight years ago and now successful pioneers in the microcomputer industry, have ... Read story
Wake Up And Be Happy
Morale is something of an obsession at Physio-Control Corp. The $100-million maker of medical electronic instruments goes out of its way to generate goodw... Read story
The Disciples of David Birch
A new generation of researchers discover the effect of small business on the economy. Read story
Campus Businesses Have Fun, Make Profits
The word "demonstration" at colleges and universities these days is more likely to refer to a product demonstration than to a protest march. When student... Read story
Sonic Boom
A profile of Optiva, the number one Inc. 500 company, and the unlikely product -- an electric toothbrush -- that brought it to the top of the 1997 list. Read story
The Invisible Powerhouse
A discussion of the link between the service and manufacturing industries. Read story
Let Them Make Mudpies
Jack Wells shifted uneasily in his chair. He was not happy about this. Not one bit. "They say a bureaucrat knows he's going to have a bad day when he show... Read story
Virtual Reality Gets Real
Three companies venturing into business applications for virtual reality. Read story
Campus Inc.
An introduction to the Inc. cover story on the hottest entrepreneurial programs offered by universities. Includes brief descriptions of more unique ... Read story
A Keyboard Whose Time Has Come
Patricia Kaplus is an accomplished touch typist. She is, in fact, supervisor of word processing at the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System's office ... Read story
Class Acts
Company owners are seeing to it that entrepreneurship is taught by the folks who practice it. Read story
Why We Lose
Book review: The Silent War: Inside The Global Business Battles Shaping America's Future. (Random House 1989) Read story
Web Awards 2000: Community
These companies' extraordinary ability to link people with information has earned them the top spots in the Community category of the 2000 Inc. Web ... Read story
Jim Jensen Takes Over
When the baton is passed in a relay race, both runners have to be moving at roughly the same speed. This condition should be met when a company chairman ... Read story
John De Lorean And The Icarus Factor
Endowed with a reputation for genius by an adoring press and public, John De Lorean came close to pulling off an entrepreneurial miracle. But this ego, like ... Read story
What America Needs Is A Few Good Failures
Four years ago, David Birch showed that small companies create most of the country's jobs. Now he has found that failure is just as important as success in k... Read story
Logging On the Web
If you're marketing to a niche or need an online forum for fresh ideas, Web logs could be the new killer app -- and the hottest thing since e-mail. Read story
The Wexley Way
In the advertising racket, the future is coming up fast. Or maybe it's already here, at an obstreperous little agency called Wexley School for Girls Read story
Why Smart Companies Are Saying No To Venture Capital
It seemed, at first, like the logical next act in the classic entrepreneurial script. Having developed his new database software on his home-built Heathk... Read story
The Secrets of Great Planning
How one company uses strategic planning to set long-term goals and short-term agendas. Read story
The Bipolar CEO
Duncan Harrison runs one company in Alaska and another in Hawaii -- and divides his existence in half, every single month, between the two. Here's what it's ... Read story
Mitchell Baker and the Firefox Paradox
Its products are free. Its work force is largely volunteer. Its meetings are open to anyone. It's a nonprofit. It may be the hottest tech company in America. Read story
Registry: Who's Who in Small-Business Research
Sixteen thumbnail sketchs of the country's leading small-business economists, complete with e-mail addresses. Read story
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