Utah


Salt Lake City, Utah

THE INSULAR MORMON CULTURE THAT ONCE BROUGHT ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IS NOW A MAJOR LIABILITY FOR BUSINESS OWNERS.  Read story

Tougher Start-up, But Easier To Roll

Your review of Salt Lake City's business climate (On the Road, January) neglected to recognize that the conservative cultural attitudes of the area actual...  Read story

Business for Sale--Utah Natural- And Gourmet-Foods Market And Cafe

An overview of a business offered for sale includes price rationale, outlook, and pros and cons.  Read story

E-mail Shake-up or E-mail Shake-down?

New e-mail laws threaten to undermine reputable marketers.  Read story

Marketing: Honeys, Hand Me a Polygamy Porter

Can chutzpah build a brand? Greg Schirf is betting the head off his lager that it can.  Read story

Business for Sale: Rocky Mountain Video Distributor

A detailed overview on a buisness offered for sale including the price, and pros and cons of the purchase.  Read story

Vibrating Bar Code Scanner

Dec. 15, 2006 -- Code Corporation, a Draper, Utah-based manufacturer of data-collection devices, has released a new bar code reader that ...  Read story

Seizing Global Opportunities

A look at entrepreneurs who have found business opportunities from the North Sea to Antarctica  Read story

Leavitt to Bush's EPA

People dress as trout to protest Bush's new EPA chief.  Read story

Survey: Most Employees Expect Failure

Feb. 12, 2007 -- A vast majority of employees expect major workplace projects to fail, according to a recent online survey by Vit...  Read story

Making Book

Many entrepreneurs write books, but few write fiction. Ken Merrell is an even rarer breed: a dyslexic author who can't read his own work in public.  Read story

Where New Ideas Flourish

New research identifies where the culture of innovation is most firmly rooted.  Read story

All the President's Mail

Peter Valcarce is a direct marketer with a mission: to get Republicans elected.  Read story

At the Brink

A cautionary tale of what can happen when the focus becomes exclusively on growth without established goals.  Read story

Hot Zones

A look at the best cities in America for starting and growing a business. Plus: CEOs discuss their reasons for locating their business where they did.  Read story

At a Glance

Charts providing information on the features of Inc. 500 companies.  Read story

Utah Celebrates Small-Business Day

Feb. 13, 2007 -- Small-business owners in Utah are gathering at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday for Small Business...  Read story

Why Small Cities Rock

Forget New York and San Francisco. With beautiful scenery, skilled workers, and affordable housing, smaller cities are luring companies in droves.  Read story

The Would-be Runners

A Random Gathering of the Politically Ambitious  Read story

The State of Small Business 1997

One of Inc.'s executive editors presents some thoughts and comments about the current state of small business.  Read story

High-performance Companies Live In High-performance States

Not surprisingly, there is a direct correlation between the location of the country's fastest-growing, smaller companies and those states with the most po...  Read story

And They're Off

The business drama of the Olympic competition.  Read story

Feds Target Growth in Underserved Markets

The Small Business Administration this fall is hoping to spur small-business growth in inner city and rural areas through a series of programs and activit...  Read story

A New Kind Of Salt Mine

How an idealistic M.B.A. used new age notions (Shared Values Thought, anyone?) to rev up an old-line business and turn a humble commodity into a premium prod...  Read story

A Wide-awake Way To Rotate Work Shifts

Three health researchers have found a way to help workers adapt more sucessfully to rotating shifts. Last year, Charles A. Czeisler and Martin C. Moore-Ed...  Read story

Letter From the Editor: Full Speed Ahead

Reading the mood at the 2003 Inc. 500.  Read story

Safe in Cyberspace

Malevolent hackers. Psychotic e-mailers. Vengeful ex-employees. What do these folks have in common? Your computers. Day and night they're relentlessly pro...  Read story

Connecting in the Extreme

The president of a speakers' bureau and agency for athetes explains how technology has freed her from the office.  Read story

Report Names Top Regions for Entrepreneurship

April 27, 2005 --The top regions for entrepreneurship in the U.S are in the "non-California" regions of the western part of the country, w...  Read story

Report Names Top Regions for Entrepreneurship

April 27, 2005 --The top regions for entrepreneurship in the U.S are in the "non-California" regions of the western part of the country, w...  Read story

The Best Places For Doing Business in America 2005

We examined 274 population centers, looking for job creation and other signs that businesses are thriving. Here's what we found.  Read story

How to Hire a Star Employee

Step 1: Win over the family  Read story

Start-Ups and Blowouts

Chart showing new-business incorporations, business bankruptcies and business failures nationwide by region.  Read story

The SBA All-Stars

A look at the Small Business Administration’s rankings of the best field offices turns up some surprises. The agency’s western outposts tend to outperfor...  Read story

Divorce American-style

Who gets what when the marriage ends? It depends upon where you live.  Read story

The 2000 Inc. 500 Almanac

A statistical look at the Inc. 500 companies and the CEOs that run them.  Read story

That 25-year-old? He's a Dependent

Why you may soon be adding a bunch of 25-year-olds to your insurance plan.  Read story

The Best Big Cities for Starting and Growing a Business

Report examines the concentration of new businesses in states, regions, metro, and rural areas.  Read story

As Inflation Concerns Grow, Business Owners Forced to Pay Employees More

Employee salaries at small businesses have increased for 19 consecutive months, according to a new report.  Read story

Keep the Home Wires Burning

The president of Tim Celeski Studios reviews PassPort Plug-in Network, a hardware product that allows users to network PCs and printers through standard elec...  Read story