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Getting Your Company's Worth

By Robert A. Mamis |  Jan 1, 1992

Available financial-analysis software.  Read story

Changing Diapers

By John Case |  Jan 1, 1989

The second try for a diaper start-up company is proving more successful.  Read story

"My Name Is Dave, and I'm a Growthaholic"

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Oct 15, 1997

David Pitassi, former CEO of the 1993 number one Inc. 500 company, Drypers Corp., describes the inescapable allure of running a fast-growing .  Read story

The Myth About the Mrs. in Husband-and-Wife Teams

By Jerry Useem |  Jan 1, 1997

A psychologist debunks some of the myths surrounding wives who team up with their husbands to run family businesses.  Read story

Office Space Anarchy

By Dimitra Kessenides |  Feb 1, 2005

If employees get creative with their offices, will it carry over to their work?  Read story

The Enemy Within

By John Case |  Apr 1, 1987

Tim Wagner and his partners were so successful in challenging Procter Gamble for a share of the diaper market that they never saw the threat from...  Read story

Reinventing the Cheeseburger

By Chris Lydgate |  Nov 1, 2007

Burgerville's Tom Mears took an icon of damn-the-whales consumer excess--the drive-thru cheeseburger--and turned it green. In the process, he reanimated his ...  Read story

Great Timing

By John Case |  Oct 15, 2004

If you were starting a company, you couldn't have picked a worse year than 1999. And yet a surprising number of this year's Inc. 500 companies did just that.  Read story

Super Bowl Hangover

By Kasey Wehrum |  Jan 27, 2006

Come kickoff time on Super Bowl Sunday, more than 100 million Americans will be tuned in to the festivities in Detroit. The following morning, however, us...  Read story

Don't Be a Stranger

By Laura Rich |  Jan 1, 2005

Alumni programs are a great way to stay in touch and boost business.  Read story

Look to Low-Cost and Niche Airlines for Low Fares

By Tom Parsons |  Apr 28, 2000

One of the best ways to get the lowest fares is to know where low-cost and niche airlines fly. These carriers allow you to create your own system of airfa...  Read story

Letters

By Inc Staff |  Apr 1, 1997

Readers reply to articles and issues featured in past editions of Inc. magazine.  Read story

Where the Money Is

By Thea Singer |  Sep 1, 2000

Venture capitalists are awash with cash. Are start-ups getting more of it? Plus: How three untrendy companies have managed to get VC investments.  Read story

Cities that Have Soared or Sunk as a Place to Start a Business

By Mary Kwak |  Dec 1, 2000

A look at the big and small cities that have shown the greatest rise or fall on Inc. 's list of the best cities in which to start a business, from 19...  Read story

Serial Entrepreneurs: They Just Can't Stop Themselves

By Stephanie Clifford |  Mar 1, 2005

Once exotic, serial entrepreneurs are everywhere these days. From their tolerance for failure to their creative use of resources to their sense of when to le...  Read story

The Conversion Of Skip Kelly

By Curtis Hartman |  Feb 1, 1984

Last summer, Skip Kelley was running a small-time home-remodeling business. Then he found Mr. Build.  Read story

Inside an Internet Incubator

By Thea Singer |  Jul 1, 2000

Incubators can be lifesavers for fledgling dot-coms, but Veritas Medicine may be regretting its decision to join one.  Read story

Targeting the Giant

By Bruce G. Posner |  Oct 1, 2000

Drypers won the top spot on the Inc. 500 by going up against Procter Gamble.  Read story

Then and Now

By David Whitford |  Sep 1, 1994

This article looks at how individual bootstrappers have changed business practices as their companies have grown.  Read story

Almanac

By Inc Staff |  May 15, 1998

A statistical guide to the metro areas and states that are home to the most start-ups per capita, the top 20 types of new ventures, and the most popular home...  Read story

Best Cities: The Location Advantage

By Emily Barker |  Dec 1, 2000

Is it time to make your move? These CEOs bet that their companies would thrive in a new location.  Read story

Hot Zones

By Emily Barker |  Dec 1, 1999

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

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