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Sumner and His Discontent

Did the 83-year-old tycoon cross the line by firing Tom Cruise with so much fanfare? Or did he demonstrate strong leadership?  Read story

Timing's Everything

A CEO recounts how she brought computers online in her office in a short amount of time and how you can do the same.  Read story

Catering to Those Who Want Their Gun TV

Perry Massie knows what real men want: guns and trucks.  Read story

FCC Turns TV Off on Small Businesses

Hey, what about us? Regular readers of my column know I get really irked at how small business is overlooked by the government. Legislation and regulation...  Read story

How I Did It: Dallin A. Larsen of MonaVie

Through multilevel marketing, the Brazilian açai berry becomes a billion-dollar business  Read story

MediaTakeOut.com Founder Says It Pays To Gossip

MediaTakeOut.com founder and CEO, Fred Mwangaguhunga, started a surprisingly profitable blog focusing on urban gossip. He tells Inc. about his unique ...  Read story

Angels After Dark

Stocks, shmocks. What angel-investor wanna-be wouldn't like a piece of a nice rock-and-roll emporium?  Read story

The Young and the Restless

Entrepreneurship keeps getting cooler, and the entrepreneurs keep getting younger. Meet five of our favorites.  Read story

The Great Communicator

Mark Zuckerberg created a virtual town square for Generation Y. Is his business really worth $2 billion?  Read story

SMALL BUSINESS 2001: Where We Are Now

Starting your own business is never easy. But it was once a whole lot harder.  Read story

Letters

Readers react to articles from the September issue of Inc., including Jerry Useem's "The Richest Man You've Never Heard Of" and "Treating Temporary Work as a...  Read story

The Next New--Potentially Illegal--Thing

In part one of Inc .'s interview with Larry Downes, the author of the forthcoming The Laws of Disruption , he explains why the legal system is th...  Read story

Just Play

As the makers of the games Guitar Hero and now Rock Band settle into their success -- check that, their utter domination of the world's basements and dorm ro...  Read story

The Sweet Smell of Excess

When big-shot Blockbuster alums came calling with plans to start a national chain of florist shops, little guys like John Partridge and Greg Royer thought th...  Read story

Brains For Hire

Each year, countless professionals leave their corporate jobs to become consultants. But launching a consultancy is a lot harder than you might think.  Read story

What Business Would You Start?

If you were to launch a business today, what would it be? That's the question Inc recently posed to some of the sharpest minds in the business world...  Read story

Search for Tomorrow

An army of fledgling companies is lining up to take on Google. Could the world's biggest search engine possibly be vulnerable?  Read story

Net Profit

An in-depth look at a start-up that offers customers Internet access, shareware and technical support.  Read story

Thinking Inside theBox

Geraldine Laybourne of the Oxygen channel has finally discovered what women want -- perhaps to her chagrin, definitely to her profit.  Read story

Edged Out

When Jim Heard and Gregg Trueman, founding partners of the Buoyant Co., began to battle over key company decisions, their staff decided to oust them both.  Read story

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