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Recent Articles about Vienna (Virginia)

Veteran-Owned Firm Wins $5.4 Billion Fed Contract

April 12, 2007 -- GovWare, a Vienna, Va.-based IT firm, has been awarded a $5.6 billion federal contract, the largest ever granted to a s...  Read more

Trust me on this

Boosting morale among employees of a newly acquired company.  Read more

Ask Inc.: Do I Have to Go to School?

Sales strategies for people who positively hate to sell. Plus: Do you need a college degree to be an entrepreneur?  Read more

Data Migration Software for Mainframes

Nov. 10, 2006 -- Vienna, Va.-based software company, Softek Storage Solutions, yesterday released the latest version of its mainframe dat...  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Booksfree.com

With a 7,500 square-foot warehouse in Vienna, Virginia filled with three million titles, entrepreneur Doug Ross runs a Netflix for book lovers.  Read more

Sing to Me, Baby

Story of a start-up that has invented a market for itself.  Read more

White Cat Media Tells You Where to Get a Bargain

Now it's shopping for $1.5 million.  Read more

Angel Investing 2009

In a tough economy, angel investors are more cautious than ever. But it's still possible to find funding. Here's how  Read more

Elevator Pitch: DivotCard

The DivotCard offers customers discounted golf rounds. Can it raise $1 million from investors?  Read more

The Wild Green Yonder

Raising capital can be especially difficult for a company whose future plans are up in the air. But as the commercialization of outer space accelerates, s...  Read more

Elevator Pitch: Keen Guides

Keen Guides makes iPhone travel apps for the hearing impaired. Can it get $1.2 million to cover more cities?  Read more

Planning Conventions

You may think of trade shows as a pain in the marketing budget, but some companies absolutely depend on such events. Hubbard & Revo-Cohen (HRC), a $2-mill...  Read more

Reality Check

In these days of information overload and virtual offices, it becomes harder and harder to get your employees' attention. If they are seldom all in the of...  Read more

Congress Considers Federal Tax Credit for Angels

Angel investors would get a 25 percent credit for backing a business that's already qualified for a federal research and development grant program for small ...  Read more

Controlling Costs;

You may be throwing away money with your garbage, especially if it includes a large volume of recyclable products. That's what George Mellios discovered ...  Read more

Please Complain

"The devil," the old saying goes, "is in the details." And sometimes it's your employees who know the details of your business. It's not always easy, howe...  Read more

How Growth Companies Handle International Finance

Survey of companies new to int'l business: their financial problems and solutions.  Read more

For Specialty Retailers, Love Is in the Air

Americans now spend more than $13 billion on Valentine's Day. That's good news for companies that make teddy bears, chocolates, and other romantic gifts.  Read more

An Invitation for D.C. Area Business Owners

How can a company in an ordinary industry achieve something extraordinary? That's the question that is asked--and answered--in the new book Read more

Elevator Pitch: Healthy Fare for Schoolkids

Health e-Lunch Kids feeds schoolkids. Will $1 million put more food on the table? Founder Monica Tomasso makes her case to investors  Read more

Elevator Pitch: Guitar Affair

Guitar Affair is like Netflix for high-end guitar rentals. Now it wants to raise $150,000 from investors  Read more

Survey

Survey responses from Inc. 500 CEOs on a variety of small business and economic issues.  Read more

The Way I Work: Lani Hay of Lanmark Technology

Government contractor Lani Hay spends her days meeting with politicians, partying with celebrities, and advising the military.  Read more

Top 10 Latino and Hispanic Entrepreneurs

With family roots that trace back to Spain and Central and South America, these Latino and Hispanic entrepreneurs have built some of the fastest-growing Amer...  View slideshow

How important will my management team be to venture capitalists?

Finance & Capital mentor Guy Kawasaki responds: The strength of your start-up's management team is absolutely critical to your succe...  Read more

Putting Stock In Your Advisers

Young companies are using equity to help forge closer ties to such important outside firms as executive recruiters and accountants.  Read more

The 2010 Inc. 5000: Top 10 Latino- and Hispanic Entrepreneurs

With roots stretching all the way to Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, these entrepreneurs are tapping that immigrant's spirit to build the American dream.  View slideshow

What Office Managers Really Do

Responses from a CEO survey on manager's responsibilities qualities challenges.  Read more

The Pivot (or How to Learn Humility in 4 Steps)

Start-up founders don't just wake up one day and decide to launch something entirely different. It's a gradual--and more grueling--process.  Read more

Group Grope, Paper Bagging, Tying One On

Three reveiws of software packages that target brainstormers, paper pushers, and road warriors.  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

Reader Mail: October 2010

Responses to Inc.’s plan for revitalizing the American dream.  Read more

Service, Not Servers

When your computer servers go down, so does your business. So why not toss your servers and keep your applications on the Web instead?  Read more

Service, Not Servers

When your computer servers go down, so does your business. So why not toss your servers and keep your applications on the Web instead?  Read more

The Way I Work: Jamie Latshaw of Lexicon

Jamie Latshaw is a stay-at-home mom. She also runs one of the fastest-growing companies in America.  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

Angels In America

A select sampling of angel investment sources.  Read more

Starting Over

He is the myth personified: he's founded nine companies, he's rich, and he's ready to do it again  Read more

So many standards to follow, so little payoff

Companies have spent a lot of money to comply with ISO's popular management standards. Now, many wonder why they bothered.  Read more

George Feldenkreis: My Biggest Mistake

The apparel industry can make or break you when it comes to your inventory, says Perry Ellis chairman and CEO George Feldenkreis.  Read more

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