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 story

Trust me on this

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

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 story

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 story

Sing to Me, Baby

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

White Cat Media Tells You Where to Get a Bargain

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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How Growth Companies Handle International Finance

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

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 story

Survey

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

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 story

Elevator Pitch: Guitar Affair

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

What Office Managers Really Do

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

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 story

Group Grope, Paper Bagging, Tying One On

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

Starting Over

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

Angels In America

A select sampling of angel investment sources.  Read story

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The Private 500 represent 44 states. Geographically, the West wins again on the strength of California's 84 companies -- more than twice as many as any ot...  Read story

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#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read story

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 story

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 story

The Google Gold Rush

For many technology start-ups, getting swooped up by the world's biggest search company has become the ultimate goal. In fact, a growing number of small vent...  Read story

Image Makers

A guide to the newest imaging tools. Learn how they can streamline your business and find the hardware and software right for your needs.  Read story

Recruiting Secrets of the Smartest Companies Around

An ever-tightening job market calls for rigorous, creative recruiting techniques. Here are some of the good-old-fashioned ways to find workers, plus some new...  Read story

Personality Plus

When it comes to recruiting, Dale Van Aken, a software developer in Langhorne, Pa., relies on standard methods. "If you interview well, it's not that hard...  Read story

Turning Vendors Into Partners

Almost everyone is gunning for your business. But will your vendors treat you the way you treat your customers—like a true partner? Here are some questions...  Read story

Whatever Happened To The Class Of '83?

Fifteen companies were acquired. Fourteen companies went public. Two companies went under.  Read story

The Inc. 500

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales growth 1980-84 ...  Read story

Profiles of Angel Investors and Groups

As a complement to Inc. magazine's July 2005 feature "Angels With Angles,"* Inc.com shares sixteen more profiles of angel investors, groups and firms,...  Read story

Psycho Path

Although psychological tests have long been dismissed by skeptics, many companies are using them--with great success--to match employees to jobs that they wo...  Read story

Rd Partnerships Come Of Age

They may never replace traditional venture capital, but for some companies these deals are a better way to raise money.  Read story

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