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In Your Face, Inc.

'Downsized' workers reemerge with a sense of irony, as seen in these two start-ups.  Read more

Who Uses Cellular Phones?

A recent survey of executives shows that small companies are more liberal in granting cellular phone privileges.  Read more

The Power of a Daring Demo

One company handed out samples at an upscale retailer and earned enough credibility to go into small specialty shops.  Read more

Edge Cities

List of the 10 U.S. cities with the greatest concentration of small companies.  Read more

Brokers For Hire

There are good brokers and there are bad brokers, and it's not always easy to tell one from the other.  Read more

Ask Inc.: Selling to the Government

How to break into the government's supply chain.  Read more

Best Hometown Business: Dilbert Creator Draws on Local Handyman

A light-hearted look at who the creator of Dilbert calls on for home repair, and why he has to!  Read more

Planning Ahead

Look for more tax advice from Jeffrey Parker in our upcoming Law & Tax Resource Center. If you had to file your taxes tomorrow, wo...  Read more

I'm Your Assistant, and I'm Not Here to Help You

Virtual assistants offer small business owners excellent help without employee problems.  Read more

Jim Collins: Stock Slugger Ends Slump

After a year of strikeouts, one money manager's swing-for-the-fences growth style knocks the ball out of the park in 2003.  Read more

A Web Strategy Runs Through It

How one whitewater-rafting company has had a surprisingly smooth ride on the Internet.  Read more

A Web Strategy Runs Through It

How one whitewater-rafting company has had a surprisingly smooth ride on the Internet.  Read more

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 more

People Person

The government specializes in creating employee-related red tape. The Outsource Group, America's fastest growing private company on the 2002 Inc 500...  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

The Secrets of Cross-Promotion

Different entrepreneurs tell how they have found marketing partnerships to be an effective way to stretch a budget.  Read more

Let's Make a Deal

The fine art of raising your prices in a recession.  Read more

The Inc. 500 Honor Roll

In which we recognize six companies that have grown so fast for so long that they have won a place on the INC. 500 for the fifth consecutive year  Read more

A Buyers Guide To Personal Business Software

Vendor Program *(Price **) System Requirements DATA MANAGEMENT ASHTON-TATE dBASE II ($700) 48K ...  Read more

So You Want To Go Into Politics?

A growing number of entrepreneurs are abandoning the privacy and freedom of business for the perils of public office.  Read more

CEOs Offer Their Advice to Bernanke

Nov. 16, 2005 -- The Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday approved the nomination of Ben Bernanke, President Bush's Read more

Move-In Ready

All-in-one office suites make a comeback.  Read more

The Best Small-Business Sites in America

With apologies to Mark Twain, tales of the Internet's death have been greatly exaggerated. Presenting Inc's guide to what makes a great Web site.  Read more

The Best Small-Business Sites in America

With apologies to Mark Twain, tales of the Internet's death have been greatly exaggerated. Presenting Inc's guide to what makes a great Web site.  Read more

Taking The Fear Out of Factoring

With more and more reputable companies entering the factoring business, services have greatly improved. But factors' bottom line use remains the same: provid...  Read more

Local Area Network

By opting to keep her high-tech start-up, Thermagon Inc., in Cleveland, founder Carol Latham was able to leverage her local ties to build a sophisticated net...  Read more

CEOs Offer Their Advice to Bernanke

Nov. 14, 2005 -- The Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday approved the nomination of Ben Bernanke, President Bush's Read more

A Health Insurance Dilemma

White Stone's health care costs were out of control. Then the quintuplets arrived.  Read more

CEO's Notebook

Various executives share tips and advice with other managers on topics such as morale and family issues.  Read more

Main Street, Inc.

Forget rebel, forget misfit, forget poor boy makes good. A new study shatters old myths about the entrepreneur.  Read more

Survival of the Fastest

Just because you're an Internet business in the digital economy doesn't mean you've got it made in the shade. A panel of E-commerce experts warns of treacher...  Read more

Where the Growth Is: Hot Spots

A look at the best places to build an Inc. 500 company, and the 1994 winners displayed by state.  Read more

Escape From Meeting Hell

It's time for another soul-sapping, oxygen-depriving, time-wasting, mind-numbing company meeting. Or is it? We offer 15 clever solutions to the problems with...  Read more

The Enemy Within

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 more

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 more

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 more

#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 more