Wellesley (Massachusetts)


Personal Best

By Joseph D. Freedman |  Dec 1, 1998

The president of Amicus Legal Staffing reviews LifePeak, a personal-achievement software product that helps users find balance in their lives through self-ev...  Read story

Before You Serve Up a Server

Jan 1, 1998

As major computer manufacturers aggressively target the small-business server market, you have many server options, whether you're running a computer netw...  Read story

Making Flying Solo Smoother

Jan 1, 1995

More and more people are going into business for themselves, either as a sideline to their full-time work or as their main source of income. Either way,ex...  Read story

Value vs. Vision

Jan 1, 1998

If you're in the consulting business, you're all too familiar with this question: "What do you charge; what's your day rate?" How you answer often determi...  Read story

Nurture the Nurturers

Jan 1, 1997

Do you ask employees for their opinion on improving customer service? Adept Inc., an information-technology consulting firm, headquartered in Wellesley, M...  Read story

Think Before You Do: Building a Business Plan

By Rink DeWitt |  Mar 1, 1999

Entrepreneurs are natural doers rather than thinkers, but perhaps we were different. In 1996, nearly a year before we launched Executive Options, our care...  Read story

Going For Broke

By John Case |  May 15, 2001

Is now a good time to start a company?  Read story

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Presenters

By Susan Greco |  May 20, 2002

Entrepreneurs learn pretty quickly that making a verbal pitch to investors is very different from submitting a written business plan. Here are seven good pra...  Read story

The Most Entrepreneurial Place on Earth

By Liz Roman Gallese |  Mar 1, 1990

East Cambridge, MA is booming, sparked by fast-growing local computer software and biotech industries.  Read story

Incentive Plans;

By Ellen Kolton |  Apr 1, 1985

A lot of people say money doesn't motivate, but I found myself grabbing for the phone as soon as it rang," says Catherine Hessinger, a travel agent who be...  Read story

Dropping Back In

By Stacy Perman |  Jun 1, 2004

A few college students have special extracurricular activities: running their own companies. They're former dropouts dropping back in.  Read story

Babson Professor to Speak at VC Forum

Jan 12, 2007

Jan. 12, 2007 -- Michael Caslin, an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., will be a feature speake...  Read story

The Ultimate Unemployment Benefit

By Alessandra Bianchi |  May 1, 1993

A federally-sponsored program serves as a springboard for unemployed workers who want to start their own businesses.  Read story

Uneasy Rider

By Leigh Buchanan |  Dec 15, 1997

John Healy, CEO of Coventry Spares Ltd., realized that the year 2000 bug would paralyze his antiquated computer system. Here's how he brought his motorcycle-...  Read story

The Best Jobs That Nobody Wants

By Max Chafkin |  Sep 1, 2005

College entrepreneurship departments are raking in the bucks, but there aren't enough professors to staff them  Read story

Play Money

By Robert A. Mamis |  Aug 1, 1988

Founder of simulated stock market confronts decision among three different long-term growth strategies.  Read story

University, Inc.;

By Leslie Boltax Aizenman |  Nov 1, 1986

DONALD L. SNELLMAN NEVER graduated from high school. But the owner and founder of printing-equipment maker Norfin Inc. has made it to the upper reaches o...  Read story

Traffic Will Make You Rich: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

Sales, not traffic, are what's needed to create profit for a Web site, according to the experts.  Read story

Why 20 Million of You Can't Be Wrong

By John Case |  Apr 1, 2004

A long-time Inc. contributor surveys the current entrepreneurial scene and reports his findings. How do things look? Well, one answer might be "Never better,...  Read story

Are You Being Served?

By Sarah Schafer |  Apr 14, 2000

Computer Networks It's a buyer's market for small-business servers. Here's how to untangle all the options Read story

Counterrevolutionary

May 1, 1984

The Luddites weren't entirely successful in their attempt to halt the Industrial Revolution in 19th-century England, but they did make their point. Steven...  Read story

Building a Web Site Is Easy: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

E-commerce experts discuss the technical hardships a business can suffer when trying to create a customer-friendly Web site.  Read story

Smart Money Makes You Smart: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

E-commerce experts weigh in on the importance of finding smart investors.  Read story

Brand Is Everything: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

E-commerce experts discuss why having a good brand does not necessarily generate sales on the Internet.  Read story

Wild Ads Make Web Stars: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

Ad campaigns for dot-coms should explain what the business does in order to be effective, say industry observers.  Read story

Community, Community, Community: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

Not every company needs to build an online community, say Web observers.  Read story

End-of-Season Planning

By Ted Hurlbut |  Nov 1, 2004

Look for more columns from Ted Hurlbut in our upcoming Retail Resource Center. Let the craziness begin! If you're a small r...  Read story

Hotline

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Mar 1, 1990

Hotline information paragraphs: March 1990  Read story

Registry: Who's Who in Small-Business Research

By Karen E. Carney |  May 15, 1995

Sixteen thumbnail sketchs of the country's leading small-business economists, complete with e-mail addresses.  Read story

Campus Businesses Have Fun, Make Profits

Jan 1, 1982

The word "demonstration" at colleges and universities these days is more likely to refer to a product demonstration than to a protest march. When student...  Read story

Five Trends That Will Define 2005

By Amy Gunderson |  Dec 1, 2004

What's in store for entrepreneurs in the new year? Five pressing trends.  Read story

Entrepreneurship Booming in Emerging Economies

By Tamara Schweitzer |  Jan 19, 2007

Start-up activity grew in China and India in 2006, but fell slightly in the U.S., according to a new study.  Read story

Slim Pickings In The Software Garden

Jan 1, 1985

Like June in the old Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune, personal computers are bustin' out all over. An estimated 6.5 million units -- what the industry ...  Read story

Venture Capital After The Fall

By Robert A. Mamis |  Dec 1, 1987

How the dealmakers see it  Read story

Changing the Rules

By Leslie Brokaw |  Aug 1, 1990

Inc. revisits two former Anatomy of a Start-up companies to find one a success and one suffering a rough start.  Read story

Razzle-Dazzle Makes Web Sites Great: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

Bells and whistles can hinder a more important aspect of Web sites ? speed.  Read story

Class Acts

By Ellen Wojahn |  Apr 1, 1986

Company owners are seeing to it that entrepreneurship is taught by the folks who practice it.  Read story

Getting Ready -- and Going -- for the IPO

By Thea Singer |  Oct 15, 2000

CEO: Dave Gould Company: Witness Systems (#88 on the 2000 Inc. 500), in Alpharetta, Ga. Busi...  Read story

Small and Midmarket M&A Activity Rose in '04

By Darren Dahl |  Feb 1, 2005

Why M A guys were busy in 2004.  Read story

Seeing Red

By Bruce G. Posner |  May 1, 1989

Animalens Inc. makes and markets red-tinted contact lenses for egg-laying chickens.  Read story