West Chester


Linda Steckley

Jun 1, 1987

Age: 45 Hometown: West Chester, Pa. Undergraduate Degree: Dickinson College Business School: School of Business Administration, Universi...  Read story

Down in the Dump

By JAY FINEGAN |  Sep 1, 1990

Profile of a start-up company that has created a foam to spread over landfill garbage.  Read story

The Scoop on `Info Brokers'

By Vera B. Gibbons |  Dec 1, 1992

A list of information brokers and low-cost alternatives to large market research houses.  Read story

Getting Ready for Prime Time

By Sasha Issenberg |  Nov 1, 2003

Selling a new product? QVC's stamp of approval is increasingly powerful  Read story

Breathing Easy

By Craig R. Waters |  Jul 1, 1983

For six months, teams of specialists had been scouring a new, three-story office building in Connecticut for the source of mysterious vapors that had plag...  Read story

The Other Amazon

By Susan Greco |  Mar 1, 2000

Got a hot new consumer product? The electronic retailers need you. They simply can't add product categories and suppliers fast enough. What does it take t...  Read story

TV or Not TV

By David Whitford |  Jun 1, 1994

How businesses are selling products through TV shopping channels such as QVC and Home Shopping Network.  Read story

Revolutionary Roads: Mapping America's Innovation Capitals

By Nitasha Tiku; additional reporting by Jason Del Rey |  Apr 1, 2009

30 tales of following where the spirit leads  Read story

The Best 4 Small-Business Neighborhoods in America

By Joel Kotkin |  May 15, 1997

Here's what entrepreneurs are looking for when selecting a community for start-ups, and what they're finding.  Read story

Here Comes The Neighborhood

By DAVID L. BIRCH |  Mar 1, 1990

A listing of nine high-growth neighborhoods in and around older, slower-growth cities.  Read story

Resources

By Inc Staff |  May 15, 1997

A guide to more information on subjects covered in the Inc. magazine special issue: The State of Small Business 1997.  Read story

The 500

Dec 1, 1987

#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

Too Cool For School?

By JAY FINEGAN |  Oct 1, 1996

After years of loathing M.B.A. programs, here's why today's savvy entrepreneurs are now seeking these degrees.  Read story

CEO Notebook

By Inc Staff |  Jan 1, 1997

CEOs from diverse businesses offer insight into training, technology and sales presentations.  Read story

Disaster Cowboys

By Christopher McDougall |  Nov 1, 2005

Ed Weingartner chases floods and hurricanes for a living--a good enough living to make him an Inc. 500 CEO. Hurricane Katrina, however, created a bigger mess...  Read story

Time to Fix the SBA

By Elizabeth Wasserman |  Sep 1, 2003

The Small Business Administration is in bad need of an overhaul. Here's Inc. 's bold plan to fix the SBA -- delivered just as the agency celebrates i...  Read story

The Company That Grew Too Fast

By John Anderson |  Nov 1, 2005

The thing about growth is that you have to finance it. And that, as Brian Le Gette learned the hard way with one-time Inc. 500 company 180s, can be tricky.  Read story

The Legacy Of Charlie Moore

By Joseph P. Kahn |  Jul 1, 1987

Two friends. Two companies. Two totally different management styles. One life became a story of shared success, the other ended in tragedy  Read story

The Inc. 500

Dec 1, 1985

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

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