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Due to "a combination of engineering design defects, construction defects, and poor operational control of the ethanol plant facilities, the ethanol plant...  Read story

Angel Investors Heading to Kansas

Entrepreneurs, angel investors, and technology leaders will head to Wichita, Kan., for a capital conference in September, organizers said. The Grea...  Read story

The Inner City 100

The fourth annual Inner City 100.  Read story

Take Flight To Boost The Bottom Line

Many small companies are discovering the benefits of flying their own aircraft.  Read story

What Bankers Like to Know

Insight from bankers about what they want to know from their clients.  Read story

From The Ground Up

If the proponents of remanufacturing need a defender, a protector, a champion, if they need a case-in-point that is unassailable, invincible, they need lo...  Read story

Wichita State to Open Market-Based Management Center

The new MBA program will draw lessons from Koch Industries, the nation's second-largest private company.  Read story

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Many airplane accidents occur on takeoff. To improve safety in private and commercial aircraft, AeroQuest Corp., of Wichita, makes an electronic system t...  Read story

How to Monitor Customers' Payments

Various sources for verifying customer credit histories.  Read story

Making the Switch to VoIP

In the March 2003 Inc article, "Good Call," Hamon Corp.'s move to voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) helped the company more effectively -- and ...  Read story

What's It Going To Cost?

Figuring the cost of an airplane is both a science and an art. The scientific part involves estimating fixed and operating expenses, then subtracting mon...  Read story

Fax Scam Targets Business Owners

Jan. 6, 2006 --Business owners beware. If you recently received an unsolicited fax asking if you want to sell your company, you might want...  Read story

Tap the Untapped Billion-Dollar Co-Op Fund

Co-op advertising is a cost-sharing arrangement between a manufacturer and a retailer for customers' advertising programs. Collectively, manufacturers ear...  Read story

Getting an M.B.A. Via Tivo

What you can learn from Paris Hilton.  Read story

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The Q Factor

These days, a city's growth has less to do with lower costs than with the quality of its people and lifestyle  Read story

Do Bankers Do Their Job Well?

Small business isn't just like big business except smaller. It's fundamentally different. For one thing, small business uses more debt. According to Fed...  Read story

One World

How will globalization affect small businesses?  Read story

Exceptions To The Rule

Why some INC. 500 companies are growing in industries that aren't.  Read story

Behind The Scenes: Companies At the Heart of Everyday Life

Miami, Dade County Fair, 4.5.08, 5:19 p.m.  Read story

Hotline

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Dialing for Dollars

Magazine subscriptions at $12 a year can sell over the telephone, but what about the services of a software programmer costing $100,000? Ashok Trivedi fig...  Read story

Directory of Organizations Promoting Independent Businesses

1000 FRIENDS OF IOWA , Fights sprawl malls and sponsors "buy local" campaigns. 3524 Sixth Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50313; 515-288-5364; fax,...  Read story

Ordinary Business

What would happen, my colleague John Case wondered aloud, if you took the INC. 100 list and stripped off all the obvious hyper-growth companies? Say you clea...  Read story

Best Friends In D.C.: Thinkers

The people who devise and analyze policies.  Read story

Smart Set

An educated work force and bargain university research lab facilities lure entrepreneurs to Lawrence, Kansas.  Read story

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Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth '77-'81 ...  Read story

Pricing: No Fee, But Give Me a Cut

This brief article explains how a CEO turned to profit-sharing with some customers instead of service fees.  Read story

Sources of Innovation

Although small firms are more innovative, it can be advantageous for them to team up with larger companies.  Read story

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Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth 1976-80 Per...  Read story

Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100

Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit...  Read story

Survey

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

Big Bucks From Little Franchises Grow

A successful franchisor enriches himself, but a good one, someone like Harold Katz, enriches others as well. The Nutri/System formula perfected by Katz h...  Read story

How to Launch an Inc. 500 Company

Various strategic ideas used to launch successful Inc. 500 companies.  Read story

The Entrepreneur of the Year: Our fifth annual company-building awards

Introduction and list of judges and winners for Inc.'s 1993 Entrepreneur of Year Award.  Read story

Power of Poverty

A group of vignettes that examine various successful companies that were started with $10,000 or less.  Read story

Look to Low-Cost and Niche Airlines for Low Fares

One of the best ways to get the lowest fares is to know where low-cost and niche airlines fly. These carriers allow you to create your own system of airfa...  Read story

Hot Cities, Hot Sites

The cover story of the December 2000 issue of Inc. magazine, " Best Cities to Start and ...  Read story

A Golden Alternative

Using alternative airports is a form of creative ticketing that airlines don't really object to, but they will not offer alternative airport options when ...  Read story

Cobb Resources Strikes It Rich

George Lotspeich has a lot of tenacity and a nose for finding uranium. That's catapulted his mining company to the top of the INC. 100.  Read story

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