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Yankee Ingenuity

Oct 1, 1985

In its attempt to drum up new business, The Yankee Group, a Boston-based market research firm, has come up with a technique that it claims is producing si...  Read story

Going VoIP

By Inc Staff |  May 1, 2007

Five questions to consider before cutting your landline.  Read story

Upstarts: Highlighting New Companies

By Virginia Inman |  Apr 1, 1985

Some companies really do benefit from stiffer Internal Revenue Service regulations. Last year's tax law (see "Your Money or Your Car, page tk) requires p...  Read story

Technocrats

By Inc Staff |  Aug 1, 1988

Some quick facts about the percentage of fast-growth companies accessing databases and using e-mail.  Read story

Small Business Vital to Growth Says Study

By Jessalyn Swindoll

April 2004 --When it comes to job growth, small businesses are a vital part of the U.S. economy. According to a recent study by the...  Read story

Small Businesses Spending More on Internet Advertising, Tech

By Daniel Del'Re |  Dec 13, 2005

Dec. 13, 2005 --Small businesses are spending more for the latest business applications as they strive to cut costs and build a customer b...  Read story

Cheap Talk

By Rachael King |  Mar 15, 2000

What your phone company won't tell you: New Web sites can ferret out the cheapest rates for long-distance and wireless service. Inc. Technology puts...  Read story

The Best Bang For Your Tech Buck

By Brian L. Clark |  Mar 1, 2004

With new offerings hitting the market like a tsunami, entrepreneurs should spend their precious IT dollars with care.  Read story

Hotline

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Sep 1, 1988

Hotline information paragraphs on the above topics and subtopics.  Read story

Service, Not Servers

By Darren Dahl |  May 1, 2006

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

The Tie That Binds

By Abby Solomon |  Nov 1, 1983

Microcomputer to mainframe and micro to mini communications are hot topics today -- with good reason. For many growing companies, these links could provide a...  Read story

Screen Test

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jul 1, 1984

The arrival of videotex and other electronic shopping systems lets smaller companies try out some fresh marketing options.  Read story

Buh-Bye, Bell?

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Mar 15, 2001

Beema, Inc., a multimedia production house, found that it could save money by using Internet telephony rather than the traditional telecoms. But will it work...  Read story

Ask Inc.: Do I Have to Go to School?

By Inc Staff |  Oct 1, 2003

Sales strategies for people who positively hate to sell. Plus: Do you need a college degree to be an entrepreneur?  Read story

Upstarts: Energy Deregulation

By Emily Barker |  Nov 1, 2000

If you don't currently have a choice about where you buy your electricity, you will soon.  Read story

The Inc. 500 Index (company And Rank)

Dec 1, 1983

A. J. Reynolds (228) ACE Equipment Rentals (320) ACSIS (249) Action Packets (92) Ad-Tek Engineering Services (362) Administr...  Read story

For-Your-Own-Good Innovation

By Rod Kurtz |  Sep 1, 2003

If you forgot to send in your car payment, look out. New devices are making the repo man look positively benign.  Read story

High-Tech Bonding

By Niles Howard |  Apr 10, 2003

"Know thy customer" may be an important business principle, but putting that ideal into practice gets exponentially harder as a company grows. That's why ...  Read story

Bright Lights, Big Opportunity

By Emily Barker |  Sep 15, 1999

Last summer, when Idealab founder Bill Gross got together with his former high school classmate Chris King, a lightbulb switched on. The utility industry ...  Read story

The Inc. 500 Index (company And Rank)

Dec 1, 1983

A. J. Reynolds (228) ACE Equipment Rentals (320) ACSIS (249) Action Packets (92) Ad-Tek Engineering Services (362) Administr...  Read story

Bulletin Board

By Various Inc Staff |  Sep 15, 1999

A collection of short articles about technology. Topics include the first Internet electric company; E-mail filtering; European E-commerce law; and office su...  Read story

Online Prospecting Smoothes Sales

By Mark Henricks |  Aug 1, 2007

Your next customers are a few clicks away.  Read story

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Dec 1, 1984

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales growth 1979-83 Com...  Read story

Skype Makes Bid for Small Business Market

By Daniel Del'Re |  Oct 11, 2005

Oct. 11, 2005 -- Internet phone service provider Skype annou...  Read story

Make More Money with Your Website

By Caroline Waxler |  Oct 1, 2007

Not every Web-based business is financially self-sufficient. One of the benefits to operating a website, however, is that the platform can generate additiona...  Read story

TechnoFile: Identity Crisis

By Anne Stuart |  Oct 1, 2003

By now, you've heard that identity theft is among America's fastest-growing crimes , with nearly 10 million cases last year alone, and y...  Read story

VoIP: Is It Ready for Primetime?

By Derek Johnson and Luke Slymen |  Nov 1, 2004

Is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) -- or Internet telephony -- yet another over publicized technology, or is there some real meat to it? According to ...  Read story

2003 Tech Buying Guide: Video Gives Face Time

By Inc Staff |  Apr 1, 2003

Report from business owners on the latest in videoconferencing setups.  Read story

New Web Privacy Rules May Cost e-Businesses

By J.J. McCorvey |  Sep 22, 2009

A proposed online privacy bill would protect consumers, but could also hurt small businesses.  Read story

Upstarts: Internet Convenience Services

By Emily Barker |  Sep 1, 2000

The massive consumer rush to buy stuff online has created some real-world logistical problems -- problems that some start-ups hope to solve.  Read story

With Few Options, Rural Businesses Forced to Find Their Own Internet Access

By Melanie Brooks |  Jan 20, 2006

Jan. 20, 2006 -- While the Internet's reach continues to spread, the majority of small businesses located in rural areas -- two-thirds --...  Read story

Landline or Online

By Elizabeth S. Bennett |  May 1, 2007

Is your business ready for VoIP?  Read story

A Marriage Of Convenience

By Beth Kirsch |  Feb 1, 1985

What the business world needed, according to Denis A. Krusos, was a way to connect the computer on your desk with the office photocopy machine -- an odd m...  Read story

Falling Phone Rates Squash Global Fax Service

By Joshua D. Macht |  Apr 1, 1999

The Intergram Corp., hoping to undercut overseas rivals with Internet-based fax services, went bankrupt when international telephone rates began to plummet.  Read story

2005 Budget Axes Funding for Microloans

By Jessalyn Swindoll

April 2004 -- The Bush administration's budget for 2005 does not include funding for the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Micro...  Read story

Use RSS to Stay on Top of Competition

By Marc Saltzman |  Jul 23, 2008

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) boxes are everywhere these days -- on news sites, blogs and business webpages. You can use these feeds to gain business intel...  Read story

From Trash To Cash, Or, Just Phone My Computer

By Craig C. Walters |  Nov 1, 1983

Gordon Matthews is a tall, trim Texan with eclectic tastes -- fine wine, classical music, and the Dallas Cowboys. An inventor and entrepreneur, he has bee...  Read story

Cable Cutter

By Roger Fillion |  Nov 15, 2000

If Bluetooth flies, we'll all be wired without wires.  Read story

Advice Never Hurts

By John F. Persinos |  Feb 1, 1985

Herbert Roskind Jr. built HoltraChem Inc., a chemical distributor based in Natick, Mass., from zero to $30 million in sales in fewer than nine years. Desp...  Read story

New! Improved! Manufacturing

By Craig R. Waters |  Jan 1, 1986

Suddenly, the shop floor is where the action is.  Read story

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