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Recent Articles about Youngstown
Obama's Visit To Youngstown
Youngstown, Ohio gets the presidential treatment. In our May issue, we chronicled the unlikely rise of Read more
Reader Mail: July/August 2010
Inspired by Bob Moore and the marital issues of entrepreneurs Read more
Youngstown, Ohio: A Photographer's Journal
Once a city of mansions and gilded theaters, Youngstown, Ohio, has been in decline since the collapse of the steel industry in the 1970s. Greg Miller photogr... View slideshow
The 2010 Inc. 5000: Top 10 Job Creators
With unemployment statistics all over the media, the job market can feel all doom and gloom these days. But, these Inc. 5000 companies have been the bright s... View slideshow
How I Did It: Mike Broderick, CEO, Turning Technologies
As told to Ryan McCarthy Industry: Software 2007 Inc. 500 Ranking: Read more
Correction
In a chart on page 51 of "Metro Report" (April), growth in jobs for Youngstown, Ohio, was reported as a 6.2% gain when it was actually a 6.2% loss. Read more
"a Thousand Little Companies With A Hundred Employees Each"
David Tod and Daniel B. Roth, the chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of Torent Inc., in Youngstown, Ohio, are at lunch. The setting is the dining r... Read more
Born-again Steel
David Houck worked for Big Steel all his life -- until the mill shut down. . . Read more
Your Stimulus, Oscar Gold, and Measuring Buzz
What's in the stimulus bill for you? Slow down -- the bill clocks in at 1,000 pages. The New York Times Read more
HOW THE CITIES WERE RANKED Like our annual states report, this ranking of metropolitan areas is based on three factors: job generation, rate of significan... Read more
Upgrades: One Company's Nightmare
A quick tale of the problems one company suffered when it changed its mail-order-system processing software. Read more
The Ticker
Jay-Z, John Varvatos, the SBA... Read more
Spies Like Us
An interview with Tom Stemberg, CEO and chairman of Staples, Inc. Stemberg describes the industry information he gathers by playing mystery shopper at his co... Read more
To Fib or Not to Fib
Five businesses that are the last of their kind in America. Outsourcing and the sands of time have taken their toll on these five companies, profil... Read more
Matters Of Fact
In 1979, David Birch shattered the prevailing wisdom about job creation. Now he's at it again. Read more
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 more
Cloud Computing For Beginners
8 tips to getting started in the cloud. What's not to love about cloud computing? As Guy Kawasaki points out in his latest OPEN Forum blog post, cl... Read more
Skype Calls for IPO
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ... Read more
A New Way to Get Paid
Square hits the iPhone . Square , the start-up that lets small companies accept credit card payme... Read more
States Eye New Taxes
Facing budget shortfalls, tax commissioners in many states are desperate for new sources of revenue. Guess where they're looking? Read more
Fear Of Franchising
How Carol Brothers seduced the press, the industry, and scores of franchisees with the false promise of 'the next McDonald's' Read more
Sampling with a Twist
Affordable in-store demonstration strategies. Read more
Selling Out
National Content Liquidators makes its profits when other companies have lost theirs. Read more
Clinton: Deadbeat Candidate?
What's the Clinton campaign's policy on small business? If a report published Sunday on ... Read more
Is Manufacturing Dead?
The answer, the numbers insist, is a resounding no. In fact, our manufacturers may be the most innovative businesspeople in the country Read more
The No-tech Solution
Industrial America's graveyard is filled with companies just like Intermatic. But then, they didn't have Jim Miller. Read more
The Smartest Businessman on the Appalachian Trail
The Appalachian Trail delivers 1,500 customers to Winton Porter's door each year. His business's "high tolerance for strange" keeps them coming back for more. Read more
The Most Entrepreneurial Cities in America
Inc.'s 1990 ranking of metropolitan regions by job growth, business starts, and proportion of high-growth companies. Read more
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