Small Business


How to Become a Government Contractor

By Inc Staff |  Apr 1, 2009

An entrepreneur's step-by-step guide to federal contracting  Read story

Speed Leader

By Ilan Mochari |  Mar 1, 1999

Peter Wagner, a general partner at Palo Alto venture-capital giant Accel Partners, has seen the future ofInternet hookups for small businesses. It's calle...  Read story

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By Milton D. Stewart |  Jun 1, 1981

In this issue, for the first time, INC. has expanded its list of the fastest-growing public companies to the next 100 growth companies. We've called it t...  Read story

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Jun 1, 1981

The 10-5-3 accelerated depreciation proposal would put small companies at a competitive disadvantage, say many small business advocates (see INC., May, pa...  Read story

Get To Know Your Customers Better

By Daniel Finlay |  Jun 1, 1981

Demographics sounds expensive and frightening, but it's a useful tool even for small companies.  Read story

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Jun 1, 1981

The effect of federal budget cuts on small business is becoming clearer. The Small Business Administration fat-trimming includes a 25% cut in direct and g...  Read story

Uncle Sam Wants You -- To Do Rd For Defense

Jun 1, 1981

The Department of Defense, which has long relied on large companies for the bulk of its purchases, recently turned an eye to small businesses for research...  Read story

How Taxes Should Be Cut

By Milton D. Stewart |  Jun 1, 1981

If the President and Congress really want to stimulate the economy, they will help small business.  Read story

Businessman Starts Up A Small Business Bank

Jun 1, 1981

Frustrated with the lack of service he received from a bank, Robert E. Laughlin, chief executive officer of a small Portland, Oreg., food equipment compan...  Read story

A Flood Of Tax Proposals: A Flood Of Opportunities

By This sidebar was prepared with the help of Arthur Andersen |  Jun 1, 1981

President Reagan's landslide election and the unexpected change in power in the Senate has stirred up a lot of activity in both houses of Congress. As a ...  Read story

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Jun 1, 1981

Defense procurement dollars aren't going to small business, says a Federal Trade Commission study. Only 20% of the Defense Department's procurement comes...  Read story

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Jun 1, 1981

Another lobbying group will be woring for small business interests in Washington. The American Business Conference, modeled after The Business Roundtable...  Read story

Eager B-schoolers Get Small Biz Brush-off

Jun 1, 1981

Business school graduate students are going after small business careers, but small businesses, it seems, arent's biting. In 1980, the Harvard Busin...  Read story

The 1981 Tax Cut: A Tilt To Big Business?

By Tom Richman |  Jun 1, 1981

President Reagan's tax reform plans still leave small business at a disadvantage.  Read story

Japanese Management: Made In The U.s.a.?

By John A. Cicco |  Jul 1, 1981

Not quite. But big companies that want to copy Japan's success should look at the American small business model.  Read story

Suburbs Scene Of More Small Firm Start-ups

Jul 1, 1981

"It's been a common notion that central cities serve as incubators for new, small companies," says David Birch, author of a new study on small business st...  Read story

A Guide To Sbic Money

By David J. Gladstone |  Jul 1, 1981

These regulated venture firms lend small companies a lot of money. Here's how they work.  Read story

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By Sara Delano |  Jul 1, 1981

1981 SMALL-BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS is designed to provide small businesses with official contacts in the Department of Defense and majo...  Read story

Top Execs Take Home An $8,600 Raise

By Bradford W. Ketchum |  Jul 1, 1981

Double-digit inflation nibbled away at a lot of paychecks last year, but not for most of the people who run smaller companies. Instead, they actually gai...  Read story

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Jul 1, 1981

Small business's share of the Gross National Product dropped from 43% in 1960 to 40% in 1976, reports Joel Popkin & Co. in a study commissioned by the...  Read story

MESBICs, Loan Programs Face The Budget Axe

Aug 1, 1981

Federal aid to minority businesses will suffer substantial reductions once budget cutters in both the Administration and Congress complete their review of...  Read story

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Aug 1, 1981

Small retail and service firms could lose their minimumwage exemptions if Congress adopts the recommendations of the presidentially appointed Minimum Wage...  Read story

Stanley Mason Is Growing Oil On Trees

By Tom Richman and Susan Benner |  Aug 1, 1981

Entrepreneurs like Mason are solving our "insolvable" problems.  Read story

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Aug 1, 1981

The absence of health insurance benefits in small firms may be due as much to employee preference as to employer cost-cutting. A study commissioned for t...  Read story

What The Nsf Thinks Of Its Own Rd Program

Aug 1, 1981

The only agency in the federal government required by law to include small businesses specifically in its R&D funding wishes it didn't have to. ...  Read story

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Aug 1, 1981

Small business interest rates could rise to 24% or higher by 1985, William Barth, managing partner for small business practice at Arthur Andersen & Co...  Read story

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Aug 1, 1981

Big business deserves bigger tax cuts than small firms because they "risk bigger bucks," SBA administrator Michael Cardenas claimed at the National Small ...  Read story

Small Business Innovation: The Need Is Critical, The Time Is Now

By Milton D. Stewart |  Aug 1, 1981

"In the past 15 years of economic turbulence small business has proved more flexible and adaptable than the giant corporations. Small companies have provided...  Read story

Big Corporations Seek Small Businesses' Help

Aug 1, 1981

Reversing the usual pattern, nearly 20 large companies in Cleveland this spring began soliciting small business vendors for supplies and services. Instead...  Read story

How Two R&D Programs Can Work For Small Companies

Aug 1, 1981

The National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and the Defense Department's Small Business Advanced Technology progra...  Read story

Pollsters Find Small Business Pessimistic

Aug 1, 1981

If you believe the findings of a lot of the polls of small business people and surveys of chief executive officers these days times are tough. A rec...  Read story

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By Milton D. Stewart |  Aug 1, 1981

August 1, 1981 President Ronald Reagan, The White House, Washington, D.C. Dear President Dutch: I hope you don't mind ...  Read story

Why Bureaucrats Avoid Small Business R & D

Aug 1, 1981

As a rule, the federal government doesn't like to do business with small companies, for reasons that are not hard to understand if you're the government e...  Read story

How Our Nation Can Compete Again

By Milton D. Stewart |  Aug 1, 1981

Technology entrepreneurs will lead the way.  Read story

What Does Prime Rate Mean? Congressman Asks

Aug 1, 1981

If the prime rate is the interest banks charge their best business borrowers, why were 61% of the loans made by big New York banks in May of 1980 substant...  Read story

Deficit Spending Steals Money From Small Companies

By Robert E. Berney |  Aug 1, 1981

When the government competes with business for credit, guess who wins.  Read story

Know The Tricks Of The Trades

Aug 1, 1981

Smaller businesses can gain clout by joining forces and forming a small business trade association. Such a group can put together legislative task forces,...  Read story

Bonus Incentive More Common In Small Firms

Aug 1, 1981

Incentive plans for salaried workers at small and mid-sized firms have become more sophisticated, a study conducted by the Illinois-based consulting firm ...  Read story

Minimum Wage Exemptions

Aug 1, 1981

Small retail and service firms could lose their minimum wage exemptions if Congress adopts the recommendations of the presidentially appointed Minimum Wag...  Read story

What The NSF Thinks Of Its Own R&D Program

Aug 1, 1981

The only agency in the federal government required by law to include small businesses specifically in its R&D funding wishes it didn't have to. To t...  Read story