Aspen Grove was one of the first companies to provide applications over the Internet in 1996. It was also the first application service provider to implement a functional system for the legal market. Despite an apparent first mover advantage, the company has had limited growth and it has not expanded its customer base much beyond its original legal clients. With one of the three founders tied to the development of software and support for the company's .....more

EMC Corporation was the world's largest data storage company. EMC captured the growing demand for data storage as it racked up 46 consecutive profitable quarters from 1990 to 2001. During the 1990s, EMC performed better than all other companies with 10-year track records for companies traded on either the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq. By supplying the marketplace with innovative and technologically superior data storage products, EMC was .....more

Clean Harbors Inc. is a successful environmental services company. The introduction of environmental legislation in the late 1970s brought with it annual growth in the environmental remediation industry that approached 20 per cent as industrial companies attempted to comply with the new regulations. During the latter half of the 1980s, the company experienced growth of 100 per cent per year. In the 1990s, however, waste reduction and recycling left .....more