How I Did It: Stephen McDonnell of Applegate Farms
Stephen McDonnell took a tiny smokehouse and turned it into a $200 million meat company. Read story
Methodology & Meet the Judges
This year, Inc. enlisted an outside panel of 11 judges to help identify the 30 Under 30, the best and brightest entrepreneurs in 2012. Read story
The 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs Under 30
Inc.'s most promising young entrepreneurs, class of 2012, includes the founders of Pinterest, Spotify, and 28 other awesome, visionary outfits. You gotta mee... Read story
Fashionable, Fresh ... & Made in USA
School House made its fashion-forward college gear in Sri Lanka, until founder Rachel Weeks brought manufacturing home and gained a new competitive advantage. Read story
Making Photo Books With a Social Spin
Andrew Laffoon and Aryk Grosz's Mixbook lets customers collaborate on projects, pulling pictures from their accounts on Facebook, Flickr, Pinterest, and Word... Read story
Her Killer Idea? She Found It in a Science Lab
Allison Lami Sawyer teamed up with a physicist to bring a fluorescent imaging camera to market. Good move: The Air Force and BP both want it. Read story
Meet Mister Kiosk. Age 29.
Zivelo, the world's second largest kiosk manufacturer, has doubled sales every year and boasts clients ranging from Mercedes-Benz to the White House Read story
It's Gourmet Food! Or, uh, Recycled Waste. Or Maybe Both.
What grows in paint cans, feeds on coffee shop waste, and is endorsed by gourmet icon Chez Panisse? Two young entrepreneurs explain. Read story
Saving Energy is Just a Game
Yoav Lurie and Justin Segall partner with utility companies to encourage consumers to save energy by playing competitive games on their web platform. Read story
Cocktails-to-Go in The Big Easy
Big Easy Blends makes agave-wine-based cocktails, like "Mar-Go-Ritas," in flexible, portable pouches that consumers can store in the freezer and grab on the go. Read story
Aza Raskin: My App Decides If You're Fit or Fat
Massive Health makes a mobile app called The Eatery, which allows users to snap pictures of their food, upload them, and let the community rate the meal on a... Read story
Where Entrepreneurs Teach & Students Learn Skills
General Assembly, a combination classroom and start-up co-working space, teaches technology, design, and business skills. Instructors have included founders ... Read story
Inside the Radical Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs
The Unreasonable Institute incubates for-profit social enterprises that compete for the program by raising their own tuition via online crowdfunding. Read story
9 Cool Products from Brilliant Minds Under 30
A camera that detects gas leaks, gourmet mushrooms grown in recycled coffee grounds, frozen cocktails to go, private labeled bling at shocking discounts, and... View slideshow
6 Tips for Raising Money During the Recovery
Access to capital is a perennial challenge for most entrepreneurs. Three experts share their advice on raising capital, in good times and bad. Read story
Sara Blakely Shares Secrets to Spanx Success
Sara Blakely's company, Spanx, has taken the hosiery world by storm. But it takes more than a great product to disrupt an industry. Read story
Is This a Business or an Art Project?
Robert Fogarty started Dear World to bring attention to the world's most tragic causes. But can he turn it into a scalable business? Read story
Will GenY Entrepreneurship Be a Disaster?
How could anyone think that GenY's love of entrepreneurship is a bad thing? You'd be surprised. Read story
charity:water CEO Lands Huge Commitment from Inc. 5000 CEOs
Scott Harrison's story inspires Inc. 500|5000 attendees to donate their birthdays to charity:water. Read story
John Vechey on How to Cope With Success
John Vechey, co-founder of Seattle-based games maker PopCap Games, just sold his company to Electronic Arts for just under a billion dollars, so you might... Read story
Made in Louisiana
Two New York fashionistas launch their fashion house Jolie & Elizabeth in New Orleans and lead the charge of bringing fashion back to the Garden District. Read story
Jordan Goldman, Founder of Unigo
Searching for the right college can be stressful, frustrating, and expensive. All those overnight visits; all those hours in the car with mom and d... Read story
Gianna Driver, Founder of Gianna Fair Trade
When you buy a silk Goddess Scarf from the online retailer Gianna Fair Trade, not only are you getting a stylish new accessory, you're also helping... Read story
Jennifer Schnidman Medbery, Founder of Drop the Chalk
Jennifer Schnidman Medbery knew that teaching math at a New Orleans charter school would be tough, even though the school, Sci Academy, had attract... Read story
Matt Lauzon, Founder of Gemvara
If Matt Lauzon has his way, his online custom jewelry company will one day "take on Tiffany head-to-head." That may seem like a bold predicti... Read story
Rochelle Behrens, Founder of The Shirt by Rochelle Behrens
When Rochelle Behrens was a lobbyist for a Washington, D.C., public affairs firm, she'd pin her conservative button-down shirts from the inside so ... Read story
Top Young Entrepreneurs of 2011: 30 Under 30
Featured Articles
What Does it Take?
A look behind the scenes at what it took to make it onto this year's list, and at some of the emerging trends it illuminates about young entrepreneurship today. Read story
Jason Baptiste and Andres Barreto, Founders of Onswipe
Jason Baptiste is nothing if not confident . "We're sitting between two huge shifts," he told the audience at TechStars's Demo Day on April 11. "The... Read story
Why New Orleans Is the Coolest Start-up City in America
Idea Village, a New Orleans-based not-for-profit that helps support local entrepreneurs, is helping rebuild its city's economic devastation by organizing a s... Read story
The Man Behind Quirky
Ben Kaufman's website harnesses open innovation to let users develop new products. Read story
Why Being Unreasonable Pays Off
Lately, it seems that I'm surrounded by thoroughly unreasonable people. I started the day reading an except from Read story
How Should We Educate the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs?
That was the topic of The Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit , held last week at the Univers... Read story
Rochelle Behrens is Bracing Herself For the "O" Effect
Life is going to get a lot more interesting tomorrow for Rochelle Behrens, the 28 year-old designer of ... Read story
Social Coupon Wars Heat Up Between Groupon and LivingSocial
Get ready for a battle for the hearts and minds of social coupon-loving consumers everywhere as these two young companies duke it out for market share with t... Read story
Happy National Entrepreneurs' Day!
Last May, we told you about how Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser, the founders of Grasshopper Group, had launched a Twitter campaign to try to convince Pres... Read story
In Defense of Entrepreneurial Passion
Who knew that passion could be such a controversial topic? But thanks to my blogging partner, Scott Gerber,Read story
Is GenY a Teacup Generation?
Last week, at the Inc. Magazine and Winning Workplaces Leadership C... Read story
How to Forecast Sales in an Uncertain Economy
You can't figure out what you can spend without knowing what you're bringing in. Here are tips to take the guess work out of revenue projections. Read story
How to Manage a Sales Pipeline
Building and managing a sales pipeline can be critical to a small business's success. Read story
