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Clean Up Your Logistics
Packing, labeling, shipping, handling: It's all really expensive. Here's how one designer tackled shipping costs...by continuing to outsource its logistics. Read story
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Ta-da! Timing the Perfect Product Release
We're living in a world of beta tests and products that are released and then improved. How do you know when you're done and it's time to ship? Three entrepr... Read story
What's Your "Minimum Viable Concept?"
Can one investment fund use hard data to find better investments, and make start-ups more successful? CincyTech wants your "Minimum Viable Concept." Read story
4 Things Your Start-up Needs to Do This Year
If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. Read story
How One Smart Infographic Saved a Company
What if you had to change your company name and URL and hope your customers would find you again? Here's how Formspring overcame its rebranding trouble. Read story
5 Things You Should Have Done Yesterday
Cover your legal and accounting must-dos and save yourself headaches in the new year. Read story
Helping Customers Help Themselves
Your online customers need help, not template e-mails. This automated support tool learns your replies and gets smarter over time. Read story
Get a Celebrity Endorsement
Lisa Price, the founder of Carol's Daughter, spoke about harnessing star-power of celebrities such as Jay-Z and Will Smith to build awareness of her brand. Read story
Sales Lessons From Barbara Corcoran and Sara Blakely
Barbara Corcoran and Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx, spill their sales secrets at the Inc. Women's Summit. Read story
The Season to Pitch Friends and Family
Is gathering around turkey and yams the right time to ask for a friends and family investments? The case for taking advantage of the season of giving. Read story
Is the 54-Hour Start-up a Myth?
How does Startup Weekend turn strangers into teams into companies in less than three days? A review of the new book that documents the process. Read story
5 Tips to Ensure Customers Pay You On Time
Every business runs into deadbeat customers. Here's how to make sure they don't take advantage of you. Read story
How Can You Boost Local Sales This Season?
How can you capitalize on the good will felt toward small business this holiday season? We've scoured the statistics and tapped experts for their best strate... Read story
5 Keys to Business Happiness
Ted Leonsis says business can add real value by ensuring customers and employees are happy. Read story
Tips for Running Daily and Local Deals
Inc. has covered the Daily Deal and Local Deal space quite extensively over the last year or so. In fact my colleague Eric Markowitz has reported on the <... Read story
Reach Customers and Employees via Mobile Apps
If you’re a small business owner with customers on the go, or employees that work in the field or remotely, you may want to provide them with a mobi... Read story
Tool to Predict Tech Start-up Success
A few months ago, the team at Blackbox seed accelerator set out to decode the "genetics" behind successful startups (See this short piece at Read story
Do Facebook Ads Bring Customers?
Start-ups and small businesses are always looking for more customers, and there are a lot of potential customers on the Internet, right? But what online s... Read story
New Discounted Legal Services for Small Businesses
One challenge for many startups is the high cost of legal fees. Rocket Lawyer recently did a Read story
How to Show Market Traction
When pitching your business for funding, a common question that investors will ask is “Have you achieved market traction?” Market traction is ... Read story
"Wherehouse?" Outsource Your Storage and Shipping
Growth is a challenge for a small business, especially when it comes to warehouse real estate. You don't want to carry costs for more space than you need.... Read story
Fight Credit Card Processing Fees
Start-ups are always looking to increase revenue or save costs. When Sean Harper was running his e-commerce business, he started looking at costs, and zer... Read story
Pay Attention - Or Pay Cash
When I worked at Microsoft in the late 1990s, Alex St. John had a reputation as an infamous DirectX game development evangelist. That meant he had worked ... Read story
Sponsorship as Participation
More than two years ago Inc . covered the " unconference " trend. ... Read story
A Sales Social Network
Forget liking and photos—respond and sell something. SalesSpider is all about connecting for sales. Read story
A Community for Ideas
Bulbstorm is a community for idea sharing. You can gather a team interested in working on your idea and get feedback, all with security, NDAs, and legal trac... Read story
Evil Genius Finds Case Study in Her Pepsi
Tracy Brown, CEO and founder of Evil Genius Designs , doesn't profile as the standard entrepren... Read story
A Pop-up App Store in San Francisco
When Podio's Chairman Thomas Madsen-Mygdal told me at South By Southwest la... Read story
Making Location Awareness Simple
Last year's South By Southwest festival was a tipping point for location-based check-in services. I wrote about companies l... Read story
Cloud-Based Software for Small Biz, Easy and Integrated
More than 160 companies are ready to provide web-based software that fits together to solve problems like Lego blocks, and it all works through the web. I go... Read story
A Female Spin on Starting a Business
Normally I don't focus on male- or female-specific entrepreneurial challenges, but having received two books by women entrepreneurs in the last few weeks,... Read story
Dial 1-800-Get Some Sales
When there are 300 other companies doing the same thing as yours in a market like New York City, how do you stand out? Read story
Don't Put Your Assets on the Line
Starting a business? Protect what you have by thinking through your legal form first. Read story
Start 2011 By Learning from Failure
The Start-Up Toolkit is above all a resource for start-ups and it is my intent to help them better manage, market, sell, protect their businesses, and pro... Read story
The Power of Thank You
I wanted to use my last column of the year to discuss the value of "Thank You." Many start-ups and small businesses survive and thrive via referrals and w... Read story
Start-up End-of-Year Legal To-Dos
The government doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. They do care, however, if you've done everything required of your business, if you've planned you... Read story
What Start-ups Can Learn from the Big Brands
Creating a successful start-up includes many factors, from delivering a great product or service to proper financial and legal planning. But one of ... Read story
NY Entrepreneur Week Spurs Connections, Businesses
Last week's New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW) brought together over 1800 entrepreneurs, potential entre... Read story
A Start-Up Helps You Incorporate
Start-ups always need to figure out a legal structure – it’s one of the most common questions asked early on in the formation of any company. Incorporati... Read story
Presenting a Different Way of Presenting
One thing entrepreneurs do often is present their ideas to others. Whether they're selling their business services, pitching investors, or explaining thei... Read story
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