Issie Lapowsky is a reporter at Inc. magazine. She has covered lifestyle and entertainment for the New York Daily News, and her work has been published in BlackBook magazine and The Brooklyn Rail. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Crucial Part of a Productive Day? A Nap

You'll accomplish more if you give your body sufficient downtime.  Read story

Canada: The Next Start-up Frontier?

With its new Startup Visa program, Canada's hoping to lure foreign entrepreneurs. But what do start-ups stand to gain by heading north?  Read story

4 Ways To Make Your Workspace More Productive

Researchers have found some utterly surprising ways to minimize distractions and insert subtle signals to help your staff focus.  Read story

10 Questions for Barbara Corcoran

The famed entrepreneur reveals the biggest business myth and what her personal theme song is.  Read story

Reward vs. Punishment: What Motivates People More?

Turns out, your employees will work harder to avoid a loss than to seek a gain, according to research.  Read story

Fisker: Better Off Without Its Founder?

Henrik Fisker resigned Wednesday from the electric vehicle company he started. Can Fisker Automotive bounce back without him?  Read story

Clive Davis: It Never Pays to Be a Know-It-All

The former head of Columbia Records learned early on what all CEOs must do: Embrace your strengths--and hire around your weaknesses.  Read story

Jason Goldberg: I Was the Poster Boy for Wasting Investor Money

After burning through $48 million, the Fab.com founder learned a key start-up lesson: Be ready to turn on a dime.  Read story

Meet the Man on a Mission to Teach the World to Code

Hadi Partovi wants to expand computer science education. Here's how he got Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and a few other famous friends to spread the coding g...  Read story

Can Dr. McDreamy Turn Around a Failing Business?

Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey talks about his new company, Tully's Coffee.  Read story

Tony Hawk: How I Learned to Say 'No'

It's easy to lose focus when you can't turn down a business opportunity. Here's how Tony Hawk learned the value of sticking with what you know.  Read story

Daymond John: It's All About Relationships

You don't build a brand like FUBU by begging for favors. Daymond John explains how he found partners who believed in him.  Read story

Bobbi Brown: Always Keep Your Eyes Open

Before she built a beauty empire, Bobbi Brown gleaned business instincts from her Cadillac-selling grandfather.  Read story

The Way I Work: Will Dean, Tough Mudder

The CEO of Tough Mudder is obsessed with company culture and strategy. And with finding new ways to make his customers uncomfortable. (Electric shocks, anyone?)  Read story

Musician Dave Carroll Takes on Bad Customer Service

When United Airlines broke Dave Carroll's guitar, he took to YouTube. Now, Carroll has launched GripeVine and Resolution 1 to fix companies' customer service...  Read story

The Art and Science of Corporate Icons

Design experts weigh in on a cookie company's cartoon mascot.  Read story

How I Sold for $130 Million

Intermix founder Khajak Keledjian explains how he went from dodging bombs in Beirut to launching a $130 million fashion empire.  Read story

In Solar, Innovation Doesn't Pay

Solar manufacturers in the U.S. are fighting a losing battle with China. Here's why the future is particularly dim for start-ups.  Read story

Digg Founder: Trust Your Gut. Always

Fear almost prevented Kevin Rose from starting Digg. Now, as a partner at Google Ventures, Rose advises other entrepreneurs on conquering the fear of failure.  Read story

Meet the Entrepreneur Reinventing Polaroid

Polaroid's trying to come back in a big way. Here's the entrepreneur (yes, entrepreneur) making it happen.  Read story

A High Tech Start-up Eyes Broadway

One of New York's hottest shows is also a small business. Here's how iLuminate came to wow audiences during the holidays.  Read story

Turning Screens Into a Television

Aereo, a New York City start-up, can broadcast live television to your iPad or a laptop. That is, unless a big lawsuit shuts the company down.  Read story

How Warby Parker Reinvented Retail

Warby Parker will finally get a conventional storefront in 2013. Here are four retail experiments that helped the brand get there.  Read story

Why Every Company Is Now an Incubator

From Microsoft to PayPal, it seems every day another business launches an incubator. Here's what's motivating them to get in the game.  Read story

Why Dublin's Tech Scene Is Booming

Following in the footsteps of Google and Facebook, tech start-ups from around the world are now flocking to Dublin.  Read story

Tim Ferriss's Next Big Project: Dinner

Tim Ferriss's latest book, The 4-Hour Chef , includes not only classic and non-traditional recipes (roasted squirrel, anyone?) but also a formula for...  Read story

How to Land a Celebrity Co-founder

The founders of celebrity-backed businesses like Shoedazzle and BeachMint share their secrets for landing a celebrity co-founder.  Read story

Meet the Top Job Creator in America

Steve Jones, co-CEO of Universal Services of America, turns janitors and security guards into leaders. He's created 17,330 jobs since 2008.  Read story

Why Everyone at My Company Has One Job Title

The Nerdery, No. 99 on Inc.'s Hire Power list, rose above tragedy to give every employee a personal stake in success  Read story

How We Hired 17,000 People in 3 Years

Acquisitions don't have to be a human resource nightmare. The top job creator in America pulls them off seamlessly. Here's how.  Read story

How Entrepreneurs Would Resolve the Fiscal Cliff

The president asked corporate CEOs to weigh in. But what would small business owners say? We asked, and you answered.  Read story

Legal Marijuana Industry Is Slow to Catch Fire

Recreational marijuana is now legal in Colorado and Washington. But while pot proponents celebrated the victories, entrepreneurs say the so-called Green Rush...  Read story

4 Ways to Win the Holiday Shopping Wars

Holiday retail sales are expected to rise. But with big box retailers battling over who can offer the lowest prices, how can small businesses compete?  Read story

Reality Show Goes Inside the Place Memes Are Made

I Can Has Cheezburger and FAILBlog are (in)famous for making memes. Now they have a new reality series. Founder Ben Huh talks about letting Bravo's cameras i...  Read story

My Favorite Tool for Analyzing Financials

Must-haves: Why entrepreneur Jennifer Cattaui loves using BodeTree to analyze her company's financials.  Read story

How to Sell Out in Style

Method co-founder Eric Ryan and his team celebrated the sale of the company in their own unique way.  Read story

Let the Marketplace Solve the Sanitation Crisis

Waste Enterprisers operates on the premise that human waste is the one truly infinite resource.  Read story

Meet the Makers of the Wearable Robot

Ekso Bionics's wearable robot is getting paraplegics back on their feet.  Read story

Coming Soon: The New All-You-Can-Fly Airline

Starting an airline is tough, but Surf Air just might have what it takes.  Read story

Caterina Fake: Great Entrepreneurs Are Like Sandwiches

Want to be more efficient and more creative? Serial entrepreneur Caterina Fake explains what you can learn from a PB&J.  Read story