Jane Berentson


Editor's Letter: Inspirations

Today, the charitable impulse seems to come early and often to entrepreneurs still in their formative, company-building years.  Read story

Unsung Heroes

How many people do you think read the magazine before it's published? Here's a peek inside the production process.  Read story

Act Two for Stonyfield

Behind Meg Cadoux Hirshberg's contribution to the March issue of Inc. magazine, plus, an important announcement.  Read story

What It Takes to Build a Truly Great Company

Inc.'s editor, Jane Berentson, explores how editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan wrote February's feature on what it takes to build one of the best-run co...  Read story

Allow Us to Introduce...

...the Company of the Year, Evernote, and the rest of the December/January issue of Inc. magazine.  Read story

The Ballad of Jared and Carl

The evolution of a complex feature story about a peripatetic entrepreneur, Jared Heyman, and his keep-the-office-fires-burning counterpart, Carl Fusco.  Read story

Meeting Some Very Smart People

Editor Jane Berentson discusses her recent visit to the headquarters of The Kauffman Foundation, which opened its first charter school in August.  Read story

Editor's Letter: A Salute to the Builders of Great Companies

Here’s to the people who create jobs, and to the people who fill them.  Read story

Editor's Letter: Where Stories Come From

A press release will never beat a good conversation.  Read story

Editor's Letter: Living Your Values

How great leaders build great company cultures  Read story

Editor's Letter: Organizing Principles

How nonprofits can find the right business structure  Read story

Editor's Letter: Take Two

When companies stumble, they bring back the founder.  Read story

Editor's Letter: With a Smile

Exploring the connection between company culture and customer service  Read story

Editor's Letter: Northern Exposure

Exploring the link between entrepreneurship and high taxes  Read story

Editor's Letter: Love Is in the Air

The return of "Entrepreneurs We Love," celebrating the accomplishments of 23 remarkable entrepreneurs  Read story

Editor's Letter: Things Change

The economy goes through phases, and so do individual business owners.  Read story

Editor's Letter: Meet the Inc. 500 Class of 2010

Behind the achievement of fast growth are CEOs whose success proves that no industry is too humble or too sophisticated for the truly ambitious.  Read story

The Start-Up Economy

How to help entrepreneurs help the U.S. economy  Read story

Editor's Letter: Companies That Put People First

Lessons from the Top Small Company Workplaces of 2010.  Read story

Editor's Letter: The Power of Curiosity

To succeed in business, and in life, you must be prepared to travel in unexpected directions.  Read story

Editor's Letter: While We Were Out

Why Inc. went virtual for a month  Read story

Editor's Letter: What a Production

The many ways to measure personal productivity  Read story

Editor's Letter: The New Power of Customers

Thanks to online-review sites like Yelp, the customer is more powerful than ever.  Read story

Editor's Letter: A Look Behind the Scenes

A look at the work of photographer Andrew Moore  Read story

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Notes from the Inc. 500/5000 Conference  Read story

Editor's Letter: Always Learning

Although Inc. is edited for its readers (entrepreneurs of all stripes and sizes), it's also true that the people who put it together (editors, wr...  Read story

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It's That Time Again  Read story

Editor's Letter: Dream a Little

We write often about start-ups in Inc., because the decision, or impulse, to launch a company rather than work for someone else is at the heart of the entrep...  Read story

Editor's Letter: What It's Really Like to Be the Boss

Zan Jones, a reader from Keller, Texas, wrote recently to praise Inc.'s recurring feature The Way I Work, in which company leaders describe the r...  Read story

Editor's Letter: The House That Jack Built

Over the years, Inc. has developed close relationships with a number of very smart entrepreneurs. Some speak at our conferences, some become colu...  Read story

Editor's Letter: The Art of Business

Thirty years ago, almost to the day, I left a job at the forefront of the computer revolution to join a magazine. It was undoubtedly a bad move financiall...  Read story

Editor's Letter: Safe Landings

During the last week of a production cycle at Inc. , heads are pretty much down. But in an office that boasts more windows than walls and sits wel...  Read story

Editor's Letter: Time to Act (Isn't It Always?)

The beginning of a new year is, of course, when people take a look at what they've been doing -- or not doing -- and make plans to do better. This schedule d...  Read story

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In high school, my friends and I used to find amusement reading confession magazines -- stories like "I Married a Bigamist (and his other wife was my sist...  Read story

Editor's Letter

Happiness/contentment/satisfaction comes partly from knowing that you're doing pretty much what you should be doing. In your case, that would be building ...  Read story

Editor's Letter

In my August Editor's Letter, I asked readers to tell us about the books that have inspired them the most. Judging from the response, this was a good ques...  Read story

Editor's Letter

Every issue of Inc. gives us a rich opportunity to look into the minds and business practices of some of the nation's most interesting entrepreneur...  Read story

Editor's Letter

A number of years ago, I followed a boyfriend down to a coastal town in Georgia, where, I recall, we were asked to be in a regatta (don't ask me why). Ou...  Read story

Editor's Letter

A while back, a Chicago entrepreneur named Jay Goltz stopped by the Inc. office to talk to our writers and editors about how he runs his com...  Read story

Editor's Letter

Recently, as I sat down to write this letter, I decided first to check my e-mail to see what might have landed overnight. Among the scores of missives th...  Read story

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