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Editor's Letter: Always Learning
By Jane Berentson | Oct 1, 2009
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
Editor's Letter: Dream a Little
By Jane Berentson | Jul 1, 2009
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
By Jane Berentson | Jun 1, 2009
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
By Jane Berentson | May 1, 2009
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
By Jane Berentson | Apr 1, 2009
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
By Jane Berentson | Mar 1, 2009
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?)
By Jane Berentson | Jan 1, 2009
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
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Dec 1, 2008
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
By Jane Berentson | Nov 1, 2008
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
By Jane Berentson | Oct 1, 2008
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
By Jane Berentson | Sep 1, 2008
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
By Jane Berentson | Aug 1, 2008
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
By Jane Berentson | Jul 1, 2008
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
By Jane Berentson | Jun 1, 2008
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
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | May 1, 2008
One of our goals at Inc. is to provide smart, useful, well-written service stories for our readers (busy entrepreneurs, all of them). We like arti... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Apr 1, 2008
My husband's Aunt Lilly runs a delicatessen that's been in business in suburban New York for almost 93 years. Lilly, a former opera singer (think Marguer... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Mar 1, 2008
In late December we received news that Ken Hendricks, the 66-year-old founder and owner of ABC Supply and Inc.'s 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year, had died i... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Feb 1, 2008
In this issue's Inc. Life section, you'll notice an homage to the famous Maxell ad with the "blow-away guy," the brilliant print ad concocted in the late ... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Jan 1, 2008
A CEO by the name of Mike Miller sent me an e-mail last week ribbing me about Inc. 's political bias, which he says is liberal. The latest example... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Dec 1, 2007
In the movie Groundhog Day , Bill Murray is doomed to live the same day over and over again until he finally “gets it,” “it̶... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Nov 1, 2007
The editors and writers at Inc. are accustomed to peering into businesses rarely covered by the rest of the business press, but Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Oct 1, 2007
In our July issue we published the first feature in a projected series called The Way I Work. It featured Bruce Moeller, the CEO of DriveCam, who told of ... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Sep 1, 2007
Jim Melloan, Project Manager for the Inc. 500/5,000, and one of the 47 heads Read story
Who We Are
By Jane Berentson | Sep 1, 2007
Here are the many staff members and freelancers who labored long over all the pages for the 2007 Inc. 500 issue of Inc. Magazine. Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Aug 1, 2007
Fun. It's not what drives people to leap out of bed in the morning and rush happily to the office, but knowing that work won't be all work certainly doesn... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Jul 1, 2007
I don't know how you work, but I'd like to know. Do you rarely leave your office or do you roam, as I do, from employee to employee? From my glass-enclos... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Jun 1, 2007
When I think about customer service it's usually because I'm not getting enough of it. Waiting forever for a service rep to pick up the phone, twiddling m... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | May 1, 2007
Few organizations are easier to attack than federal agencies. They're bloated and slow, or starved and ineffective. They're rife with corruption and staff... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Apr 1, 2007
A few months ago, we decided that the feature section of this issue would be devoted to just one topic: global entrepreneurship. Partly this came about b... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Mar 1, 2007
For the past few months we've been asking Inc. readers whether Norm should sell his business. The Norm in question is, of course, Norm Brodsky, o... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Feb 1, 2007
My friend Andy launched a successful business in college, wrote a number of bestsellers in his twenties and thirties, and entered the worlds of philanthro... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Jan 1, 2007
In this month's issue, we ask the question, "Is Dave Insane?" That's not as impolite as it sounds: We're referring to Dave Hirschkop, the founder of a li... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Dec 1, 2006
My husband and I went to see the movie The Departed on a recent Saturday afternoon, and when we walked out of the theater, there was a Mister Sof... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Nov 1, 2006
Entrepreneurs, by definition, are problem solvers. Show them a really tough problem and they leap into the fray, finding opportunity where others see disa... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Oct 1, 2006
In the corporate world, there's a notion that getting fired is a good learning experience. That happened to me early in my working life, after I had serve... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Sep 1, 2006
Maybe no one except the editors at Inc . and some hungry venture capitalists is going to sit down and read every single Inc. 500 profile. But anyo... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Aug 1, 2006
Like a lot of magazines, Inc. has one wall in the office dedicated to the issue in process. Each month, as pages are edited and designed, they'r... Read story
Editor's Letter
By Jane Berentson | Jul 1, 2006
Attention, critics! In this month's Inc. , Norm Brodsky writes about the wisdom of listening to your customers. Some people find this tough... Read story
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