Jane Berentson


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

From the Editor of Inc.: Are Entrepreneurs Really Liberal?

By Jane Berentson |  Dec 21, 2007

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 exampl...  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

From the Editor of Inc.: Our Entrepreneur of the Year

By Jane Berentson |  Nov 27, 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

From the Editor of Inc.

By Jane Berentson |  Oct 30, 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

From the Editor of Inc.

By Jane Berentson |  Oct 3, 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 |  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

From the Editor of Inc.: The 2007 Inc. 500

By Jane Berentson |  Aug 23, 2007

Jim Melloan, Project Manager fo...  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

From the Magazine...

By Jane Berentson |  Jul 31, 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

From the Editor...

By Jane Berentson |  Jun 26, 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

From the Editor...

By Jane Berentson |  May 29, 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 ...  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

From the Editor...

By Jane Berentson |  Apr 23, 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 sta...  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

Editor's Letter

By Jane Berentson |  Jun 1, 2006

You should have been in Savannah. Scott Cook, founder of Intuit, was there, talking about innovation and customer service on the main stage. Carl Schramm...  Read story

Editor's Letter

By Jane Berentson |  May 1, 2006

I always chuckle to myself when I come across a common and vexing problem of magazine editing: the strange confluence of thoughts and decisions that prod...  Read story

Editor's Letter

By Jane Berentson |  Apr 1, 2006

Inc. has its heroes, and those of you who've been reading the magazine a while can probably name a few. Jack Stack, father of open-book manageme...  Read story

Editor's Letter

By Jane Berentson |  Mar 1, 2006

Entrepreneurs are not shy about telling Inc. editors what makes a good story. Every time we host a luncheon, chat with a group at the Inc. 500, ...  Read story

Editor's Letter

By Jane Berentson |  Feb 1, 2006

Our monthly letter from the editor.  Read story

Editor's Letter

By Jane Berentson |  Jan 1, 2006

Our monthly letter from the editor.  Read story

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