Laura Rich


A 23 Year-Old CEO

Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of United Bank Card, talks about starting his business when he was sixteen years old. His credit card transaction processi...  Watch video

Survival Story

Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year Ping Fu discusses her software firm Geomagic. Having survived Chinese prisons, she came to America and built Geomag...  Watch video

The Home Depot

Bernie Marcus, founder of The Home Depot, addresses how Sarbanes-Oxley affects small business owners today. He encourages all small business owners to get...  Watch video

Playing the Right Cards

Steve Lipscomb, CEO of the World Poker Tour, talks about his decision to go into the poker business, and the need to take risks and follow your passion as...  Watch video

Disaster Relief

Richard Zuschlag, CEO of Acadian Ambulance Services, discusses his companies heroic involvement in hurricane Katrina. As a local ambulance service, Acadia...  Watch video

Time-Management Tips

Julie Morgenstern, author of Never Check E-mail In The Morning , discusses how entrepreneurs can use their time more effectively. One key tip, mul...  Watch video

Fresh Inc. Nominated for Webby Award

Some very exciting news has come up here at Inc.com, and we wanted to share it with you. Fresh Inc. has been nominated for a Read story

Hanging With The Big Boys

Devon Rifkin, CEO of the Great American Hanger Company, speaks about starting his business, and where he's taking it.   Read story

Live from the 24th Annual Inc. 500 Conference

Savannah is warm, historic, and genteel. It's the sort of place where the leaders of fast-growing businesses might like to go for a break from the break-n...  Read story

No Possiblity of IPO? Who Cares.

A story in the Wall Street Journal today makes a big stink over the Read story

What to Wear

Office attire has gone through many evolutions in the past few decades, from mandated dress codes to the exceptional casual Fridays to wide-open, wear-wha...  Read story

Workers Want Fulfillment, Not Salary

What's with kids these days? As employees go, they're certainly nothing like previous generations. They don't expect or want life-time employment -- no co...  Read story

Google $400 = Dow 15,000?

"Dow 10,000" used to be a myth. Then the Internet bubble came along and pushed it upwards, from where it never really fell as one might have thought. Now,...  Read story

The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Class

In a recent speech at the Cleveland City Club, John Koten, CEO of Mansueto Ventures (publisher of Inc. and Read story

Business Bake-Off

To celebrate the new chapter in Inc .'s life , Inc. columnist an...  Read story

Port Open for Business

In New Orleans, the port is coming back to life . Though...  Read story

When Airlines Go Bankrupt

Class, this week we're studying Chapter 11. Focus on: the airline industry. The Read story

Disaster Recovery Stories

Many Inc . readers are among those impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Some have been directly hit in their home-base of New Orleans, while others are be...  Read story

Katrina v. 9/11

As any New Orleans business owner can tell you, Hurricane Katrina is much worse than 9/11. But how so? Today, Daniel Goss writes on Slate.com that Katrina...  Read story

The Office: Health Care Strategy

"The Office," the NBC show starring "40-Year-Old Virgin" Steve Carell, is not exactly the place you'd think to turn for sage management advice or growth s...  Read story

Molding Employees Into Shape

Last night at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, mediabistro.com founder and CEO Laurel Touby talked about starting and running a business. When it comes...  Read story

In France, It's 'Les Petites Compagnies'

If you're like Don Rumsfeld and always on the lookout for another reason to call them "old Europe," Read story

Seller's Market

Even as the M A market heats up, unloading a company gets trickier.  Read story

Where the Innovators Are

Growing businesses know that innovation is key to success. But innovation impacts more than just the innovating business itself; it is key to the health o...  Read story

Lowering Your Monthly Phone Bill

Verizon and AOL on Thursday each unveiled new Internet-based phone plans. Verizon will charge just $29.95 for unlimited calls; AOL's monthly fee is $29.99...  Read story

Top 10 Business Movies

With the Oscars upon us, we decided to take an in-depth look at The Aviator, and also a ...  Read story

Bush: With Small Business, or Against Small Business?

It seems hardly a day goes by that I'm not, as an editor of Inc.com, assigning or editing a news story on Bush and his small business policies. But every ...  Read story

Don't Be a Stranger

Alumni programs are a great way to stay in touch and boost business.  Read story

QA with Amber Chand of Eziba

Amber Chand emigrated to the United States and worked for years in a museum gift shop before launching Eziba in 1999. Initially an online retailer that so...  Read story

Q and A with Gloria and Richard Pink of Pink's

Since 1939, Pink's has been serving up hot dogs to crowds that line up day and night in front of the Los Angeles stand. As Gloria Pink notes, even the sta...  Read story

Small Businesses Not on Google

In his most recent column in the Marketing Resource Center, Adam Hanft notes that small businesses ha...  Read story

T-Shirt Controversy

For the most part, Inc. readers embrace their fellow entrepreneurs featured within the pages of each issue. But the appearance of Read story

New Rules for Overtime Pay

On Monday, new rules for receiving overtime pay went into effect, setting the maximum eligible salary level at $455 per week (that's $23,660 per year, see...  Read story

The Not-Always-Digital Age

A new report came out today from Indiana University with some stop-the-presses news (not really). Ready? It turns out, software tools designed to migrate ...  Read story

Schwab: Return of the Founder

Online brokerage firm Charles Schwab has never technically been an Inc. 500 c...  Read story

Small Business Sensitivity

The Wall Street Journal, that cauldron of big, public company news, today released its "Small Business Report," taking pains to point out the pra...  Read story

The Chicken-and-Egg Marketing Dilemma

I know the owner of a small computer animation company who for the last two years has been toiling away, along with his trusty staff of two full-timers an...  Read story

Making Money V. Doing Good

Is it okay to be profitable at the expense of being socially responsible? Shoe maker Birkenstock has chosen good over money and Michael Lewis takes the co...  Read story

Planning for Life After Entrepreneurship

This month's issue of Money features a look at best places to retire. Before you say you can't imagine quitting, consider that next month's issue...  Read story

On Naming Your Business, and Getting It Right

What's in a name? Plenty, according to Alex Frankel, the author of Wordcraft (Crown Publishing, April 2004), a book about the business of naming ...  Read story

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