Invincible Ball Brings Joy to Kids (& Lions)
Soccer balls from the One World Futbol Project stand up to life in a refugee camp. Read story
Leigh Buchanan
Take Coffee Grounds. Add Spores. See Success Sprout.
With their popular mushroom kits, Back to the Roots' founders Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez are restoring the connection between people and food. Read story
Who Are the Vendors in My Neighborhood?
BALLE founders Judy Wicks and Laury Hamel are forging a new economy based on local commerce. Read story
Honoring the Champions of Do-Good-ism
Business icons, including Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, turned out this week to celebrate the Social Venture Network's inaugural Hall of Fame. Read story
Ballooning Across the Pacific, Facing Almost Certain Death
In 1991, Branson attempted a balloon flight across the Pacific Ocean with balloonist, Pers Lindstrand. Though they ended up in the Arctic, they survived. Watch video
What You Name a Venture Is Important
Branson set up "war rooms" to tackle global issues like climate change and disease in Africa. Watch video
New Technology Opens Up Markets
How Sir Richard Branson plans to bring down the $200,000-per-ticket price to bring passengers to space. Watch video
Difficulties & Opportunities of Regulated Businesses
In some cases--like Branson's space ship company Virgin Galactic--helpful regulators can make new business ideas possible. Watch video
Big Ideas Also Mean Big Risks
Sir Richard Branson put a firewall between each Virgin company so that--if something goes wrong at one--it won't take down another. Watch video
Build Successful Businesses Out of Helping Lives
Rarely does Sir Richard Branson start a business just because he thinks he's going to make money out of it. Watch video
Business Is All About Details
Unless you get thousands of tiny details right when you launch a new business, you'll have nothing. Watch video
If You Don't Dream, Nothing Happens
"If you set seemingly impossible challenges," says Sir Richard Branson, "you make what people believed impossible possible." Watch video
Give Your Employees Election Day Off. Here's Why
Kiva, GOOD Worldwide, and a slew of other companies and non-profits are making Election Day a paid holiday. Should you? Read story
How to Achieve Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals
Leadership expert Jim Collins explains what drives some entrepreneurs to relentlessly pursue bold ideas--and succeed where others have failed. Read story
Your First Venture Can Be Extraordinary
Sir Richard Branson talks about entrepreneurial audacity--his own and that of his "great friends," Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Watch video
Why You Can't Trust What You Know
A Skimmer's Guide to The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date , by Samuel Arbesman. Read story
Richard Branson: Knight of Big Ideas
Sir Audacity himself: "Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You then have to catch up with them." Read story
Why the World Needs Big Ideas
With so many businesses thinking small, true audacity and vision mean more than ever. Read story
Richard Branson: 'Screw It. Let's Do It'
What's it take to be a big thinker? The famed entrepreneur talks big ideas and even bigger challenges. Read story
Big Thinkers Are Pissed Off & Passionate
For entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, big is never big enough. Here, he talks about what it takes to think on a grand scale. Read story
Save Lives By Sharing Data
Sage Biometrics gives medical researchers a means (and a reason) to cooperate. Read story
How an Entrepreneur Became the Go-To Spokesman for U.S. Manufacturing
Drew Greenblatt, president of Marlin Steel, routinely gets covered in the media, testifies before Congress, and writes and speaks nationwide--and could be an... Read story
Become a World-Changing Thought Leader
Inc. editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan interviews Clay Christensen's publicity advisor about how entrepreneurs can be thought leaders too. Read story
Turn Nuclear Waste Into Nuclear Fuel
Depleted uranium is one fuel source not in short supply. Check out TerraPower's audacious plan for producing cleaner and safer nuclear power. Read story
A True Elite Education at Half the Price
The Minerva Project has a plan to take online education to the next level. Read story
Hey, Boss: Avoid a 'Binders of Women' Moment
Sure, there are generational differences in the workplace. But no manager wants to stick his foot in his mouth with a gender gaffe like Mitt Romney. Here's h... Read story
Mark Kelly on Finding Courage & Making Good Decisions
Two women played a key role in teaching Captain Mark Kelly what it means to be courageous and resilient. Read story
Nick Woodman's 'Big World' of GoPro
The creator of what he calls "the world's most versatile camera," the GoPro, explains his lessons on bootstrapping a fast-growing company with adoring custom... Read story
4 Tactics to Make Smarter Decisions
Should you trust your gut or your data? Bestselling authors Dan and Chip Heath say, neither. Here's what really goes into making sound decisions. Read story
Why Strategy Matters Most
It's the strategic plan, stupid. Have you reconsidered yours lately? Read story
Has the Free Market Gone Too Far?
Michael Sandel, author of What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets , shares his thoughts about what should and shouldn't be for sale. Read story
The Do-It-Yourself Economy
A Skimmer's Guide to Makers: The New Industrial Revolution , by Chris Anderson. Read story
Private Again and On the Move
Life After the Inc. 500: Blackboard CEO Michael Chasen has loved every minute of taking his company public and then back to being private--while maintaining ... Read story
Set a Remarkable Goal, Then Blow It Away
Life After the Inc. 500: It was not enough for William Roetzheim to launch Marotz and then sell it for millions--he wants to do it again and again and then a... Read story
The Difference Between Success and Significance
Life After the Inc. 500: When Oie Osterkamp's run at success ended with the demise of his company Job Strategies, he found greater significance from helping ... Read story
Still Growing, Still Independent, Still Happy
Life After the Inc. 500: Elizabeth Elting has grown Transperfect Translations by over 30 percent annually since 2000 without a dime of outside funds--and she... Read story
Copyright Vs. Creativity
A skimmer's guide to The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation , by Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman. Read story
No Succession Plan & an Uncertain Legacy
Life After the Inc. 500: An untimely death and no succession plan left Michelle Taylor at the helm of her mother's company, Betah Associates, with no oars. Read story
Shaking Up the Healthy Foods Category, Again
Life After the Inc. 500: Former WhiteWave CEO, Steve Demos, is back at it, taking his upstart Nextfoods to new levels of growth--this time with a touch more ... Read story
The Rise & Fall & Rise (Again) of David Steinberg
He rose to the top of the Inc. 500, then failed spectacularly. Now he's back with another fast-growing company--no less ambitious but a lot wiser. Read story
