Senior contributing writer Max Chafkin has profiled companies such as Yelp, Zappos, Twitter, Threadless, and Tesla for the magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. @chafkin


The Zappos Way of Managing

How Tony Hsieh uses relentless innovation, stellar customer service, and a staff of believers to make Zappos.com an e-commerce juggernaut -- and one of the m...  Read story


Pandora's Sweet Sound of Success

It took a while for Tim Westergren to get his Internet radio business out of "perpetual start-up mode." Now it's a public company with 560 employees.  Read story

Lessons From the World's Most Ruthless Competitor

Copycatters used to knock off designer shoes. Now they knock off online shoe sellers, daily-deal sites, and any other Internet-based business you can name. I...  Read story

Future TechStars, Step Forward

Getting into an incubator means money, mentors, and connections. We went inside the application process at a prestigious business incubator.  Read story

What Works (and What Doesn't) in the World of TechStars

Want to be a TechStar? Follow these dos and don'ts.  Read story

Justin.tv Founder Strikes Again

The serial tech entrepreneur has made a career out of taking slightly bizarre behaviors and turning them into start-ups. His latest: a task-on-demand app.  Read story

Tony Hsieh's Excellent Las Vegas Adventure

In which our hero, flush with $400 million from the sale of his company, attempts to reinvent his city, Zappos-style.  Read story

The Returnees

Seoul is home to a burgeoning corps of young entrepreneurs, a shocking number of them born or educated in America. Why aren't they starting companies here?  Read story

Why Steve Jobs Matters

In 1981, Inc . put Apple founder Steve Jobs on its Read story

An Accelerator Grows Up

Two years ago, when I first wrote about accel...  Read story

How One Company Got Very Hot, Very Briefly

Andrey Ternovskiy founded Chatroulette from his bedroom in Moscow. It became infamous; he became suspicious.  Read story

Lessons from Argentina: Tax Holidays

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A Country Without Credit

The  Financial Times  follows Inc.'s  Argentina st...  Read story

IPO Craziness, Pandora Edition

It's nice when good things happen to good companies. After a more than decade of struggling to turn its streaming music service into a viable business (fo...  Read story

A Constant Feeling of Crisis

Think the U.S. economy feels shaky? Try doing business in Argentina, where corruption is the norm, regulations are absurd, inflation is rampant, and financia...  Read story

LinkedIn Soars

This is a what investors call a pop . Lin...  Read story

Will LinkedIn's IPO Start a Frenzy?

Remember all the talk about how there's no money in social networks? Well, it now seems strangely academic. LinkedIn has priced its IPO, which it ann...  Read story

Can Rob Kalin Scale Etsy?

An army of 400,000 crafters has made Etsy a hot start-up: profitable, well capitalized, growing. Now founder Rob Kalin is looking for ways to make them succe...  Read story

Color: Brilliant or Bubble?

I spent 20 minutes at lunch playing with a cool new iPhone app called Color , which automatically shares ph...  Read story

Twitter's Founding Moment

Hard to believe, but Twitter is already five years old. To commemorate the occassion, the site's creator and Twitter's former CEO, Jack Dorsey has been re...  Read story

Steve Jobs Announces iPad 2

Steve Jobs just wrapped up another one of his trademark announcements and it's now official: There is a new iPad. The bottom line, Read story

Demand Media IPO Pops

The controversial start-up finally goes public. How did the hotly-anticipated IPO perform on its first day?  Read story

What Norwegian Socialism Looks Like

So the big Norway story went live l...  Read story

Google Founder Back as CEO

Larry Page, who co-founded Google more than a decade ago, will replace Eric Schmidt as CEO of the Internet giant.  Read story

Norway's Capitalist-Socialists

Welcome to Norway, land of high taxes, burdensome regulations, and generous social welfare. It's also, strangely, crawling with start-ups. What gives?  Read story

In Norway, Start-ups Say Ja to Socialism

We venture to the very heart of the hell that is Scandinavian socialism—and find out that it’s not so bad. Pricey, yes, but a good place to start and run...  Read story

MySpace Going the Way of Friendster

The once-mighty social network is laying off half its staff. How could such a promising business turn sour so quickly?  Read story

Demand Media's Magical Thinking

Regular readers of this blog know that I've been skeptical of Demand Media, whi...  Read story

Is Facebook Already a Public Company?

Once again, Mark Zuckerberg has said that Facebook, the wildly popular social network, will not go public any time soon, until 2012 at least. But the ques...  Read story

The Dark Side of Web Tracking

The Washington Post exposes a Read story

InDinero Fixes Money Management

Jessica Mah, the 20-year-old CEO of inDinero, is improving upon what QuickBooks has done and is making financial tracking easier for small businesses.  Read story

Innovating Comedy

Funny or Die is more than a website for laughs. Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Chris Henchy are changing Hollywood.  Read story

Top App Developer

Ge Wang and Smule have turned app development into an art form with hits such as Ocarina, Magic Piano, and Glee Karaoke.  Read story

Behind the Groupon-Google Deal

Well, it's safe to say that Groupon is hot. The local coupon site, founded just two years ago in Chicago, appears poised to accept a Read story

Steve Jobs, Circa 1985

Some weekend reading , via Read story

Twitter Now Worth $3 Billion

Here we go again : Read story

Kayak Goes IPO

Here's an...  Read story

Facebook's Grand E-Mail Plans

Yup, it's real : Today I'm excited to announce the next ...  Read story

Facebook Wants to Kill E-Mail

And you thought Facebook was already taking over your life: Back in February we wrote about Facebook's secret Project Titan&nbs...  Read story

Tesla Finds Another Partner

I wonder what Jim Cramer has to say about Read story

Surprise! Pay Walls Make Money

TechCrunch crunches the numbers on News Corp's decision to...  Read story