2. The Product Makeover
For years, OMI sold its odor-masking chemicals to big, stinky factories. Did it make sense to target Whole Foods as well? Read story
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How to Create a Great Start-Up and How to Fail like One
What's in Obama's budget... The big news: President Barack Obama unveiled his budget yesterday. It's large--134 pages, $3.6 trillion, and a $1.75 t... Read story
Strategic Planning, Furloughs, and Raising Money
Do you have a strategic plan? VC Fred Wilson writes about how he's been urging the startups he advises to Read story
The Wexley Way: How to Think Creatively in 8 Easy Steps
Wexley School for Girls is an amped-up media-agnostic advertising agency that will do just about anything to attract business for clients. Here, the Wexley t... Read story
How to Pick a Name, and the Inc. Way to Pick a College
Beware the Canadian pirates . Okay, so you knew that Russia and China are not exactly paradise for patent holders. But Canada as a hotbed of IP thef... Read story
In Defense of Yelp
The web is abuzz right now about the East Bay Express's vicious Read story
A Plan for American Tech and How to be an Angel Investor
Geek squad for the common good. What should President Obama's tech policy look like? The Yankee group released a paper yesterday with some suggesti... Read story
The Secrets of Super-Productive CEOs
Timothy Ferriss, the author of The 4-Hour Workweek, discusses on how to work less but achieve more. Read story
How to Win Government Contracts and Help with Layoffs
How to get your bailout. Okay, so it's not the blank check you may have been hoping for, but the government is expected to spend vast sums of money... Read story
The Key to Good SEO, and Some Good News (Maybe)
How to fix your Google results . Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin writes about her efforts to take control of her Google results. Angwin is... Read story
How to Save Money, and Avoiding Survivor's Guilt
After the layoff. A Time Magazine article reports on the dangers of ... Read story
A Dark Day, MySpace Dirt, and a Novel Business Model
75,000 in one day. Monday was a dark day for American workers. U.S. employers Read story
Kevin Rose is Huge in Turkey
Here's what readers of our (brand new!) Turkish edition saw when they opened the magazine last month.
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What is a Real Business?
There have been some pretty strong reactions to this mo... Read story
How to Save Money, Where to Get Money
IPO woes. Om Malik weighs in on what he thinks is a crisis in startup finance: the Read story
Apologies, Steve Jobs's Illness, and Cutbacks at Google
The wrong way to apologize . Signal vs. Noise has an entertaining breakdown of that trite way of saying sorry—"We apologize for any inconvenie... Read story
Apple's Steve Jobs Sicker than Previously Thought
Just days after disclosing a "nutritional problem" that would be "relatively simple ... Read story
Entrepreneurship is Not an Attendance Award
This month's cover story, which just went live yesterday, is about Markus Frind, a wildly successful and wildly unconventional Internet entrepreneur (Read story
Coping with Layoffs, Facebook, and Minimalist Management
How to cope with a layoff? Start a business, of course! The Read story
Obama, Steve Jobs, and Hiring in a Tough Economy
Is Obama more business-friendly than Bush? The economic stimulus plan proposed by President-elect Barack Obama offers more immediate tax cuts than ... Read story
And the Money Comes Rolling In
Markus Frind works one hour a day and brings in $10 million a year. How does he do it? He keeps things simple. Read story
The Ultimate Business Tune-up for Times Like These
In a tough economy with credit extremely tight, big investments are not an option for most companies. Yet no business can afford to stand still. We asked our... Read story
A Danish scam, deflation, and letdown at Macworld
High-flying Danish firm exposed as a sham. The Wall Street Journal has a Read story
Scare tactics, phantom laptops, and Andy Grove's plans for Intel
Fear Factor . Fortune polls presci... Read story
The New Bebo, Yahoo Layoffs, and Bailouts
$850 Million later, AOL has a plan for Bebo. Nine months after agreeing to pay nearly a billion dollars for Bebo, which is the third most... Read story
Is Sam Zell an Entreprenuer?
Or is he just an investor? Maybe that's a silly question to ask, but I think it gets to the heart of what's happening at the Tribune Company. The ... Read story
Hot: Virtual goods, Egypt; Not: The Economy
A roundup of today's entrepreneurial headlines: Only the beginning . Stocks may be responding well to the news of a possible Read story
The Davos Gang Makes Us Look Smart
The World Economic Forum—the non-profit best known for it's annual star-studded gathering in Davos, Switzerland—just named the winners of it's... Read story
What Happened to Pownce?
Yesterday, the blogging company Six Apart announced that it had acquired the micro-blogging site Pownce. Pownce will Read story
What's Your Company Worth? Ask an Algorithm.
A start-up called YouNoodle is developing an algorithm that, it claims, can precisely calculate the value of a business. Read story
Credit Crunch Hits Tesla Motors
In case you hadn't heard, it's really, really hard to run a car company in late 2008. That's true for the Big Three, of course, but it's also the ... Read story
Is Twitter the New Fireside Chat?
For all the things that Barack Obama did well in this campaign, perhaps the most impressive was his use of social media technologies. There was the Obama ... Read story
Improving Your Sense of Site
Your web analytics report is filled with clues on how to boost sales. Read story
Kevin Rose of Digg: The Most Famous Man on the Internet
Digg founder Kevin Rose is having so much fun, you could almost miss the fact that he's setting himself up to be an Internet-age media mogul. Read story
Digg Reax
This month's cover story—and this fun video—is being chewed over around the web. I've posted some reactions below, but first, if you haven't s... Read story
Inc. on Twitter!
This was a long time coming, considering that we first wrote about Twitter back ... Read story
Meet the Bill Gates of Ghana
Brash, ambitious, and optimistic, Herman Chinery-Hesse has already accomplished what many considered impossible--building a thriving tech business in his nat... Read story
The 2008 Inc. 500 Investor's Guide
Four venture capitalists peruse the list of fastest-growing companies and tell us what looks good. Read story
A Conversation with Tesla CEO Elon Musk
The founder of Tesla and SpaceX speaks with Inc. senior writer Max Chafkin at the 2008 Inc. 5000 conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Watch video
Elon Musk Makes Orbit
Last night, SpaceX, a private rocket company based in Southern California, propelled a mass of aluminum to a speed of nearly 12,000 miles per hour, far ab... Read story