Max Chafkin


Woot Acquired by Amazon.com

Best. Announcement. Ever : Several months ago, when we were...  Read story

Send in the Regulators?

Well this is lame: Hun...  Read story

Foursquare Checks in for $20 Million

Foursquare, like Twitter before it, is increasingly looking like one of those dumb little ideas that might just be brilliant. The New York City start-up, ...  Read story

Tesla Fills the Coffers

That controversial IPO this morning? Yeah, it went really well. Tesla Motors, the firs...  Read story

Tesla Motors Goes Public

In about an hour, Elon Musk will ring the NASDAQ bell in Times Square to celebrate a historic IPO. His company, Read story

Is Your Company in Trouble?

15 signs that your business is floundering. There's no surefire way to determine whether or not your business will be successful, but there are cer...  Read story

Be Your Own Boss

How to be your own boss. Fred Wilson offers  10 diff...  Read story

The World Cup Bump

The big business behind the World Cup . Today marks the first day of the 2010 World Cup and soccer fans aren't the only ones who are excited. Here i...  Read story

Elon Musk Blasts Off

A big test for Elon Musk and SpaceX . Sometime today, SpaceX, the privately held rocket company started by Elon Musk, will Read story

How to Raise a Bill Gates

The father of the Microsoft founder offers advice on bringing up a rebellious, headstrong entrepreneur like his son.  Read story

Are Entrepreneurs Unlucky?

So the Kauffman Foundation says that ...  Read story

When Incubators Go Wrong

How an incubator helped doom a start-up. Valleywag has the disheartening story...  Read story

What's Better than a Tea Party?

Starting a company! Over the years, we at Inc. have periodically asked entrepreneurs to propose solutions to the society's big...  Read story

Twitter Cracks Down

Twitter to prohibit paid tweets from third-party start-ups . Less than an hour after Bill Gross launched his Twitter-focused advertising start-up Read story

Tim O'Reilly: In Defense of Facebook

During a chat with Inc. readers earlier today, Tim O'Reilly argued that the recent brouhaha ...  Read story

A New Way to Get Paid

Square hits the iPhone . Square , the start-up that lets small companies accept credit card payme...  Read story

What Makes a Great Founder?

Obsession with your product . That's Brad Feld's explanation for what makes a Read story

The Oracle of Silicon Valley

Tim O'Reilly is Silicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of O'Reilly Media, a steadily growing $100 million company. His life is a vivid demonst...  Read story

Lessons from Google's Eric Schmidt

Learning from Google's IPO. In the six years since Google's went public, its stock price has gone from $85 to $581, and it has become one of the mo...  Read story

How to Make Your Pitch

The key to a successful elevator pitch . It's not about all the details; Read story

Obama Takes Space Travel Private

NASA goes entrepreneurial . Yesterday, President Obama urged private companies to take over the job of transporting humans into space, a move that w...  Read story

Twitter Shows Off Revenue Plans

Twitter unveils advertising platform. That long-awaited Twitter revenue model that we've been telling you about? It's finally here. Co-founder Biz ...  Read story

The App Market Grows

A big weekend for the iPad. Roughly 300,000 people bought iPads on Saturday, the day Apple put its new gadget on sale. That's more than the first g...  Read story

When to Go Unvirtual

Reluctantly turning telecommuters back into office workers  Read story

The Best Collaboration Tools

Five free tools to keep a virtual company humming  Read story

No Office, No Problem

Where the Inc. staff worked in an officeless month, and what we learned  Read story

How to Manage Virtual Employees

Kevin Hale of Wufoo fame on developing a system for tracking performance  Read story

How a Virtual Company Communicates

The technology and techniques that make telecommuting work  Read story

Technology for the Virtual CEO

Five must-have products for telecommuting  Read story

Why My Company Is Virtual

Starting a company without ever opening an office  Read story

Telecommuting by the Numbers

What the U.S. could save if more people worked from home  Read story

The Case, and the Plan, for the Virtual Company

How smart entrepreneurs are finding money and happiness in an office-free life  Read story

The Latest on the iPad

Are you paying yourself enough? When you're the boss, figuring out the right amount to pay yourself can be tricky. There are tax implicat...  Read story

Tips on Managing a Virtual Workforce

When there's no corner office, no conference room, and little face-time with employees, running a business can be tricky. Four smart CEOs share strategies fo...  View slideshow

5 Must-Have Products for the Virtual CEO

Most virtual employees can do their jobs with a laptop, some free software programs, an Internet connection, and not a whole lot else.  View slideshow

How Apple Got Its Name

Obamacare is the law . It's official: After decades of debate, a universal health care reform package was Read story

How Banks Make Business Loans

Banks look beyond credit scores. Before the recession, business credit scores were often the biggest factor in determi...  Read story

Hunch Raises $12 Million

Small business revival thwarted. A year and a half after the financial crisis hit, credit is still tight for many small companies. A fron...  Read story

Google Opens An App Store

Happy Birthday Craigslist . The schlubby classified ad site, which managed to blow up the newspaper business by behaving decidedly unbusinesslike, w...  Read story

Sales Tips for Start-Ups

How to sharpen your sales pitch . Focus! That's the advice of Jason Cohen, who blogs at A ...  Read story