What to Discuss Before Conceiving a Start-up
Is there a start-up in your family's future? Here's the conversation you need to have, pronto. Read story
BALANCING ACTS 
Two Spouses, Two Companies
Two-business households are the worst--except when they are they best. Read story
Living With Doubt (& Doubters)
Are we there yet? Are we there yet? It's tough to stay confident when your spouse loses faith in your business. Read story
When Family Takes a Back Seat to Your Employees
For the entrepreneur's spouse, it can be hard not to see employees as rivals. Read story
When the Breadwinner Gets Crusty
Troubles arise when the spouse's paycheck supports a family and a business. Read story
Gary Hirshberg Finally Gets His Say
He's the frequent subject of Meg's Column. Now, the founder of Stonyfield Farm gets to speak up about what he's learned from being his wife's favorite recurr... Read story
The Family Sabbatical
Extended breaks are wonderful things, unless the spouse and kids have other plans. Read story
Stonyfield Founder: I'm Not Retiring!
Gary Hirshberg talks to his wife, Inc. columnist Meg Cadoux Hirshberg, about his recent decision to step down as CEO of Stonyfield Yogurt. Read story
The Small Joys of Family Business
Entrepreneurship, for all its challenges, can bestow on families unexpected benefits beyond the obvious financial ones. Read story
How Much About the Business Should You Share With Your Spouse?
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg examines the limit on what your spouse should know about the company’s problems. Read story
When the Business Fails
It’s a fact: More companies fail than succeed. So when that happens, can the marriage survive? Read story
Why Entrepreneurs Should Take Sick Days
Business owners strive to control their lives and fortunes—and then illness strikes, and everything falls apart. Read story
When Family Businesses Bungle Succession Planning
Handing off a business to the next generation is the realization of a dream—or a complete nightmare. Read story
The Romance of Good Deeds
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg explains why building a business with a strong social mission can also be great for your marriage. Read story
Why So Many Entrepreneurs Get Divorced
Why the start of a company so often spells the end of a marriage Read story
My Husband's Next Business
The four words an entrepreneur’s spouse dreads hearing: “I have an idea.” Read story
To Love, Honor, and Report To
Working in your spouse's company may be the toughest job you will ever have. Read story
Is it OK to Leave Your Spouse at Home?
What to do when the work-obsessed spouse wants to play--without you. Read story
Minding the Kids
For better or worse, your children are deeply involved in your business. Stop feeling guilty about it, and start inviting your kids into your work life. Read story
Bed and Boardroom
There's nothing like a home-based business for increasing family stress. Read story
10 Tips for a Happy Marriage
Business owners who want to keep their spouses happy would do well to live by these simple rules. Read story
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Thanksgiving dinner or meeting of the board? When your family members are investors in your business, the lines get blurry. Read story
If Not Now, When?
For entrepreneurs, there's never a right time to buy a house, start a family, have a life. While you are building a business, work-life balance inevitably su... Read story
Living with a BlackBerry Addict
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg writes about how her husband, Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg, never lets his BlackBerry leave his side. Read story
Balancing Marriage and Business
When your marriage is hitched to a business, life is one long test of allegiance Read story
Hitched to Someone Else's Dream
The people who run fast-growing companies are driven by optimism and a passion for what they do. And the people married to them? The author remembers worryin... Read story
