Good News for Growth Companies
While most business pundits are delighted by the fact that the economy bested expectations and grew at 3.9 percent in the third quarter, I think that ther... Read story
Mike Hofman
Banning the Billable Hour
Entrepreneurs have long complained about legal fees. Now an entrepreneurial law firm in Boston is attempting to change the way lawyers charge for business... Read story
The Idea That Saved My Company
Embattled hotelier Chip Conley found inspiration from an unlikely source: psychologist Abraham Maslow. Read story
T&E or Tuition?
The travel manager at a Bay Area technology company allegedly charged $90,000 in personal expenses to a corporate credit card, the San Francisco Chronicle... Read story
Entrepreneurs Nab Two Genius Grants
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named its 2007 fellows today—a group that is popularly known as the recipients of "genius grants."... Read story
Ken Burns' Work Space
Filmmaker Ken Burns' "The War" debuted last night on PBS. The seven-part series takes a look at World War II through the eyes of the residents of four Ame... Read story
Friends and Family? Try Facebook
On Monday, Facebook announced plans to invest as much as $10 million (in chunks of up to $250,000) in companies that are developing novel Facebook-related... Read story
Warner's Senate Bid
Mark Warner, the wireless entrepreneur who served as Virginia's governor, announced today in a web video that he intends to run for the U.S. Senate seat b... Read story
America's Hottest Market?
Two super-smart CEOs—Jack Stack of SRC Holdings and Howard Dahl of Amity Technology—told me at the Inc. 500 conference in Chicago last week th... Read story
Remembering Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick, the visionary and outspoken co-founder of The Body Shop International, died Monday in Chichester, West Sussex, in England, of a brain hemor... Read story
Deep Thoughts From Inc. 500 CEOs
I've been working on a project pulling together quotes from Inc. 500 CEOs past and present, and here are a few that have caught my eye: "If you th... Read story
Inc. 500: A Former No. 1 Acquired
Gateway, the Inc. 500 alum known for its utilitarian computers, groundbreaking direct sales model, and Holstein-spotted boxes, has agreed to be acquired b... Read story
Gobs of Great Companies
Today's a big day: we have officially unveiled the 26th annual Inc. 500 and the first-ever expanded rankings, the Inc. 5,000. (To check out Inc.com's cove... Read story
Proof You Can't Kill a Good Idea?
One of the great failed entrepreneurial ventures of the last 30 years—the DeLorean—is poised to make a comeback. So reports the Associated Pre... Read story
Are You A Bad Boss?
If you're one of those bosses who believes that to spare the rod is to spoil the bottom line, beware: "Lawmakers across the country are considering legisl... Read story
Africa's New Entrepreneurial Hubs
The west African nation of Ghana is quickly becoming a hub of global business in a region long known for its economic, political, and social challenges. A... Read story
France's Entrepreneurial Renaissance
Under new leadership, France, the nation that coined the term 'entrepreneur,' may be headed for an entrepreneurial revival—if proposed tax cuts and ... Read story
A History of the Internet in 7 Minutes
Ethan Zuckerman of the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School recently introduced a panel discussion with a concise history of the development of the Intern... Read story
Steamed Customers
StubHub , a ticket brokerage that ranked eighth on last year's Inc. 500, was affected by Read story
Ready To Call It Quits?
Ryan Madison is thinking about closing his vending machine business in Waterloo, Iowa. "I've got a family to support," Madison told the Waterloo-Cedar Fal... Read story
Whole Foods's Half-Baked CEO
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." So proclaimed a famous New Yorker cartoon featuring a golden retriever surfing the net. The 2007 version of ... Read story
Building a Better Workshop
One of the four startups profiled in Inc.'s July cover story is TechShop. The concept is simple: it's basically a business that applies the time-share mod... Read story
NetSuite To Go Public
NetSuite, the California-based Inc. 500 software company, is filing the paperwork to go public, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The company, whi... Read story
Case Study #2: The Inventor's Best Friend
The Start-up: TechShop The Founder: Jim Newton Menlo Park, California The business proposition: A chai... Read story
Can You Eat IP?
Can a recipe for a lobster roll or a Caesar salad be protected intellectual property? The answer's yes, at least if you ask Rebecca Charles. As the New Yo... Read story
Ralph Stayer Dies
Ralph F. "RF" Stayer, a founder of Johnsonville Sausage, died in Naples, Florida, on Monday, according to news reports. The business, which is now run by ... Read story
Start-up Star Search, Part 1
A clever idea. A passionate founder. A little bit of well-timed luck. What makes for a great start-up? The July cover story of Inc. raises that questions ... Read story
If the Shoe Fits...
The name Florsheim is synonymous with shoes, but for many years, the Florsheim family ran a rival footwear company. Four years ago, as the New York Times ... Read story
Father's Day Reading
With Father's Day fast approaching, I thought I'd browse the archives and suggest you re-read some of Inc.'s greatest hits, all of which turn on the role ... Read story
Is Dues-Paying Important?
Do you expect your workers to pay their proverbial dues before taking on responsibility—or enjoying perks—at your business? "Today's e... Read story
Paris Hilton Goes to Jail
Confounding the paparrazzi who hoped to get a picture of America's most celebrated jail bird, Paris Hilton surrendered to prison officials on Sunday eveni... Read story
Legal Lemons, PR Lemonade
To fight a lawsuit brought by a giant rival, Tom Szaky of TerraCycle is doing what he loves--going on the offensive. Read story
Inc. 500 CEO drops Senate bid
Gary Hirshberg the CEO of Stonyfield Farm has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate next year, the Boston Globe ... Read story
Immigration's New Rules
Senators ranging from Democrat Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts to Republican Saxby Chambliss of Georgia announced today that they had reached a deal on compr... Read story
"Grey's" Profitability?
At the upfronts today, ABC announced that one of its 11 new series will be about a CEO peer group of sorts. 'Big Shots" will star Dylan McDermott, Christo... Read story
"Running Stuff"
Many entrepreneurs prefer big-picture thinking to managing a million little details. But David Neeleman, the recently deposed CEO of JetBlue, takes the ca... Read story
How Good Are Your Interns?
Do you put as much effort into hiring first-rate interns as you do managers and other staffers? Maybe you should. That's the argument Joel Spolsky makes i... Read story
CEOs Tackle Education
Two of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs are joining forces to raise the alarm about what they say is the country's deteriorating education system... Read story
Going Global, Part 21: VCs Head to China
That giant sucking sound you hear is $360 million in U.S. venture capital heading to China. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the storied Silicon Valley v... Read story
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Loyal readers, we have a favor to ask: Mediabistro, which is a website for and about the magazine industry, is conducting a poll that asks, which is the b... Read story
