"Innovation and Leadership"
Last night, I attended the Ten Awards in New York City, which were organized by the Executive Council of New York to recognize the achievements of local b... Read story
Mike Hofman
Halloween at Work
A good friend of mine sent this heartrending e-mail today: "Apropos of nothing - everyone in my office was supposed to dress up today in '70s wear... Read story
Expensing Options 101
Hot off the presses, here's the report from the accounting gods (by which I mean the P... Read story
An Unusual Jobs Plan
Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell is one of the most popular politicians in America, with the sixth best net job approval rating for any sitting governor... Read story
A Smoker's Airline?
A variety of newspapers and news services reported this weekend that a German entrepreneur plans to launch an airline that caters exclusively to smokers. ... Read story
Rating the Governors
The latest issue of Inc. magazine assesses the 26 governors up for re-election on how entrepreneur-friendly their policies are, on matters ranging from ta... Read story
Rating the Governors
With Arnold Schwarzenegger and 25 other governors up for reelection, we look at who among them has earned the entrepreneurial vote. Read story
September's Business for Sale
Last month, we brought back a re-tooled version of a classic Inc. column, Business for Sale. In the second installment of the revived column, Elaine Grant... Read story
Banning Trans Fat
The New York Times reports that "The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously yesterday to move forward with plans to prohibit the city's 20,000 re... Read story
A Great Company Stumbles
Is the HP Way obsolete? That's the question the LA Times asks in in today's paper, wondering in print if the HP board scandal signals the obliteration of ... Read story
An IPO Comeback?
A pair of entrepreneurial tech firms took a crack at the IPO market yesterday--and found it to their liking. "Riverbed Technology Inc. broke though what h... Read story
Genius in Our Midst
The MacArthur Foundation announced yesterday the list of its 2006 fellows, who are sometimes referred to as the recipients of "genius" grants. As has been... Read story
Those New Airport Rules
The Associated Press published an interesting article today about how businesses are adapting to the new airport rules that ban liquid and gel substances.... Read story
AOL's Leonsis Steps Down
I noted with interest the news today that Ted Leonsis is stepping away from his operating role at AOL to pursue other projects. Leonsis isn't your typical... Read story
D.C.'s Next Mayor?
Among last evening's election results, the most interesting from the perspective of the small business community may be the victory of Adrian M. Fenty in ... Read story
Apple's Big News
By now you've probably already heard about Apple's big day of announcements. Here's ... Read story
Some Surprising Starbucks Lovers
The AP just published an article on one of the great paradoxes of business today, which is that Seattle continues to be a mecca of small coffee houses eve... Read story
Inner City 100 Call for Entries
Each year since 1999, Inc. magazine has worked with the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a Boston-based non profit, to identify the fastest... Read story
Tips on Effective Incentives
The summer issue of SalesForceXP magazine has a series of items on how to create a salesforce incentive program that works. A three-item check list of do'... Read story
Snowe Supports Net Neutrality
The LA Times published an article today on how Maine Senator Olympia Snowe has become a pivotal advocate for net neutrality. Calling her "an unli... Read story
Finders, Weepers
Texas tackles a thorny issue. Read story
"Business for Sale" is Back!
Throughout Inc.'s history, many elements of the editorial mix have proven popular, from Hands On, our smart and timely how-to section, to Norm Brodsky's ... Read story
Entrepreneurs in Latin America
The AP has an article out today on how foreign entrepreneurs are starting a rash of new businesses in Argentina. Here's one example from the story: <... Read story
Inc. 500, Inner City 100 Firm Acquired
Pac-Van , an Indianapolis company that sells mobile office units like trailers, was acquired on August 4 for an undisc... Read story
A New Lending Option
The LA Times has an interesting article today on... Read story
Can Arbitration Save IPOs?
In an op-ed article in today's Washington Post, a New York City attorney named Joseph W. Bartlett asserts that the number of companies going public on for... Read story
Q&A: The Enron Juror
A look at the convictions of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling--and the underpinnings of the whole Enron scandal--through the eyes of an entrepreneur on the jury. Read story
When Defense Contractors Are Too Big to Be Small...
The standards used to judge whether a firm is small enough to qualify for federal set-aside contracts are becoming a source of tension between the Depart... Read story
IRS to Ax Estate-Tax Cops
This is a few days old, but worth noting. The New York Times reported on Sunday ... Read story
Another Blown Whistle, Another Blown Warning
The Boston Globe reports today that a safety ... Read story
Summer Blackouts Hit Small Biz
The AP has a short ... Read story
Oil Hits $76 a Barrel
The AP is reporting that "Wall Street suffered sharp losses for a second straight session Thursday as a new record for oil prices and discouraging analyst... Read story
Bill Gates' Swan Song
Bill Gates announced this afternoon that he intends to relinquish day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft starting in 2008. (Here is the Read story
The 2006 Webbys
I touched Prince last night. That's basically the headline for the 10th annual Webbys, which I attended along with several colleagues. Prince, who was on ... Read story
Outsourcing Ouch!
San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Lazurus has an article in the paper today about how Bank of America predicates severance for workers whose jobs ar... Read story
No English? No Service
"An English-only ordering policy has thrust one of Philadelphia's best-known cheesesteak joints into the national immigration debate," the Associated Pres... Read story
Ikea's Appeal
Something in Forbes' recent ranking of the world's richest billionaires truly shocked me. There at number four is Ingvar Kamprad, the 79-year-old Swede wh... Read story
Can This Man Turn Around the SBA?
Never heard of Steve Preston? Few had, until he was nominated to run the Small Business Administration. Read story
When the New Guy Blogs...
The New York Times has inter... Read story
Dell Goes Retail
PC maker Dell is going to open retail stores in malls in Dallas and a New York City suburb as an experiment, The New Yo... Read story