Remembering Jeff Timmons, Top Entrepreneurial Thinker
Jeff Timmons, a trailblazing professor of entrepreneurship and a longtime member of the faculty at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, died on Apr... Read story
Mike Hofman
How to Get on Oprah
Writing on the blog Marketing Sherpa, a publicist named Susan Harrow of Harrow Communications in Oakland offers readers a list of do's and don'ts for gett... Read story
Taking Forced Scarcity to the Extreme
"Forced scarcity" is one of those business strategies that seems easier said than done. Book publishers are thus encouraged to sell limited editions and w... Read story
New Brands, Old Familiar Ads
Some PhotoShop geeks at a small Long Island company called Worth1000 are running an online contest that... Read story
A Patch for the H-1B Visa System?
The H-1B visa debate is heating up once again, as the government began accepting new visa applications covering the 2009 fiscal year on April 1. The H-1B ... Read story
"Fear and Doubt" in the Valley
How will the demise of Bear Stearns and the concomitant credit crunch affect the financing options of entrepreneurial growth companies? "[A] cash drought ... Read story
Title Creep: the Chief Revenue Officer
Why a job title left over from the dot-com days is suddenly ubiquitous. Read story
Updates
From Tinkerer to Franchiser Since being featured in our start-up issue ("Read story
Neighbor's Recruiting Stunt Targets Yahoo
Employers have long turned to troubled companies to recruit talented employees. But they don't always bring their charm offensive to a venue as intimate a... Read story
To Help Business, First Help the Banks
Congress has put together a stimulus package that would provide rebates to taxpayers and allow businesses to write-off more expenses. That's all fine and ... Read story
Being Al Gore
Entrepreneurs offer advice to the veep-cum-venture capitalist. Read story
How Much Would You Pay to Interview Me?
Entrepreneurs are fond of saying that, in the war for talent, they'll do anything to attract the very best job seekers. A new website suggests a fairly si... Read story
Affordable Luxury, R.I.P.?
"It was a retail juggernaut that swept through America's shopping malls and bedroom closets, rewriting the rules of class and consumption. But affordable ... Read story
An All-American Brand Goes Public on the Dutch Exchange
Tommy Hilfiger, the purveyor of preppy apparel that won a loyal following among hip hop artists and their fans in the 1990s, is set to go public. The comp... Read story
What is Zagat's Worth?
Zagat's, the publishing company whose ubiquitous maroon books rate everything from barbecue joints to posh golf courses, is for sale, the New York Times r... Read story
Do Company Bloggers Deserve Hazard Pay?
"Some Brand-Name Bloggers Say Stress of Posting Is a Hazard to Their Health." So headlines the Read story
Is a Bad Boss Good for the Bottom Line?
Earlier today, I was interviewed by Stuart Varney on Fox Business News, about a column Leigh Buchanan wrote that listed seven signs that your employees ha... Read story
Is a Bad Boss Good for the Bottom Line?
Earlier today, I was interviewed by Stuart Varney on Fox Business News, about a column Leigh Buchanan wrote that listed seven signs that your employees ha... Read story
Why Entrepreneurs Shouldn't Be Allowed to Drive
Okay, I'm kidding. Nobody deserves that BMW 5 series more than you. Honest. But two news items today suggests that perhaps you are unwittingly the cause o... Read story
Breaking Through
How companies just like yours mushroomed into powerhouses in their industries. A conversation with Keith R. McFarland. Read story
All Hail Crisco
If you or someone in your family baked a pie or cake using Crisco this holiday season, you were using a product that has been a staple of the American kit... Read story
A Smarter Segway?
Some students at MIT have developed a fold-up scooter for use primarily in cities in Asia, where car traffic is reaching staggering levels. According to a... Read story
An Entrepreneurial King... and Kingmaker
The latest issue of Inc. features reporter Ryan McCarthy's round-up of the notable entrepreneurs who have died this year. The Read story
Am I Reading This Right?
A new survey of 139 American entrepreneurs found that 35 percent identify themselves as dyslexic, according to the New York Times. The research was compil... Read story
Exit Strategist of the Year
Mary and Gary West are probably the richest American couple you've never heard of--and they did it the new-fashioned way. They took their... Read story
Notables '07
More great people, ideas, and businesses... Read story
CEOs Give Thanks
At the risk of being corny, I asked some entrepreneurs I know what they were thankful for this year. Dan Hoffman, the CEO of M5 Networks, a compa... Read story
Obama Speaks at Google
Various presidential candidates have been making the pilgrimage to Mountain View to speak at the offices of Google. It's good PR, not to mention access t... Read story
The Best Packaging is None At All
Lush is one of the hottest retailers in London, a hip cosmetics company with an environmentally friendly repuation. So how does a company with that kind o... Read story
The Best Packaging is None At All
Lush is one of the hottest retailers in London, a hip cosmetics company with an environmentally friendly repuation. So how does a company with that kind o... Read story
Building a Better Baby Bottle
Jennifer Morrill's father was constantly inventing things, from a wind generator to a baby bottle. That last product seemed to have legs, so he set up a c... Read story
Building a Better Baby Bottle
Jennifer Morrill's father was constantly inventing things, from a wind generator to a baby bottle. That last product seemed to have legs, so he set up a c... Read story
Managing Those Pesky Millennials
The 80 million millennial workers born between 1980 and 1995 are now streaming into the workplace, and they are hellbent on rewriting the rules of America... Read story
Bullying Bosses Beware
Are you a screamer? Demanding when it comes to your assistants? Well, you may want to reconsider the old Read story
The Modern Dilemma: "Who Owns What?"
At first blush, the concept of a writer's strike strikes me as, well, funny—pencils of the world unite! And I happen to be a writer. I imagine for m... Read story
The Modern Dilemma: "Who Owns What?"
At first blush, the concept of a writer's strike strikes me as, well, funny—pencils of the world unite! And I happen to be a writer. I imagine for m... Read story
Office Munchausen Syndrome
Years ago, a co-worker and I used to joke about a boss who constantly swooped in to "get everyone back on schedule." We felt that the manager's efforts, w... Read story
Office Munchausen Syndrome
Years ago, a co-worker and I used to joke about a boss who constantly swooped in to "get everyone back on schedule." We felt that the manager's efforts, w... Read story
Superpoking Bill Gates
Ten questions we'd like to ask Microsoft's founder about his company's play for Facebook. Read story
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
