Reporter Nitasha Tiku covers technology, finance, green business, and social entrepreneurship for Inc. magazine and contributes to the staff’s daily links blog. Her work has appeared in New York magazine, The Villager, Chelsea Now, and on nymag.com. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. @nitashatiku


The Way I Work: Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione

The founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery shares a typical work day -- answering e-mails, having laid-back meetings, and of course, sharing a few beers  Read story


How Google Cost Me $4 Million

Being penalized by Google made Ryan Abood’s company stronger.  Read story

Hometown Heroes: Big Companies in Small Towns

Inc. 500 companies can show up just about anywhere. Here are eight big fish living in some pretty small ponds.  Read story

25 Tech Companies You Want To Work For

The perks of being a techie. Business Insider compiled a list of Read story

Mark Cuban: Check-Ins Are "So 2010"

That's so this year. What's that? Silly Bandz? Twilight? As Read story

David Graff, John Wirtz, and Brian Kaiser, Founders of Agile Sports

The Broncos, the Browns, and the Jets all use Agile Sports's software to help players memorize offensive and defensive schemes.  Watch video

Naveen Selvadurai, Co-Founder of Foursquare

What will the New York City-based geolocation start-up do with the $20 million in venture capital it raised recently?  Watch video

The Boy Who Cried Boycott

Okay, what are we boycotting this time? "Remember when we were all supposed to quit Facebook?," asks TechCrunch blogger Read story

Forget Outsourcing, Try Rural Sourcing

Google makes a deal China, but at what cost? After months of tension, Google ...  Read story

The Problem With Paid Search

Ad visionary ducks out . He built the hippest ad agency in the country, and now Alex Bogusky is resigning from MDC Partners. If advertising had cele...  Read story

The Return of the IPO

Investors are betting on high-growth start-ups.  Read story

Summer Fun!

If it weren't for them, much of what we love and take for granted as simple summer pleasures might never have existed. Here's to all companies that make the ...  Read story

Attention Armchair App Developers

Hey, armchair app schemers. There's plenty of help for bringing your idea to iPhone screens everywhere, the Los Angeles Times Read story

An Upside to The Vuvuzela?

10 ways to boost productivity. What do Japanese author Haruki Murakami and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey have in common? They can teach you a thing o...  Read story

In Defense of a College Education

Do entrepreneurs need a college education? Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake may have Read story

The Third Apple Founder

Wozniak, Jobs, . . . and Wayne? The Mercury News heads to the Nevada desert and catches up with Ron Wayne, "Read story

On-Air Endorsements

The radio pitch makes a comeback.  Read story

When to Say: "You're Fired"

The Future of Wikipedia, according to Jimmy Wales . Silicon Alley Insider interviews Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on how to spend nothing on conten...  Read story

Con Artists Target SBA Loan Seekers

Scammers and the SBA. Surinder Multani shepherded businesses like gas stations and convenience stores through the SBA loan process by putting toget...  Read story

Flame Wars: Valleywag vs. Steve Jobs

Dear Steve . . . By now, emailing Steve Jobs might be its own Internet meme. But Valleywag blogger Ryan Tate took Jobs' recent bout of responsiven...  Read story

Unmasking Mark Zuckerberg

The Early Word on the Facebook Book? "Solid Gold." On TechCrunch , Michae...  Read story

Is a Start-up Like a Rock Band?

Rock Band vs. Tech Startup Riffing off the new cult of celebrity around company founders (hi, Mark Zuckerberg and Evan Williams!), Read story

Say Goodbye to the Cash Register

Square and several other new apps make it easy for companies like clothing boutique Self Edge to use mobile credit card processing services.  Read story

Four Mobile Credit Card Processing Services

Applications such as Square and GoPayment let you take payments with your phone.  Read story

Facebook's News Feed Formula

The grassroots movement behind the Startup Visa Act. Without the help of lobbyists or PACs or piles of money, the Read story

The Top 10 Out-of-Office Replies

Gawker media spoils for a fight . Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has always seemed to enjoy his role as journalism's bete noir. Most recently, Den...  Read story

Why Men Get VC Money and Women Don't

The golden rules of venture financing are changing. peHUB directed our attention to ...  Read story

The Man Who Changed The Way We Drink Beer

A craft beer pioneer. On the eve of the Boston Beer Co.'s 25th anniversary, the Boston Globe has an interesting profile of Jim Koch, the company's ...  Read story

Ron Conway: The Man, The Legend, The Network

Ron Conway: the hardest working man in Silicon Valley. In a fascinating post, with an epigraph by hip-hop artist the Game, Ben Horowitz, co-founder...  Read story

Kelly Cutrone's Advice for PR Success

Kelly Cutrone, star of Bravo's Kell on Earth and founder of People's Revolution, talked to Inc.com about training the Gen Y workforce, learning the power of ...  Read story

Yikes, There's a Yelp for People

The Case for the Virtual Office. If you've been following our blog ...  Read story

An Argument Against the Start-up Visa

Are babies naming start-ups? One writer over at Gi...  Read story

Fake Steve Jobs Gets a Sitcom Deal

Tips from Inc.'s GrowCo Conference. Following up a day that included presentations by Read story

How Much Money Should You Raise?

The appetizer approach to raising funds. Mark Suster proposes the Read story

Offline Celebrities Launch Online Start-ups

Hey internet entrepreneurs, celebrities are encroaching on your market. Thanks to flexible technology and an abundance of developers, web start-up...  Read story

Reinventing Our Energy Infrastructure

Take a look at 10 companies reinventing America's energy infrastructure. Changing the way we use energy is going to require more than just new ways...  Read story

Taking on Big Accounts

Smart business strategies for diversifying your customer relationships  Read story

The Top 25 Angel Investors

Ranking the top angel investors. A couple years ago, we told you about a start-up called YouNoodle that claimed it came up with an algorithm that c...  Read story

Accounting for Start-ups

How to do start-up accounting . "Using large company financial tools to measure start-up progress is like giving the SAT to a first grader...  Read story

What Makes Start-ups Burn Through Cash?

The Next Big Thing: Niche Media for Rich Kids. With the news that Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer plans to launch a London outpost of his popular ne...  Read story

Teens In Tech: They're Here; Get Used to It

You have nothing to fear from the youth of America. Google held it's annual Teens In Tech conference yesterday in San Francisco and more than 150 p...  Read story