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Tesla Motors Goes Public

In about an hour, Elon Musk will ring the NASDAQ bell in Times Square to celebrate a historic IPO. His company, Read more

How to Plan a Product-Launch Event

Your product isn't the next iPhone. So what? Throwing a stand-out event can generate tons of buzz anyway.  Read more

Trivial Pursuit Co-Inventor Chris Haney Dies

The high school drop-out exhausted his savings and suffered panic attacks en route to creating what Time magazine dubbed "the biggest phenomenon in game hist...  Read more

How to Build Business Alliances

The basic logic of a strategic alliance is often clear, but managing it can be tough. Here's how to forge partnerships that last.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Time Timer

How a stay-at-home mom invented a top-selling teaching tool.  Read more

Are Facebook's Days Numbered?

The NY Times has reported that four 'nerds' in New York City have d...  Read more

Jake Nickell, Co-Founder of Threadless, on Innovation 

Jake Nickell, co-founder of custom t-shirt printer Threadless, a company that has built a business on crowd-sourced design, answers reader questions about in...  Watch video

Mark Johnson, Co-Founder of Innosight 

Mark Johnson, co-founder of business consultancy Innosight, answers viewer questions about innovation.  Watch video

Twitter Business Center to Launch

Twitter is beta testing what is tentatively being called "Twitter Business Center". No word on when it may actually launch publicly. But, this is somethin...  Read more

The Problem with Digg

Upheaval at Digg . Two years ago, Digg was flying high, with fast-growing web traffic and a fanatica...  Read more

4 Kinetic Energy Start-ups

What if you could recharge your iPhone simply by taking a walk or a ride on your bike? That's the pitch made by the start-ups that are creating new devices t...  View slideshow

Live Chat with Jason Fried, Entrepreneur, on Innovation 

Inc. columnist and entrepreneur, Jason Fried, answers viewers' live questions on innovation, running a successful small business, product development, and more.  Watch video

Could You Market Chocolate Filled With Air?

John Scharffenberger and other entrepreneurs offer advice to Bubble Chocolate.  Read more

The Gamepocalypse

Jesse Schell, game designer and professor at Carnegie Mellon, recently Read more

Changing the Status Quo

It's official.  Today I was elected a board member of the American Beverage Association, which means that either we've changed or the Beverage Establ...  Read more

How to Make Money on the iPad

The debut of the iPad could spawn a huge new marketplace for entrepreneurs to develop tablet-ready products. Want to cash in? Here are some ways to start.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Smashing Ideas

How three cartoon animators built an interactive branding company from their basements that's growing over 50 percent annually.  Read more

New York City Rewards Innovative Apps

How do you get over $4 million worth of innovation for a mere 20 grand? The company behind the NYC Big Apps Competition has the answer.  Read more

Saul Griffith's House of Cool Ideas

Other Lab founder Saul Griffith has made a fortune applying way-out mathematics to inventions large and small, including robotic kites, insulation inspired b...  Read more

Innovation: The Ultimate Travel Accessory

Taking a trip to space? These are the gloves for you  Read more

Using Crowdsourcing to Control Inventory

ModCloth's Be the Buyer program lets customers tell the company exactly what they want.  Read more

McGraw-Hill CEO Lets Slip New Apple Tablet Details

In a CNBC interview on the eve of the hotly anticipated launch, a CEO appears to crack Apple's code of silence. Was it a gaffe or an intentional effort to bu...  Read more

The 5 Weirdest Apple Tablet Rumors

In advance of Apple's big announcement tomorrow, rumors concerning a potential Apple tablet are bouncing around the Internet. Here is a look at five of them.  Read more

The Smartest Products of the Decade

These products revolutionized the way we spend our time -- technologically, culturally, and beyond. A look back at the decade that brought us the iPod, Netfl...  Read more

The Smartest Products of the Decade

These products revolutionized the way we spend our time -- technologically, culturally, and beyond. A look back at the decade that brought us the iPod, Netfl...  View slideshow

The Dumbest Products of the Decade

The 2000s were a decade of great innovation. These products weren't part of it. Remembering Crocs, the Segway, and other comical wares that will keep us laug...  View slideshow

The Great Leaders Series: David Sarnoff of NBC and RCA

Rather than fearing the disruption caused by new technology, David Sarnoff embraced it, building a broadcast empire first in radio and then in TV.  Read more

Virtual Has Become Reality for Phone Apps

A technology once considered science fiction is creating a new market for start-ups.  Read more

Scott Cook of Intuit on Product Innovation

The key, says Intuit's founder, is to get everyone involved  Read more

The Connected Car

The introduction of the Chevy Volt and other electric vehicles will require a vast ecosystem of entrepreneurial businesses.  Read more

Innovation Nation

Is your company as innovative as it can be? Lately, the word "innovation" — like its cohorts "branding" and "value" — seems to be used so much...  Read more

The Future of the Human Body

Ten innovations that will improve quality of life—and bring down health care costs  Read more

The Bootstrapper's Guide to Launching New Products

Discovering the value of lean product development and minimum viable product  Read more

Review: Change by Design

Inc. reviews Change by Design by Tim Brown, a book about innovation in service.  Read more

Innovation: A New Rooftop Wind Turbine

The WindTronics turbine can generate energy at low speeds.  Read more