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5 Ways to Survive the Worst Days

One day you're on top, the next you couldn't feel lower. Entrepreneurs share their tips for getting through dark days.  Read more

What’s Wrong with Performance Targets?

Let's start with a kibosh on smart thinking, internal collaboration, and external relationship-building.  Read more

Leverage Big Data in Your Small Business: 5 Tips

Giant corporations use data analysis to fine-tune their marketing. So can you.  Read more

Are Your Prices Too Complicated?

Maybe customers don't care exactly how much you're charging--they just want to know why.  Read more

4 Steps to Innovate the P&G Way

Don't have the $2 billion R&D budget of P&G? Not to worry. CTO Bruce Brown says any company can master this process.  Read more

Get Your Inbox to Zero: 5 Tricks

Experiencing palpitations when you open your email? It doesn't have to be that way. Here's how to get back in control.  Read more

Want to Build a Business to Last? Here’s the Secret

Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook all know the strategy. Here's how you can make it work for your business.  Read more

Become an Entrepreneur--No Idea Required

You get a salary, equity, mentors, and more. An inside look at how a San Francisco 'foundry' plans to build the next killer start-up.  Read more

Change Any Habit Painlessly: 6 Tips

Almost everything you currently do... you can do even better. Here's how.  Read more

When Old IP Comes Back From the Dead

Deceased rapper Tupac Shakur came back to the stage via hologram. What does that have to do with your IP strategy? Plenty.  Read more

How to Land That All-Important First Customer

No track record? No problem. Here's how one fledgling start-up signed up 40 Fortune 500 companies as customers.  Read more

How to Create an Extra Hour in Your Day

Don't think it's possible? Try these 10 tools to give yourself a productivity boost.  Read more

Box: Can It Stop a Goliath Named Google?

If the rumors are true, Google will launch a cloud service that aims squarely at Box. Does the start-up have what it takes to survive?  Read more

Is Your Business Going Through Puberty?

You know those awkward growing pains? They happen to companies, too. Prepare for the inevitable changes with these tips.  Read more

Friday Fail: Strangest Company Policies

Tired of success stories? Every Friday on Inc.com we bring you epic tales of failure and shame. This week: senseless workplace policies.  Read more

What the Jobs Act Means for Indiegogo, Crowdfunding & You 

Slava Rubin, co-founder of Indiegogo, a website where anyone can raise money, talks about the impact recent crowdfunding legislation will have on his firm an...  Watch video

3 Cloud Services That Make Work Easier

Protect yourself against data loss, security blunders, and--that real productivity killer--inefficiency.  Read more

How to Become Digitally Literate Today

Entrepreneurs are divided into digital natives and digital immigrants. If you don't go native in a hurry, you will be left behind.  Read more

5 Things Great Mentors Do

Your employees can achieve greater things with your help than they can alone--if you give them a chance.  Read more

7 Signs You’re Not Entrepreneur Material

Finally ready to take the plunge? Don't--if any of these signs look familiar.  Read more

The Secret to Keeping Your Company Alive

Clayton Christensen and Hal Gregersen, co-authors of The Innovator's DNA , on what makes the most innovative companies in the world tick.  Read more

When It's Better Not to Listen to Customers

Customers often have their own ideas about how to build your products. That doesn't mean you should listen to them.  Read more

Save a Struggling Business: 8 Tips

Starting a company from scratch has its appeal, but fixing a broken company can be more profitable... and satisfying.  Read more

The Worst Kind of Question You Can Ask

Stop sucking all the creativity out of the room. When you want ideas and feedback, don't ask for them like this.  Read more

12 Ways to Attack Any Challenge

Stuck in a rut? Need to accomplish the impossible? Step right up. Here's how to get started.  Read more

4 Perks Employees Love

Happy employees are productive employees. Use these perks to retain the people you want without breaking the budget.  Read more

How to Make Smarter Decisions on the Fly

A better process to think through your choices when the stakes are high.  Read more

7 Ways to Screw Up a New Employee

Want that new hire to get off to a great start? Forget about following these nuggets of conventional wisdom.  Read more

Friday Fail: Worst Fireable Offenses

Tired of success stories? Every Friday on Inc.com we bring you epic tales of failure and shame. This week: Getting sacked.  Read more

5 Things Remarkable Bosses Never Do

What you don't do can sometimes make a bigger impact than what you do.  Read more

How Not to Crash & Burn in Business

Running a business is like flying a plane: Lots of decisions to make and zero time to analyze them. Improve your gut instincts with these tips.  Read more

6 Ways Successful People Stand Out

Substance trumps style in the long run. Here's how to make the kind of impression that lasts.  Read more

Power of the Quiet Entrepreneur

Why you don't have to be loud to be a great leader.  Read more

8 Reasons to Fire Your Personal Assistant

Need a cheaper way to manage your topsy-turvy schedule? These apps and services will do the trick.  Read more

Legacy: Norman Edmund, 1916-2012

Norman Edmund started an army salvage business out of his New Jersey home, and became publisher of the famous Edmund Scientific catalog.  Read more