Need a Startup Idea? 6 Gadgets to Invent Now
Inc. tech reviewer John Brandon sees the good, the bad, and the ugly gadgets of the world. But here are six things he'd really like to see. Read more
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How a 14-Year-Old Kid Shot This Start-up into Stardom
One junior high schooler and his mobile game totally changed the fate of this app development platform. Read more
Bloomberg: We Want Your Start-up's Taxes
New York City's mayor laughed it up at TechStars Demo Day, claiming the Bloomberg TV show resembles the Jersey Shore and that start-ups should grow ... Read more
How Tasty Catering Became an Illinois Incubator
On the verge of losing the business, CEO Tom Walter looked to young employees to turn his business around, and then helped them fund their own. Read more
Behold the Future of TV
In 24 hours, 80 developers needed to create the most innovative video prototypes possible. Here's a look at the hackathon's clear winners. Read more
Demo Day's Coolest Ideas
Here's a brief recap of a few of the more creative start-ups (and hair styles) from 500 Startups's Demo Day at General Assembly. Read more
How to Tap Employee Ideas
Encouraging your employees' creativity can not only create an engaging work environment, but create new business. Seven experts share their tips on getting e... Read more
5 Rules of Success From Brooklyn's DIY Masters
Experts on makeshift innovation held court at the first DIY Business Association Conference in Brooklyn. They share their unconventional wisdom with Inc.com. Read more
Inspiring Future Generations to Innovate
So much for trade secrets. Limor Fried has based a business around the idea that everyone can do it themselves. Read more
Behind the Quiet Success of the Video Game Industry
The video game industry is quietly putting up revenue numbers that rival the movie and music industries. Author Harold Goldberg shares what other industries ... Read more
The Man Behind Quirky
Ben Kaufman's website harnesses open innovation to let users develop new products. Read more
10 Takeaways From TED 2011
Being wrong is as essential to life as being right, the rise of the "filter bubble," and other ideas from the annual ideas summit that are worth repeating. Read more
Finding the Next Big Thing at SXSW
SXSW Interactive served as the launching point for Twitter and Foursquare. Here are three intriguing start-ups vying to make their mark in Austin this year. Read more
Collaborative Creation and Crowdsourcing in the Music Industry
Composer and conductor Eric Whitacre leads a virtual choir at TED, showing just how collaborative creation and crowdsourcing or radically altering the way pe... Read more
When Hackers Become Makers
How the practice of hacking is going mainstream and creating good. Read more
Banking on the Bacon
Bacon has proven to be a viable hedge against the recession -- its frenzied popularity has migrated from the Internet into the products of innovative entrepr... Read more
Review: MacroWikinomics
Authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams highlight organizations that are embracing Wikinomics. Read more
6 Cool Crowdsourcing Business Tools
The founders of Crowdflower and Samasource explain how to leverage the power of distributing large amounts of simple work through the cloud. View slideshow
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
Using Crowdsourcing to Control Inventory
ModCloth's Be the Buyer program lets customers tell the company exactly what they want. Read more
The Future of Manufacturing
A New Zealand company called Ponoko has reinvented the factory for the 21st century. Read more
Crowdsourcing and One Exec's Case for Regulating Google
Start-up helps keep your, and Tom Brady's, private info private. After Sept. 11, the government launched a personal data-gathering campaign, unders... Read more
10 Questions for Jake Nickell and Jeffrey Kalmikoff
What's your favorite part of a typical day? Nickell: I'm not going to say. Kalmikoff: He wants to say going home and hangin... Read more
The Customer is the Company
Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month -- with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retail distribution. And it's neve... Read more
Leisure Pursuits [Audio]
Vacations – a time to relax, try new things, visit new places. And that makes them a perfect marketing opportunity. Senior writer Stephanie Clifford... Watch video
Ideas For Sale
Is the world ready for an eBay of ideas? Read more
