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3 Things That Could Kill Facebook

Facebook's success as a public company is anything but guaranteed.  Read more

Instagram-Shminstagram: How do I sell my brick and mortar products over the internet?

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By the Numbers: Instagram's Growth, Funding, and Biggest Fans

Chart alert! With revenue flat, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger managed to raise three rounds of funding and amass 30 million users. Here's how.  Read more

How Instagram Grew From Foursquare Knock-Off to $1 Billion Photo Empire

How do you make a billion dollars in two years? Here's a narrative look through the brief, hectic, (and lucky), 14 months of Kevin Systrom's life growing Ins...  Read more

Who's The Next Hot Deal?

After Facebook's acquisition of Instagram, it's natural to wonder who's next. Hint: The next deal -- not necessarily this one -- is the one to watch.  Read more

The Team Facebook Bought for $1 Billion

Facebook acquired some indisputable talent with Instagram. Will they use it?  View slideshow

There's No Way Instagram Is Worth $1 Billion

The start-up may have pulled down a billion-dollar payday, but that doesn't mean it was worth it.  Read more

3 Simple Reasons Instagram Is Worth $1 Billion to Facebook

There's plenty of reasons Facebook would want to buy the photo-sharing app. But the most important of them boil down to one thing: User experience.  Read more

Facebook-Instagram Deal: How Google Should Respond

Google needs to do something bold now that Facebook has a killer photo app. Here's one suggestion.  Read more

How to Build the Next Instagram

To make sure your mobile app is a hit, you must focus on these three aspects of user experience.  Read more

Facebook & Instagram: Why You Should Care

What does the $1 billion acquisition have to do with you? A look at the dangers of hitching your company to one particular platform.  Read more

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Founders of Instagram

Two Stanford fellows built a pared-down photo app into a $1 billion idea. Here's the original story on Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger's early struggles.  Read more

Deal of the Year: Facebook Buys Instagram

The scrappy San Francisco-based photo-sharing app company just raised a $50 million round, but now it's been acquired for $1 billion.  Read more

Sheryl Sandberg Leaves Work at 5:30. Why Can't You?

Facebook's COO comes out as a proud believer in leaving the office on time, and creating balance in your life.  Read more

Facebook vs. Twitter: Old-School Business Models Still Rule

A new Gawker report shows Twitter lagging far behind Facebook in revenue. If the numbers are accurate, they show big trouble.  Read more

Facebook Unveils New Marketing Tactics For Brands

In a charm offensive to woo advertisers before its IPO, Facebook pitched brands new features to guarantee they reach fans' timelines and profile pages.  Read more

Yelp Prices its IPO: 12 Things You Need to Know

Yelp, the user-generated review site based in San Francisco, priced shares of its IPO between $12 and $14, and seeks to raise nearly $100 million in its upco...  Read more

Hack Days: Not Just for Facebookers

As part of Facebook's IPO filing, founder Mark Zuckerberg praised the concept of the "hackathon." Could something similar benefit your company, even if you'r...  Read more

21 Gems of Facebook's S-1 That Will Boggle Your Mind

Private jets? $200 million paintings? Zuckerberg's salary? Here are few things the financial analysts won't be talking about this morning.  Read more

Inside Facebook's S-1: What Investors Are Saying

We dug into the IPO filing. Is Facebook really worth $100 billion? What does it mean for capital markets? Is the social network just managing expectations?  Read more

Groupon CEO: We Made a 'Bush-League Mistake'

Andrew Mason dishes on both the company's big financial goof & its successful email strategy.  Read more

Entrepreneurs that Got Filthy Rich in 2011

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only entrepreneur good at making bank. Here’s a look at the 9 entrepreneurs and (and one investor) that got filthy, stupid, abs...  View slideshow

3 Reasons Not to File an IPO

An IPO is no panacea: In some cases going public may even stifle the growth of your company. Find out why.  Read more

The Crazy, Mixed-up IPO Market

More companies have filed for an initial public offering, but have not yet gone public this year than in more than a decade.  Read more

Jive Software Moves Ahead With IPO

The social networking software company--a perennial on the Inc. 5000--is seeking to raise as much as $117 million.  Read more

The Anomolous IPO: Angie's List

The first Inc. 500 company to go public since August exceeded its IPO expectations, despite that it doesn't look much like other companies going public this ...  Read more

Mark Zuckerberg's Original Plans for Facebook

In a 2005 interview, the then 21-year-old founder is focused only on created a cool college directory.  Read more

What You Can Learn From Groupon's IPO Missteps

It's been a rocky road to going public for Groupon, which has faced scrutiny from investors, analysts, and the SEC leading up to its October 24 IPO road show.  Read more

Thinking of Going Public?

The market may love LinkedIn and Pandora, but chances are, it feels very differently about you.  Read more

Inc.com Daily | Entrepreneur News

Groupon's IPO, new uses for the iPad, the "peak" age for entrepreneurs and what else you need to know today.  Read more

Groupon Files for IPO

The discount-of-the-day site filed its papers today to become a publicly traded company.  Read more

Join the IPO Party

Nearly 200 companies are getting ready to go public—the most since 2000. Plus, why VC's aren't funding B2B start-ups, and the rest of today's news.  Read more

Zipcar Fires Up Its IPO

Don't just rent from Zipcar. Own it. The car-sharing service is now on the Nasdaq with hot new IPO.  Read more

No IPO Plan for Twitter

Biz Stone deflects rumors of a deal with J.P. Morgan, a bleak outlook for small-business lending and the rest of the day's news.  Read more

Pandora Joins the IPO Parade

The web radio company files for a public offering, and reports revenue of $55.2 million in its most recent fiscal year.  Read more