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How Would You Market Art for Rent?
Four entrepreneurs offer Artsicle their marketing ideas and help the start-up craft a following. Read more
The Founder of Zipcar Retools in France
Robin Chase recently launched a new car-sharing service in France, called Buzzcar. Read more
9 Innovations for the Great Outdoors
Gone fishing? We've scoped out the niftiest new inventions for making the company picnic—or just camping out with friends—simple, tidy, and enjoyable. View slideshow
Renaat Ver Eecke Interview: Customer Research Leads to Success
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Navman Wireless’s Vice President,... Read more
How to Speed Up Your Prototyping Process
Engineers who get too hung up on perfecting a prototype often lose sight of the bigger picture and waste precious development time. Here are a few ways you c... 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
Lessons from Argentina: Tax Holidays
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TruTags Stymie Drug Counterfeiters
An innovative micro-tag made nano-porous silica makes it nearly impossible for counterfeiters to duplicate when placed on the surface of pharmaceutical pills. Read more
How to Market a Brand New Product
What the Snuggie, the Roomba, and other innovative products can teach you about turning an unknown name and product into a consumer success. Read more
How to Get Unstuck
Learn these simple steps to allow the answers to your problems to come to you rather than you chasing them. Read more
How to License In Intellectual Property
When your company needs to use a process, concept, tool—or really anything that's protected by a patent, copyright, or trademark—here's how to license it... Read more
7 Steps to a Culture of Innovation
Hyper-growth companies often credit a culture of innovation as their primary driver of success. They deploy creative thinking to attack problems big and smal... Read more
Adrian Slywotzky Interview: How Netflix Found Its Trigger
Adrian Slywotzky has written noteworthy business bo... Read more
4 Tips for Protecting Your Trademark
A trademark can be just as valuable as a large client, so it's of utmost importance that businesses find competent means for protection. Here are four tips f... Read more
How 5 Unheard of Products Rocked the Market
Roomba. Vapur. Oona. These products share more than peculiar names. Each is an innovation that used effective marketing strategies to turn a brand new produc... View slideshow
Adrian Slywotzky Interview: Having a Magnetic Offer
A graduate from Harvard's Law and Business schools, Adrian Slywotzk... Read more
A Country Without Credit
The Financial Times follows Inc.'s Argentina st... Read more
IPO Craziness, Pandora Edition
It's nice when good things happen to good companies. After a more than decade of struggling to turn its streaming music service into a viable business (fo... Read more
The Case Against "Sexy" Innovation
What the world needs isn't more ideas—it's better, more innovative systems for executing them, says author and ChangeLabs founder Peter Sheahan. Read more
Howard Greenstein, Inc.com Blogger and Social Media Strategist 
He is the President of Harbrooke Group, which helps companies communicate to customers with the latest Web technologies. Watch video
6 Cool Tools for DIY Prototyping
A new wave of DIY engineers is transforming innovation into something that can be done at the kitchen table. Thank the maker movement for the technology that... View slideshow
Inc.com Daily | Entrepreneur News
How patents can hurt innovation, Google launches Offers, Greek islands for sale, Airbnb's soaring valuation, and more. Read more
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Fake Prada bags, a Twitter acquisition, a new college app, and more. Read more
Coping With Fear, Frustration, and Euphoria
Entrepreneurs need people to bounce ideas off of. They need people who are going through the same daily cycles of fear, frustration and euphoria they are. Read more
Innovation: Silicon-Based LED Chips
Bridgelux says it has developed a cheaper way to produce LED bulbs. Read more
Chris Burch's Latest Cool Company
The fashion mogul is now bringing style to office supplies. Read more
Big Idea: A Journal That Turns Inside Out
While developing a book about the space-time continuum, Ellen Dudley was inspired to create an innovative book binding technique. Read more
Seriously, You Need a Vacation
Entrepreneurs can be reluctant to pull away from work. But slogging it out through the summer may not be good for your health—or your business. Read more
Former MySpace Exec Starting Facebook Competitor
A social network with more privacy controls, Mark Zuckerberg's latest passion, a new ranking of top VC firms, and the rest of the day's entrepreneur news. Read more
10 Steps From Idea to Business
A cheat sheet to turn your vision for a successful new business into a reality Read more
LinkedIn Soars
This is a what investors call a pop . Lin... Read more
10 Steps to Greener Packaging
Thinking of going green? Switching to eco-packaging can be tricky. These steps will make the process a little smoother. View slideshow
Jack Plunkett Interview: What Small Businesses Should Know
This article is the final installment of a two-part series. Read part one Read more
From Metal Factory to Architectural Innovator
How one man built his family's small manufacturing plant into the go-to metalworking studio for the world's premier architectural projects. View slideshow
