Innovation


Recent Innovation Articles

Don't Fear the Apps

By Max Chafkin |  Aug 17, 2010

Wired is worried. The magazine has published two long essays that proclaim the ...  Read more


Shaking America By Storm

By Christine Lagorio |  Aug 16, 2010

The man who invented the Shake Weight talks about bringing a successful product to market, sexual innuendo, and Michelle Obama's arms.  Read more


Why CEOs Should Be More Social

By Curt Finch |  Aug 13, 2010

George Colony of Forrester Research believes that CEOs should should consider blogging, tweeting and otherwise putting a human face on their company brand th...  Read more


Is Outsourcing Dead?

By Max Chafkin |  Aug 12, 2010

Each day,  Inc.'s  reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today:<...  Read more


How to Bring Your Concept to Market

By Carolyn M. Brown |  Aug 12, 2010

Once you know your customers intimately—who they are and what they want—you are ready to roll out your great new product or service.  Read more


Technology Slavery

By Curt Finch |  Aug 10, 2010

Are we giving up our very freedom for the latest, greatest tools? Read more


Demand Media's Curious IPO

By Max Chafkin |  Aug 9, 2010

Turns out Demand Media is not profitable, according to the company's IPO filing. In fact, the red-hot media start-up lost $22 million last year on $114 milli...  Read more


User Experience, Not Content, is King

By Curt Finch |  Aug 6, 2010

A new article at Mashable/Social Media declares that though...  Read more


Social CRM versus Real Customer Service

By Curt Finch |  Aug 4, 2010

Gartner analyst Michael ...  Read more


How to Use Sampling and Demos for Customer Feedback

By Issie Lapowsky |  Aug 4, 2010

Sometimes, the best way to fuel your company's growth is to give your product away for free.  Read more


The Start-Up Life

By Max Chafkin |  Aug 3, 2010

Conventional wisdom says that working at a start-up wreaks havoc on one's personal life, but that's not always the case. Alexis Ohanian, the co-fo...  Read more


Robots in the Office?

By Max Chafkin |  Jul 30, 2010

CNN checks in with Trevor Blackwell, the founder of Anybots, a company that is attempting to help CEOs micromanage, even when they're nowhere near the off...  Read more


What's a Real Company?

By Max Chafkin |  Jul 30, 2010

At Y Combinator's AngelConf yesterday, Michael Arrington bemoaned the proliferation of, as he called t...  Read more


6 Cool Crowdsourcing Business Tools

Jul 29, 2010

The founders of Crowdflower and Samasource explain how to leverage the power of distributing large amounts of simple work through the cloud.  View slideshow


Is Intellectual Ventures Foundering?

By Max Chafkin |  Jul 28, 2010

I really enjoyed this  profile<...  Read more


Congress Considers Federal Tax Credit for Angels

By Courtney Rubin |  Jul 27, 2010

Angel investors would get a 25 percent credit for backing a business that's already qualified for a federal research and development grant program for small ...  Read more


The 48 Hours Rule

By Leigh Buchanan |  Jul 27, 2010

Want more employee ideas? Keep your "Approved" and "Rejected" stamps poised.  Read more


Jailbreak this Phone

By Max Chafkin |  Jul 26, 2010

The U.S. Copyright Office says that jailbreaking one's iPhone--that is, hacking into the operating system to add software applications not authorized by A...  Read more


The Next Big Ideas: Cool Products from the Coolest Young Entrepreneurs

Jul 21, 2010

The entrepreneurs featured on Inc.com's 30 Under 30 list this year have brought to market a variety of products.  View slideshow


A Strong Sense of Community

By Donna Fenn

Many of the young entrepreneurs who appear on Inc.com's 2010 30 Under 30 list embody their generational fascination with all things social.  Read more


Sean Whalen, Founder of AlterG

By Donna Fenn |  Jul 19, 2010

AlterG founder Sean Whalen brought to market an anti-gravity treadmill used by top athletes. Now he's going after the medical market.  Watch video


Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Founders of Venmo

By Donna Fenn |  Jul 19, 2010

Square has drawn a lot of buzz to the mobile-payments business. Venmo's founders hope to draw on that as they build their company.  Watch video


Tim O'Shaughnessy and Eddie Frederick, Founders of LivingSocial

By Donna Fenn |  Jul 19, 2010

With the acquisition of a little company called Buy a Friend a Drink, the online-bargain site LivingSocial came together in its present form.  Watch video


Garry Tan and Sachin Agarwal, Founders of Posterous

By Tamara Schweitzer |  Jul 19, 2010

Posterous takes all the fuss out of posting content online.  Watch video


Sarah Prevette, Founder of Sprouter

By Matt Quinn |  Jul 19, 2010

Sarah Prevette has created a service that entrepreneurs can use to socialize, share tips, and ask questions in a rapid-fire, short-attention-span fashion.  Watch video