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How It All Began

Leslie Brokaw, a founding editor of Inc. Online, recalls Inc.com's early go-go years.  Read more

News Corp. Hacks Company, Then Buys It

Former Inc. 500 company alleges that News Corp. tried to destroy it after its refusal to sell itself to the media giant.  Read more

Dyslexia Fosters Entrepreneurs?

More than a third of business owners may be dyslexic. But most reveal the reading disorder is a gift that aided their success.  Read more

Report: Social Media Worth the Time

Small businesses and the self-employed are most likely to close new business deals and find partnerships thanks to their efforts on Facebook, Twitter, et al.  Read more

BREAKING: Facebook Poaches Google's Creative Director

Ji Lee, one of Google's creative directors of Google Creative Lab, announced he will leave Google to become Facebook's new creative director.  Read more

Could You Survive Without Mobile Apps?

A third of small businesses say they couldn't get by without mobile apps. (Eleven percent say they use them only because they're "cool.")  Read more

Simplifying Cross-Platform Digital Book Publishing

University of Northern Iowa junior Nick Cash wanted digital computer science books. So he developed a user-friendly self-publishing system that distributes a...  Read more

AOL Buys Huffington Post

Arianna Huffington's news site reportedly fetched $315 million.  Read more

How to Know if Your Product Is Infomercial-Worthy

Sure, they can be cheesy. But they can also make you rich. Does your product have what it takes to make it in the world of direct-response TV?  Read more

A WikiLeaks Wake-Up Call

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 Michael Arrington Explained Selling TechCrunch

Telling employees why you sold your business is never easy. But TechCrunch's founder managed to do it with admirable authenticity.  Read more

Zuckerberg on "The Social Network"

At Startup School , Jessica Livingston asked Mark Zuckerberg what the Social Network got wrong. It ...  Read more

The Way I Work: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch

Michael Arrington loves breaking tech stories, but he’s not big on PR people, conversational niceties, or sunlight.  Read more

Building a Fortune on a Grudge

David Fincher's sensational film looks at a company whose founders have already had the kind of falling out that used to take friends in business a couple of...  Read more

The Key to the Facebook Movie

Paul Graham's classic essay on why nerds are not popular may help explain the improbable rise of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.  Read more

Tim O'Reilly, Founder of O'Reilly Media 

Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly media and the cover story of Inc.'s May 2010 issue, answers viewer questions about business innovation.  Watch video

The Oracle of Silicon Valley

Tim O'Reilly is Silicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of O'Reilly Media, a steadily growing $100 million company. His life is a vivid demonst...  Read more

How to Make Money on Foursquare

This new social broadcast application can help your business promote deals, get the attention of savvy early adopters of technology, or simply to increase fo...  Read more

The Great Leaders Series: David Sarnoff of NBC and RCA

Rather than fearing the disruption caused by new technology, David Sarnoff embraced it, building a broadcast empire first in radio and then in TV.  Read more

The Way I Work: Kathy Ireland

Former supermodel Kathy Ireland founded a little company to make products for “busy moms” like herself. Now, with revenue of $1.4 billion, she’s busier...  Read more

How I Did It: Stan Lee of Marvel Comics

The creator of Spider-Man, the Hulk, and the X-Men talks about how he has stayed creative for more than 60 years.  Read more

How We Did It: Amy Robinson and Eric Steel, producers of Julie & Julia

Movie producers, like entrepreneurs, need a strong stomach for risk. It can take years of planning, pitching, negotiating, coaxing, hoping, and praying to...  Read more

The Oprah Effect

After scoring a coveted spot on The Oprah Winfrey Show , these Inc. 500|5000 companies saw their sales skyrocket.  Read more

Arianna Huffington and Om Malick Share Their Tips on How to Blog

Arianna and Om go a bloggin'. Farhad Manjoo at Slate talks to half a dozen of his favorite bloggers and borrows the best tips from HuffPo...  Read more

The End of Valleywag

Several media outlets, including The Times , reported this morning...  Read more

Kevin Rose of Digg: The Most Famous Man on the Internet

Digg founder Kevin Rose is having so much fun, you could almost miss the fact that he's setting himself up to be an Internet-age media mogul.  Read more

Anything Could Happen

Evan Williams's first little idea shifted the culture. (You can thank him for the ubiquity of blogging.) His new business, called Twitter, will be entering y...  Read more

Richard Thalheimer on Selling Through Infomercials

Infomercials 101 from the man who brought you massage chairs and white-noise machines.  Read more

How We Did It: Suzanne Somers and Alan Hamel, Co-owners, Somers Licensing Cos.

Millions of women love and trust Suzanne Somers. That, as Somers and her husband, Alan Hamel, realized long ago, is the definition of a market niche, one the...  Read more

Geraldine Laybourne on Work and Family

I'm always impressed by business schools' women-in-business conferences. They must be among the most well-organized functions on the planet. How B-school ...  Read more

How I Did It: Steve Sabol, President, NFL Films

With his very first documentary, in 1965, Steve Sabol of NFL Films became the designated mythmaker of pro football. Now the company is a $50 million family o...  Read more

The Mouth Will Rise Again

Fresh from losing several billion dollars and his job at AOL Time Warner, Ted Turner returns to his entrepreneurial roots: "Leave your gun at the cash regist...  Read more

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