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What Sheryl Sandberg's New Book Means for Women Entrepreneurs

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wants to start a revolution for women in the workplace. Inc. editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan explores the implications for women ...  Read more

5 Indicators of Future Business Success

Measuring performance by looking at the P&L is like driving by looking in the rearview mirror. Here's a better way to predict performance.  Read more

4 Reasons You'll Fail at Entrepreneurship

If you're starting your own business for these four reasons don't do it.  Read more

Bobbi Brown: Always Keep Your Eyes Open

Before she built a beauty empire, Bobbi Brown gleaned business instincts from her Cadillac-selling grandfather.  Read more

Your Start-up Needs Some Structure

As your company grows you need to think less like an entrepreneur and more like a CEO.  Read more

7 Ways to Save More Money Now

A growing business has expenses. Use these steps to cut costs and ramp up your profits in 2013.  Read more

The True Test of a Business

Do you want to build a business or a job? Many entrepreneurs don't understand the difference.  Read more

8 Tips for Hiring and Managing Interns

Sure, it's nice to help a college kid, but interns can also help your business. Think about it.  Read more

Business in Trouble? Tell Your Customers

When this café ran into financial trouble, the owners did the only thing they could: They asked customers for help--and help they did.  Read more

Legal Counsel Even a Small Business Can Afford

Rocket Lawyer founder Charley Moore is determined to democratize the legal landscape, even if it means going to court.  Read more

A Few Times a Year We Get the Call, 'The White House Needs Cookies' 

Chef Allyson Ames, co-founder of Wonderland Bakery, describes how her cookies became President Obama's favorite--and were ordered for both the 2009 and 2013 ...  Watch video

Photos Are Social Media Gold

Here are five ways to use images to grow your follower base on social media.  Read more

3 Reasons to Treat Employees Like Family

Applying some basic family principles to your employees can go a long way to improving loyalty and retention--especially during tough times.  Read more

Gilt Groupe's Kevin Ryan: What Works, And Doesn't Work, in Flash Sales

The online retail pioneer explains why he stepped down as Gilt CEO, and offers his predictions for the fate of the much-hyped industry.  Read more

Founders: Do These 3 Things First

Sure, it's easy to get overwhelmed. But here are three things all entrepreneurs need to do right out of the gate.  Read more

Five Highly Personal Questions for Gary Vaynerchuk 

The wine and social media entrepreneur faces up to questions that other entrepreneurs would duck.  Watch video

Inside the Mind of the World's Most Competitive Entrepreneur 

The wine and social media entrepreneur psycho-analyzes his own ferocious drive to excel.  Watch video

How to Create a "Legendary Story" for Your Company 

The wine and social media entrepreneur describes how personal branding worked for him and his companies.  Watch video

The Best Industries for Starting a Disruptive Business 

The wine and social media entrepreneur on where he would most like to be starting a business today.  Watch video

Are You Ready for the Spotlight?

When a big time event comes to town, small businesses should be ready to attract more customers.  Read more

Youngstown, Ohio: Shrugging Off Its Rust Belt Reputation

Paul Cusson, chairman and founder of Inc. 5000 company Northern States Metals, says Youngstown, Ohio is poised to change manufacturing forever.  Read more

3 Tips for a Healthy Hiring Process

Hiring people who are not the right fit for your company is akin to catching a cold. Here's how to limit the extent of the illness to the rest of the company.  Read more

An Acquisition Without the Acrimony?

Lots of acquisitions lead to redundancies, lay-offs, and ultimately unhappy marriages. But they don't have to be that way.  Read more

Maker's Mark and the Price of Being Too Popular

Unable to keep up with demand, the hot bourbon distillery plans to stretch supply by watering down its product. Risky move.  Read more

Why I Enjoy Working for My Company's Acquirer

Most CEO's of acquired companies stick around less than a year, but Honest Tea's Seth Goldman explains why he's staying put at Coca-Cola.  Read more

Finally Get a Handle on Work-Life Balance

Sure, you can get your own life relatively balanced--but what about managing an entire start-up full of workaholics?  Read more

How to Work When You Feel Like Crap

It's well into the cold and flu season. If you get sick and can't take a sick day, here's how to push through and get the job done.  Read more

Why Failure is the New Black, and How To Wear it

Just because failure has become fashionable doesn't mean it's easy to deal with. These 4 tips will get you going again.  Read more

The Most Fascinating (and Depressing) Deal of the Day

"Groupon clone" is perhaps the biggest Silicon Valley meme of the decade. News of a company merger illuminates why you should avoid getting anywhere near the...  Read more

Astronaut Mark Kelly: 'Even Though It's Fun, It's a Continuous Crisis' 

When space shuttle commander Mark Kelly led flights into space, he did not delegate. Here he describes his hands-on approach.  Watch video

Suppliers: How to Get a Bigger Piece of the Pie

With more companies seeking to diversify their supplier base, the opportunity is there to increase your share of the business. Here's how.  Read more

Dear China: Stop Stealing My Intellectual Property, Or Else

Competitors in emerging markets can't be allowed the advantage of pirated technology.  Read more

Got Funding? 7 Things to Do Now

It's too easy to lose focus after reaching this all-important milestone. Stay the course postfunding with these tips.  Read more

A Better Way To Do a Deal

Before they even start to negotiate, entrepreneurs and investors often start off on the wrong track. How to better understand the person across the table.  Read more

How LinkedIn Is Beating Facebook

By every meaningful metric, LinkedIn is kicking Facebook's butt.  Read more