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Recent Start-up Articles

Your Business is Not Your Baby

It's an investment--yours and perhaps others'. When you start thinking that way, you'll have made a crucial shift.  Read more

5 Tips for Rocking Your PR Around the Holidays

While your competitors are slowing down for the holiday season, here's why to ramp up your public relations--and five pro strategies for doing so.  Read more

You Don't Understand Your To-Do List

Ever wonder why you feel the need to make a to-do list and then just lose or ignore it? Psychologists have an answer that can help you be more productive.  Read more

7 Easily Avoidable Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Fail

You have no excuse not to see these potential hurdles coming--so don't let them trip you up.  Read more

How to Take a Guilt-Free Holiday Break

Stressed about balancing holiday festivities and your responsibilities as a business-owner? Here are tips to beat your anxiety.  Read more

Start-up Sending Newtown Messages of Hope

Evergram specializes in creating lasting albums of multimedia messages--usually for weddings or birthdays. Then tragedy hit Sandy Hook Elementary. Here's how...  Read more

Why Dublin's Tech Scene Is Booming

Following in the footsteps of Google and Facebook, tech start-ups from around the world are now flocking to Dublin.  Read more

Non-Technical Founder? 3 Ways to Be Useful

Can't code? A fellow non-technical founder lays out ways you can add value in the very early days of your start-up.  Read more

The Way I Work: Trina Turk

When it comes to designing her $60 million clothing line, Trina Turk follows her gut. But when it comes to business, she has learned to be methodical.  Read more

Create the Spark That Will Ignite Your Start-up

You can't launch a successful business on just an idea. Discovering your strategic asset is the key.  Read more

Stop Avoiding Tough Conversations: 3 Ways

Conflict may feel uncomfortable, but it's also costly to avoid. Putting off a tough conversation? Consider these strategies to get back on track.  Read more

The Introvert Entrepreneur's Holiday Survival Guide

The party-mania this time of year can be difficult for introverts. Here's how to make the most of the networking opportunities while keeping your sanity intact.  Read more

2013 Outlook: 7 Bold Prediction From the World's Top VCs

Venture capitalists at SoftRock, CrossLink Capital, NEA, Bain, and DCM give Inc. their predictions for the coming year. Here's what you need to know.  Read more

3 Rules to Work By: Slava Rubin

The co-founder and CEO of Indiegogo, Slava Rubin, believes every single employee plays a role in the hiring process. Here's his philosophy of talent scouting.  Read more

How Not To Get Duped by a Consultant

We learned the hard way how not to hire a digital marketing agency. What you can gain from our mistakes.  Read more

Why Didn't Fred Wilson (& Other VCs) Invest in 2012?

A handful of prominent tech VCs didn't make any early-stage start-up investments in 2012. Is it time for founders to worry?  Read more

The Right Way to Hire 'Adult Supervision'

This venture capitalist advises founders on how to approach hiring "old people"--a.k.a. experienced executives--for their start-ups.  Read more

Fix Your Customer Service

As ModCloth grew as a company, its customer service suffered. Here's how the retro clothing online retailer calmed the chaos with a couple of tech tools.  Read more

$100M VC Fund Aims To Plug Gaps in Start-up Investing

A veteran venture capitalist strikes out on his own to launch a $100 million Series A fund.  Read more

The $100 Million Funding Secret

A serial entrepreneur who has raised $100 million in his lifetime explains exactly how he did it.  Read more

ZocDoc's Cyrus Massoumi: 'I Was Not Exuding Huge Amounts of Confidence' 

On one day Cyrus Massoumi went door-to-door hawking ZocDoc, the doctor-appointment scheduling site, security guards kicked him out.  Watch video

5 Essential Skills of an Entrepreneur

A new analysis claims to pinpoint the essential qualities that make you an entrepreneur.  Read more

3 Ways To Keep Your Best Customers

You've got three ways to keep your best customers on board. Here's how to manage each.  Read more

How We Started Small & Raised Money

Start-up NatureBox just raised $2 million in seed financing. Here's their story.  Read more

Calculate the Costs of the Fiscal Cliff

These free online tools will help you quickly estimate your tax bill if we head over the cliff. Get started now.  Read more