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The Secret to Effective Delegation
No matter how polished your communication skills and competent your team, delegation can end in misunderstanding. The solution: prototyping. Read more
Finding Innovation in One of the World's Oldest Businesses
As consumers search out artisanal products, Tuthilltown Spirits has gone from peddling homemade whiskey from a car trunk to selling 60,000 bottles a year. Read more
Thinking of Starting a Business? Try Your Hand At Artisanal Alcohol or Boutique Beer
Drinkers are clamoring for the cache of small-scale brews and cocktails. Read more
Where Great Start-ups Go Wrong
The reason most new companies fail isn't what you'd think. Take a universal lesson (from a surprising source) to keep yours afloat. Read more
Why Your Side Project Is a Bad Idea
Are you using a side project as a gateway into entrepreneurship? Cut it out, argues one serial start-up founder. Read more
How We Got Funded: Visual Revenue
When bootstrapping didn't cut it, the founders of Visual Revenue went out and raised $2.2 million. Read more
3 Ways to Plow Through a Rough Patch
As your business grows, so do the challenges you face. Three ways to power on through. Read more
Pebble Already Made History. What's Next?
Scrappy wearable computing upstart Pebble is best known for its record-setting fundraising campaign. But can it survive as the big boys move in? Read more
Thinking of Starting a Business? Why Wearable Computing is Red Hot
From watches to glasses, soon we'll all be wearing the Web--and there's lots of money to be made. Read more
Secret to Getting Venture Capitalists to Come After You 
Before Caterina Fake founded Flickr, she struggled to get financing for a game start-up. Here she describes what can really make the difference. Watch video
5 Things You Must Know About Angel Investors
Inc.com contributor Erik Sherman gets a sneak peak at the forthcoming book, What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know . Read more
Take the Money
Just take it. Put it to good use. You won't regret it. Read more
Can Republic Wireless Disrupt the Mobile Market?
An entrepreneur launches a mobile phone company with an amazing offer: unlimited calling, texts, and data for just $19 a month. Read more
The Portable Start-up Hub
New research indicates that if you've built the right knowledge and connections, where you start your business is largely irrelevant. Read more
How to Find a Celebrity Mentor
Need a mentor? Why not reach for the stars? Five strategies to bring your idol into your life. Read more
GPS For Your Health? One Start-up Thinks It's Possible
Can this machine replace man? Wellframe's new app brings artificial intelligence to the doctor's office. Read more
Thinking of Starting a Business? Check Out Consumer Health Technology
New apps and devices are bringing diagnosis and treatment straight to the end consumer. Read more
The Disciplined and the Divine: An Unlikely Partnership
This might be the least likely partnership in business. It's turning a little jewelry maker called Alex and Ani into a very focused--but still very groovy--p... Read more
Not Just Another Vacation: Cruising to Myanmar
How one entrepreneur built a business around tourists' love of offbeat experiences. Read more
Thinking of Starting a Business? Take to the Seas as a Cruise Specialist
Cruising is booming, and tourists need help planning increasingly exotic getaways. Read more
How to Reduce Stress at Your Desk
Inc.'s John Brandon reveals tools for reducing stress without leaving your desk. Read more
No Wait, Don't Have a Beer at the Office
Psychologists may have confirmed that moderate drinking can spur creativity, spurring a rash of in-office drinking, but there may still be reasons beer at wo... Read more
Leading Corporate Users to the Cloud
ShareVault knew that for privacy obsessed financial firms to take to the cloud, its solution better be air-tight. Read more
Thinking of Starting a Business? Lock Down Profits in Virtual Data Rooms
Bringing big companies' critical data to the cloud is big business. Read more
Government Shouldn't Be In the Accelerator Business
TechStars co-founder Brad Feld says the government should leave business accelerators to the private sector. Read more
3 Ways to Eliminate Working-Parent Guilt
Feeling torn between home and work isn't just a problem for mothers, new research says. Here's how to eliminate guilt and be a happier working parent. Read more
Nervous System's Newfangled Alchemy
An architecture school dropout is spinning paper into gold--turning 3-D printed jewelry into sparkling profit. Read more
Thinking of Starting a Business? Print Profits in 3-D Printing
From prosthetic limbs to funky jewelry, the advent of 3-D printing has brought huge opportunities. Read more
Is Your Smart Phone Killing Your Creativity?
Sure, your beloved gadget allows you to work during every spare moment, but is the price of increased productivity dramatically lower creativity? Read more
4 Ways To Make Your Workspace More Productive
Researchers have found some utterly surprising ways to minimize distractions and insert subtle signals to help your staff focus. Read more
Keep Control of Your Start-up Forever
The power that Mark Zuckerberg wields over Facebook has become the stuff of legend. It's also rare to maintain. Here's how to put yourself in the best possib... Read more
Skillshare Takes On the Education Gap
What if anyone could go take to the Web to learn a job-getting new skill, at $20 a pop? Read more
Thinking of Starting a Business? Solve the Skills Gap With Online Education
Skills are in high demand in the new economy workforce. Train tomorrow's workers and uncover a lucrative opportunity. Read more
Tiger's New Nike Ad...Too Soon?
The new Nike ad proclaims "Winning Takes Care of Everything." But does it? Is this ad too much, too soon? Read more
