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How to Make Health Care Reform Work for Your Business

It's official: the Affordable Health Care for America Act has been signed into law. It is going to have ramifications for business owners large and small. We...  Read more

A New Crop of Pot Entrepreneurs

The Big Apple's new tech entrepreneurs. New Yorkers are generally portrayed as being a rather cynical and jaded bunch, but a wave of young Big Appl...  Read more

When Virtual Becomes Feral

Technology plus companies figuring out its cheaper for you to work from home plus laid off workers returning to the workforce as independent contractors w...  Read more

6 Lessons from World Entrepreneurship Day

The future is mobile, at least according to the entrepreneurs who gathered to mark the second annual World Entrepreneurship Day at the United Nations in New ...  Read more

SEO for CEOs

Noah Lehmann-Haupt, CEO of Gotham Dream Cars , and a member of Read more

The Tax Man Cometh

IRS is keeping a close eye on entrepreneurs . With Tax Day looming, a quick warning that entrepreneurs might want to be Read more

April 22: "Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work" Day

April 22 is "Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work" Day. This wonderful program has been expanded over the years to include introducing kids from economica...  Read more

2010: The Year VC's Returned?

The downside of being the "Next Big Thing." There's a lot to learn from businesses like Google or Facebook, but it's probably not a good idea to tr...  Read more

CNBC's Maria Bartiromo at Inc. HQ

On April 8, 2010, CNBC's Maria Bartiromo will be coming to Inc. Magazine's New York headquarters to speak about success and the economy. Presente...  Read more

Can Quark Turn the Corner?

CEO Ray Schiavone's bold new strategy  Read more

Business 101 from Spongebob Squarepants

iPad apps hit the store . The release of the iPad is still one day away, but iPad app developers, anticipating huge demand, are already hawking th...  Read more

How to Keep Tabs on the Competition

These secrets of competitive intelligence could help lessen the impact of competition on your small business.  Read more

Blogger Logic: What's an Idea Really Worth?

What's an idea really worth?  Read more

Entrepreneurs in the News

The latest news on James Sun, Michael Dell, and Mitchell Binder  Read more

Review: The Responsibility Revolution

In The Responsibility Revolution, Seventh Generation founder Jeffrey Hollender makes the case for sustainability.  Read more

Not Yet Ready to Call It a Recovery

March ended on a positive note with a year-to-date increase in small business hiring of 3.1 percent and a year-to-date increase in pay of 0.4 percent, acc...  Read more

How to Achieve Predictable Success

Why is it that in many cases, winners continue to win? What are they doing right that propels them into more and more wins? I'm an entrepreneur, just like...  Read more

Angel Investor Report a Mixed Bag

Angel investors do more deals with less dollars. The University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Research has released its annual Read more

How to Communicate in a Crisis

A guide to emerging with reputation intact after a crisis threatens your company  Read more

Search Engine Marketing: An Inc. 500 CEO's Take

All too often we read about the success of search engine marketing in high-tech companies. But what about brick-and-mortar businesses?  Read more

How to Plan a Company Retreat

If you have a project that's too big to fit into a two-hour meeting slot, a retreat might be just the tool you need to hash it out. Here's how to make sure y...  Read more

4 Tips for Bidding on Your First Government Contract

Advice from experts on how a small business can qualify for a government contract.  Read more

Health Care Reform Promises More Paperwork

Congress on Thursday approved the Reconciliation Bill wrapping up health care legislation. Here's what it means for you.  Read more

How to Steal Back Your Time

How Steve Jobs does customer service . Personally—and wi...  Read more

Go Daddy, Network Solutions Pull Back From China

In the wake of Google's decision to stop censoring online content in China, two domain name registrars announce their retreat.  Read more

How Apple Got Its Name

Obamacare is the law . It's official: After decades of debate, a universal health care reform package was Read more

More from GrowCo.: How to Pitch Your Business to Investors

I was sitting in the "How to Finance Anything" session last week at GrowCo listening to Andy Craig, author of  Read more

Bo Burlingham in the Big Apple

The legendary Bo Burlingham, Inc . magazine's editor-at-large landed in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region last week with his recipe for e...  Read more

Business Horoscopes: April 2010

Running a small business takes a gift for anticipation, if not clairvoyance. To help you predict the changes that will affect your business and your industry...  Read more

Better Marketing Through Science

Washington girds for health care vote . The passage of President Obama's health care plan looks Read more

How Banks Make Business Loans

Banks look beyond credit scores. Before the recession, business credit scores were often the biggest factor in determi...  Read more

GrowCo.: 5 Sales Myths of Fast Growth Organizations

I'm listening intently at this GrowCo. session to Tom Searcy, founder of Hunt Big Sales , and co-aut...  Read more

Big Help in the Big Easy

Organizers of New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week estimate the event will provide some $900,000 worth of consulting to local businesses.  Read more

GrowCo.: Growth by Involvement at Amy's Ice Creams

I'm at the Inc. GrowCo. conference here in Orlando. What an exciting group of small businesses and what an amazing ...  Read more

Is Social Media Worth Your Time?

Do you have time for social media? Chaitanya Sagar, founder and CEO of small business outsourcing company Read more