The Lifesaver
Elizabeth Holmes left college to bring her invention to market. She just might end up saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Read more
Recent Success Stories Articles
Who Are the 30 Under 30?
America's coolest young entrepreneurs are making their mark in a wide range of industries -- and making millions in the process. Read more
The Wunderkind
Jared Isaacman hatched a $58 million credit-card processing firm in his parents' basement. Today, he counts Burger King and Ferrari among his clients. Read more
Healthy Business Practices 
Guille Cruze, CEO of The Whitestone Group, discusses the cost of providing health care to employees, and the strategies he has utilized to get them down. Watch video
How Pixar Cheated Death
Pixar's a great success story, but it's worth remembering how close Steve Jobs & Co. came to an unhappy ending. Read more
How I Did It: Bill Thomas, Founder and CEO, Bills Khakis
Rhapsody in beige. Read more
Disaster Relief
Richard Zuschlag, CEO of Acadian Ambulance Services, discusses his companies heroic involvement in hurricane Katrina. As a local ambulance service, Acadia... Watch video
Asian-American Business Ownership, Revenues Increase
New data finds that minority entrepreneurs are outpacing the national average. Read more
How I Did It: Vickie Stringer, CEO Triple Crown Publications
Redemption doesn't come easy. Read more
Do You Believe In Angels?
Laura Roden, Managing Director of The Angels' Forum, discusses angel investing and other issues facing entrepreneurs. Watch video
How I Did It: Gert Boyle, chairman, Columbia Sportswear
Tougher than the rest. Read more
Beyond Quickbooks
Getting a handle on the monetary details of your life while running a business can seem overwhelming. Here our columnists assemble a "Dream Team" of resource... Read more
Jamba Juice Sold for $265 Million
Investors cited the former Inc. 500 company’s strong potential for continued growth. 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
Women Managing Women
Just because a woman business owner hires other women doesn't mean everyone will magically get along. Here are a few of the more common problems women encoun... 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
Meetings Without Meals
Meetings Without Meals We don't know about you, but we're not that into golf. If you are, that's great -- you have a natural place to entertai... Read more
How I Did It: Joe Sitt, Thor Equities
Transforming urban shopping, one skeptical town at a time. Read more
Deb Weidenhamer, Auction Systems
On a fortuitous plane Deb Weidenhamer met an 81 year-old auctioneer, and became convinced it held more for her than her mergers and acquisitions work. Mon... Watch video
David Steinberg, InPhonic
David Steinberg, founder of InPhonic, the number one company on the Inc. 500 in 2004, talks about managing growth, generating sales and capital, marketing... Watch video
How to Raise an Entrepreneur
Do's and don'ts from Steve Mariotti, founder and president of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Read more
Is This Any Way to Run a Family?
Hoping to inspire, to teach responsibility and instill determination, Tom Parsons decided to start a business with his 15-year-old son. It seemed like a good... Read more
The Little Game That Could
An update on the rising fortunes of one former Case Study subject. Read more
Finding Mentors
Finding Mentors In our September 2005 column, " Beyond Getting ... Read more
Entrepreneur of the Year: Ping Fu
She came to this country by way of a Chinese prison, but that's the past, and the future holds a tantalizing promise of smarter, cheaper manufacturing and be... Read more
Siblings Rivalry
Two sets of brothers hit upon the same business idea in the same small city. The result: Two fast-growing companies. Read more
Acting Like a ^^comma^^Girl^^comma^^
We hate to admit it, but women do occasionally act like stereotypical "girls." Here's how to avoid those qualities that tend to trip women up during business... Read more
Beyond Getting to Yes
As business owners, some days it may seem as if we spend all of our time negotiating. There are suppliers to manage, employees to satisfy, funding to pur... Read more
How I Did It: Sidney Frank, founder, Sidney Frank Importing
"I wanted to be a billionaire," says the man responsible for your Jägermeister headache. At age 85 he stunned the liquor industry by getting his wish. Read more
What One Man Can Do
Bill Strickland is in the business of saving lives. After almost 40 years of teaching kids, training adults, and telling his story, he's looking to "franchis... Read more
The Return of Martha Stewart
August 30, 2005 --After five months in prison, and another five months of home detention, Martha Stewart will resume working fulltime on W... Read more
How to Raise an Entrepreneur
The key, Michelle Rousseff Kemp found, is to bar your kids from the family business. Read more
Study Sees Obstacles to Minority Business Growth
July 7, 2005 --Minority CEOs need to change the way they think about business or they will fall behind in the global economy, reported a r... Read more
How I Did It: Jeffrey Citron
First he disrupted the brokerage business. Now, with Vonage, Jeffrey Citron is changing the game on the phone companies. Read more
