Get the most out of your Inc. online experience by registering and joining the Inc. community today. Get access to all Inc.com content and priority invites to free Inc. networking events in your area.

Login using:


Or login directly through Inc.com

American Idol


Why It's Trending: Speculation is running wild about who will replace Simon Cowell as a judge on the show.

Is "American Idol" Good for Business?

A new survey reveals which TV shows generate the most buzz around the office.

Read more

Recent Articles about American Idol

A Winning Pitch

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

Entrepreneurs: Risk-Takers or Predators?

Why founders matter . They make the kinds of decisions that professional managers--whose main concern is shareholder value--never could make, says F...  Read more

What It Takes to Make It at TechStars

Think your idea could win the attention of the Boulder, Colorado, mentoring program? Co-founder Brad Feld has something to say about that.  Read more

Simon Cowell -- Serial Entrepreneur

Simon Cowell, best known as the slightly insensitive judge on American Idol , is bringing his temperamental judging skills to the world of entrepr...  Read more

Ready for Your Product's Close-up?

The rules of product placement are changing. Here's how to land a starring role for your firm.  Read more

The Face Behind the Product

Apologies for the tardiness of this post. I labored since viewing last week's episode of Amer...  Read more

A Recession High Note

TakeLessons.com , an online service that connects music students with its instr...  Read more

Someday, iPhone, I Will Answer Your Siren Song

Last week, disaster struck: I destroyed my cell phone trying to vote for Alexis Grace in the bathtub. Alexis Grace, in case you don't know, is th...  Read more

Market Segmentation

Related Terms: Demographics ; Read more

The Innovation Competition

What do you do when you're frustrated by the pace of innovation? Peter Diamandis, for one, started the X Prize . Inc...  Read more

In this Issue

How I stopped worrying and learned to love meetings (after reading our cover story).  Read more

Updates

Making the Most of a Brush With Fame November 2006 In our list of 50 green entrepreneurial companies ("Read more

Tweets in Your Pocket and the Danger of Multitasking

Get ready for Twitter, the gadget . One of the reasons for Twitter's breakneck growth has been the company's decision to make its data available to ...  Read more

"I'm really surprised"

First, I apologize for missing last week's episode of American Inventor while I was in Savannah for the Read more

The Best and Worst TV Bosses

For many U.S. employees, Sam Malone, the bar owner on the hit TV series Cheers , most closely resembles their own boss, according to a survey by C...  Read more

Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 - Sean Belnick, BizChair.com

#2 SEAN BELNICK BIZCHAIR.COM Age: 20 Location: Kennesaw...  Read more

Cold and Wet, but Stoked!

Over 800 entrepreneurial hopefuls showed up for a casting call for American Inventor on Bro...  Read more

112 Million Handsets Can't Be Wrong

Welcome to the new frontier of direct marketing -- the cell phone.  Read more

How Do You Like Your New Microsoft Hotmail?

Yup, I barely noticed either. The new Windows Live Hotmail is officially out of beta today (18 months later). I switched over to check it out and, yes, th...  Read more

Four Companies Making iPhone Video Apps

The market for iPhone video apps is exploding. A look at some of the up-and-comers  Read more

Hiring Your Own Don Draper; Improving Your Online Rep

How much does it cost to hire real life Mad Men . As much as $964 an hour, according to Advertising Age, which Read more

Bringing a Weird Product to Market

Take beef jerky, add Red Bull, and what do you get? An idea for a new product. But will consumers bite?  Read more

A Family Dynasty Fails, Vulture Investors, and Pirate Trouble

After 55 years, a billion-dollar family business files for bankruptcy. Martin and Matthew Bucksbaum, two brothers from Iowa, rose from local grocer...  Read more

A Start-up Combines Slim Jims and Red Bull

Meet the founder of a new product called Perky Jerky, coming soon to a supermarket near you.  Read more

Setting Boundaries for Employee Internet Use

A total ban on Internet surfing for workers isn't practical, but employers do need to create a balance to use the technology to increase productivity while m...  Read more

75 Reasons to Be Glad You're an American Entrepreneur Right Now

Here's our tally of the diverse ways the culture, the economy, and entrepreneurship's own history are combining to make this a great time--the best time, in ...  Read more

How to Buy TV Advertising on a Budget

For small businesses, here's the reality of TV -- the medium can be an affordable messenger.  Read more

The Chair Man of the Board

At 14, Sean Belnick took $500 and started selling office chairs online. Today, he's running a $24 million furniture company whose customers include Microsoft...  Read more

War Economy: When Should You Attack Your Competition?

Are we living in an attack culture in America today? Sure seems so. With Fox News, Michael Moore, and the nuclear nature of political discourse in genera...  Read more

Getting Ready for Prime Time

Selling a new product? QVC's stamp of approval is increasingly powerful  Read more

A Tale of Two Tech Titans

This has been a sad week for the high tech industry and it's only Thursday. First, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has Read more

Why New Orleans Is the Coolest Start-up City in America

Idea Village, a New Orleans-based not-for-profit that helps support local entrepreneurs, is helping rebuild its city's economic devastation by organizing a s...  Read more

charity:water CEO Lands Huge Commitment from Inc. 5000 CEOs

Scott Harrison's story inspires Inc. 500|5000 attendees to donate their birthdays to charity:water.  Read more

Average Employee Wastes Two Hours of Every Workday

Twentysomethings slack off more than older workers, according to a new survey.  Read more

The Celebrity Pitch

America is more celebrity-mad than ever. But is hitching your company to a star really the right move?  Read more

The Future of Advertising is Here

It's becoming increasingly possible to target "smart ads" specifically to people who want them. And best of all, you can do this for a fraction of the price ...  Read more

Apple's New Ping Gets Dinged

Don't blame me this time for blasting Apple. There's a long line of tech writers, bloggers and, most importantly, consumers themselves with nothing but sc...  Read more

That's Chief Entertainment Officer

Smaller companies do fun better. We got that straight from the skating matador and dozens of his CEO colleagues.  Read more

Thinking Inside theBox

Geraldine Laybourne of the Oxygen channel has finally discovered what women want -- perhaps to her chagrin, definitely to her profit.  Read more

Thinking Inside the Box

Geraldine Laybourne of the Oxygen channel has finally discovered what women want -- perhaps to her chagrin, definitely to her profit.  Read more

  • 1
  • 2