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Getting Perspective
A recent news item on Inc.com asked the question, "Are your employees afraid t... Read more
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Job Security is a Bad Thing
I have come to believe that job security is one of the worst things a person can have, especially early in their career. Getting fired gives you a chance ... Read more
Now is the Time to Start a Company
A recession is a very good time to start a company. I founded Atari during a significant downturn, and that allowed for us to share risk with business par... Read more
Funded Companies are Fragile Companies
There are basically two theories about funding a start-up. One is to bootstrap the company; the other is to pour on the cash. Bootstrapping is always at... Read more
The Fully-Outsourced Start-up
An entrepreneur is fundamentally an organizer of labor and capital for an enterprise. But that doesn't need one must build an organization in the traditio... Read more
Solidarity Forever
Along with the crocuses and daffodils come tentative signs this spring of renewed labor union activity in the high-tech industry: * Led by organizer... Read more
Choosing Between Objective And Subjective Sales Programs
If you want to design your own computer program to help you with your retail sales, call in your local programmer for a quotation on writing the software.... Read more
What to Do When You Can't Pay a Bill
During tough times in any business, it becomes difficult if not impossible to pay all your bills on time, and this can become a source of sleepless nights... Read more
The Product Nobody Wanted
Innovation tends to create sales and distribution problems. New products often cannot find retailers or they violate accepted distribution cycles. I... Read more
The Value of Mentors
What I learned from Bob Freed, Robert Noyce, Jerry Sanders, and Don Valentine. Read more
When The Magic Goes
The adoring crowd of 300 engineers executives, and reporters fell silent. They had gathered this Friday night in the bright new site of Sente Technologies... Read more
The Challenge Of Cartridges
Ever since video games were first introduced to the market, the industry has been especially fertile ground for company start-ups. From 1977 to 1981 indus... Read more
Intrapreneurship (sic) Corporate Creativity
Entrepreneurship. You can almost see the shudders -- and the hunger -- that word produces in the heart of corporate America. Picture Exxon Corp. hea... Read more
Nolan Bushnell is Back in the Game
Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, employed Steve Jobs, built a bunch of robots, and pretty much invented the whole cocky-young-entrepreneurial-genius pose. He's ... Read more
The Pied Piper Of Sunnyvale
Two bearded tinkerers with electronic gadgets getting together to discuss the future is not, by Silicon Valley standards, extraordinary. So when entrepren... Read more
A Rogues' Gallery Of California Swashbucklers
They were the high fliers of high tech: aggressive, creative, and supremely egotistical. The companies they founded made them rich and famous. But today, tho... Read more
A Buyer's Guide To Personal Business Computers
The following 14 personal business computers can handle a variety of useful business applications. Yet they involve no more setup than a component stereo... Read more
Different Routes: Perennial Software Services Group
For David Fast, the issue is quality of growth. Fast is the founder and president of Perennial Software Services Group, in Santa Clara, Calif., a leading... Read more
Go Shopping for a State
There is an old saying: "If they are passing the hors d'oeuvres, you should take one." Right now, many states are passing out more than small nibble... Read more
Hot, Hotter, Hottest
It would be too bad if Donald Kingsborough isn't a leading candidate for "hottest entrepreneur in America," because we're pretty sure he could handle the ... Read more
When Advertising Doesn't Need Hot Air
Five years ago, Robert Keith Vicino, now 29, tried to marry his hobby -- hot-air ballooning -- with his Connecticut advertisind business. It didn't work. ... Read more
Computer TV
Aapps Corp. will soon market an add-on device that will turn a portion of a Macintosh computer into a TV screen. Read more
E-Mail in the Pines
New product allows portable computers to exchange E-mail with virtually any other U.S. computer site. Read more
Atari sneezed, and EA caught a cold
Electronic Arts , founded by Trip Hawkins, in 1982, was the first software development firm to sell its products directly to consumers ins... Read more
Five Traits that VCs Love
101 motivational quotes to keep spirits high . With much of the country enveloped in messy winter storms, not to mention the ever-present flurry of ... Read more
The Ticker
Ross Perot and his charts are back. Sixteen years after his failed presidential bid, the founder of EDS has launched a w... Read more
Product Fallout
"Shake the tree and something is bound to fall out" was the inspiration, such as it is, behind Nolan Bushnell's 1980 funding of Axlon Inc. The tree happen... Read more
Games Businesspeople Play
Some talk about it; some don't. But without question, there are more than a few who are doing something other than VisiCalc down at the shop. Read more
10 Questions for Nolan Bushnell
1. What's your favorite part of a typical day? My shower in the early morning. It's this time of luxury and of solitude. It's whe... Read more
Inc. Online Exclusives: September 2009
What's Online: September 2009 1.Check Out the Inc. 5000 Trophy Case ... Read more
The Best Business Advisors? Your Family
Entrepreneurs have an astonishing capacity to absorb information. But where they get that information often makes the difference between success and failure.... View slideshow
Steve Jobs: Timeline of the Entrepreneur
A look at the key milestones--and quotes--that shaped this true visionary's career View slideshow
What Business Would You Start?
Nearly 50 business luminaries, ranging from H. Ross Perot to Ed McMahon, are asked what businesses to start. Read more
Those Were The Days
Remember when bankruptcy meant you were broke? When John De Lorean was just a GM exec with a dream? When you thought a silicon chip was a new kind of snack f... Read more
The Ricardo Montalban Of High Tech
Few entrepreneurs launch their businesses dressed in a leotard and a crown, but that is exactly what Ron Gordon was wearing when his latest venture, Club ... Read more
Credit Cards Forced to Play Nice and the Facebook IPO
The government has your back (unless you're a credit card company). Serious talks are underway within the Obama administration to set up a Read more
The Power Lunch
* Lee Iacocca ate two dozen raw clams on the half shell at his first interview for the top spot at Chrysler Corp. * John C. D. Bruno, owner of The P... Read more
An Apple A Day
George A. Kuhnreich, director of corporate planning for Tandy Corp., sits in his spacious office atop one of the twin Tandy Towers in downtown Fort Worth,... Read more
Name-calling
What the name of your company and products says about you and your business. Read more
Climbing To The Top Of The Charts
Microcomputer software sales are heading for the stratosphere. But the most popular programs aren't necessarily the best. Read more
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