Coolest College Start-ups 2011
Our third-annual report on the most innovative college start-ups features a North Iowa hacker-turned-bookworm, a hip Southern California duo hawking fixie bi... View slideshow
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Our third-annual report on the most innovative college start-ups features a North Iowa hacker-turned-bookworm, a hip Southern California duo hawking fixie bi... View slideshow
Business school students have gone beyond starting their own companies. Now they're funding one another's ventures. Read more
An Inc. senior writers looks at what small businesses can expect in 1997, regardless of economic forecasts. Read more
Inc. decided to rank the top 10 social media embarrassments of the year. Read more
The entrepreneurs who run these 9 companies are hard at work developing new products and services. They are raising money and hiring salespeople. And they ar... View slideshow
Just how sorry is the sorry state of fund-raising among tech companies? Our intrepid reporter went to a venture-capital mixer to find out. Read more
Yes, they’re tech-savvy, but the class of 2011 is also innovative, and sure can sell. Check out their products, from fixie bikes to a door handle for the f... View slideshow
Tips on imaginative screen-saver software that can help a visual monitor double its life. Read more
Arielle Scott, a former Jessica Mah collaborator, is on a mission to empower young adults to innovate—and she’s building a media empire to do so. Read more
Smart schools resist the temptation to treat every new idea like it's the next Google. Read more
There are plenty of second acts in business, but this company founder looks forward to a long intermission. Read more
The University of Texas' International Moot Corp. Competition, the most well known of the country's intercollegiate business-plan tournaments, is a launch pa... Read more
Do you want to play with the big guns on the peninsula, go with the flow in SoMa, or carve out a different niche in the East Bay? Read more
Oregon has always been a great place to fish or raise a family. Lately it has become one of the hottest places around to start a company. Read more
You can give it away as smartly as you made it. Read more
Every second, someone joins LinkedIn, a sort of six degrees of separation for professionals and the brainchild of social-networking pioneer Reid Hoffm... Read more
Think that summer job was a waste of time? Not so. Here's why every aspiring entrepreneur needs one. View slideshow
What appears to be a good old-fashioned family business may be a $100-million international conglomerate Read more
A new accounting system helps managers identify all activities involved in their production. Read more
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Business information comes in general surveys, data, articles, books, references, search-engines, and internal records that a business can use to guide it... Read more
Sure, water transit is a growth industry, but how can an average entrepreneur finance a ferryboat and start a thriving water transit company? Read more
What happens when your product goes viral . Awkwardly viral. The New York Times Read more
One Florida man's efforts to establish a business network for persons with disabilities is expanding to a national level. Read more
Working via electronic mail, market research company employs a flexible work force of graduate students. Read more
This year Jessica Mah , CEO of inDinero , a maker of online money-management tools for small busi... Read more
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
Executives of smaller publicly held companied enjoy fatter paychecks and broader perks than their counterparts in smaller private firms. That's the concl... Read more
A look at Blue Mountain Arts' bold plans for turning its popular Web site into an E-commerce moneymaker. Read more
"I had an awful lot to learn about business . . . I had the conglomerate mentality -- the view that, if you just build one product for one market, you weren'... Read more
Berkeley sophomore Raymond Lei couldn’t find inexpensive custom-shirts, so he built an easy-to-use website and found great suppliers. Read more
Andrew Raskin, an otherwise sane New York company man, chronicles why he has flung himself into the mad world of Silicon Valley start-ups. Read more
Andrew Raskin, an otherwise sane New York company man, chronicles why he has flung himself into the mad world of Silicon Valley start-ups. Read more
At the tender age of 14, Jessica Mah learned a tough lesson about business. Her first company, which rented server space to small and medium-size business... Read more
More than 100 young entrepreneurs and members of the MIT community gathered for a cocktail reception in April, to honor MIT's own Lingt Language and the othe... View slideshow
In spite of digital platforms, Blurb has found success letting customers design and publish professional-quality books. Read more
At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. Find out where to look, what to look for, and what to offer a... Read more
The year was 1971, and Ralph Anspach, a San Francisco State University economics professor, was sitting in his Berkeley home, playing Monopoly with his se... Read more
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