Berkeley


The VC in My Dorm Room

Business school students have gone beyond starting their own companies. Now they're funding one another's ventures.  Read story

New for '97

An Inc. senior writers looks at what small businesses can expect in 1997, regardless of economic forecasts.  Read story

Five Universities You Can Do Business With

Smart schools resist the temptation to treat every new idea like it's the next Google.  Read story

Letter from Silicon Valley: Nothing Ventured

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 story

Video-Screen Longevity

Tips on imaginative screen-saver software that can help a visual monitor double its life.  Read story

Confessions of a Nonserial Entrepreneur

There are plenty of second acts in business, but this company founder looks forward to a long intermission.  Read story

Texas Super Bowl

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 story

Life In The Silicon Rain Forest

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 story

Foundations R Us

You can give it away as smartly as you made it.  Read story

Workstation

Related Terms: Ergonomics ; Read story

How I Did It: Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn

Every second, someone joins LinkedIn, a sort of six degrees of separation for professionals and the brainchild of social-networking pioneer Reid Hoffm...  Read story

The Chinese Way Of Business

What appears to be a good old-fashioned family business may be a $100-million international conglomerate  Read story

The New ABC

A new accounting system helps managers identify all activities involved in their production.  Read story

John Sperling, Apollo Group

because he stirs the pot, and apparently always will  Read story

Consider a Career in Public Speaking

Editor's note: This article is the sixth and final article in a series on preparing and presenting the perfect speech. If you have questions or commen...  Read story

Business Information Sources

Business information comes in general surveys, data, articles, books, references, search-engines, and internal records that a business can use to guide it...  Read story

Market Research, Student Style

Working via electronic mail, market research company employs a flexible work force of graduate students.  Read story

A Father's Cause Aids Disabled Entrepreneurs

One Florida man's efforts to establish a business network for persons with disabilities is expanding to a national level.  Read story

Public Companies: $156,000 At The Top

Executives of smaller publicly held companied enjoy fatter paychecks and broader perks than their counterparts in smaller private firms. That's the concl...  Read story

Ed Zschau

"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 story

Go Sell It on the Mountain

A look at Blue Mountain Arts' bold plans for turning its popular Web site into an E-commerce moneymaker.  Read story

Episode I: A New Beginning

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 story

University of California, Berkeley:
A Place to Find Great Internships

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 story

The Name Of The Game

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 story

Fiscal Therapy

At a two-day "boot camp" for high-tech start-ups, CEOs thought they'd be learning how to attract Silicon Valley investors. What they got was even more import...  Read story

Adam Osborne

"When you become an entrepreneur you can go up awfully fast, but you can go down just as fast. It's so ephemeral, like actors who end up committing suicide. ...  Read story

Mutual Benefits

Analog Device's daring strategy for coping with change has led to unique relationships with small companies around the country.  Read story

Origins of the 500: Globe-Trotters

Where do America's fastest growing private companies get all those great ideas? Here's how powerful forces propelled three Inc. 500 CEOs to venture overseas.  Read story

Fully Committed

Let others proceed gingerly. Bülent Çelebi has set up an American-style company in Turkey, where he enjoys advantages his competition can only dr...  Read story

John Scharffenberger, The Tastemaker

John Scharffenberger is a crucial part of the gourmeting of America. He got his start making fine chocolate and now he plans to create an American version of...  Read story

With A Little Help From His Friends

A long-shot start-up company gets help from a number of helpful, interested businesspeople.  Read story

How I Did It: Margot Fraser

Margot Fraser, the founder of Birkenstock, USA, recalls 40 years of peace, love, and clunky sandals  Read story

Just Play

As the makers of the games Guitar Hero and now Rock Band settle into their success -- check that, their utter domination of the world's basements and dorm ro...  Read story

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 story

The Do Over

Randall Grahm produced good wines and great, funny marketing campaigns. But along the way to success, he realized someone wasn't taking him seriously. That w...  Read story

The Spirit Of Independence; The Valley

"The man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds." -- Mark Twain  Read story

When Is a Law Firm Not a Law Firm?

Craig Johnson, founder of Venture Law Group, redefined what a law firm can do for a start-up by helping companies develop business plans, find financing, and...  Read story

Electric sports cars. Solar power. Space travel.

Finally, an entrepreneur who's not afraid to think really, really big.  Read story

Entrepreneur of the Year: Elon Musk

Electric sports cars. Solar power. Space travel. Finally, an entrepreneur who's not afraid to think really, really big.  Read story

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