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
Berkeley
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
Read storyMarket 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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