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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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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 more
New for '97
An Inc. senior writers looks at what small businesses can expect in 1997, regardless of economic forecasts. Read more
Top 10 Awkward Social Media Moments
Inc. decided to rank the top 10 social media embarrassments of the year. Read more
9 Cool College Start-ups
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
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 more
Coolest Products From the 2011 Coolest College Start-up List
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
Video-Screen Longevity
Tips on imaginative screen-saver software that can help a visual monitor double its life. Read more
MTV for the Overachiever Generation?
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
Five Universities You Can Do Business With
Smart schools resist the temptation to treat every new idea like it's the next Google. Read more
Confessions of a Nonserial Entrepreneur
There are plenty of second acts in business, but this company founder looks forward to a long intermission. Read more
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 more
How to Find a Bay Area Start-up Location
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
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 more
Foundations R Us
You can give it away as smartly as you made it. Read more
Workstation
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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 more
The Truth About Summer Jobs
Think that summer job was a waste of time? Not so. Here's why every aspiring entrepreneur needs one. View slideshow
The Chinese Way Of Business
What appears to be a good old-fashioned family business may be a $100-million international conglomerate Read more
The New ABC
A new accounting system helps managers identify all activities involved in their production. Read more
John Sperling, Apollo Group
because he stirs the pot, and apparently always will Read more
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 more
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 more
Ferryboat Industry Gaining Speed
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
The Pros and Cons of Going Viral
What happens when your product goes viral . Awkwardly viral. The New York Times Read more
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 more
Market Research, Student Style
Working via electronic mail, market research company employs a flexible work force of graduate students. Read more
Jessica Mah and Andy Su, Founders of inDinero
This year Jessica Mah , CEO of inDinero , a maker of online money-management tools for small busi... 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
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 more
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 more
Simple Ordering for Custom T-shirts
Berkeley sophomore Raymond Lei couldn’t find inexpensive custom-shirts, so he built an easy-to-use website and found great suppliers. Read more
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 more
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 more
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 more
Celebrating America's Coolest College Start-ups
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
How I Did It: Eileen Gittins, Founder of Blurb
In spite of digital platforms, Blurb has found success letting customers design and publish professional-quality books. Read more
How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up
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 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 more
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