Bill Gates


Gates and the People Who Hate Him

The Plot to Get Bill Gates by Gary Rivlin. Random House, 360 pages, $25. For some, he's a brilliant visionary; for others, a monop...  Read story

Why America Needs the Estate Tax

Save small businesses! Save family farms! You'll soon hear those cries as Congress considers permanently eliminating the estate tax. Don't be foole...  Read story

Private Lives

Demon dialers, Dungeons Dragons, and the great suit.  Read story

New DOS Compresses and Protects

MS-DOS 6.0 software compresses data, simplifies backup, manages memory, detects viruses and transfers files.  Read story

Greatness

An Inc. Technology reporter muses about the meaning of "greatness" and the end of the 20th century.  Read story

G Is for Guts

The author argues that Bill Gates should get more respect for showing his true entrepreneurial colors by turning Microsoft operations over to Steve Ballmer a...  Read story

Letters

Readers react to articles from the May and June 2000 issues of Inc. , including "I'm John Burgess. I'm Here to Help You," by Joseph Rosenbloom; " ...  Read story

The Most-Admired Entrepreneurs

Attendees of this year's Inc. 500 Conference were asked to list the three active entrepreneurs whom they most admire. Not surprisingly, fellow Read story

Hot Tip: Signing bonuses

Thanks to a tight labor market, signing bonuses for new employees are becoming increasingly common. "You don't have to be Bill Gates or Michael Jordan to ...  Read story

Estate Planning

If your business adds a significant amount of wealth to your estate, it also increases the estate's potential tax liability. Here are a few ways you can pass...  Read story

Estate Planning 101

If your business adds a significant amount of wealth to your estate, it also increases the estate's potential tax liability. Here are a few ways you can pass...  Read story

That Certain Something: Influential Entrepreneurs

We put the question to six experts: Who are the five most interesting entrepreneurs of the past 30 years?  Read story

The Birth Of An Industry

Working in their attics, basements, and garages, seven entrepreneurs tacked together a totally new industry.  Read story

Sense and Non-sense

A lighthearted look at how a program coded to control sights, sounds and smells bombs at the office.  Read story

The Five Secrets to Electrifying Opt-In E-Mail

Do you scan e-mail subject lines with your finger twitching over the "Delete" button? Sure you do. We all do. Unless the offer, well, speaks to us ...  Read story

Would You Rather Be Bill Gates or Justin Timberlake?

Entrepreneurs from the 2009 Inc. 500 answer the question: If you could be anyone in the world, whom would you be?  Read story

The Enigma of Entrepreneurial Wealth

Essay on entrepreneurial wealth; adapted from Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise.  Read story

The Change Makers

The Change Makers by Maury Klein Times Books 320 pages $26.00 Say Good-Bye to the Robber Barons<...  Read story

Inc. Online Exclusives: November 2009

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Inc. 500 All-Stars

A look at the companies that have achieved the distinction of appearing on the Inc. 500 a staggering 5 times. Plus: Household-name companies that earned thei...  Read story

Seat of the Pants

Everyone says that before you launch a company, you've got to write a business plan. So how come so many Inc 500 CEOs skipped that sober exercise?  Read story

CEOs of Fast-Growing Companies See Bright Future for Entrepreneurship

March 23, 2005 --The temperature in Tucson was high, as was the level of debate inside this year's 23rd annual Inc. 500 conference, where ...  Read story

The Dos and Don’ts of Dorm Room Enterprise , inc5000 Article - Inc. Article

The college dropout turned billionaire is a tale that's becoming stale. Sergey Brin and Larry Page famously dropped out of Stanford's Ph.D. program...  Read story

Ways to Slam Spam

Bill Gates calls it a plague and his company is suing to stop it. Ferris Research says it collectively costs businesses $10 billion a year. Wharton legal ...  Read story

Briefing: April 2003

What you need to know about IRS audits, the Internet sales tax, Bush's plan for the SBA, commuter relief, and Squeaky's, the other place to play golf in Augu...  Read story

America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies

A user's guide to the 12th annual Inc. 500 list.  Read story

Hiring Your First Employee

You started your business because you wanted to be your own boss. But your business is growing so fast, you need some help. So in addit...  Read story

Hiring Your First Employee

You started your business because you wanted to be your own boss. But your business is growing so fast, you need some help. So in addit...  Read story

Hiring your First Employee

You started your business because you wanted to be your own boss. But your business is growing so fast, you need some help. So in addi...  Read story

Toy Story

The tiny personal productivity tools, real and promised, that are currently generating buzz.  Read story

VARs Under the Influence?

Microsoft has a new strategy for capturing the small-business market: capture the hearts and minds of consultants, integrators, and value-added resellers.  Read story

It Was 20 Years Ago Today

A look at the cultural, economic, and political climate during 1979, the year that Inc. was founded, and the entrepreneurs and trends that shaped business ov...  Read story

The Class of 1985

Some 1985 Inc. 500 companies are revisted in an attempt to see what happens to America's fastest-growing businesses.  Read story

Our Companies, Ourselves

Can you separate yourself from your business?  Read story

30 Great Entrepreneurs in Their Own Words

30 years of entrepreneurs speaking their minds  Read story

The New Student Movement

An overview of the articles in this month's issue, including Marc Ballon's "Campus Inc.," Harriet Rubin's "Peter's Principles," and Newt Gingrich's book revi...  Read story

A Network for Networkers

Wireless local networks and handheld-based conference guides are the latest trends in keeping conference attendees connected to the event.  Read story

Expos Exposed

A seasoned expo attendee looks at the trade shows now offered in cyberspace. The verdict? There's no substitute for good, old-fashioned, face-to-face network...  Read story

The Next Microsoft

Can statistics about past Inc. 500 companies help predict which company from this year's list will be the next Microsoft?  Read story