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Bill Gates-Backed Nuclear Start-up Raises $35 Million
TerraPower's plans to generate electricity using a nuclear power plant's own waste helps it buck industry investing trend toward quick turnaround deals.
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How to Raise a Bill Gates
The father of the Microsoft founder offers advice on bringing up a rebellious, headstrong entrepreneur like his son.
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A Brewing Feud at Microsoft?
Paul Allen's unflattering portrayal of Bill Gates is stoking controversy, a new cohort of young (and rich) entrepreneurs discover charity, and the rest of th... Read more
How to Give Speeches and How to Sell Your Business
Matt Mullenweg shares his public speaking secrets . You already know Read more
The Key to Good SEO, and Some Good News (Maybe)
How to fix your Google results . Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin writes about her efforts to take control of her Google results. Angwin is... Read more
The End of Dog and Cat People?
Wired Magazine is calling it "the biggest reunion since Simon & Garfunkel".... Read more
That Certain Something: The World's Most Influential Entrepreneurs
We put the question to six experts: Who are the five most interesting entrepreneurs of the past 30 years? Read more
Taking the Buffett-Gates Pledge
A young entrepreneur joins Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in making a promise to donate his life earnings to charity by the time he dies. Read more
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 more
Bill Gates' Swan Song
Bill Gates announced this afternoon that he intends to relinquish day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft starting in 2008. (Here is the Read more
Zappos: Our VCs Didn't Screw Us
Did the VCs Steamroll Zappos? In a word, no. $900 million dollar... Read more
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 more
Giving Back
Some cynics might think Bill Gates' campaign against AIDS in Africa is just a PR effort on behalf of Microsoft. But, as Nicholas D. Kristof suggests in hi... Read more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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
New DOS Compresses and Protects
MS-DOS 6.0 software compresses data, simplifies backup, manages memory, detects viruses and transfers files. Read more
10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Picking a Partner
It's natural to want a partner to share your experience with, but make sure you run through all the possible implications of your generosity. Read more
Private Lives
Demon dialers, Dungeons Dragons, and the great suit. Read more
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 more
CEOs Tackle Education
Two of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs are joining forces to raise the alarm about what they say is the country's deteriorating education system... Read more
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 more
Microsoft In Denial About Vista
Bill Gates was the opening keynote address for this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas - perhaps for the last time (I suspect that's the Rollin... Read more
The Birth Of An Industry
Working in their attics, basements, and garages, seven entrepreneurs tacked together a totally new industry. Read more
Sense and Non-sense
A lighthearted look at how a program coded to control sights, sounds and smells bombs at the office. Read more
Is a Gates Comeback Inevitable?
I think it's possible. However, even more possible, I think, is that a Steve Ballmer departure is inevitable. Last year, I wrote a posting on this... Read more
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 more
What Bill Said
To be exact, at his keynote address at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, Read more
Inc. Online Exclusives: November 2009
1.Pick the Greatest Entrepreneur of All Time Read more
The Enigma of Entrepreneurial Wealth
Essay on entrepreneurial wealth; adapted from Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise. Read more
The Change Makers
The Change Makers by Maury Klein Times Books 320 pages $26.00 Say Good-Bye to the Robber Barons<... Read more
Student Loan Breaks for Entrepreneurs
Why the federal government and lenders should cut recent grads some slack. Read more
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 more
21st Century PR and Bill Gates on Twitter
A moment of silence for traditional PR. Seattle entrepreneur and angel investor Andy Sack declares that "Read more
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 more
Password Protocols
Seven tips for choosing and updating passwords to ensure the safety of your business data. Read more
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 more
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