Electronic Arts Inc.


The Electronic Slam Dunk

Beginning this fall, Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics is going to meet Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers in a nonstop game of one-on-one. Not on a b...  Read story

Atari sneezed, and EA caught a cold

Electronic Arts , founded by Trip Hawkins, in 1982, was the first software development firm to sell its products directly to consumers ins...  Read story

A Star Is Born

If Michael Jackson's name can pack a stadium, and Norman Mailer's can sell books, then surely Jon Freeman's can produce a few hit video games. Software pu...  Read story

Small-Game Developers Poised to Score

Gamers see a new way to compete.  Read story

The Entrepreneur of the Year Register

Profiles of recognition-worthy entrepreneurs from the 1993 Entrepreneur of the Year contest.  Read story

Trip Hawkins, for still scrapping

because "optimism is essential"  Read story

The Great Game of Business

The latest version of the popular PC game Sims tackles entrepreneurship.  Read story

The Entrepreneur of the Year: Our fifth annual company-building awards

Introduction and list of judges and winners for Inc.'s 1993 Entrepreneur of Year Award.  Read story

Putting a Value on PR

Measuring the return on PR investment.  Read story

The Ticker

William "Bing" Gordon , the gaming pioneer who helped create the Sims, has left Electronic Arts after 25 years to become...  Read story

Why Venture Capitalists Hesitate to Play Games

NEW YORK -- The video-game industry is booming, but venture capitalists aren't playing. VC investments in games-related start-ups have been sporadi...  Read story

Inc. Ticker: Entrepreneurs in the News

John O'Hurley went from playing J. Peterman on Seinfeld to co-owning the Peterman catalog business. Now, the ac...  Read story

The Silver Lining for Small Business in a Recession

Kauffman Foundation president Carl Schramm talks about why great companies tend to get launched during recessions  Read story

Riding on Big-Company Coattails

Up-and-coming software publishers sell and distribute products through veteran publishers.  Read story

Risky Business

A venture capitalist discusses marketplace trends and the venture capital business.  Read story

Parallel Lives

Bill Gates has a golf handicap in the double digits. And so does Ronald Harland! Tom Monaghan launched his pizza empire in Michigan. And Lisa St...  Read story

The Evolution of the Professional Entrepreneur

Characteristics of some company builders from days past and how they differ from those building businesses today.  Read story

The Apple Tree

How Apple Computer contributed to the founding of more than 100 companies by its employees.  Read story

Nolan Bushnell is Back in the Game

Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, employed Steve Jobs, built a bunch of robots, and pretty much invented the whole cocky-young-entrepreneurial-genius pose. He's ...  Read story

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