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Evan Williams


Anything Could Happen

Evan Williams's first little idea shifted the culture. (You can thank him for the ubiquity of blogging.) His new business, called Twitter, will be entering your consciousness right...about...now. Why does this stuff happen? Because he lets it.

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2009: The Entrepreneurial Year in Review

It wasn't exactly the best year for business, with bankruptcies, bailouts, layoffs, and the credit crunch dominating the headlines. Still, some savvy CEOs guided their businesses to glory and prosperity, while others—including many bold-faced names—proved to be creative and resourceful even in the face of long odds. A fond look back at the year in entrepreneurship.

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Recent Articles about Evan Williams

Lessons In Leadership From Twitter

Back in September, Twitter announced it had 145 million users. Staggering, no? Well two months later, it now has 175 million users. Some are pre...  Read more

Google Eyes Twitter and Two Reasons to Hire Now

Twitter and Google in acquisition dance . That's t...  Read more

How Not to Get Duped by Invisible Display Ads

When an employer strikes . If you've ever thought of spying on an employee you suspect might be working with a competitor, the story of Kathy Lawlor...  Read more

The Entrepreneurial Year in Review

For some industries -- finance and retail, we're looking at you -- this was a year of living dangerously. But plenty of companies had a big year. A look at t...  Read more

11 Historic Serial Entrepreneurs

Some of history’s greatest entrepreneurs weren’t satisfied with a single great idea. Here’s a list of some of the best-known serial entrepreneurs of al...  View slideshow

Twitter's Big Announcement

No, Twitter did not sell itself to Google, despite rumors  that were...  Read more

Is a Start-up Like a Rock Band?

Rock Band vs. Tech Startup Riffing off the new cult of celebrity around company founders (hi, Mark Zuckerberg and Evan Williams!), Read more

Twitter's Big Pay Day

Twitter worth $1 billion . Yup, you read right. The little company that can't seem to nail down how exactly it's going to make money and that employ...  Read more

Is Social Media Worth Your Time?

Do you have time for social media? Chaitanya Sagar, founder and CEO of small business outsourcing company Read more

Twitter Raises $15 Million More

After months of rumors that it had closed a second round of venture capital funding, Twitter Read more

For Young Entrepreneurs, Safety in Numbers

Despite the economic gloom and doom, the honorees on this year's 30 Under 30 list are building wildly successful ventures with the help of their peers, paren...  Read more

Groupon Gets Old-School Competitor

Each day,  Inc .'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: <...  Read more

Who’s Behind TheFunded.com?

A mysterious new website lets entrepreneurs talk trash about their VCs.  Read more

Tom Friedman Gets Why Youth Entrepreneurship Matters

If you missed Tom Friedman's OpEd piece in The New York Times yesterday on why the Obama administration needs to focus on youth entrepreneurship, please r...  Read more

A Startup To Help Startups and the Stork Visits Twitter

The dark side of micro-lending . The Wall Street Journal has a long, fascinating story on a new credit bubble in India. On the surface it sounds fam...  Read more

Stephen Colbert Interviews Twitter Founder

Stephen Colbert did a really funny interview with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, and the two of them debated the age old question: Is Twitter the messaging...  Read more

R&D in a Meltdown; Marketing that Taps into Obamamania

Don't hold back. Yes, the economy is in shambles, but be careful that you don't cut back too much--especially when it comes to developing new produ...  Read more

How Much Money Should You Raise?

The appetizer approach to raising funds. Mark Suster proposes the Read more

Buffett Calls Obama's Stimulus Bill, "Half a Viagra"

The oracle from Omaha sees continued struggle in the future. Warren Buffett predicts rising unemployment and a possible second stimulus package in ...  Read more

Trouble at the Twitter HQ?

A new report suggests that things aren't so rosy at Twitter, plus the rest of today's news.  Read more

A Glimpse Into the Future

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: <...  Read more

E-Billers Dirty Tricks and Google’s Shaming Tactics

Google's shaming tactics for entitled employees . After a devastating wave of layoffs last week, Google has seen a rush of resumes from ex-Yahoo eng...  Read more

How to Create a Great Start-Up and How to Fail like One

What's in Obama's budget... The big news: President Barack Obama unveiled his budget yesterday. It's large--134 pages, $3.6 trillion, and a $1.75 t...  Read more

AdWord Secrets; How Obama’s SCOTUS Pick Affects You

Googlenomics: breaking down the auction process in AdWords. Read more

Fun with Twitter

In the March issue of Inc ., I wrote a story about Read more

The SBA, Bad ESOPs and More Twitter

Credit crunch hits SBA lending. The SBA's Community Express loan program has been drastically cut back in recent months because of the cr...  Read more

Hunch Raises $12 Million

Small business revival thwarted. A year and a half after the financial crisis hit, credit is still tight for many small companies. A fron...  Read more

TheFunded.com Unmasked

A few months back, we told you about a new website that allows entrepreneurs...  Read more

How to Manage Your Time and Who’s Getting Taxed

New year, new time management woes. Wired tapped former ...  Read more

Entrepreneurs: Risk-Takers or Predators?

Why founders matter . They make the kinds of decisions that professional managers--whose main concern is shareholder value--never could make, says F...  Read more

A Family Dynasty Fails, Vulture Investors, and Pirate Trouble

After 55 years, a billion-dollar family business files for bankruptcy. Martin and Matthew Bucksbaum, two brothers from Iowa, rose from local grocer...  Read more

D.C.'s Cupcake Battle and Is Twitter Only For Old Folks?

Steve Jobs is back. Apple fanatics rejoice! Yesterday's Wall Street Journal included a story about Apple's development of a Read more

The Oracle of Silicon Valley

Tim O'Reilly is Silicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of O'Reilly Media, a steadily growing $100 million company. His life is a vivid demonst...  Read more