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One of the key elements of our ZapMail plan was our belief that the costs of the various components in the system would decrease year after year. This be... Read more
Fred Smith
Recent Articles about Fred Smith
Who's Counting?
Some evenings, it may seem to the agents and couriers that "half a billion items" are moving through the Federal Express system. But I am sure, for the s... Read more
Are You An Innovator Or An Entrepreneur?
In common parlance, innovators and entrepreneurs are often confused. Both create something new in the world of business. And both tend to focus obsessiv... Read more
The Spirit Of Independence; Workers
"In general it is impossible that manufactures should succeed in America from the high price of labour." -- Thomas Jefferson Read more
What Kind of Entrepreneur Are You? Part 1
The first in a three part series to help you determine if you're an "on-base hitter" or a "slugger" when it comes to starting businesses. Read more
Rediscovering Enterprise
Five years ago this month, INC. published its first issue. The magazine was 112 pages in length, and weighed in at eight and a half ounces. Its contents i... 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
Express Delivery
After years of careful, deliberate work in the shipping and logistics business, Accuship's Mason Kauffman pulls out all the stops in a race to rule the onlin... Read more
Express Delivery
After years of careful, deliberate work in the shipping and logistics business, Accuship's Mason Kauffman pulls out all the stops in a race to rule the onlin... Read more
Entrepreneurs Unite! The Birth Of A Party
Introduction of a new entrepreneurial political party. Read more
Who's Running America's Fastest-growing Companies
Most of you have probably seen them -- tests that claim to measure one's "entre-preneurial quotient." Invariably, they feature questions like: (1) A... Read more
The Long View
Book Review: Ideas and Information in a High-Tech World (W.W. Norton Co., 1989) Read more
The 5 Types of Entrepreneurs
What kind of entrepreneur are you? The answer will affect your attitudes about growth, competition, and certainly your preferred exit strategy. Here, serial ... View slideshow
My Favorite Company
Inc. writers and editors write about their favorite companies. Read more
Coming Of Age
Entrepreneurs and business experts discuss how the 80s changed the way they think about business. Read more
More Myths
Inc. magazine's editor-in-chief discusses the evolution of E-culture, start-ups that help other new companies out of the gate, competing against a m... Read more
More Myths
em Inc. /em magazine's editor-in-chief discusses the evolution of E-culture, start-ups that help other new companies out of... Read more
FYI: Taking Responsibility
When is a CEO not a CEO? Read more
The Answer Man
What do you do when an employee starts a competing business? Nothing, says the Answer Man. Read more
Prophets Of The New Age
Imagine, if you can, what your world would be like without Frederick W. Smith. With the creation of Federal Express Corp., Smith did more than build himse... Read more
The Evolution of the Professional Entrepreneur
Characteristics of some company builders from days past and how they differ from those building businesses today. Read more
The Three Criteria for a Successful New Business
A veteran entrepreneur explains why you need more than a revolutionary product to have a successful start-up. Read more
Getting to Prime
Interview with management consultant Ichak Adizes on growing a company to attain peak corporate performance. Read more
The Hottest Entrepreneur In America
The entrepreneur of the year grossed less than $100,000 in 1986, has no full-time employees, and plans to expand her business from Cleveland to Washington, D... Read more
Who Are the Real Entrepreneurs?
A noted entrepreneur explains why many people who share that lable are not really entrepreneurs. Read more
The World According To Me
What can you learn from a CEO's autobiography? Read more
Thinking Big
Tom Peters takes on the Harvard Business Review regarding the issue of company size Read more
Your World Will Never Be The Same
Ultimately what the man had to say as provocative as it was, may have been less telling than what he had actually done. For three hours Allan Kenn... Read more
CEO Compensation: The ABCs of Paying Yourself
Advice from experts and CEOs that adds up to primer for execs to figure out their annual salaries. Read more
Managing from A to Z
Looking for a metaphor for business? As our A-to-Z compendium of similes and analogies will show, any metaphor you can think of has probably been used before. Read more
The Inc. 500
Brief profiles of 15 Inc. 500 companies. Read more
Small Is the New Big
Like a lot of entrepreneurs, Jay Goltz couldn't imagine doing anything but building his company as big and as fast as possible--until it almost destroyed him. Read more
The Start-Up Diaries: Plan B-Minus
Application Technologies' founder Johann Verheem is staking his future on a plan that didn't quite make the grade in business school. Read more
Federal Express's Fred Smith
The man who created overnight delivery says you absolutely, positively have to innovate -- if only to survive. Read more
Patent No. 5,524,641: An Inventor's Story
That's Arthur Battaglia's patent number. He applied for it eight years ago, got it six years ago, and has been pushing his idea ever since. So far, no takers. Read more
Play Money
Founder of simulated stock market confronts decision among three different long-term growth strategies. Read more
The New American Start-up
Profile of a new-type entrepreneur and the beginnings of her children's food company. Read more
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