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Recent Articles about Harry Potter

Windows 7 Outdoes Harry Potter

Huh? Seriously, it's true. Amazon's UK arm is reporting that Windows 7 is the largest pre-order item ever in it's history dethroning Harry Potter ...  Read more

The Trouble With Harry

Harry Potter has become a children's lit classic--and a huge industry. With the final book due out, how would you develop the Potter brand?  Read more

A Harry Solution

Yesterday, the fifth installment of the Harry Potter film franchise opened in 4,300 locations on more than 9,000 screens--the widest domestic release in W...  Read more

A Harry Situation

Yesterday, the fifth installment of the Harry Potter film franchise opened in 4,300 locations on more than 9,000 screens--the widest domestic release in W...  Read more

Licensing Wizardry

How to pull off lucrative licensing deals.  Read more

Blessing in Disguise

What does it take to boost your revenue by almost 700 percent? A little help from Harry Potter and Spider-Man never hurts. Meet Kate Maloney, CEO of Costu...  Watch video

Summer Blues? Not Necessarily

Networking never takes a holiday. You can build relationships with powerful people even when they're out of the office on vacation.  Read more

Contributors

Michael Edwards photographed the people of Commonwealth Worldwide Chauffered Transportation (see the story Read more

Easter Eggs Turn Your Franchise Evergreen

In a spectacular example of sensationalism, J.K. Rowling announced a sur...  Read more

The 30 Greatest Fictional Entrepreneurs

Some of the best-known, most successful entrepreneurs are also figments of the imagination—from oilman Daniel Plainview of There Will Be Blood to the Gilmo...  View slideshow

Do You Suffer from "Founderitis?"

Twitter to users: Change your passwords! Yesterday brought the latest hack attempt on Twitter, which led administrators to lock many users out of t...  Read more

The Innovator's Next Bestseller?

Clayton M. Christensen strikes again.  Read more

The Long Era of Windows XP

Tell me again how long we've been using Windows XP, now? I had to look it up again the other day for another posting. Windows XP was launched to ...  Read more

The Golden Rule of Entrepreneurship

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

Inc. 5000 Update: Costume Craze

Kate Maloney of Costume Craze finds success selling Halloween costumes.  Read more

Main Street: Number One with a Bullet

One couple's prescription for rejuvenating an aging drive-in theater: sell guns. That's right, guns.  Read more

8 Work-From-Home Rules

Editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan, who has been working from home for the past four years, shares her advice with entrepreneurs (as well as her newly-virtual co...  Read more

Such a Character

30 memorable fictional entrepreneurs  Read more

Martha Stewart Apprentice

I wasn't blown away by last night's premiere. Martha was too stiff, and she didn't add enough of her own flair to the show. Her daughter was a mute, and t...  Read more

Can I Help With That?

When it makes sense to partner with a rival. Plus: There's gotta be a better way than selling door-to-door.  Read more

Laima Tazmin

We love her because she's a lot like other kids--and then again...  Read more

Comeback Markets

Most companies have taken a pass on an inner-city service market worth tens of billions of dollars. Some smart urban-based businesses are eagerly filling the...  Read more

Case Study Update: Girls Brand Grows Up

When we profiled Addie Swartz in March 2005 , the founder of B*tween Productions, based in ...  Read more

How to Lose Funding in One Tweet

A small company temporary lost its funding because of an unsavory tweet, plus four IPOs you should know about and the rest of today's news.  Read more

Laima Tazmin, LAVT

because she's a lot like other kids--and then again...  Read more

When Billions Are On the Line, So Are They

With billions of dollars resting on the outcome of Congressional hearings, companies need their lobbyists on the inside. Linestanding.com waits overnight to ...  Read more

Search: He Said, She Said

Where to find resources for extracting meaningful information from mutual fund reports, for contemporary quotations on a host of themes, and for comprehensiv...  Read more

The Long Tail and the Black Swans

Technology has enabled sellers and marketers to serve a long tail of needs and wants. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have built successful businesses arou...  Read more

What Business Is Amazon.com Really In?

With more than $550 million in losses over the past five years, how can Amazon.com seriously expect to become a viable retail business? Inc. offers ...  Read more

SEO for Blogs: If You Build It, Will They Come?

Blogs can be effective tools for raising the profile of your product or service -- but only if your target audience find them. Search engine optimization (SE...  Read more

Case Study

The Problem: Addie Swartz wants to give girls an alternative to Britney. But how do you sell wholesomeness to tweens?  Read more

Borders: Tone Deaf to Technology

Borders, I loved you! But you blew it fair and square. This week's announcement that the book superstore chain is filing for bankruptcy protection came as...  Read more

There's Linux in Them Thar Hills

I got my laptop to boot up into Windows. This sounds idiot proof, but it's not. My laptop opens by default into Linux. Certainly you've heard of Li...  Read more

There's Linux in Them Thar Hills

Technology is full of differing approaches. But Microsoft v. Linux goes beyond a simple disagreement. It's a Hatfields-and-McCoys feud, a drama of honor and ...  Read more

What Business Is Amazon.com Really In?

With more than $550 million in losses over the past five years, how can Amazon.com seriously expect to become a viable retail business? I In...  Read more

Inside the Smartest Little Company in America

Whit Alexander and Richard Tait, founders of Cranium Inc., had never run a business before. But they did have one thing going for them: brains. That's why th...  Read more

Is This Any Way to Run a Family?

Hoping to inspire, to teach responsibility and instill determination, Tom Parsons decided to start a business with his 15-year-old son. It seemed like a good...  Read more