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Jake Nickell


Jake Nickell, Co-Founder of Threadless, on Innovation

Jake Nickell, co-founder of custom t-shirt printer Threadless, a company that has built a business on crowd-sourced design, answers reader questions about innovation.

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Highlights from Chat Series on Innovation

May 25, 2010

Inc. 's series of live chats on innovation offered a wealth of business tips and information from such entrepreneurs as Jake Nickell of Threadless, Jas...  View slideshow

The Best Business Advisors? Your Family

Entrepreneurs have an astonishing capacity to absorb information. But where they get that information often makes the difference between success and failure....  View slideshow

What Makes a Great Salesperson?

CEOs previously featured in Inc. on the qualities they look for in their salespeople.  View slideshow

How to Make Money on Twitter Tip #1: Turn Followers Into Creators

By Max Chafkin

The company: SkinnyCorp, which owns online T-shirt retailer Threadless. Based in Chicago and fo...  Read more

The Inc. Ticker

By Jason Del Rey |  May 1, 2009

A roundup of entrepreneurs making headlines this month, including Zappos's Tony Hsieh, Aretha Franklin, and Josh Freese of Devo  Read more

Democratizing Innovation

By Donna Fenn |  May 23, 2008

I loved Max Chafkin's story on Threadless in our June issue. The Chica...  Read more

For Young Entrepreneurs, Safety in Numbers

By Donna Fenn |  Oct 1, 2009

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

Tom Friedman Gets Why Youth Entrepreneurship Matters

By Donna Fenn |  Jan 25, 2010

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

The Entrepreneur's Wish List

By Issie Lapowsky |  Dec 14, 2010

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

How Would You Sell Custom Stuffed Animals?

By Shivani Vora |  Dec 1, 2010

Four entrepreneurs offer marketing strategies to a start-up that sells custom toys.  Read more

Silicon Valley Smackdown

By Christine Lagorio |  Aug 13, 2010

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

Can a Do-It-Yourself Fabric Company Craft a Larger Following?

By April Joyner |  Nov 1, 2009

Marketing strategies for Spoonflower, a crowdsourcing site for fabric design  Read more