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Hot Strategy: 'Be Unprofitable for a Long Time'

A successful entrepreneur explains why it's almost impossible for his famous cyber-business to turn a profit.  Read story

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 story

Beware of Bugs

Jeff Bezos, president of Amazon.com, took a simple precaution when the giant online bookseller, in Seattle, was still an unknown start-up. Bezos tested hi...  Read story

When It's Time Leave the (Home) Office

There are two kinds of entrepreneurs; those who like working at home, and those who don't. Here's how to know when it's time to go.  Read story

The Great Leaders Series: Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com

Jeff Bezos is an e-commerce pioneer who started Amazon.com to sell books, and expanded into just about everything else.  Read story

Volume Business

What happens when the world's best real-life bookstore battles the world's best virtual bookstore?  Read story

Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com

because "optimism is essential"  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

Upstarts: New-Biz Watch

A look at how Toby Lenk founded eToys.com, an online toy retailer that's taking lessons from Amazon.com. Plus, several shorter articles about the unlikely pr...  Read story

Grist: Save the Founder

Every business--no matter how big or how "mature"--needs an entrepreneur at the helm.  Read story

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30 Great Entrepreneurs in Their Own Words

30 years of entrepreneurs speaking their minds  Read story

How to Get Ahead in China

When Mitch Free first went to China, he didn't know a thing about the place. He listened. He learned. He was respectful and polite. Now he gets it, and his b...  Read story

Twenty-Five Entrepreneurs We Love, Entrepreneurial Skills Article - Inc. Article

Inc. magazine goes behind the scenes with 25 entrepreneurs who best exemplify the extraordinary drive, creativity, and passion...  Read story

CEO's Notebook

Various CEOs share thoughts, concerns and advice on such subjects as training and international banking.  Read story

Resources

A comprehensive guide to more information on subjects and articles found in the Sept. issue of Inc. magazine.  Read story

The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals

Jason Fried hates lame meetings, tech companies that don't generate revenue, and companies that treat their employees like children. A peek inside his typica...  Read story

Amazon Buys Zappos for More Than $900 Million

Tony Hsieh, CEO of online shoe retailer Zappos, announced on Twitter that he had agreed to sell the privately-held company to Amazon.  Read story

Cyber This

Reviews of five new business books, including four books about joining the "dotcom" frenzy and one book about holding on to your staff. Plus: What Richard Rh...  Read story

How Hard Could It Be?: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers

I hoped to create a utopian workplace. Instead, I caused an employee revolt.  Read story

Jim Collins: How to Thrive in 2009

As part of our 30th-anniversary issue, Inc. asked Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last , what we might expect in ...  Read story

Book Value: Coaching Success

Several books explore how business leaders can learn from the strategies employed by successful sport coaches.  Read story

How I Did It: Michael Powell

Rather than open a used-book store, Michael Powell decided to start a business selling used books. That entrepreneurial point of view launched him on a path ...  Read story

Transforming Experiences

To grow spectacularly in a tumultuous era, the 2000 Inc. 500 companies have had to invent and master a distinctive skill: real-time retooling.  Read story

Growth: How Fast Is Too Fast?

An overview of the 2000 Inc. 500 list shows that companies today are growing at a stunning pace. But when exactly does fast become too fast?  Read story

Resources

A comprehensive resource guide to topics and issues featured in the February edition of Inc. magazine.  Read story

The Upstarts Are Coming

In an excerpt from Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit From Their Success , Donna Fenn explo...  Read story

The Sacred and the Mundane

Icons of business prove that the more things change, the more the important stuff remains the same.  Read story

This Is How It's Done: Smart Business Moves

30 classic examples of innovation, from the Inc. archives  Read story

Joel Spolsky: A Visit to Microsoft and Google

Back-to-back trips to Microsoft and Google remind me just how smart these guys are -- and just how much I love running a small company  Read story

Search for Tomorrow

An army of fledgling companies is lining up to take on Google. Could the world's biggest search engine possibly be vulnerable?  Read story

The Perfect Internet Business

Garden.com is one of the hottest Internet companies around, but what's so special about it is how basic it is. Here's what you can learn from the secrets of ...  Read story

Creativity Regained

Robert Redford happens to be a movie star, but he's the star who founded an enterprise that changed an industry. Along the way, this very successful entrepre...  Read story

Electric sports cars. Solar power. Space travel.

Finally, an entrepreneur who's not afraid to think really, really big.  Read story

Entrepreneur of the Year: Elon Musk

Electric sports cars. Solar power. Space travel. Finally, an entrepreneur who's not afraid to think really, really big.  Read story

Rewriting the Ending

The unfortunate demise and surprising rebirth of a very special business. Part 1 in a series.  Read story

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