Larry Ellison


NetSuite Files $75 Million IPO

NetSuite, a San Mateo, Calif.-based on-demand software company owned by Oracle founder Larry Ellison, is seeking to raise $75 million in an initial public...  Read story

Larry's Kids

NetSuite, Oracle, and SalesForce.com- all spawned by Larry Ellison- are entering a high-stakes battle to sell you software that gives you unprecedented contr...  Read story

Search: The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2002 edition of the best business stories, the art of interference, and a Web site that serves as a CEO refresher course.  Read story

What Ever Happened to the Class of 1983?

Profile of Inc. 500 companies from 1983.  Read story

NetSuite IPO Prices Surge

Following a shaky start, shares in the business software firm are trading up.  Read story

Larry's Kids Take the Gloves Off

Larry Ellison's software spinoffs start a food fight.  Read story

Inc. 500 All-Stars

A look at the companies that have achieved the distinction of appearing on the Inc. 500 a staggering 5 times. Plus: Household-name companies that earned thei...  Read story

In Search Of Equity

The passion for ownership is sweeping the country, touching just about every industry and every type of company.  Read story

The Office: The Culture Wars

Don't let someone--anyone--hijack your company culture.  Read story

Forget the Better Mousetrap

Column about the changing competitive strategies in high-technology markets.  Read story

Ask Inc.: Do I Have to Go to School?

Sales strategies for people who positively hate to sell. Plus: Do you need a college degree to be an entrepreneur?  Read story

NetSuite IPO Auction Opens

The hosted business software firm expects to sell 6.2 million shares at $13 to $16 per share, company officials say.  Read story

Ask Inc.

Whether college degrees matter; b-to-b telemarketing lives on.  Read story

From Employee to Entrepreneur

When I graduated from Rutgers University in 1985 with a degree in electrical engineering, I immediately did what came naturally back then: I joined a larg...  Read story

Can We Talk?

A growing company is supposed to be one happy family, but your computers don't always get the message. Incompatible apps. Proprietary data formats. Feudin...  Read story

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 story

A Buyer's Market: What Is Your Business Worth Now?

As part of Inc.'s 2009 guide to business valuations, we look at why now is a great time to buy a business  Read story

Governing: Boardroom Makeover

Like many company owners, Richard Domaleski set up a board of directors only to realize he had done it all wrong.  Read story

Mission Control

What every entrepreneur needs: a high-tech instrument panel designed just for your company.  Read story

Mail

This month's feedback.  Read story

Gates and the People Who Hate Him

The Plot to Get Bill Gates by Gary Rivlin. Random House, 360 pages, $25. For some, he's a brilliant visionary; for others, a monop...  Read story

Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?

I always thought that expanding my business at a steady pace was a smart move. Now I worry that it could potentially kill us  Read story

The Enigma of Entrepreneurial Wealth

Essay on entrepreneurial wealth; adapted from Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise.  Read story

Dear John

What happens when the venture capitalists find profit in your company -- but don't see profit in you?  Read story

The Anatomy of a Sale--Ours

Magazines know how to go after a story, but this one came to us. Inc. was recently the focus of a business drama with valuable lessons about what a ...  Read story

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