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Customers Can Also Fund You
Customers financed development of new technology in exchange for short-term exclusive use of the product. Read story
Entree to Riches: Winning at MIT
MIT's $50K Entrepreneurship Competition is the hub of a vast network of venture capitalists, angel investors, consultants, and alumni seeking the savviest yo... Read story
Study: Discounts Aren't the Only Way to Boost Retail Sales
Dec. 16, 2005 --Small retailers looking to increase customer during and after the holiday season should think twice about simply slashing ... Read story
MIT Calls On Energy Entrepreneurs
A new competition will award $200,000 for the best clean energy idea. Read story
It's Official: MBAs Are a Bunch of Clowns
B-schools send in the clowns. Read story
New Research to Track Productivity
A MIT research team is trying to figure out how CEOs can better manage information workers. Read story
Upstarts: University Tournaments
University business-plan tournaments are spawning a variety of sophisticated start-up companies. Here's what students learn from these contests and why inves... Read story
The Activist Ingredient
To avoid employee burnout while maintaining growth, Paul Osterman of the Sloan School of Management at MIT suggests you take a lesson from grassroots politic... Read story
MIT Springboard Sends Internet Company Aloft
University's business-plan contest catapults two students into entrepreneurship. For the CEO they hired, it's deja vu The old saw... Read story
GuruWatch
An IT expert talks to Inc. Technology about some issues important to growing businesses. Read story
Inc. 500 CEO to Speak at Tech Confab
Nov 14, 2006 -- Michael Duffy, president and CEO of OpenPages, will join financial industry leaders as a featured speaker at the Massachu... Read story
Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Saying All the Right Things
The idea for Lingt Language came to MIT seniors Scot Frank and Chris Varenhorst while they were sitting in Chinese class. The students, who were preparing... Read story
Five Universities You Can Do Business With
Smart schools resist the temptation to treat every new idea like it's the next Google. Read story
Training
Offering unique educational opportunities is just one way Merkle Direct Marketing Inc., a Lanham, Md.-based database marketing firm, helps motivate and re... Read story
Local Hero or Tax Cheat?
In the past few weeks, I've been called both. Read story
The Young Entrepreneur's Survival Kit
As Emily Barker notes in Inc. magazine's October 2000 cover ... Read story
Statistics Can't Tell You Where To Do Business
All companies have different needs. That's why studies of the so-called business climate don't mean much. Read story
Private Lives;
Demon dialers, Dungeons Dragons, and the great $5 disposable suit. Read story
Live Fast, Die Young
Statistics show that successful entrepreneurship requires tenacity and patience. Read story
State of the Unions (and Why You Should Care)
Why unions are necessary for economic reasons and to preserve democracy. Read story
Future Computing
The ultimate business software is here, but you'll have to wait about 10 years to run it. Read story
What's Next: Tomorrow Land
Five new technologies that will change the way you do business. Read story
How Has Technology Changed the Way You Do Your Job?
Various businesspeople comment on their use of technology. Read story
David Birch: Practice What You Teach
When David Birch says that "start-up is a terrible phase," he sounds more like a fledgling entrepreneur than a respected Massachusetts Institute of Techno... Read story
Entrepreneur Profile: InfoCharms
What will be the hot fashion accessories of the next millennium? Something inspired by Gucci? Created by Calvin? InfoCharms, a Southern California-based... Read story
A World Without Bestsellers
Creating a "long tail" product mix. Read story
Five Ideas to Watch
Online dating without the date, mobile TV, GPS for golfers, an all new pooper scooper, and more. Read story
The Time Trap
There are only so many hours in a day. Here's what science says about getting the most out of them. Read story
Life Studies: Rethinking Progress
A scientist-novelist looks at technology's legacy and warns of its effects on the quality of human life. Read story
After The Crash
The strength of hidden aggressive smaller companies stimulates the economy when it falters. Read story
E-mail With. . .Nicholas Negroponte
A multimedia expert discusses with 'Inc. Technology's editor how business and technology intersect. Read story
The Customer is the Company
Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month -- with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retail distribution. And it's neve... Read story
The Disciples of David Birch
A new generation of researchers discover the effect of small business on the economy. Read story
The Future of the Human Body
Ten innovations that will improve quality of life—and bring down health care costs Read story
Labor Pain;
THE COMMUNICATIONS WORKers of America (CWA) used to have a simple answer for employees of small companies who asked to join: Forget it. Such workpla... Read story
The Smart CEO's Reading List
Short reviews of business books recommended for the CEO. Read story
Entrepreneurship Group Forms Panel on University Education
Jan. 26, 2006 - In an effort to create a common approach to entrepreneurial education across all universities, a leading organization for... Read story
The Most Entrepreneurial Place on Earth
East Cambridge, MA is booming, sparked by fast-growing local computer software and biotech industries. Read story
The VC in My Dorm Room
Business school students have gone beyond starting their own companies. Now they're funding one another's ventures. Read story
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