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See the Show, Buy the Pen

Smaller brands are finding a home on the Great White Way.  Read more

America's Weirdest Businesses

Don't you wish you'd thought of that? 30 tributes to entrepreneurial...daring.  View slideshow

Tailor-Made Entrepreneurs

The runways of Fashion Week aren't just a showcase for frivolous frocks. For entrepreneurial designers, high fashion is a high-stakes business.  Read more

"It's Going to Be Big"

Marc Ecko always had the dream. Over time -- it wasn't easy -- he developed the skills. Here, he talks about how he got smart, why his billion-dollar clothin...  Read more

Agenda 09/05

As Frank Sinatra crooned, the days grow short when you reach September. With holidays, back-to-school sessions, and the fourth quarter just around the corner...  Read more

Don't You Wish You'd Thought of That?: America's Weirdest Businesses

What constitutes one of America's weirdest businesses? They sell wads of paper, naps, and alibis. And did we mention the drive-through strip joint?  Read more

My Place: Thomas Ennis's Glass Beach House

The owner of this glass beach house holds 29 patents. He's putting some of them to work around the house.  Read more

When a CEO is the Brand

Martha Stewart's recent conviction has Wharton professors debating th...  Read more

The New American Dream

A story about the highs and lows of running a family business.  Read more

Kenneth Cole: How the King of Sole Got Soul

For more than two decades, Kenneth Cole avoided the limelight. He built a $400 million shoe-and-clothing company, married the daughter of former New York ...  Read more

Reinventing the Town Square

Jonathan Butler and Eric Demby knew they were on to something when they opened the Brooklyn Flea back in 2008 and 20,000 people showed up. This month they in...  Read more

How to Raise an Entrepreneur

The key, Michelle Rousseff Kemp found, is to bar your kids from the family business.  Read more

Face-off

Two men, each with an Inc. 500 clothing company, debate the differences between their companies.  Read more

Royalties

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A Business Plan with Heart

A decade ago, when I was employed as a chartered surveyor for a major British insurance company, I realized that I was doing something that was making my ...  Read more

The Company Store

A manufacturer maintains its only retail store for the sole purpose of conducting market research.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Johnny Cupcakes

How a 26-year-old college drop-out created a multi-million dollar t-shirt business with no business plan, no advertising, and no investors.  Read more

A Knack for Sweet Deals

Getting preferential treatment from big vendors is deliciously easy for Dylan's Candy Bar.  Read more

Future Shop

Sandy Zimmerman's retail marriage of quality, discounts, and service has turned an obsure New York town into a mecca for a new breed of consumers.  Read more

The Buzz Factory

Tattoo, Inc., a low-profile San Francisco marketing firm, has amassed an impressive group of blue-chip clients with its uncanny ability to define the essence...  Read more

Brand on the Run

Martin Connolly, CEO of bicycle-wheel manufacturer Spinergy Inc., used a combination of buzz, product placement, and celebrity endorsement to cultivate one o...  Read more

In the Customer's Shoes

Profile of a CEO who rebuilt his men's shoe store by listening to his customers.  Read more

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 more

Steal This Strategy

How one company grows and prospers by taking the best ideas from big companies.  Read more

Whose Brand Is It, Anyway?

Terri Williamson did a textbook job of launching Glow. Jennifer Lopez and her team did a textbook job of launching Glow by J.Lo. And then their worlds collided.  Read more