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Recent Articles about Rice University

Damning With Praise

Note to women: Beware of the glowing letter of recommendation because even the most upbeat reference could work against you.  Read more

A Golden Window for Impulse Buying

True impulse items should be displayed at the cash register, right? Not necessarily.  Read more

The Hidden Value of Slow Sellers

Products that turn slowly are not necessarily a drain on resources.  Read more

How to Win a Business-Plan Competition

Smart strategies can lead you to the top of your class, earn you credibility, and even reel in investments.  Read more

Eye On the Prize

Secrets Of Entrepreneur Athletes.  Read more

Five Ideas to Watch

Including headphones for inmates, a chair with vertebrae, and props for peeved workers.  Read more

Five Ideas to Watch

Including headphones for inmates, a chair with vertebrae, and props for peeved workers.  Read more

Study: One Third of Businesses Don't Profit from Groupon Deal

A third of small businesses don't make money from promotions on group-buying site Groupon.  Read more

How Business-Plan Competitions Reward Innovation

Business-plan competitions have fostered a "contest economy" that promotes start-up activity and much-needed innovation.  Read more

A Virtual Culture

An entrepreneurial company conducting business virtually needs to rely on the latest communication technologies and to determine the best uses for each. It's...  Read more

Rock Star Advice from a Video-Game Hero

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: Roc...  Read more

In the Eye of the Beholder

An up-close look at the 1990s fad, 3-D images, and how one entrepreneur stumbled into it and hit pay dirt.  Read more

60-Second Business Plan: Good-Bye Doesn't Mean Forever

When employees leave, they're gone for good, right? Not if Cem Sertoglu has anything top say about it.  Read more

10 Pros and Cons of Using Groupon

Group buying may be all the rage among consumers. But does is really make good business sense? Yes it can if you design the promotion just right for your com...  Read more

Frat Mixers and Stock Options

Like many fast-growing companies looking for help, VarsityBooks.com has not been shy about tapping students for ...  Read more

Frat Mixers and Stock Options

Like many fast-growing companies looking for help, VarsityBooks.com has not been shy about tapping students for ...  Read more

Hot Spots: A Field Guide to Your Local Economy

Some signs to look for suggesting a community's vitality and opportunity, and those signaling economic collapse.  Read more

CEO's Notebook

CEOs discuss getting employees to act like CEOs; taking advantage of aggregate buying services; finding Web developers in unconventional places; and benching...  Read more

How To Fight CEO Severance Battles

In case you haven't noticed, CEOs aren't sticking around as long as they used to. New York headhunters Pearl Meyer & Partners found 39 CEOs at the Fortune...  Read more

The Gospel According To Fatjo

"There's nothing wrong with a desire to make a huge amount of money, but it's the mission that's all consuming."  Read more

Tandem Has A Fail-safe Plan For Growth

If Jim Treybig has his way, his computer company will get bigger without losing its enterpreneurial style.  Read more

Dear Jon,

Three years after founding Northwest Instrument Systems, Jon Birck became a cliche -- one more entrepreneur squeezed out of his fast-growing company.  Read more