Steve Jobs


Polishing The Apple

Federal legislation might have given computer companies a tax break for giving equipment to schools. But the bill stirred up its share of controversy.  Read story

Steven Jobs Of Apple Computer: The Missionary Of Micros

The lights dim in John Hancock Hall. As a slide tape synchs in, the music begins to swell: loud, taunchy, pulse-pumping rock dressed in the rhythms of the...  Read story

A Worm In Apple?

While researching his new book on Apple Computer Inc., author Michael Moritz found the company's co-founder, Steven Jobs, to be the strong, silent type --...  Read story

Keeping Secrets;

Apple Computer Inc. v. Steven Jobs. The lawsuit has an odd ring to it -- Apple suing its famous founder, who is starting another company. Apple all...  Read story

The Enemy Within

Haven't we heard this story before? True, Steven Jobs left Apple Computer Inc. with a little more money than Tim Wagner, but the facts are the same. A b...  Read story

Corporate Antihero John Sculley

The man who eased Steve Jobs out of Apple talks about the dangers of company cultures and the blind spots of company founders  Read story

The Entrepreneur Of The Decade

An interview with Steven Jobs, Inc.'s Entrepreneur of the Decade.  Read story

Books About Business, and the CEOs Who Love Them

Tim DeMello, founder of Wall Street Games, discusses his favorite business book ('Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing')  Read story

Grist: Save the Founder

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

Founder King

Apple Computer made Steve Jobs famous, but it was how he started it that made him a legend.  Read story

What You Can Learn from Steve Jobs

By revitalizing Apple Computer, Steve Jobs proves that there's nothing like a charismatic leader when times are tough. But could all that charisma backfire w...  Read story

Seeing the iPod as a Security Threat

Is the iPod a computer security threat?  Read story

Steve Jobs, Apple Computer, Pixar

because we like to be seduced  Read story

Silicon Valley Confidential

Reviews of six new business books. Subjects include the early days at Apple Computer, ways to avoid a crisis, and Mom's business advice. Plus: a Xerox scient...  Read story

That Certain Something: Influential Entrepreneurs

We put the question to six experts: Who are the five most interesting entrepreneurs of the past 30 years?  Read story

An Apple A Day

George A. Kuhnreich, director of corporate planning for Tandy Corp., sits in his spacious office atop one of the twin Tandy Towers in downtown Fort Worth,...  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

Desperately Seeking Leadership

Are you a real leader or (shudder) only a manager?  Read story

Letters

Readers react to articles from the October 1999 issue of Inc. , including "The Diva of Retail," by Edward O. Welles, "What You Can Learn from Steve J...  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

The Entrepreneurial Year in Review

For some industries -- finance and retail, we're looking at you -- this was a year of living dangerously. But plenty of companies had a big year. A look at t...  Read story

Inc. Online Exclusives: April 2009, - Inc. Article

What's Online: April 2009 Vote For...  Read story

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship comes from entrepreneur, anglicized from the original French word. It means someone who undertakes something. Merriam-Webster defines "e...  Read story

Coming Of Age

Entrepreneurs and business experts discuss how the 80s changed the way they think about business.  Read story

The Entrepreneurial Year That Was

The subprime mortgage meltdown. Extinction-threatening climate change. Presidential debates with fields of candidates larger than your high school graduating...  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

The No. 1 Company

Who says that InPhonic founder David Steinberg has, at age 35, as good a head for business as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? Try his mentor, Mr. John Sculley.  Read story

Silicon Valley's Silver Lining

Today Silicon Valley represents a microcosm of the American Dream. In the Valley, we can become what we desire to be: a millionaire or the best circuit de...  Read story

"1-2-3" Creator Mitch Kapor

The young founder of one of the world's leading software companies gives some provocative reasons for walking away from it all.  Read story

How Pixar Cheated Death

Pixar's a great success story, but it's worth remembering how close Steve Jobs & Co. came to an unhappy ending.  Read story

The Most-Admired Entrepreneurs

Attendees of this year's Inc. 500 Conference were asked to list the three active entrepreneurs whom they most admire. Not surprisingly, fellow Read story

A Tailless Mouse

New cordless computer mouse invented by ArcanaTech.  Read story

The World According To Me

What can you learn from a CEO's autobiography?  Read story

An Apple On Every Desk

How Apple Computer has inaugurated the workplace of the future  Read story

Second Thoughts on Growth

Analysis of a new generation of business owners, and growing a company in light of the last decade.  Read story

Television;

DOUG TOMPKINS DOESN'T meddle very much once he's delegated decision making at Esprit. There aren't many phones where he spends much of the year -- climbi...  Read story

In this Issue

Why Inc. is a great magazine and you should buy 100 more copies.  Read story

Leadership Expert Ronald Heifetz

Interview with Harvard University professor on the qualities and mechanics of leadership.  Read story

Getting a Life

Inc. magazine's editor-in-chief discusses having a business and a life; sharing equity with employees; why being first may not be best; And...  Read story

Welcome to No Man's Land

Your organization can't keep pace with demand. Banks won't lend to you. Longtime staffers need to be replaced. Here's how to cope.  Read story