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What the Students Say: Technology Venturing

Samit Gupta was pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering—until he took this course.

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Recent Articles about The Ohio State University

Best Courses 2011: Technology Venturing

Helping to turn university technologies into sustainable businesses  Read more

Introducing a Blog from The Pond Guy

There's an old adage that says the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know. That saying certainly applies to me and my life as an entrepreneur...  Read more

Introducing a Blog from The Pond Guy

There's an old adage that says the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know. That saying certainly applies to me and my life as an entrepreneur...  Read more

Highlights from Our Annual Inc. 500 Conference

Editor-in-chief George Gendron's thoughts on the Inc. 500 companies.  Read more

The Benefits of Being Weird

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

Real Men Get Flowers, Too

Flowers have traditionally been regarded as something sent along with a social note or a condolence card but those days are apparently over. "It too...  Read more

CEOs Favorite Tax Write-offs and Underlings Seek Revenge

Facebook and Twitter rot your brain? From the annals of everything fun is bad for you, a new study conducted by a neuroscience group from the Unive...  Read more

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the July 1998 issue.  Read more

Pete Carroll: At a Glance

Bio Born: September 15, 1951, San Francisco Education Degree in business administration from Pacific University; ...  Read more

The Problem With Passion

Good entrepreneurs can be bad investors.  Read more

The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011

University courses in entrepreneurship are better—more useful, more real, more likely to produce actual companies—than they have ever been. Here are 10 w...  Read more

A Worthy Program

Our working, evening M.B.A. program students found Albert Shapero's article "Are Business Schools Teaching Business?" (Speaking Out, January) amusing. Pro...  Read more

Upstarts: New-Biz Watch

A look at Mark Begelman's MARS, a music and recording superstore that encourages customers to touch the merchandise, plus four shorter articles about the ret...  Read more

Guest Speaker: The Root Causes of Immigration

As employers draw greater scrutiny for hiring undocumented workers, a way out of the current crisis may come from, of all places, Ireland.  Read more

Brand This Way

What Aerosmith, Kiss, and Elton John can tell you about branding.  Read more

Personal Income Tax Rate Reduction Helps LLCs and S-Corps Retain More Profit

Pass-through entities such as S corporations and limited liability corporations (LLCs) are increasingly popular for use by growing businesses, Zaino says,...  Read more

Reader Mail: July/August 2010

Inspired by Bob Moore and the marital issues of entrepreneurs  Read more

John Sperling, Apollo Group

because he stirs the pot, and apparently always will  Read more

Making Amends

Apologizing is part of doing business. But do it wrong, and you'll really be sorry.  Read more

The New Market Research

Forget focus groups and mail surveys; with constantly changing markets and ever-increasing competition, companies are finding new ways to determine what cust...  Read more

The Trap

It was Chuck Howard's nature--his brash self-confidence, his willingness to take a risk--that allowed him to build one of the fastest-growing companies in A...  Read more

And There Was Happiness in Aqualand

If there's a more fun-obsessed CEO than Greg Wittstock, we haven't met him. Join us on a tour of his pleasure dome.  Read more

Rebel with a Cause

How a body shop became its market leader by using radio attacks aimed at the car-insurance industry.  Read more

Inc.'s Guide to 'Smart' Government Money

A guide to helping small companies profit from new economic-development programs.  Read more

Bottom-up Management

INC. 500 CEO George Labovitz runs a small company that helps large companies manage their people more effectively. At a time when productivity is the most im...  Read more

Upstarts: The Russian Connection

Entrepreneurs who've emigrated from the former Soviet Union are shrewdly benefiting from the crumbling economy of that once-mighty empire. And they aren't th...  Read more

The American Way

Armed with traditional American values, modern immigrants refuel the entrepreneurial economy.  Read more

Jason Ross, Founder of JackThreads

Jason Ross has always been the person his friends would turn to for the latest on cool things. And thanks to his Mom, Ross was always a discount sh...  Read more

Catching Up to the New Economy

For much of the past decade, Harvard University has seemed reluctant to acknowledge the new economy. But a few ambitious graduates are trying to change that.  Read more

The Founders

Profiles of Inc. 500 founders and why they started their companies.  Read more

Play Money

Founder of simulated stock market confronts decision among three different long-term growth strategies.  Read more

Assets And Liabilities

For the CEO of a fast-growth company, yesterday's strength may be today's weakness.  Read more

Plowing New Ground In The Delta

CEO Charles Bannerman learned that the most effective social activism is a healthy bottom line.  Read more

The Squash Blossom Solution

At the high, high end of the market, the Jones family of Huron, Ohio, outruns the economics of modern farming.  Read more

"you'd Be Surprised How Easy It Is To Succeed"

David Wolfberg had big plans for his Miami architectural firm. Too big, as it turned out.  Read more

Going for Broke

Harold McMaster, founder of Solar Cells, Inc., hopes to universalize solar energy, but has put off making a buck to take R D further. But will his ...  Read more

The Most Entrepreneurial Cities in America

Inc.'s 1990 ranking of metropolitan regions by job growth, business starts, and proportion of high-growth companies.  Read more

The Mouth Will Rise Again

Fresh from losing several billion dollars and his job at AOL Time Warner, Ted Turner returns to his entrepreneurial roots: "Leave your gun at the cash regist...  Read more

Games Companies Play

This article examines how various business-people are using game-playing techniques to handle a wide variety of problems  Read more

The New Face of Confidence

Business leaders may be better positioned than they have been in years to make smart calculations about growth and strategy. Here's why.  Read more