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5 Cures For The Layover Blues

Thanks to delays and overcrowding, airports are a second home for many business travelers. If you are facing a four-hour wait, you could get a little work do...  View slideshow

Chat with Saras Sarasvathy, Darden School of Business and Effectuation.org

Saras Sarasvathy is part of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Ethics team in the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.  Watch video

How Great Entrepreneurs Think

Think inside the (restless, curious, eager) minds of highly accomplished company builders.  Read more

Inc. Executive Education

Inc. Executive Education brings a set of course...  Read more

Have Fun at the Airport

Thanks to delays and overcrowding, airports are a second home for many business travelers. If you are facing a four-hour wait, you could ...  Read more

Go Back to College to Get Help for Your Business

Is there a college, junior college, or university near you? If there is, and you're not making use of it, you may be neglecting a powerful business resour...  Read more

Case Study Update: Downhill From Here

Last August , we told the story of Cloudveil, a cash-strapped ski apparel maker in Jackson,...  Read more

Grand Plans

Shoestring start-ups: seven fast-growing companies that were started for $1,000 or less, and tactics to borrow for your own start-up.  Read more

Out of Business

A top-notch CEO discovered that some innovation could only happen after he left the company he founded.  Read more

The Best Jobs That Nobody Wants

College entrepreneurship departments are raking in the bucks, but there aren't enough professors to staff them  Read more

Resources

A comprehensive resource guide to topics and issues featured in the May edition of Inc. magazine.  Read more

How Hipmunk Learned to Respect Its Users

Hipmunk's Alexis Ohanian's site-building philosophy centers around loving users. That's because his last company, Reddit, was made by them.  Read more

New Legal Privilege for Your PR firm

At the first sign of trouble, call a lawyer--and have that lawyer dial a publicist.  Read more

Let's Make a Deal

The fine art of raising your prices in a recession.  Read more

Pay Now, Learn Later

You can protect yourself against college tuition hikes. But the scheme backfires if your kid goes to the state university By now you probably kno...  Read more

Landing a Spot in Starbucks; A New Boston-Area Booze Biz

Life at Silicon Valley's most famous research center: A tech geek's uptopia. Read more

The Product Liability Trap

Injured workers are turning more and more to the manufacturer in damage suits. And even when the worker doesn't sue, the employer may.  Read more

Apprentice 3 - Already?

After last season's painful finale, I was ready to write off the Donald. But, as I mentioned in my last Apprentice blog, I was intrigued by the concept of...  Read more

Confessions of a Passionate Shopper

Introduction to Inc.'s first annual small company design awards.  Read more

The Master of the Soft Touch

Did you make your numbers this quarter? At Dan Weinfurter's company, that's the least important question.  Read more

Obituary: Frank Batten Sr., 1927-2009

Remembering the founder of the Weather Channel  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

Playing Well With Others

Office cliques sap morale and kill productivity. Does your firm have them?  Read more

Despite Smaller Loans, SBA Breaks Records

Why 2004 was great for the SBA.  Read more

The Future of Venture for America

They're wide-eyed students interested in entrepreneurship, but they're eschewing incubators and sidestepping venture funding. What gives?  Read more

Backing Away from Free Trade

Why Democrats have strayed from Bill Clinton's policies on trade.  Read more

Back to School

Successful executives head back to business school for further education in management issues.  Read more

For Cash-Strapped Cloudveil, it was a Very Hard Offer to Refuse

Could its founders sell the sportswear business without selling out?  Read more

Death to Cool

For years, iRobot designed stuff cool enough for the Sci-Fi Channel, but its new product sells on the Home Shopping Network. Here's how a boutique high-tech ...  Read more

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 more

The Way I Work: Lani Hay of Lanmark Technology

Government contractor Lani Hay spends her days meeting with politicians, partying with celebrities, and advising the military.  Read more

Learning From the Customer

Bill Crutchfield has been perfecting customer service for 30 years, and he credits his customers with teaching him everything.  Read more

Steal This Strategy

A good idea is a good idea -- even if it comes from someone else.  Read more

Climbing Back Up

When the founders of X-It Products saw a billion-dollar rival imitate the design of their sole product, they didn't have much hope that their tiny start-up c...  Read more

Paging Dr. Wireless

Long resistant to technology, the medical field is finally getting wired. But can anything short of a complete overhaul make a difference?  Read more

Paging Dr. Wireless

Long resistant to technology, the medical field is finally getting wired. But can anything short of a complete overhaul make a difference?  Read more

Bootstrapping: Great Companies Started with Less than a Thousand Dollars

CEOs from 11 different companies share tips and suggestions on how to fund a start-up with under $1,000.  Read more