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Celebrity News


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.

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Hey Kids, In.tel.inside

Intel has a new director of creative innovation: Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. Why not? Polaroid has Lady Gaga as its creative director. I think of th...  Read more

Time For Launch 2.0

I was watching Marc Benioff from Salesforce.com launch Chatter (the social networking app for Salesforce.com). No surprises here. The video featu...  Read more

Top 10 Celebrity Entrepreneurs

Plenty of well-known people dabble in business. A smaller number are talented businesspeople, the real deal, and these are the best of them. Plus: Moby, Remi...  Read more

How I Did It: Kevin Plank

For the founder of apparel-maker Under Armour, entrepreneurship is 99% perspiration and 1% polyester.  Read more

Mail: July 2003

Jennifer Lopez: savvy brand builder or trademark thief? Plus: Sales commissions, employee stock ownership, and embezzlement.  Read more

Poncho And Lefty

"It was one of the highlights of my life. I mean, it's not every day that you have a book dedicated to you. But to have one dedicated to you and Willie N...  Read more

Top 10 Celebrity Entrepreneurs

Plenty of well-known people dabble in business. A smaller number are talented businesspeople, the real deal, and these are the best of them. Plus: Moby, Remi...  Read more

Avril Lavigne's New Business

The rock celebrity launches a new retailing business, called AbbeyDawn.com.  Read more

What Would Indiana Jones Do?

This weekend's box office supports the idea that Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones may be the adventure hero of this (or any) century. Seriously, who can com...  Read more

At the Movies: The Aviator

"Fasten your seatbelts and strap yourself in for The Aviator . This entrepreneurial epic soars!!!" -- Patrick J. Sauer, Inc.com This is my G...  Read more

6 Branding Ideas From Jay-Z and Kanye West

Jay-Z and Kanye West released one of the most anticipated albums on the year, Watch the Throne . They were able to leverage paid, earned, and owned a...  View slideshow

Small Kombucha Brewers Find Themselves in Hot Water

Dozens of small brewers suddenly in dire straits as the government weighs whether the popular bottled tea should be regulated as an alcoholic beverage.  Read more

Oh, Shoot: A Hard Day's Night with Kevin Rose

It ain't easy being an Internet superstar. Inc. photography editor Travis Ruse shares the inside story of our November cover shoot.   Watch video

What the Stars Ate Last Night

How do you keep 1,500 power players well-fed and happy on Hollywood's biggest night? No one knows better than Wolfgang Puck, who has been catering the Gov...  Read more

Golfer Woods Tees Off New Venture

Nov. 7, 2006 -- Golf legend Tiger Woods is turning entrepreneur with the launch yesterday of his first golf course design firm. Ti...  Read more

Google Adwords To Penalize Slow Loading Ads

Businesses that use Adwords live and die by their "quality score". Google has announced that starting this month they will be adding a new benchmark that ...  Read more

The Entrepreneur Stays in the Picture

Why the Envy director employs entrepreneurs in his films.  Read more

Jacks of All Trades

How do Inc. 500 honorees see themselves? As lone heroes fighting the forces of evil (à la Jack Bauer, from 24)? As good-natured klutzes (Jack Tripp...  Read more

Yahoo Contest Winners Named

A miniature fairy sculptor, the inventor of an alternative keyboard, and a children's playhouse builder will get to meet Ivanka Trump as the winners of th...  Read more

Hiring, Hollywood Style

What Hugh Grant and your marketing assistant may have in common.  Read more

Obit: Restaurateurs Lose Grip on Star's Coattails

What better celebrity to endorse your restaurant than Michael Jordan? But when the owners' friendship with their celebrity patron deteriorated, it was only a...  Read more

Entrepreneurs in the News

The latest on Danny Meyer, Rodney Henry, and Lauren Conrad  Read more

The A-B-C's of Bespoke Clothing

Since the 17th century, men of means have bought bespoke. But these dapper handmade suits made popular by Cary Grant and the Beatles are no longer reserve...  Watch video

Celebrity Lessons in Selling

What can Justin Bieber teach you about optimizing your sales strategy? Baby, ooh: quite a lot.  View slideshow

A Chain of Flip-Flop Sellers?

Flip Flop Shops successfully sells only flip-flops and sandals.  Read more

Things I Can't Live Without

One bag to hold it all  Read more

Life After The Hills

The TV show’s stars show their entrepreneurial skills.  Read more

Endorsements and Testimonials

On the presumption that people are more likely to buy products other people, people they know, have already bought and liked, marketers the world over hav...  Read more

What I Learned from Michael

The news of Michael Jackson's death took me back to my childhood. We lived on Hovey Street and the Jacksons lived across Clark Road in an area called Tarr...  Read more

Don't Get Fleeced By Your Kids

Few of us will be lucky enough to live to 105, and hardly any will die with an estate worth Read more

Lessons from Google's Eric Schmidt

Learning from Google's IPO. In the six years since Google's went public, its stock price has gone from $85 to $581, and it has become one of the mo...  Read more

More Volume!

How Jerry and Mindy Harvey saved Alex Van Halen's hearing (what's left of it), learned some important lessons about business, and built Ultimate Ears, a $22 ...  Read more

Is it Time for the Founder to Go?

How to lower your business bills . According to BillShrink, the answer is to choose your service providers wisely. The service, which gets a write-u...  Read more

Top 10 Celebrity Entrepreneurs

Plenty of well-known people dabble in business. A smaller number are talented businesspeople, the real deal, and these are the best of them. Plus: Moby, Remi...  Read more

Learning Business From the Big Screen

From overcoming fear to maintaining work-life balance, here are 7 lessons every business owner can learn from big screen classics.  View slideshow

How Much Would You Gamble to Put Your Brand on Prime Time?

A fashion entrepreneur takes a major leap of faith, and it pays off at the Emmys.  Read more

The Making of a Fashion Phenomenon

They started as collectibles for kids, but the candy colored bracelets known as Silly Bandz are fast becoming a bona fide fashion statement for all ages.  Read more

Chris Burch's Latest Cool Company

The fashion mogul is now bringing style to office supplies.  Read more

Updates

Making the Most of a Brush With Fame November 2006 In our list of 50 green entrepreneurial companies ("Read more

Q&A With Screenwriter John Logan

John Logan is no stranger to Alpha males, their giant egos, and how they perform when the moment of truth is upon them. Hell, he's building an impressive ...  Read more