CEO Passions: Orchid Cultivation
Civil engineer Chris Rehmann tends to some 1,200 orchids in his backyard greenhouse.
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Playdom Joins the Magic Kingdom for $563 Million
Disney's deal for the two-and-a-half year old company is the richest ever in the fledgling but fast-growing social gaming market.
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Callie Works-Leary, Founder of CityCraft
Dallas entrepreneur Callie Works-Leary hopes to build CityCraft into the Crate & Barrel of the sewing world.
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Fun, Games, and Hobbies
Stores that sell crafts, hobby goods, and musical instruments have been performing better than the retail industry as a whole.
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Self-Published Video Games
Entrepreneurs and code geeks with a solid idea can elbow their way into this highly competitive field.
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Behind the Quiet Success of the Video Game Industry
The video game industry is quietly putting up revenue numbers that rival the movie and music industries. Author Harold Goldberg shares what other industries ... Read more
Nolan Bushnell is Back in the Game
Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, employed Steve Jobs, built a bunch of robots, and pretty much invented the whole cocky-young-entrepreneurial-genius pose. He's ... 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
Xbox Live Leaves Indie Developers in the Cold
Xbox will be even more socially connected, come autumn, but will smaller game developers be let in on the action? Probably not. Read more
Passions: Vernon LaVia, Bird Watcher
To call him avid would be an understatement. In the bird-watching world, where bragging rights belong to those with the longest lists of birds spot... Read more
In a Recession, It's Fun and Games
Despite recession, 2008 was a banner year for the gaming industry. Read more
A Skimmer's Guide to the Latest Business Books: Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business
The book: Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business, by David Edery and Ethan Mollick; FT Press... Read more
Atari sneezed, and EA caught a cold
Electronic Arts , founded by Trip Hawkins, in 1982, was the first software development firm to sell its products directly to consumers ins... Read more
The Get Ahead Guide: Seema Sudan Made Money on Her First Collection
But the rag trade is full of knockoff artists. How can she protect her brand? Read more
How Hasbro Loses At Scrabble (Even If It Wins Its Lawsuit)
Quick: What 9-letter word can you spell with Y, I, R, G, C, P, O, H, and T? If you came up with COPYRIGHT, you're either a crack Scrabble player ... Read more
An Ace in Your Pocket
With the Samsung BlackJack smart phone, you are sure to receive a fast payout. Read more
Etiquette: Pick Me!
A boss's guide to buying flowers. Read more
He Took On the Whole Power-Tool Industry
Why wasn't anyone else interested in building a safer saw? Read more
The Trouble with Tax Holidays
Consumers and politicians love them, but state sales tax holidays are becoming a major headache for businesses. Read more
Train Wreck
Mike Wolf always dreamed of running toy-train icon Lionel. Now he's locked in a death struggle with the company he loved. A report from model railroading's t... Read more
He Took On the Whole Power-Tool Industry
Why wasn't anyone else interested in building a safer saw? Read more
Her Kind of Town
How landscaper Christy Webber (Inner City 100 2004's No. 54) mowed her way into the hearts of Chicago's elite. Read more
On The Board
One company keeps itself in check. Read more
Inc. 500 Interview: Video Gaming Technologies
Video gaming machines are not just for fun and games. Business leaders can learn from the technology, too. Read more
By Special Arrangement
Flowers are a perennial business gift. But how do you find the best and brightest blooms? Read more
Working Wonders on the Web
The Internet isn't just for decorative marketing sites these days. Companies on the leading edge are harnessing the Web to run some of their most strategic o... Read more
Working Wonders on the Web
The Internet isn't just for decorative marketing sites these days. Companies on the leading edge are harnessing the Web to run some of their most strategic o... Read more
Inside the Smartest Little Company in America
Whit Alexander and Richard Tait, founders of Cranium Inc., had never run a business before. But they did have one thing going for them: brains. That's why th... Read more
What Products Should I Sell?
My business is to show people where they can find products to sell without investing a single penny in inventory. The approach is called drop shipp... Read more
Tech Talk: Game Tool Maker Betters Accounting
A game tool and technology developer deployed a new financial management system that enabled the company to consolidate financial data across three non-U.S. ... Read more
Business for Pleasure: Hobby Businesses
For many small business owners, the business is more a labor of love than a reliable source of income. This is most often the case when the owner has othe... Read more
The Perfect Internet Business
Garden.com is one of the hottest Internet companies around, but what's so special about it is how basic it is. Here's what you can learn from the secrets of ... Read more
Get a New Perspective
R D for new goods and services is too important to be left to the same folks. Here's why. Read more
Plant Purification
A short list of office pollutants and the potted plants which most effectively neutralize them. Read more
Eye on the Sparrow
Company is marketing a video bird-identification board game. Read more
Splitting Heirs (1988)
Nearly a hundred years ago, Lorenzo Vaughn planted a time bomb in his company. Finally, it went off Read more
Cultivating Growth
Behind the quaint New England facade of White Flower Farm lies a market-driven company fueled by repeat business and one of the highest average orders in the... Read more
Money In Coins
Rare coins are no more confusing or erratic than any other investment ("All that Glitters," Personal Portfolio, November 1985). Talk to five different sto... Read more
The Real Father Of Video Games
Your story on Nolan Bushnell ("When the Magic Goes," October 1984) was great, and it has me looking forward to the next exciting episode. But it left me w... Read more
The Growth Industry
The broad greenswards of suburbia are proving to be fertile ground for a new service business. Mowing lawns has remained the province of teenage entrepren... Read more
When The Magic Goes
The adoring crowd of 300 engineers executives, and reporters fell silent. They had gathered this Friday night in the bright new site of Sente Technologies... Read more
The Flipping Of Coin Fortunes
New England Rare Coin Galleries Inc., whose fortunes were described in "The Solid-Gold Roller Coaster" (see INC., April 1982), is proving that the rare co... Read more
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