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Relationships


Confessions of a Former Entrepreneur

Sam Yagan sold OkCupid to Match.com for a ton of money. Why is he feeling so antsy?

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Adam Sachs, Kevin Owocki, and Dan Osit, Founders of Ignighter

Inc.com's 2011 30 Under 30 list: Adam Sachs, Kevin Owocki, and Dan Osit, Founders of Ignighter, one of India's fastest growing dating start-ups.

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Balancing Acts: Please, Turn Off the BlackBerry

Meg Cadoux Hirshberg discusses that despite our ability to be constantly connected, ignoring the phone and e-mail once in a while makes for a happy marriage and family.

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Founding the World's Simplest Dating Site

How about this: Propose a date; go on a date. No nonsense. Investors pounced, to the tune of $3.2 million. We caught up with the founders of HowAboutWe.com.

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Online Dating and Matchmaking

As the social stigma about online dating vanishes, industry-wide profits are soaring.

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Recent Articles about Relationships

How to Protect Your Business in a Divorce

Don't want your ex-spouse to end up as your business partner? Here's how to guard what's likely your most valuable financial asset.  Read more

Why Sex Sells More Than Ever

Valentine's Day marks the busy season for companies that make "pleasure products" and other adult merchandise -- a $2 billion industry that's moving out of t...  Read more

Partners in Business and Life

If you and your spouse are co-owners of a business, you need to get your ducks in a row. Tactfully.  Read more

In Time For Valentine's Day, the Next Wave Of Online Dating

Match-making has become a huge industry online, and continues to evolve as technology improves.  Read more

Divorce-Proofing Your Company

A divorce can destroy your company if you're unprepared. Here are tips on how to protect your business, including how to write a prenuptial, postnuptial, and...  Read more

Sign Of The Times

Start-up creates an invoicing system that allows divorced people to receive support payments without speaking.  Read more

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Divorce;

TO PLAN FOR IT MAY RUIN YOUR MARRIAGE NOT TO PLAN FOR IT MAY DESTROY YOUR COMPANY  Read more

Is Business Disrupting Your Sex Life?

Your marriage deserves as much attention as your business, says this M.D.  Read more

Balancing Acts: Is it OK to Leave Your Spouse at Home?

Meg Cadoux Hirshberg discusses how expectations and reality may differ.  Watch video

Their Online Dating Site was Struggling

Was a blind-date stunt really the answer?  Read more

Breakup Blues

Protecting your business if you (or your kids) get divorced.  Read more

Tax Realities of Husband-and-Wife Sole Proprietorships

A married couple can jointly own and operate a business as a sole proprietorship, under certain conditions. For tax purposes, your spouse is allowed to wo...  Read more

Consider Prenuptial Agreements

Recent legal developments now permit the foresighted entrepreneur to lessen the risk of forfeiting property and income through a properly drafted prenupti...  Read more

Best Friends in D.C.: Insider Tips [Audio]

What does it take to get your way in Washington? Executive Editor Mike Hofman offers some advice on making friends inside the Beltway.   Watch video

Your Business or Your Life

A business coach and author gives entrepreneurs a way to make a family plan alongside a business plan.  Read more

Whatsnext.com for Microsoft

Microsoft, the world's biggest company interms of market value -- $458 billion inNovember -- and the dominant player in theglobal computer industry, was t...  Read more

Who Loves You In D.C. (and Who Doesn't)

Most people in and around the government are beholden to Corporate America and don't pay attention to (let alone understand) the needs of entrepreneurs. Here...  Read more

Why Didn't I Think Of That! By Robert L. Shook. New American Library, 1633 Broadway, New York, Ny 10019; 188 Pp., $11.95.

A clever book idea that one wishes one had thought of details the development of erotic baking, the Hula Hoop, the Pet Rock, the Slinky, and eight other b...  Read more

And the Money Comes Rolling In

Markus Frind works one hour a day and brings in $10 million a year. How does he do it? He keeps things simple.  Read more

How To Work (If You Must) With Your Spouse

The challenges of working with a spouse are many. Here's how to overcome them.  Read more

Start-Up Looks to Match Mac Lovers

Do Apple fans inherently have more in common than just a love of Macs and iPads? Dating website Cupidtino is betting they do.  Read more

Oh, Shoot: Markus Frind

January's cover features the sole figure behind the internet's number one dating site. Markus Frind is only 30, and with a mix of ingenuity and practiced ...  Watch video

A Dating Site Thrives in Delhi

What would you do if your online start-up found a huge audience... in India? For Ignighter co-founder Adam Sachs, the answer is to hop on a plane.  Read more

10 Tips for a Happy Marriage

Business owners who want to keep their spouses happy would do well to live by these simple rules.  Read more

What Is A Wife Worth? By Michael H. Minton With Jean Libman Block. William Morrow Co., 105 Madison Ave., New York, Ny 10016; 192 Pp., $11.95.

If she has two preschool children, $44,436.50 a year, a prominent divorce lawyer claims. Before an aggrieved wife hires him, however, she should read Chap...  Read more

Face Time on Facebook

I don't know what is going on and this is just one woman's story. But in recent weeks, it seems everyone and their brother is contacting me via Facebook. ...  Read more

Love for the Workaholic

The best dating services for busy CEOs -- like this SWF.  Read more

The Medium is the Message

An overveiw of a telephone-message organizer that allows users to interact with the system by voice.  Read more

Personal Finance: Prenups and Other Protections

A lawyer gives some advice on how to mitigate the threat of a divorce settlement.  Read more

Franchisor's Fall

What does INC. want to say about Carol Brothers in "Fear of Franchising" (June) -- that she used her sexuality? Better to make the point all in one sente...  Read more

Disinheriting Family Members

The word " disinheritance" probably brings to mind thoughts of family fights, stress and strife. But there are many reasons why a someone might not want t...  Read more

Online Dating Sites Get Hitched

Match.com buys OKCupid, plus Google's war of words with Microsoft and the rest of the day's news.  Read more

Easter Eggs Turn Your Franchise Evergreen

In a spectacular example of sensationalism, J.K. Rowling announced a sur...  Read more

Office Romance

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Traveling on V-Day

Michael Ertel and Suzanne LaFata, Inc.com's business travel experts, offer this advice for making a business trip scheduled over Valentine's Day into a ro...  Read more

Entrepreneur Says "I Do" to Divorce Insurance

A North Carolina businessman who describes his own failed marriage as "world-class ugly" has come up with a novel product aimed at helping people defray the ...  Read more

America’s Fastest-Growing Media Company

GoLive! Mobile launched in 2006 and brought in $36.3 million in 2010 by providing mobile content to subscribers.  Read more

Sorry! A Fulfilling Retirement Is Not for Sale

Millions of Americans buy the retirement industry's familiar song: Unless you save upwards of a million dollars, you are likely to end your days living on...  Read more

Protecting Your Personal Assets

Insulating personal assets in the event of insolvency.  Read more