Relationships


Is Business Disrupting Your Sex Life?

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

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 story

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Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money "Tell Ahu-kinum: Immediately after you left for the trip, Imgur-Sin arrived here and claimed: "He owes me one-third of...  Read story

Divorce;

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

Sign Of The Times

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

Breakup Blues

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

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 story

Their Online Dating Site was Struggling

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

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 story

Your Business or Your Life

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

Ask Inc.: Mixing Business and Personal?

The founders of Preserve and Fairytale Brownies ask about the downside to doing business with friends  Read story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 sim...  Read story

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 story

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 story

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 story

The Medium is the Message

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

Personal Finance: Prenups and Other Protections

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

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 story

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 story

Love for the Workaholic

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

Office Romance

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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 story

Protecting Your Personal Assets

Insulating personal assets in the event of insolvency.  Read story

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 story

Women In Business: Hitting A Raw Nerve

You continue to foster the myth that women are dizzy, submissive, and not interested in the finer points of business ownership and entrepreneurship. The ...  Read story

Controlling Property Beyond the Grave

Q: I am married with no children and plan to leave a will in which my entire estate goes to my husband. If he predeceases me, I will dire...  Read story

What the Judges Look for...

What's going to put your business plan in the winner's circle? Here's what the judges look for when choosing winning business plans.  Read story

Love Among the Cubicles

With Americans logging more hours at work, the office has become the new singles scene -- and a growing number of bosses are simply looking the other way.  Read story

Ways to Avoid Probate

Payable-on-Death Bank Accounts Payable-on-death bank accounts offer one of the easiest ways to keep money -- even large sums of i...  Read story

Hot Thing

New business operates out of an incubator selling marinated chili peppers.  Read story

Let's Be Friends

Bosses who are determined to be everyone's best friend could be doing more harm to their work environments than good.  Read story

Do You Need a Lawyer to Make Your Will?

Most people can make a will without a lawyer's help. Here's why.  Read story

Beware the Venture Catalyst

Heard about venture catalysts? These newfangled matchmakers may have great connections to angel investors and venture capitalists, but they may also be br...  Read story

Get$$$Now.com

New online intermediaries are closing the capital gap for companies that have outgrown friends-and-family financing but can't get a backward glance from vent...  Read story