Six Questions to Ask Yourself Before Starting a Business
Do you have what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur? Here are six things to consider Read story
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The Silver Lining for Small Business in a Recession
Kauffman Foundation president Carl Schramm talks about why great companies tend to get launched during recessions Read story
Jim Collins: How to Thrive in 2009
As part of our 30th-anniversary issue, Inc. asked Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last , what we might expect in ... Read story
Show Me the Money!
They say it takes money to make money. But when you're young and trying to start a business, where do you turn for that all-important start-up capital? Read story
Who Are the 30 Under 30?
America's coolest young entrepreneurs are making their mark in a wide range of industries -- and making millions in the process. Read story
MIT Springboard Sends Internet Company Aloft
University's business-plan contest catapults two students into entrepreneurship. For the CEO they hired, it's deja vu The old saw... Read story
Heavenly Strategies for High-Tech Start-Ups
Each week, the web-based, early-stage venture financing firm Garage.com receives hundreds of proposals from prospective high-tech startup companies lookin... Read story
Why Don't Your Kids Want To Be Entrepreneurs?
Freedom! Independence! The dream of being on one's own! That's the American ethic, nurtured by tales of hardy immigrants who took their lives into their... Read story
Anatomy of a Start-Up, Part 1: The Climb Begins
In mid-October Richard L. Thompson, 44, and Lawrence G. Braitman, 40, co-founders of Flycast Communications, a Web-based advertising firm, flew from San F... Read story
What Makes a Good Entrepreneurial Manager? Ask Middle Managers
According to a recent Industry Standard article, the highly successful entrepreneur John Peters, now CEO of broadband service provider Sigma Netw... Read story
Angel Investor Directory
Finding the right angel investor could help you get your start-up off the ground. Angel-investor networks are a good place to start looking for funding. T... Read story
Directory of VC and Entrepreneurial Boot Camps
We've compiled a list of boot camps and forums across the country where entrepreneurs interested in acquiring capital are learning to fine-tune business plan... Read story
The Equity Partnership As A Seed For Start-ups
Since the limited partners get the early losses, they demand less equity from founders at the time of tax-free conversion. Read story
Sounding the Sirens
With budget deficits growing, government-sponsored programs for small businesses are being cut back or altered. Yet many government resources are still av... Read story
Entrepreneurship: Can the Touch be Taught?
Can you teach someone to be an entrepreneur? With more than 1,500 U.S. colleges offering some sort of entrepreneurship classes -- by the Ewing Mari... Read story
Rise of the Entrepreneurial Class
Five years ago, Jim Poss, a 28-year-old environmental studies grad from Duke University, was determined to make a living in renewable energy -- he had the... Read story
"Angel" Investors
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Business Incubators
As the phrase itself implies, business incubators are programs intended to help small businesses get off the ground. They almost always provide both servi... Read story
Choosing a Small Business
The individual who decides to establish his or her own small business stands on the cusp of an exciting and potentially rewarding period of life. But he o... Read story
Collegiate Entrepreneurial Organizations
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Entrepreneurial Networks
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship comes from entrepreneur, anglicized from the original French word. It means someone who undertakes something. Merriam-Webster defines "e... Read story
Seed Money
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Venture Capital Networks
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What America Needs Is A Few Good Failures
Four years ago, David Birch showed that small companies create most of the country's jobs. Now he has found that failure is just as important as success in k... Read story
The Third Wave
U.S. entrepreneurs are filling new niches in the semiconductor industry. Read story
Changing Tides For Entrepreneurs
INC.'s fifth anniversary issue (April), with its articles about entrepreneurs, came across my desk the same day I was set to re-read an article from INC. ... Read story
Fear Of Capitalism
Entrepreneurism is the most creative -- and revolutionary -- activity in the American economy. Most politicians would just as soon do without it. Read story
Entrepreneurs: The Democrats' Secret Weapon
When Democrats around the country take a close look at our economy, they'll realize that entrepreneurial companies are not part of the problem, but part of t... Read story
Reading, Writing, And Revenues
The current crop of student entrepreneurs are determined not to let school get in the way of their education. Read story
Europe Inc.
In Europe, it used to be that the only thing worse than failing at entrepreneurship was succeeding, and making money. Now, suddenly, entrepreneurship is all ... Read story
Disagreement With Drucker
Peter Drucker may have invented the discipline of management and written several insightful books on that subject, but he has yet to address the subject o... Read story
University, Inc.;
DONALD L. SNELLMAN NEVER graduated from high school. But the owner and founder of printing-equipment maker Norfin Inc. has made it to the upper reaches o... Read story
Is It Easier Than Ever To Start A Business?
It may look easier, what with all the advice and money and services available. But it may be harder than ever to succeed. Read story
But Will They Make It?
At the Institute for New Business Ventures, we see many new and emerging businesses in Indiana and offer would-be entrepreneurs some insight into what the... Read story
Live Fast, Die Young
Statistics show that successful entrepreneurship requires tenacity and patience. Read story
The Disciples of David Birch
A new generation of researchers discover the effect of small business on the economy. Read story
Natural Partners
New businesses create a major trend by forming partnerships with established companies. Read story
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Book Review: American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technical Enthusiasm 1870-1970. (Viking 1989) Read story
Venture Capital in the 1990s
Interview with six prominent venture capitalists on the industry's future. Read story
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