Clipped!
Linda Froehlich, inventor of the SuperClip, describes how large office-supply companies crowded out her patented product with knockoffs. Read more
Writing a Business Plan
Recent Writing a Business Plan Articles
More Than a Passing Interest
As a former wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Inc. 500 CEO John Stallworth tells how he made the jump from catching passes to running a company. Read more
Pop Quiz: Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Inc. 500 CEO?
The folks who built America's fastest-growing businesses are just like you. Maybe. Read more
How Can I Get Employees to Buy Into Our Strategy?
You can fine-tune your business plan by listening to the people who implement it?your employees. Read more
Hoop Dreams: New League Banks on Sisterhood
A look at a women's basketball league that is banking on grassroots marketing and worker solidarity. Read more
The Next Big Things
Inc. asks several ad hoc demographic experts to predict the future and suggest what will be the next big thing. Read more
Where to Find Business Help
A survey details the sources entrepreneurs turn to for business information. Read more
The Entrepreneurial Balancing Act: Making the Best of a Good Thing
A CEO offers advice on how to best leverage the entrepreneur's freedom to support your family and your personal life. Read more
Start-up Chasers Track New-Biz Storm
Start-ups are enjoying newfound importance with policymakers and here's how they're being tracked. Read more
Genrational Marketing
An offering from the recent book on marketing, Rocking the Ages. Read more
Help Wanted: Smart CEOs. No Ideas Necessary
Unlikely as it sounds, venture firms are setting up entrepreneurs just so they can decide on a what business to start. Read more
Bad Boys of Capitalism
The story of how a start-up is making money for itself and its clients through NASDAQ's Small-Order Execution System. Read more
Info Gathering as Reflex
Keep asking your customers for feedback, and you'll see the benefits of listening to them. Read more
Live Your Mission Statement
To give its mission statement real meaning, this auto-center chain held a series of weekend workshops on quality and customer service for its technicians--ma... Read more
Routing Around, Controlling the Flow, Setting Up Shop
Three CEOs each review a different software package. Read more
Entrepreneurship Unplugged: Amish and the Internet
You'd think the Amish would shun the Internet ? after all, they aren't exactly known for their embrace of technology. But for some Amish, marketing and promo... Read more
Use the Right Marketing Numbers
A marketing expert and entrepreneur tells why marketing strategies not based on hard data are doomed to fail. Read more
Who Are the Real Entrepreneurs?
A noted entrepreneur explains why many people who share that lable are not really entrepreneurs. Read more
The Classics
A noted author offers readers a guide to the best business and management books of all time. Read more
The Virtue of Necessity
Given that the Amish reject self-advancement, what explains their success as entrepreneurs? Read more
The Best (Way)laid Plans
Here's an Inc. 500 CEO who found that focus, fearlessness, and flexibility work better than a business plan. Read more
Higher Ground
Some Inc. 500 CEOs from the 1980s explain how if you don't act fast, your successful business might out grow you. Read more
What Business Would You Start Today?
One Inc 500 CEO explains how he would like to start an all-dance T.V. network as his next start-up. Read more
Sixty Degrees of Separation
A cofounder of an Inc. 500 company tells how he wrote his businesss plan in Antarctica. Read more
Disco, Duck!
Profile of an Inc. 500 CEO whose past venture evolved into the wildly successful T.V. show, Dance Fever. Read more
