Colleen DeBaise

Colleen DeBaise is a contributing editor at Inc.com. She has spent the bulk of her career covering entrepreneurship, primarily as the small business editor of The Wall Street Journal, and later as a contributor to The New York Times. She is also the author of The Wall Street Journal Complete Small Business Guidebook.

An entrepreneur herself, she is the founder of the Hampton Bee, an online publication covering the business community of Long Island’s East End. She’s also a contributor to The Story Exchange, a nonprofit media organization devoted to women business owners.