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Leigh Buchanan is an editor-at-large for Inc. magazine. A former editor at Harvard Business Review and founding editor of Webmaster magazine, she writes regular columns on leadership and workplace culture.

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Rising Stars

These 2 Young Founders Are Trying to Keep More Than 100,000 Sick Patients From Falling Through the Cracks

Founders Project

Why the Small Business Administration Should Make Startups a Priority

Lead

This Book Aims to Expose the Problem With Every Leadership Theory You've Ever Heard

Founders Project

The Heartbreaking Tale of How This Founder Built an $11 Million Company After a Life of Abuse and Poverty

Patents and Trademarks

How a Kickstarter Campaign Ignited the Surprisingly Cutthroat Beanbag Wars

Surge Cities

How Philadelphia Entices the Best Immigrant Entrepreneurs to Start Businesses There

Surge Cities

This Acclaimed Chef Didn't Hit His Stride Until He Embraced Something He Had Long Hoped to Forget: Where He's From

Surge Cities

This Refugee Founded a Company to Protect Domestic Workers

Founders Project

This Is What Puts Companies on the Path to Greatness, According to a Famous Management Guru

Founders Project

The Senate Just Made a Bold Move to Jump-Start the Creation of New Businesses

Lead

10 Years After the 'Miracle on the Hudson,' Sully Sullenberger Talks Incredible Mental Discipline and How to Handle Pressure

Inc. 5000 Europe

American Inventors Are About to Enter a Golden Age. It Just Won't Be in the U.S.

Female Founders

Study: For Female Founders Seeking VC Funding for the First Time, the Playing Field Is Finally Getting More Level

Founders Project

He Built a Massive Yogurt Brand. She's Making Liquor From Dairy Products. Let the Mentoring Begin

Founders Project

Here's What the Most Fearless Leaders Know About Tackling Audacious Goals

Main Street

They Wanted Their Kids to Read Black Authors. So They Opened a Bookstore

Surge Cities

The Complicated Business of Building a Startup Scene From Scratch in Camden, New Jersey

Business Books

How 1 Company--and Its Insanely Popular and Cheap Noodles--Transformed Nigeria

Lead

What Everyone Needs to Understand About Millennial Bosses

Best of Inc.

10 Business Books You Need to Read in 2019

Main Street

How This Octogenarian Turned Defective Diapers and Scrap Paper Into a Family Business for the Ages

Best of Inc.

10 Inspiring Entrepreneurs We Lost in 2018

Surge Cities

The Hottest Education Startup in the U.S. Is a $700 Million Company Built by a Guatemalan Engineer in Pittsburgh

Surge Cities

From Robotics to Food Halls and Self-Driving Cars, Pittsburgh Is Attracting a New Breed of Entrepreneurs

Main Street

Inside the Alaska Company That Lets You Stroll With Reindeer

The Inc. Life

20 Percent of This Company's Employees Are Married to Co-Workers. Here's How It All Works

Best Industries

6.4 Million Children in the U.S. Have ADHD. This Company Wants Doctors to Treat Them With Video Games

Main Street

Inside the $400 Million Family-Run Supermarket That Helped Launch Martha Stewart and Paul Newman

Best of Inc.

The 10 Best Business Books of 2018

Productivity

National Entrepreneur's Day Is November 20. Here's How to Celebrate and Show Your Support

Main Street

This 90-Year-Old Electric Grill Company Is Enjoying Newfound Fame--Thanks to the World Series-Winning Boston Red Sox

Icons & Innovators

Seth Godin: 'There Are No Marketing Tools That Will Solve Your Problems'

Main Street

The Heartbreaking Tale of the Company Behind the World's Greatest Wrench

E-commerce

This 'Shark Tank' Winner Wants to Keep Amazon From Taking a Bite Out of Other Businesses' Profits

Lead

General Stanley McChrystal: Why the Toughest Bosses Have the Most Devoted Employees

Main Street

This Guy Is Proving $70 Custom Vampire Fangs Aren't Just for Halloween Anymore

Inc. Entrepreneurship Index

This Company's Technology 'Sees' for Blind Entrepreneurs

Lead

What the Founders of Honest Tea, Houzz, and Drybar Learned From Their Favorite Bosses

Lead

6 Ways to Make Sure Your Employees Know You Care About Them

Main Street

This Tiny Company in Wyoming Spins Over 15,000 Pounds of Wool for Retailers Across the Country