Rising Stars The Pros and Cons of Starting Up in Your 20s, According to 2 Millennial FoundersIs it easier to start a company as a 20-something? Millennial entrepreneurs Adelle Archer, co-founder and CEO of Eterneva, and Adam Lyons, founder of The Zebra, debate the pros and cons.
Leading EdgeTat Bellamy-Walker You Already Have Subscriptions for Movies and Diapers. Why Not the Couch?The business model that started with clothing and Rent the Runway is taking a surprising new path.
Inc.'s Rising StarsAnna Meyer 50 World-Changing Startups to Watch in 2019From student loans to co-working at home, these entrepreneurs have keen ideas for fixing at least some of what ails society most.
Inc. 5000Guadalupe Gonzalez The Brutal Truths That Helped This 28-Year-Old Build a $9.5 Million BusinessOpenness is more than just a byword at this fast-growing company.
StartupCatherine Perloff How Nationwide Protests Inspired These Dartmouth Undergrads to Start UpThis startup thinks social media could do a better job of taking the pulse on college campuses.
30 Under 30 2018Tim Crino Finally, Someone Is Helping Make Mass Transit More Predictable. And Cities Love ItSwiftly is trying to save the environment, improve your commute, and break up traffic jams--and it's just getting started.
30 Under 30 2018Guadalupe Gonzalez After Stumbling Upon 'Dark Fibers' in New York, This 24-Year-Old Built a Cheaper, High-Speed Internet ProviderInternet service providers have a bad rep. This startup founder is trying to change that.
30 Under 30 2018Cameron Albert-Deitch How 2 Tea Addicts Took Their Obsession From Farmers' Markets to 6,500 Stores, Including CostcoTiesta Tea co-founders Dan Klein and Patrick Tannous turned a unique bond into effective leadership--and turned their college startup into a lucrative partnership.
30 Under 30 2018Zoë Henry This Startup Wants to Help Black Millennials Invest in Themselves, With a Unique Spin on BankingIn just over a year, the company has helped more than a thousand black men to put money toward their financial goals.
30 Under 30 2018Sophie Downes Meet the Founder Who's Taking Street Food to the 'BurbsHungry for a homemade meal? Pull Up a Seat will show you who's cooking around you.
30 Under 30 2018Sarah Jackson This Blogger Couldn't Find Stock Images of People of Color. Now She's Changing the Faces of Stock PhotographyKaren Okonkwo and Joshua Kissi's Tonl aims to bring people of color to the forefront of the stock photography industry, one shutter click at a time.
30 Under 30 2018Brit Morse This Startup Has a Small Army of Therapists With Laptops, Ready to Help People AnywhereTeletherapy is growing, and DotCom Therapy founders Emily Purdom and Rachel Robinson are out to help children in the most unexpected places.
30 Under 30 2018Guadalupe Gonzalez There Are 2.6 Billion Online Gamers in the World. This Startup Just May Connect Them AllStanislav Vishnevskiy and Jason Citron have turned a passion for video and computer games into the popular platform Discord.
30 Under 30 2018Michelle Cheng Hollywood Generates Tons of Garbage. This Startup Wants to Clean Up the $40 Billion IndustryThe 29-year-old founder wants to make the film industry more sustainable, one set at a time.
30 Under 30 2018Doug Cantor A Few Years Ago, This College Dropout Was on Food Stamps. Now He Owns a $90 Million CompanyScott Everett was a college dropout waiting tables to support his family while he tried to make his business, S2 Capital, into a success.
30 Under 30 2018Kevin J. Ryan Life on Mars Looks a Little More Possible Thanks to This Startup's 3-D Printed RocketThe co-founders of Relativity Space say they'll soon be able to 3-D print a rocket in just 60 days.
30 Under 30 2018Will Yakowicz A Marijuana Tech Company Failed. Then 3 Employees Decided to Launch a New Startup Doing the Same ThingThey used to work for Tradiv, a once-promising marijuana tech company that collapsed amid bad decisions, sexual harassment allegations, and a co-founder's psychedelic epiphany. They're starting over with Apex Trading.
30 Under 30 2018Jeff Bercovici The Oceans Are Running Out of Fish to Eat. Good Thing This Startup Is Growing Them in the LabCellular agriculture is poised to change the way we eat for the better, and Finless Foods is helping make it happen.
30 Under 30 2018Emily Canal Shark Tank's 30 Under 30 Share How They Found Inspiration From the Haters Who Thought They Were Too YoungThe trait that makes these young founders stand out can also be considered a hindrance in the business world.
30 Under 30 2018Lindsay Blakely When Cool Guys Want Luxury Watches and Wrist-Mounted Flamethrowers, This Is Where They ShopTouch of Modern has carved out a niche for itself as the go-to source for unique lifestyle products for men.
30 Under 30 2018Zoë Henry How Two Fraternity Brothers Are Putting Detroit Back to WorkThe co-founders designed a technology platform to connect skilled labor to construction firms across the city.
Inc. UncensoredZoë Henry Inc. Uncensored: Is it Time For An Internet Sales Tax?This week, writers and editors discuss a recent Supreme Court hearing over whether companies need to collect sales tax in states where they don't have a physical presence.
30 Under 30 2018Inc. staff00:38 These Are Some of Today's Most Extraordinary Founders--and They're Under 30
30 Under 30 2018Emily Canal How Two Frat Brothers Turned Their College Smoothie Startup Into a $3.6 Million CompanyKevin Gelfand and Martin Reiman built their company, Shake Smart, after struggling to find healthy and quick meals on their college campus.
30 Under 30 2018Zoë Henry 6 Hottest Industries for Millennial EntrepreneursTwenty-something founders are crowding around health food, influencer marketing, and services for minority groups, according to the results of Inc.'s annual '30 under 30' list.
30 Under 30 2018Diana Ransom This 21-Year-Old's $10 Million Business Is Just Nuts (Literally)No Cow founder Daniel Katz started his first business at the age of 21. Nine years later, he's on his way to building an empire.
30 Under 30 2018Diana Ransom The 1 Job Interview Question You Should Always Ask--and Other Top Advice From Today's Most Successful FoundersThis year's 30 Under 30 judges bestow their unconventional wisdom on today's aspiring young founders
30 Under 30 2018Leigh Buchanan How This UPenn Undergrad Turned African Hair Care Secrets Into a Subscription ServiceThe daughter of immigrants, Muhga Eltigani returned to her roots to find her business idea.
30 Under 30 2018Kevin J. Ryan This Entrepreneur Lost Her Beloved Mentor. So She Started a Company That Turns Ashes Into $7,000 DiamondsThe 27-year-old founder helps people deal with loss in a unique way. The cost? Around $7,000 per diamond.
30 Under 30 2018Will Yakowicz How These Two Dutch Entrepreneurs Hacked 100 Companies to Become One of the Biggest Hacking Platforms in the WorldJobert Abma and Michiel Prins founded HackerOne six years ago. Now, they help the biggest companies in the world find security vulnerabilities.
30 Under 30 2018Michelle Cheng How This 25-Year-Old Entrepreneur Is Convincing Companies Like Chick-fil-A and Delta to Save the BeesBee Downtown is selling beehives to corporations to help rebuild the honey bee population.
30 Under 30 2018Emily Canal Your New Best Friend Is an Algorithm That Wants to Get Rid of Your Adult AcneSend HelloAva a selfie and you'll get a new skin care regimen.
30 Under 30 2018Sonya Mann This 29-Year-Old Thinks Steve Jobs Is Wrong About Design. So He Built a Company to Prove ItSuhail Doshi's analytics company, Mixpanel, helped change the game of software development
LeadEmily Canal How a Young CEO Turned His Family's Failing, Third-Generation Business Into the No. 2 Egg Brand in America“I was a political science major and minored in economics, just perfectly well-equipped to be an egg farmer," says Jesse Laflamme, CEO of Pete and Gerry's Organic Eggs.
Tip SheetZoë Henry01:45 Meet the 6 Rising, Young Designers at New York Fashion WeekThese bold, young creators are gaining momentum in the fashion world.
LeadLeigh Buchanan Why Funny Leaders Are Better Leaders, According to 2 Stanford ProfessorsHumor is an under-appreciated tool for engaging employees and building resilient cultures. Many leaders have to work at it.
HiringJ.T. O'Donnell The 1 Job Interview Question You Should Never Forget to Ask (or You Might End Up Hating Your New Boss)It could be the best question you ask during the entire interview.
30 Under 30 2018Sonya Mann Why Robinhood Just Started Supporting Bitcoin and EthereumCrypto is the Wild West. 'We can make it a healthier ecosystem,' says Robinhood's CEO.
30 Under 30 2018Maisie Devine These Millennial Siblings Are Building a Multimillion-Dollar Fashion Company From Ocean PlasticIn 2015, brother and sister Jake and Caroline Danehy founded Fair Harbor, a sustainable fashion company that produces swimsuits from recycled ocean plastic that has been collected from around the world.
30 Under 30 2018Emily Canal This Founder Walked Away From a Major 'Shark Tank' Deal--and It Might Have Been Her Best Decision YetWhen pitching your business, always know the value of your company. At least, that's what the Shark Tank investors repeatedly tell contestants who appear on the show.
LeadAlexa von Tobel You Don't Need a Mentor to Be a Successful Entrepreneur--You Need a Bunch of Them. Here's WhyMentors are vital to success. But think of them as a board, and make sure it's diverse.
30 Under 30 2018Zoë Henry What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From These Teenage Indie RockersThe Brooklyn-based punk band Harsh Crowd is getting a crash course in entrepreneurship--and they're killing it.
30 Under 30 2018Ankur Jain These Sequoia-Backed Founders are on a Mission to Outdo Google GlassPerhaps the tool to bring hands-free augmented reality to the masses is already in our pocket.
30 Under 30 2018Cameron Albert-Deitch 2 Casper Co-Founders Swear by These Morning Routines (Hint: It's Not Just About Sleep)Morning routines and healthy sleep habits help Casper co-founders Neil Parikh and Luke Sherwin stay productive throughout the day.
30 Under 30 2018Will Yakowicz This $20 Million Startup Was on the Road to Riches. Then Its Leader Started Talking to GodThe inside story of Tradiv--a red-hot startup that collapsed amid bad decisions, allegations of sexual misconduct, and a co-founder's psychedelic epiphany.
30 Under 30 2018Inc. staff It's Time to Apply for Inc.'s 30 Under 30 ListDoes your business have what it takes?
30 Under 30 2018Mark Abadi How a Harvard Dropout Became the World's Youngest Self-Made Billionaire at Age 27The 27-year-old Irish entrepreneur co-founded the payments startup with his brother Patrick.
30 Under 30 2018Emily Canal These Young Co-Founders Dropped Out of School and Moved to a Surprising Place to Launch Their Telecom Startup"Your phone is smart, but you're smarter," co-founder Hunter Rosenblume says. "There's a better way to pay for data."
30 Under 30 2018Guadalupe Gonzalez This Sofa Startup Has Been Fighting Murphy's Law Since Day 1. Now It's Ending the Year With $3 Million in SalesWhat do you do when Murphy's law is determined to target your business?
Countdown: Holiday 2021Vanna Le This Company Is Going to IPO, Thanks to the $150 Million Buying Power of Dog-Obsessed ParentsBARK has consumers begging this season for glistening doggy treats and indestructible chew toys--and it's just getting started.
30 Under 30 2018Kevin J. Ryan This Startup Lost Its Co-Founder and CEO, But It Still Wants to 3-D Print You a Heart SomedayA lot has changed for Allevi, formerly known as BioBots--but the company pushes on.
30 Under 30 2018Laura Behrens Wu How to Break Into an Established Industry When You're the Small GuyThree perks of being "the little guy" in your industry.
30 Under 30 2018Emily Canal This Couple Went on 'Shark Tank' But Didn't Get a Deal. Instead, They Got Something BetterLaura and Michael J. Dweck, co-founders of Basic Outfitters, got a crash course in their business as a result of going in the Tank.
30 Under 30 2018Justin Bariso Are You Facing a 'Quarter-Life Crisis'? Here's What You Need to DoA LinkedIn survey says millennials are facing uncertainty and doubt. But those feelings can lead to positive change.