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Feed SubscriptionCaffeinated coffee curbs depression in women? What study says
Harvard study shows that the more coffee women drink, the lower their chances of developing depression
Read More »How I Did It: Hartley Peavey of Peavey Electronics
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Read More »Training CEOs to Be Better Leaders
Former Navy SEAL Rob Roy is on a mission to toughen up American CEOs. For Rob Roy, warfare is more than just a business metaphor. A former Navy SEAL, Roy runs SOT-G, a Coronado, California, company that puts clients, most of them business leaders, through a hellish 80-hour leadership course inspired by military combat prep
Read More »Meeting Some Very Smart People
Editor Jane Berentson discusses her recent visit to the headquarters of The Kauffman Foundation, which opened its first charter school in August. For years, my colleagues and I have consumed research from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation the way nonfoodies consume fine restaurant meals—appreciative of the product's quality but not especially curious about its source. Kauffman, one of the 30 largest foundations in the United States, fosters entrepreneurship with grants, research, education, and policy recommendations
Read More »Case Study: Targeting the Right Market
Fun and Functions products for special-needs kids were a hit with parents.
Read More »Reader Mail: October 2011
Readers respond to our our story about globetrotting 21-year-old Ankur Jain and our How I Did It feature package, along with columns by Jason Fried and Meg Hirshberg. Tales From the Front Readers of all ages enjoyed our cover story about 14 entrepreneurs and their successes, failures, and lessons learned (" How I Did It ," July/August) .
Read More »The Business of The High Line
Heres a look at the companies that provided the lighting, plants, irrigation system, and teak in New York Citys High Line park.
Read More »The Scary Side of Entrepreneurship
Chris Savage, the founder of Wistia, on the fear of entrepreneurship "Being an entrepreneur is all about fear: fear of failing, fear of making the wrong decision, even fear of success. The difference between succeeding and failing is how you choose to confront your fears." Chris Savage, CEO and co-founder of Wistia, an online video hosting service based in Somerville, Massachusetts, wrote about the scary side of entrepreneurship on his blog, SavageThoughts.com
Read More »Inc. 5000 Small Business Confidence Survey, Fall 2011
Inc. 5000 CEOs weigh in on the economy, hiring, and sales. The CEOs of Inc
Read More »Book Review: Demand
Authors Adrian J. Slywotzky and Karl Weber offer tips on creating what people love before they know they want it The book: Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It, by Adrian J.
Read More »Want to Know What Your Employees Really Think?
Consider staging a Comedy Central-style celebrity roast of your top-selling product. Once a year or so, everyone at our company gets together for a week to hang out, work together, and socialize. Because 37signals consists of 28 people located in nearly 20 cities around the world, these get-togethers are rare—and important
Read More »Why You Should Hire E-lancers
When you dont need a full-time employee to do the task at hand, hire an e-lancer from one of these new companies. Call it the joblet recovery. With unemployment at 9 percent and 2012 looking bleak, many job seekers find themselves adrift in a modern version of the preindustrial piecework economy
Read More »Innovation: A Cheaper Alternative to Kevlar
Novana says it has developed an antiballistic material that is just as tough as Kevlar, but less expensive to make. Tougher Than a Speeding Bullet Kevlar has long been the bulletproof material of choice for military and law enforcement agencies.
Read More »Inc. 5000 Update: Costume Craze
Kate Maloney of Costume Craze finds success selling Halloween costumes. At start-ups, things don't always go according to plan. Take Costume Craze, an online costume retailer based in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
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