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"The way we do business is going to change so fundamentally in the next 10 years," says Vaynerchuk.
Read More »Do Entrepreneurs Need to Be Crazy?
And if they are, can they ever make a successful CEO? If you've ever started a company, you might have a disorder. That's the thesis of the Inc
Read More »Tips for Running Daily and Local Deals
Inc. has covered the Daily Deal and Local Deal space quite extensively over the last year or so. In fact my colleague Eric Markowitz has reported on the death of daily deals (and their resurrection ) in the last few weeks.
Read More »This Week In Bots: Sorry, Goose, But It’s Time To Buzz A Tower
Quadrocopters Landing On Quadrocopters ... And So On Ad-Infinitum We know quadrocopters are maneuverable in extremis, and we know that they can move in ever-smarter aerial ballets with other units, flying in unison...but the team at UPenn's GRASP Lab has pulled off something rather amazing: They've designed a way for a smaller quadrocopter to land on a bigger one--which will act as a flying landing pad of sorts.
Read More »Wanda Sykes says she had double mastectomy: Why?
Comedian says she had both breasts removed after doctors found early-stage cancer in one breast
Read More »How I Structure Innovation
Merisant CEO Paul Block says rather than leave innovation and inspiration to a whim, structure your company and empower employees to think toward the future. The assumption that inspiration only requires people in a room and a conversation is completely false. To channel inspiration and bring innovation to a company, you need a logical structure and organization.
Read More »John Vechey on How to Cope With Success
John Vechey, co-founder of Seattle-based games maker PopCap Games, just sold his company to Electronic Arts for just under a billion dollars, so you might think he doesn't have to fret about success any longer. But according to Vechey, it's not success that CEOs need to be concerned about, but how they will deal with that success once it comes their way. Vechey, always humble, shared with our Inc.
Read More »Are These New Logos An Upgrade Or A Downgrade?
Good logos are like good friends: "When they show up wearing a mustache, with no explanation, you just go, 'Huh?'" says Michael Cronan, creative director at branding firm Cronan. But, of course, most logo changes are done for a reason. Cronan and partner Karin Hibma evaluate three recent ones
Read More »Solar-Powered Water ATMs Provide Clean Drinking Water To The Thirsty
In remote areas where clean water is scarce, Sarvajal's water-dispensing ATMs provide a cheap solution.
Read More »Business Schools Add Courses On Ethics, But Are Graduates More Ethical?
Post-financial meltdown, business schools are trying to make their graduates more responsible. But does taking one class on ethics work, or does a new ethical model need to permeate the curriculum? Many industry watchers saw business schools as contributing factors in the financial crisis, arguing that, by failing to challenge orthodoxies, and overlooking “ socially useless ” activities, they helped create conditions for collapse
Read More »Innovation Lessons From The Washington Post
For an industry that is based on diving into the unknown, the news business has been notoriously adverse to exploring real innovation in its own industry—despite the fact that it has been floating in a sea of disruption for at least a decade. That’s why the work of The Washington Post Company and its two-year-old WaPo Labs is notable. The principles under which the Labs were founded serve as a roadmap for reinvention—not just for the news business but for any company whose once-firmly entrenched industry is now being shaken up
Read More »Cheap beer ailing America? 12 states with "worst" beer taxes
Watchdog group says low beer taxes are bad for Americans' health
Read More »Video: "A Gifted Man" chooses to help the needy
CBS News correspondent Karen Brown talks to Dr.
Read More »Success Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
High-profile entrepreneurs John Vechey and Ted Leonsis get real about what happens after your company is successful. The second half of the morning at Inc. 500|5000 conference, which featured hugely successful PopCap founder John Vechey and serial entrepreneur Ted Leonsis , took a different tone from the energetic coffee-fueled morning sessions
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