Bill Nguyen launches startups with haste, never researches the competition, and makes the same mistakes "again and again." So why do people keep giving him so much money? td p {padding:10px !important;font-size:12px !important;font-family:arial !important;line-height:1.2em !important;} "I make the same mistakes with every single startup," says Nguyen, pictured here at Color headquarters
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FamiliesGo! founder Eileen P. Gunn reflects on her initial ups and downs. I recently wrapped up FamiliesGo!’s second month.
Read More »How To Discover Amazing Talent For Your Startup
Successful startup hires all share a certain set of qualities. You'll likely not find them on a resume, and traditional interview questions won’t uncover them.
Read More »The Future Foretold by Jobs, 22 Years Ago
An intense Steve Jobs revealed his vision of technology's future to Inc. Magazine in 1989. Editor-at-large Bo Burlingham remembers
Read More »The Future Foretold by Jobs, 22 Years Ago
An intense Steve Jobs revealed his vision of technology's future to Inc.
Read More »The Creative Brain On Exercise
For artists, entrepreneurs, and any other driven creators, exercise is a powerful tool in the quest to help transform the persistent uncertainty, fear, and anxiety that accompanies the quest to create from a source of suffering into something less toxic, then potentially even into fuel. For more than thirty years, Haruki Murakami has dazzled the world with his beautifully crafted words, most often in the form of novels and short stories
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A new study points out that "small business" and "innovation" are not synonymous.
Read More »JetBlue Airways Chairman Joel Peterson: Innovation Is Hiding In Plain Sight
Sometimes innovation looks like good old fashioned customer service served with a heaping helping of passion from a forward-thinking entrepreneur.
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 »Is Now the Right Time To Raise Capital?
Startup fever is in full gear these days. Between the LinkedIn IPO , billion-dollar valuations, and enthusiasm in the investment community, there's a lot of energy around entrepreneurship right now.
Read More »Inside the Mind of an Acquirer
Thinking about entering an earn-out agreement?
Read More »Eric Ries Is A Lean Startup Machine
There's a whole industry devoted to promulgating the myth that all an entrepreneur needs is perseverance, creative genius, and hard work. Ries learned the hard way this isn't true
Read More »Celebrity Lessons in Selling
What can Justin Bieber teach you about optimizing your sales strategy? Baby, ooh: quite a lot. The television host, producer, and philanthropist is famous for sticking to her brand.
Read More »How Much About the Business Should You Share With Your Spouse?
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg examines the limit on what your spouse should know about the companys problems. In the early years of Stonyfield Yogurt, my husband, Gary, and I acted like the three wise monkeys
Read More »The New Rules of Getting Press
Think Facebook and Twitter are all you need to get the word out about your new business? Here are eight more ways to get some media attention. Now that you’ve made the bold move of opening up your own business, you’re likely faced with the challenge of spreading the word about your goods or services to potential customers
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