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Despite the recent boost in holiday sales, debts past, present and future make it impossible for consumer spending to drive a recovery. The holiday shopping season has begun with a hopeful bang. Americans said they intended to spend more this season, and, so far, there are numbers to back that.

Chris Christensen's $4 million company is growing fast in a business without rivals: Creating and selling high-end products for dog shows.

The "Flex and the C-Suite" series periodically showcases leaders who have made flexibility at work a key strategy for achieving smarter and better business results.

If the surveys are correct, 2012 could go down in history as the year of corporate musical chairs. The results of recent studies conducted by Gallup, Mercer, and Right Management are alarming.

The social networking software company--a perennial on the Inc. 5000--is seeking to raise as much as $117 million.

Before Seth Tibbott invented Tofurky, a tofu-based, turkey-flavored roast, he was losing money every year. The product turned his fortunes around, and his company is still growing today.

The first Inc. 500 company to go public since August exceeded its IPO expectations, despite that it doesn't look much like other companies going public this year

Sure, Congress is ineffective, the Fed can't help you, and optimism is still weak. But there are plenty of reasons to feel good about being a small business owner. At first glance, today's small business optimism index released by the National Federation of Independent Businesses might make you a little depressed: More than a quarter of small businesses indicated that sales were lower this month than last, and borrowing activity is at a 38-year low.

Bruce Lyon traded his own Oscar-winning company for a cushy job at Sun Microsystems. But when Sun got to be too restrictive, he decided to go it aloneall over again

An entrepreneur's son questions whether to follow in his father's footsteps. In October 2009, Michael Plummer Jr. delivered the eulogy at the funeral of his father, Michael Sr., who had died of a heart attack.

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The same architect designed both innovative spaces. Will AOL's cool office stand the test of time, or do you "like" Facebook's better?

Carpooling--going strong overseas--may be finally rev up here thanks to the domestic launch of Europe's incredibly successful ridesharing program. Carpooling--which has has never really taken off in the U.S.--is about to get a little help from a European invasion. Carpooling.com , launched as an MBA class project in Germany six years ago, is now a continent-wide phenomenon that has cracked what it takes to get millions of people to open their doors to relative strangers: safety, convenience, and a little cash.

The 34-year-old founder of this travel company is peddling the kind of getaway packages you might only dream of. Except many of them are discounted--in price, not service.