He's spearheaded brand expansions, business makeovers, and reputation restorations. John Caplan, CEO of OpenSky, is a master of change. He shares the best lessons he's learned
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Each day thousands of small and midsize companies make big, one-shot bets--and fail. We don’t hear about most of them, just as we don’t hear about people who lose the lottery; they aren’t front-page news
Read More »10 Time-Saving Apps for Moms
Give yourself a gift this Mother's Day: more time. These tools can help
Read More »Steve Grubbs: The Way I Work
Steve Grubbs, 47, started his career in politics, before parlaying his campaign experience into two businesses in the late '90s.
Read More »Face-off: Bluetooth Watches Tested
New Bluetooth-connected smart watches act like remote controls for your smartphone. Heres how to use them. These watches let you monitor calls, read text messages, check your calendar or e-mail, and even control a PowerPoint presentation with just a tap on your wrist.
Read More »Greatest Living Entrepreneur: Down to the Final Four
All of the Elite Eight contenders in Inc’s Greatest Living Entrepreneur Tournament are iconic leaders in their fields. But the ones who got the most votes tended to be those with more than one trick up their sleeve
Read More »Greatest Entrepreneur: Round 1 Winners
It's not too late to fill in your brackets Round 1 Winners: You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Famous. In Inc.'s tournament of entrepreneurial titans, money wasn’t everything, but it sure helped, especially when combined with name recognition and staying power. Rich and famous though they are, Tony Hsieh, Jerry Yang and Arianna Huffington all lost to even more famous and wealthier entrepreneurs
Read More »Marketing From The Other End Of The Funnel
Traditionally, new product marketing assumes first-time purchases arise from an orderly chain of events. The effective commercial starts the engine turning by generating brand awareness, which begets interest, desire, and finally consumer action, with planned purchases popping out the other end.
Read More »We Are All Augmented-Reality-Style Banksys Now
Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that
Read More »We Are All Augmented-Reality-Style Banksys Now
Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that
Read More »We Are All Augmented-Reality-Style Banksys Now
Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that.
Read More »We Are All Augmented-Reality-Style Banksys Now
Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that. Wallit is a new location-aware app which advertises itself with the tagline "walls for places." Essentially it lets its users place a digital Post-it note, or an invisible piece of graffiti if you like, on a virtual "wall" connected to a real place on Earth
Read More »Don’t Be Like Goldman Sachs: 5 Ways
Regardless of what industry you're in, how can you make sure your company culture doesn't grow toxic over time? By now, everyone has weighed in on the Goldman Sachs crisis. Pundits have pilloried the firm for enabling a toxic and destructive culture
Read More »How To Plan Your Company’s End Game
Encyclopaedia Britannica , the 244-year-old company, recently announced it would stop printing encyclopedias. Of course this triggered a flurry of talk about the end of printed books, magazines, and newspapers and a once-great company humbled by shifts in technology
Read More »Employee Appreciation Day: Did You Forget?
Forgot about National Employee Appreciation Day?
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