Nintendo's hotly anticipated Wii U console is based on an idea the company tried in 2003. It bombed, then. But its time may have finally come
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Feed SubscriptionLeadership Hall Of Fame: The Best Business Autobiographies
Many entrepreneurs and leaders come and go without passing on what made them great. But there have been others who decided to pick up a pen, sit at a typewriter, or dictate into a recorder. While we have featured many business books this year in our Leadership Hall Of Fame , we have avoided biographies.
Read More »Innovating on the Edge
What's new with reverse innovation? Small businesses that master local, niche, or extreme markets are becoming the go-to for ideas that can be applied on a global scale.
Read More »Army Tweaks Recruitment Video Game To Train Soldiers For Real "Hurt Locker" Situations
Soldiers are using a heavily modded version of America's Army to learn how to defuse bombs. While it may have been created as a game, the software's platform is proving versatile enough to use for battlefield training. The
Read More »This $1 Plastic Chip Can Diagnose HIV In 15 Minutes
In Africa, waiting for blood work can take weeks, and many people don't bother getting their results. A new device could make testing in remote villages a possibility, and that could lead to drastically improved treatment. If you were concerned you had HIV (and lived in America), it would be easy enough to get some blood drawn at a clinic near your house, and wait a few days (or even hours) for the results.
Read More »Mapping The Real State Of America
A new atlas gives a sense of what's truly happening in America.
Read More »Pay Yourself and Prosper
Too many entrepreneurs neglect to make themselves a priority in their own business.
Read More »How it All Began
Leslie Brokaw, a founding editor of Inc. Online, recalls Inc.com's early go-go years. About a dozen of us were in the Inc
Read More »Happy Anniversary, Inc.com
A Brief History of Inc.com Fifteen years ago this month, Inc.com was born. To mark the occasion, we took a ride in the way-back machine
Read More »Golf: Brotherly Love
In the 1960s, the Pasarell name meant tennis: Brothers Charlie and Stanley Pasarell dominated the game at the junior and college levels before going on to successful professional careers. (Charlie was America’s top singles player in 1967.) Now in their 60s, the Pasarells have traded passing shots for pitch shots ...
Read More »‘Stayover relationships’ redefine young commitment
If you’re concerned about wasting money because you and your mate spend almost every night together but maintain your own homes, don’t sweat it. You’re simply engaging in America’s “stayover relationship” trend.
Read More »The ‘Teach for America’ for Entrepreneurs?
Andrew Yang, through Venture for America, wants to send an army of new college grads out to start-ups in cities nationwide and help resuscitate their faltering economies. Andrew Yang believes entrepreneurs can help save cities, especially those whose economies have been ravaged by the recession.
Read More »The ‘Teach for America’ for Entrepreneurs?
Andrew Yang, through Venture for America, wants to send an army of new college grads out to start-ups in cities nationwide and help resuscitate their faltering economies. Andrew Yang believes entrepreneurs can help save cities, especially those whose economies have been ravaged by the recession. Yang gave up a law career almost immediately after he started, realizing the mega-firm life was "a less than ideal use of a lot of smart people's time." He founded Stargiving.com, a celebrity affiliated philanthropic fundraising site in 2000, right at the end of the dot.com bubble
Read More »How to Write an Operational Plan for Your Business
In 2010, Sean Bandawat acquired Jacob Bromwell, a specialty housewares company that's been in existence since 1819.
Read More »07.27.2011 | Inc.com Daily
Growing concern over the debt ceiling, America's broken job engine, Wall Street's thoughts on Netflix, and more. The effect of lowering America's credit rating. Economists weigh in on the turbulence that would arise from lowering the federal government's rating from AAA to AA, noting it could create a "further blow to the already fragile national economic confidence," reports The New York Times.
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