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.
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New tech startups are moving with the speed and force of tsunamis. And a few crash that way, too.
Read More »Lessons Learned as FamiliesGo! Launches
What happens when parent-travel website FamiliesGo! goes live. I have officially launched FamiliesGo! We decided we would open the site to the public on a Friday, so we’d have the weekend to let Google AdSense, the advertising placement service we’re using, come online and “acclimate” its ads to our content before publicizing on Monday
Read More »Facebook Is The New Nielsen Family
The ad analytics company is about to release a new service that will tell advertisers who’s seeing their ads--anywhere on the Internet.
Read More »Notable Features Through the Years
Inc. magazine editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan gazes back at the past 15 years of editorial content, and walks us through the highlights. I joined 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 »Four Strategies To De-Suck Your Commute
Getting to work can be inhumanly stressful, boring, or logistically tricky--or, sometimes, all three. Here are four ways to arrive at work calmer, smarter, and without a lame excuse for being late. Technology can’t clear the idiots off the road on your drive to work, or improve the housing market so much that you’re no longer riding the train or bus
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 »6 Steps to Franchising Success
Franchising your small business may be a good way to grow fast. Figuring out whether or not franchising will work for you is a matter of knowing your business and yourself.
Read More »Ten Things You Need To Know To Raise Capital For Your Nonprofit
Alice's tips on raising capital for your enterprise--and the best and worst funding experiences from her two decades of working with boards. For most nonprofit organizations, financial success depends on building a board of directors that is generous in helping to contribute and raise the "venture capital" to launch the enterprise, and strategic in working with the CEO to help establish and achieve a financially sustainable revenue model. It's nearly impossible for a CEO to maximize an organization's financial potential without a highly effective board
Read More »Competing With the Apple Empire
After two decades of working with the tech giant, Darryl Peck opened a small Apple retail store called PeachMac.
Read More »What Sound Should Electric Cars Make?
To help prevent pedestrian accidents, otherwise silent electric cars must emit a noise while they drive. What noise
Read More »596 Acres Wants The City To Do Something Useful With Our Unused Land
A new guerrilla art project asks the city of New York to give the people access to unused public land, and to create a massive network of urban farms.
Read More »Do You Need an App?
Mobile applications can be one of the best ways to keep your consumers engaged with your brand as they are on the move. But first you have to decide whether or not you actually need it. Heres how to make that decision
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