June is Pride Month in the United States, and in communities across the country, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Americans are celebrating with carnivals, parades, and marches. Pride is a rebuke to the shame and marginalization many LGBT people face growing up, and a celebration of the freedoms we've won since the days when our sexual orientations were considered psychological diseases and grounds for harrassment and arrest
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September 11th caused two friends and co-workers to rethink their career and take the step to start a business. As we process applications for the 2011 Inc. 500 | 5000, we thought it would be worthwhile to shine a spotlight on some of the companies that are vying to appear on our ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States .
Read More »Data Sprawl: How The Web’s Rapid Expansion Will Transform The Global South
Two new reports show that Internet traffic will quadruple by 2015--and that an explosion of users in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East will likely make the world's web look quite different. In most of Western Europe, North America, and Asia, the Internet is old. The personal computer led the way, eventually bringing hypertext and multimedia into our offices and now, a huge range of digital appliances that regularly stream more data than they store locally
Read More »Break Into the Daily Deals Space
Grouponone of the fastest growing companies everhas proven the formula works with its estimated $750 million IPO. Can still you break into the crowded daily deals space?
Read More »Trulia’s Winning Strategy: Treat Your Startup Like Triathlon Training
How is building a company like training for a triathlon?
Read More »Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: HopStop
How this door-to-door directions, mapping, and route-planning service uses customer feedback to drive innovation and success. As we process applications for the 2011 Inc.
Read More »No Fake: Krossover Brings Data Analysis To High School, College Sports
Vasu Kulkarni is using his computer engineering and entrepreneurship degrees to elevate the playing experience for high-school basketball teams. | Photograph by David Yellen Startup Krossover is bringing number-crunching technology to high-school athletics. DATA ANALYTICS has recently become a red-hot trend in professional sports
Read More »Five Business Lessons Learned on the Golf Course
Why relationship building on the golf course may be as important as ever for business networking. We live in a hyper-connected society, and being disconnected for four hours if you're in sales or marketing can be daunting—and seem like a major loss of time
Read More »Most Sustainable Airport: Terminal 2, San Francisco International Airport
As of early April, the state-of-the-art T2 Terminal in San Francisco is the new home of American Airlines and Virgin America. In a $393 million renovation of the original 1954 terminal by Turner Construction and Gensler, architects recycled 90 percent of the original building content
Read More »Problems Without Passports: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife–Palau Protects and Conserves
Our first day in Palau made me realize that, unlike the United States where the environment is often an afterthought, this is a place where people take pride in their connection to the natural world and work hard to protect it. [More]
Read More »Doing Business in Argentina
Think the U.S. economy feels shaky?
Read More »Innovation Agents: Dinesh Paliwal, CEO Of Harman
This year, he launched the first social-networking automobile so drivers can get Facebook, Twitter, texts and Internet connectivity and still keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road. The trick, Dinesh Paliwal, chairman, president and CEO of Harman International Industries, tells Fast Company, was to develop technology that serves to combat drivers’ distraction, meet auto regulations, and bring 4G smartphone-like functionality to the car. If he makes it sound simple, it’s because solving complex technological problems comes easily to this engineer with an MBA
Read More »Former MySpace Exec Starting Facebook Competitor
A social network with more privacy controls, Mark Zuckerberg's latest passion, a new ranking of top VC firms, and the rest of the day's entrepreneur news. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today.
Read More »Sand Dollars: Will Tar-Sands Oil Undermine U.S. Alternative-Energy Development?
Dear EarthTalk : What is “tar sands oil” and what is the controversy over possibly building a pipeline for it from Canada into the United States?-- Bill Berkley, Omaha, Neb.
Read More »Vying for the No. 1 Spot
As applications for this year's Inc.
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