Culture
Inc.
'Girl Boss'? 'SHE-E-O'? 'Mompreneur'? No Thanks
Enough with the cutesy nicknames
4 min |
October 2019
Inc.
Money Movers - Because Industries Could Use A Shakeup
These founders are redefining old businesses like insurance and banking, and bringing financial services to people who have never had them.
2 min |
October 2019
Inc.
Jazzercise, Smart Socks, Massages And More
Those fitness classes you go to? she basically invented them.
5 min |
October 2019
Inc.
A Celebration Of Women In The Workplace
How a diverse leadership team helped fuel Aflac’s success story
4 min |
October 2019
Inc.
How To Build A Community-And Keep It Thriving
Audrey Gelman has made the Wing’s women-focused shared office spaces into a buzzy club of feminine empowerment built on inclusivity—and, perhaps, exclusivity. Change can be messy. But this is a new kind of company.
10+ min |
October 2019
Inc.
Fashion Forward - Founders Project Golden Opportunity
Style icon Rebecca Minkoff mentors Trinity Mouzon Wofford, co-founder of Millennial wellness startup Golde.
7 min |
October 2019
Inc.
How To Create Killer Buzz Around Your Biz
Nudging your customers to sing your praises is the best advertising you never bought. But be careful: There’s an art to this ask.
4 min |
October 2019
Inc.
Lolly Wolly Doodle's Brandi Temple Won Her Company Back-And Then Sold It
Sales at Brandi Temple’s successful children’s clothing company, Lolly Wolly Doodle, dropped by half virtually overnight. Then the real drama began.
2 min |
October 2019
Inc.
Science Pioneers - Bringing Us Robots, Renewable Power And Food Made From Air
Robot co-workers, lifesaving A.I., and food made from the air we breathe. These innovators are engineering the future.
1 min |
October 2019
Inc.
We Found $2 Billion For Women Founders. It's A Start
When Linnea Roberts retired in 2016 from Goldman Sachs, where she’d been a managing director, she didn’t intend to become a startup investor.
6 min |
October 2019
Inc.
Sinking About the Future
Elkay Manufacturing has endured for a century in an unforgiving, cyclical industry by innovating relentlessly around the ordinary.
2 min |
October 2019
Inc.
How I Didn't Get That MBA (And Still Started A Billion-Dollar Company)
In May, the suitcase company Away, which Jen Rubio co-founded with fellow Warby Parker alum Steph Korey in 2015, raised $100 million, at a valuation of $1.4 billion. The company has sold a million suitcases and estimates 2019 revenue will hit $300 million. But Rubio’s path wasn’t always easy wheeling—especially when a controversy threatened to sink her company. As told to Christine Lagorio-chafkin
3 min |
July - August 2019
Inc.
How I Learned To Run My Husband's Business After He Died
For years, Mary Celeste Beall, 42, played a supporting role at Blackberry Farm, the legendary resort in Tennessee that her husband, Sam Beall, ran. When he died suddenly in 2016, the mother of five had to learn to run it herself— while shouldering the burden of devastating grief.
3 min |
July - August 2019
Inc.
How I Learned To Tame My Temper - And Become A Better Boss
Samin Nosrat has always been “good with people”—when she’s not managing them. The chef and star of Netflix’s smash hit Salt Fat Acid Heat, adapted from her best-selling book, is as charismatic in person as she is on screen, with an infectious laugh. She’s starting a new company, to produce future TV projects; this time, she’s determined to be a better leader.
3 min |
July - August 2019
Inc.
Now They're Taking On Saudı Arabia
Paint fumes lingered inside the airy new studio, where my thighs were burning from the endless squats.
10+ min |
March - April 2019
Inc.
Charging Into The Future
Lithium-ion batteries are essential to our lives and businesses—but struggle to keep up with modern demands. Inside the race to build a better battery.
10 min |
March - April 2019
Inc.
How We Did It - Luke's Lobster
Luke Holden and Ben Conniff started a small chain of simple lobster shacks. Then they started thinking much bigger.
5 min |
March - April 2019
Inc.
Banking On It
CEO Ken Moelis, 59, co­founded investment bank Moelis & Company just as the U.S. economy tanked, and took it public in 2014 with a $163 million IPO. By Maria Aspan
2 min |
June 2018
Inc.
Get Rolling
Social video can boost both your company’s brand awareness and its sales.
3 min |
May 2017
Inc.
How To Fire Friends
They were there at the start when you needed them. But now you don’t. This won’t be easy.
4 min |
May 2017
Inc.
Reward-Givers, Beware!
Switching loyalty platforms might cut costs—as long as you avoid angering customers
4 min |
May 2017
Inc.
What's Behind This Company's Mission To Transform Prenatal Medicine
FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, Matthew Rabinowitz’s sister gave birth to a child with Down syndrome, who died six days later. The family was devastated—and entirely blindsided, as the screening tests available at the time had missed the baby’s condition.
3 min |
May 2017
Inc.
Pick The Right Target
Key tips for using target-date retirement funds.
4 min |
May 2017
Inc.
Going The Distance
Discover the secrets of America’s most innovative public companies—from the entrepreneurs who have guided them through IPOs and onto our list.
3 min |
May 2017
Inc.
The Problem With The Platforms
Giant tech companies love founders. Until they start getting too successful.
4 min |
May 2018
Inc.
Rising Stars
Nothing better illustrates the vibrancy of entrepreneurship than Inc.’s Rising Stars, the inspiring under-30 founders who are blazing paths in fields ranging from diamond-making to tech to beekeeping. Presenting the stars of the future —and today.
6 min |
May 2018
Inc.
Mastering the Mobile Wallet
Payment apps are hot. How to know if they’re right for your business—and if they can strengthen bonds with your customers
5 min |
April 2017
Inc.
The Bling Machine
Diamond Foundry is reinventing the fine-jewelry business
4 min |
April 2017
Inc.
"I'm Doing It at 37, and I Hope to Be Doing It at 57".
And by his high school years, he had mastered the 50-50 grind and the rock ’n’ roll.
2 min |
October 2016
Inc.
How New Sagaya Overcame the Odds
Inc. 5000 honorees tell us how they would tackle a common business challenge.
3 min |