Technology
Inc.
This Consulting Firm Pays Its Employees to Have Fun
Omlie offers a monthly allowance for co-workers to get together outside the office.
2 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
How to Launch a New Product Without Burning Out Your Team (or Yourself)
Three hard-charging entrepreneurs share their best tips for bringing a product to market in 2025.
6 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
How Successful Do You Need to Be to Start a Family Office?
As your company—and net worth—grows, here’s when to think about creating a family office to manage your wealth.
4 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
Marina Khidekel
More brands are using back-to-basics storytelling to drive results. Why you should too.
5 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
QUILT to LAST
How MZ Wallace has used timeless product design and careful pricing to build a $100 million accessories business.
8 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
For Olipop, Offering Fertility Benefits Is Just Good Business
Employees at the $400 million beverage company can take advantage of up to $10,000 in family planning services.
2 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
Shuman Ghosemajumder
How a $25 million deepfake scam reveals the dramatic stakes of cybercrime in the era of AI.
5 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
Ferreting Out the Online Fakers
Fuzzy is an identity verification and monitoring service designed to help people safely connect online
2 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
How the Best Workplaces Are Keeping Their Promises...
Earning high marks for company culture is never easy, but it's particularly challenging when the business world is in a near-constant state of upheaval. In the wake of the pandemic, remote work looked like the way of the future, until it wasn't. Hiring sprees turned into firing sprees. DEI goals came under attack. Inflation gave way to trade wars. All of it has turned the American workplace into uncertain terrain, with employees left whipsawing between their employers' ever-shifting priorities.
5 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
At This Ad Agency, Interns Are Indispensable
A paid internship program focused on underrepresented talent helps Barker put out its best work.
2 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
Why ButcherBox Offers Coaches for Every Employee
Investing in the long-term success of workers is founder Mike Salguero's favorite retention tool.
2 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
2025 FEMALE FOUNDERS 500
THE PANDEMIC DROVE WOMEN OUT OF THE WORKFORCE THEN SPURRED AN ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPLOSION.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
HOW TO SELL YOUR BUSINESS IN 2025
If you've been waiting to sell your business, this could be the year to get the deal done. Analysts expect mergers and acquisitions to pick up, especially given the Trump administration's promise of deregulation. So if you're considering selling now, here's what you need to know.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
Marina Khidekel You can tap creative funding sources for your startup, but as these founders learned, it's hard work.
Raising capital can feel like a rite of passage for startup founders—a signal that your company is on the map.
5 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
UP IN THE AIR
HOW JSX FOUNDER ALEX WILCOX BROUGHT THE PRIVATE JET EXPERIENCE TO THE MASSES WHILE NAVIGATING STRAIGHT INTO A CLOUD OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS. AND WHY HIS RADICAL NEW WAY TO FLY COULD BE IN FOR A BUMPY RIDE.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
She's Done With Al. Now Lucy Guo Is Making a Big Bet on People
Inside the Scale AI co-founder's plans to help influencers get paid, like, never-have-to-get-a-real-job kind of money.
3 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
Tory Burch Is Better Than Ever.but Don't Call It a Comeback
The fashion veteran's business is hitting its stride— and she says, at 58, she finally feels like a real designer.
4 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
ZONE OF CONCERN
Forever chemicals, or PFAS, are as pervasive as they are insidious, afflicting businesses ranging from hotels to breweries to coffee roasters. In taking on this huge problem, entrepreneur Dean Wiltse has found his calling—and an opportunity.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
HE DESIGNED THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT TODAY. SO WHY ISN'T HE IN THE PANTHEON OF SILICON VALLEY FOUNDERS?
4 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
SET AND ACHIEVE BIG GOALS
In her latest book, Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life, Caroline Adams Miller shares a methodology for psychology-backed goal setting.
3 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
10 WAYS TO GET BETTER AT SALES
Today's customers are overloaded and overwhelmed by too much information, so making any decision is a challenge.
1 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
the L Ο N G G A M E
A new longevity business at Canyon Ranch, the famed wellness resort, invites stressed-out founders to spend $20,000 on life-extending treatments.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
The Insurance Agency Network Helping Independent Agencies Grow
By providing access to top-rated carriers, training, and support, and an agent-friendly contract, Smart Choice helps independent agencies build their business.
2 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
Shuman Ghosemajumder | How your company can get the most value from Al-whether it's Al-focused or not.
Since ChatGPT launched over two years ago, people have fixated on artificial intelligence. To better understand all the hype, it helps to take a step back and tackle some misunderstandings about AI—as well as some history. Artificial intelligence as a field, since beginning in the 1950s, has already achieved a great deal. AI systems have driven advances in computer vision, fraud detection, online advertising, and many other disciplines, primarily through machine learning on large data sets.
5 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
BOSS STYLE
From Steve Jobs's turtleneck to Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie, a founder's style of dress can become a signature, and even a part of their company's brand. Entrepreneurial outfitting is less about rules and more about individualism. Here's how eight founders win with their wardrobes.
2 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
Karen Dillon Does your company have too much conflict, or too little? Here's why healthy conflict is key to business success.
I've always prided myself on getting along with others. But a few years ago, one colleague got under my skin.
3 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
Learn How to Work With Walmart
Every business owner thinks their company is ready for Walmart, but just having a useful product and slick packaging isn’t enough. Once you get onto store shelves, that’s when the real work begins—or so say the entrepreneurs and experts Inc. canvassed to bring you this ultimate guide to finding your way in and around the world’s largest retailer.
1 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
TURN "BORING" BUSINESSES INTO CASH-FLOW MACHINES
Codie Sanchez is the founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking, a financial education company. Her new book, Main Street Millionaire, is a playbook for turning “boring” businesses like car washes and laundromats into cash cows. Here, she recaps her top tips.
1 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
Jonathan Adler Is Grateful for Growth Capital
The home decor entrepreneur shares how he went from “outsider moron” to private equity-backed founder.
4 min |
Spring 2025
Inc.
The Customer Isn't Always Right.But Here's How to Do Right by Them
Three seasoned founders share their approaches to managing tricky client relationships.
8 min |