Business
Inc.
The PE Firm That Actually Listens to Founders
How Boyne Capital helped a third-generation Oklahoma contractor triple in size while keeping the family in charge.
3 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
Great Leaders Build More Leaders
Every founder who finds traction with their business faces an inevitable evolution in how they spend their time, from being the person who does everything (sales, tech support, emptying the garbage) to being primarily a people manager. And as the business grows larger and more complex, it becomes time to transition again to a next-level role that is trickier but more profound. Entrepreneur and author Jay Shetty recently put it this way: “The best leaders don’t create more followers, they create more leaders.” (He credited the insight to motivational author Roy T. Bennett.)
5 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
Best Incorporated
The best of the best.
2 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
HOW CLOUD TECHNOLOGY HELPED A CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DOUBLE DOWN ON ITS MISSION
AFTER THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION COMPLETELY REIMAGINED ITS DATA INFRASTRUCTURE, THE HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION WAS FREED TO DO WHAT IT DOES BEST: HELPING PEOPLE IN NEED
3 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
Wish List
You've worked hard all year-now you deserve a reward! We asked entrepreneurs what gifts from upstart brands and inspiring enterprises they plan to give this year, or what they might want to receive. Consider your holiday shopping plans sorted.
2 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
Base44 Found a Buyer Four Months After Launching
Serial entrepreneur Maor Shlomo attracted an eight-figure offer for his vibe-coding startup before hiring a single employee.
4 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
Everyone's Buying Into ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurship through acquisition is becoming a trendy shortcut to the business world for MBA grads and other would-be business leaders.
3 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
Marina Khidekel | It's never too early to think about a future exit. Here are six ways to prepare your startup for a sale.
Selling your business can feel like a topic for the distant future when you're busy pouring all your energy into your startup. But when it happens, many founders discover that selling isn’t the clean ending they’d imagined.
5 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
Welcome to Zero-Click SEARCH
The shift to AI search is worrying online businesses—and creating a new cottage industry for AEO.
2 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
How I Beat the Odds to Create a New Kind of Event Company
It’s never too late to win big. That’s the way Derek Gwaltney, 52, thinks about both life and his event company, Atlas Experiences.
4 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
THE TRICKY BUSINESS OF BEING AN IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY IN 2025
As sweeping changes reshape the immigration system, a wave of demand is fueling legal tech startups, boutique law firms, and social media-savvy lawyers.
7 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
Marina Khidekel
As your company grows, you'll add new products. Here are common traps to avoid.
5 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
Karen Dillon
Being on a winning streak is fun. But be careful you don't get addicted to chasing success.
5 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
STRESS TEST
With lucrative deals from Nvidia and OpenAI and a market value that has crossed $75 billion—as well as over $8 billion in debt—CoreWeave is a driving force in the AI boom.Amid growing competition, does the company have what it takes to sustain its meteoric rise?
10+ min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
How We Built an Allergy Business on Reddit and YouTube
Like millions of Americans, Aakash Shah, 31, has struggled with allergies, leading to itchy eyes and congestion for the software engineer.
4 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
FOR GROWTH COMPANIES, A MESSY TRADE WAR THREATENS PROFITS
There’s a new normal in what it takes to lead and grow a business. And Inc. 5000 CEOs have been learning to adapt on the fly.
10 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
A First-Class Idea
How Shenique Sparks turned her luxury travel side hustle into a big business.
4 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
The Mother of Reinvention
Everything is perfectly in place for Joy Mangano's second act with CleanBoss, including her partnership with co-founder Pitbull.
4 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
VIVA RAW
Jennifer Wu and Zach Ao Hillsborough, North Carolina Three-year growth rate: 5,670%
3 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
KINGS
Pitch decks are supposed to be short.
10 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
EVERGREEN: How a Quest for a Healthy Waffle Led to $9 Million in Retail Sales
How a Quest for a Healthy Waffle Led to $9 Million in Retail Sales
3 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
Taking a Big Swing
Bogey Bros trades the country club aesthetic for clothes with a naughty streak.
6 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
Touchland Is Taking Self-Care to New Heights
Andrea Lisbona Vives secured a $700 million exit by breathing new life into hand sanitizer.
4 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
Designing a High-Tech Bra
Forme Science's activewear got a boost from Taylor Swift, driving record sales.
4 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
A Room of One's Own
With pumps and full-service lactation rooms, they have the space for anyone who needs to take the time.
4 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
The Revolution Will Be Tiny
At 400 square feet or less, these starter homes offer an affordable path for ownership.
3 min |
Fall 2025
Inc.
CAUGHT!
A historic, family-run restaurant in Biloxi, Mississippi, made its name by offering freshly caught seafood. Then the feds showed up with an extraordinary claim: The fish was not what it seemed.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
Karen Dillon | Why bullying your way through negotiations isn't always the best way or the smart way to get what you want.
I spent the first decade of my career in New York City, which was quite a cultural education for a girl from suburban Boston. By the time I left, I felt I had earned the title of New Yorker, with the requisite mix of self-confidence and swagger. It wasn’t until years later, when I took my preteen daughters to the city, that I realized how different that person was from normal me. They started calling me “New York mom”—and not in a good way.
3 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
Andy Roddick's Long Game
The retired tennis champ has bounded into angel investing. He's had plenty of wins—and some interesting losses, too.
4 min |
Summer 2025
Inc.
Horror King Jason Blum's Formula for Paranormal Success
With a fresh slate of scary sequels to M3GAN, The Black Phone, and Five Nights at Freddy's, the Blumhouse founder says a focus on talent and profitability has served him well.
3 min |