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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.
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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.
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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 |
Spring 2025
Inc.
Karen Dillon
I moved my wedding to attend a company offsite. It was a terrible decision, but a vital lesson on balance.
3 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
The Ultimate Home-Based Business
Thirty years since her breakout on Friends, Courteney Cox is taking on a new role-entrepreneur.
8 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
An Uphill Battle
Zwift has been through layoffs and a leadership change in 2024, but co-founder and CEO Eric Min says he's learned that building a startup, like cycling, is an endurance test.
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Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
The GLOW UP
How Glossier broke free from DTC, survived the skeptics, and finally achieved profitability.
8 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
The Snack That Gives Back
With a new partnership, SkinnyDipped is supporting women founders worldwide.
2 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
A New Path to SuCCESS
AllTrails may have achieved the impossible-an app that truly helps you get away from it all.
8 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
The Back-lash Survivors
Don't challenge Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz to a game of highs and lows. The Hello Alice co-founders will win-by a long shot.
6 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
The Spa Surge
Prime IV Hydration & Wellness has successfully weathered stormy waters.
2 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
Riding the Waves
With Beehiiv, Tyler Denk built a buzzy newsletter platform and a brash online persona. Both are lucrative.
8 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
Home Economics
How Chairish brought the circular economy to furniture.
2 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
A 21st-CENTURY Leader
How Stacy Brown-Philpot became your board members' favorite board member.
9 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
CRETiVITy to Small Business
With MNTN, Ryan Reynolds and Mark Douglas pair innovative ad tech with a hell of a lot of fun.
10 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
PAUL SMITH IS STILL HAVING FUN
After more than 50 years in business, the British designer's greatest joy isn't mingling with celebrities or royalty—but dressing customers just like you.
8 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
The Outlook for 2025? Here's How to Forecast for Your Business
The founders of Novae, WeCreate, and Zipdev share how they’re planning ahead for a big growth year.
6 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
Marina Khidekel
When should you take things off your plate? Successful outsourcing is all in the timing.
5 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
Shuman Ghosemajumder
Does your company need a head of product? It's the hardest role to fill. Here's what to look for.
5 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
Chip Conley
Like every good founder, you surely obsess over ROL Here's a new way to define it.
3 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
Craig Newmark Is Still Connecting People, Online and Off
He founded one of the great, disruptive websites. Now he supports causes that strengthen communities.
2 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
Making a Personal PiTch
Jenny Nguyen intended to launch a design-centric public relations firm. She soon realized what she really wanted to build was an online community for creative entrepreneurs.
3 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
HiVe Minded
Beewise set out to save he bees. Its Al-powered beehive technology protects pollinators.
3 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
MAChine Learning
Jenny Young and her Brooklyn Robot Foundry franchise are making tech education fun.
3 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
BiRTH Legend
Latham Thomas's Mama Glow has birthed thousands of new doula jobs while advancing reproductive justice.
3 min |
Winter 2024/2025
Inc.
A Bankable Pet Project - How Moonshots Capital helped eTailPet scale up and attract a buyer in just three years.
Berenice Giannini's startup, eTailPet, wasn't a natural fit for Moonshots Capital. The Austin-based venture firm, launched in 2014 by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings, both of whom had previously served in the U.S. Army, frequently backs companies founded by military veterans.
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