Inc.
How One Founder Went From Laid Off to Project Management Pack Leader
When the founder of L'Renee & Associates lost her corporate job, she bet on herself-and built one of the country's fastest-growing private companies.
2 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
Get Better at Predicting Cash Flow
As a fractional CFO, I can say with confidence that knowing your business's cash flow is essential to making informed decisions and ensuring financial stability. The following are five steps I tell my clients to take so they can forecast cash flow effectively, enabling them to hire key employees, secure millions in additional funding ahead of critical growth phases, and make strategic cuts before financial challenges escalate.
2 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.
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
Runner's World US
AM I WEIRD OR WAS THIS FUN?
AS I SAT in the passenger seat of my friend Tom’s blue Mazda—with a teal bandana tied tightly around my face—I thought: I hope no one calls the police. After all, I could have been mistaken for an abductee.
4 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
Runner's World US
Jeannie Rice Knows Something the Rest of Us Don't
It's not about talent. It's not about training. The 77-year-old, record-smashing marathoner has tapped into an ineffable force that defies her age— and she'll never stop chasing it.
10+ min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
How to Prepare for Volatility Everywhere
Three founders of fast-growing companies share their strategies for navigating unpredictable markets.
7 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
EVERY FOUNDER'S FIRST RESORT
Entrepreneurs who want to get away from it allbut still network and hang out with like-minded CEOShave found their preferred destination at Palm Heights.
9 min |
Winter 2025
Runner's World US
THE BEST NEW SHOES
The first wave of super shoes ushered in a lightweight and bouncy new foam. Since then, new advances in tech and compounds have made shoes even lighter, softer, and faster— and not just racers. Super shoe tech is trickling down to daily training shoes.
10+ min |
Winter 2025
Runner's World US
THE RUNNER'S WORLD GUIDE TO STRENGTH TRAINING
At 17, Winnie Yu was a high school track-and-field runner with a bright future.
6 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
PLAYING TO WIN
How three Aussie founders built Canva, a $42 billion software business, by being relentless on Al—and ruthless about hiring.
9 min |
Winter 2025
Runner's World US
INTO THE VOID
Wildly fluctuating temperatures, punishing grades, brushes with mountain lions—the Grand Canyon’s Rim to Rim to Rim endurance run is not for the faint of heart.
10+ min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
Best Incorporated
The best of the best.
2 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
Runner's World US
THE MARATHON THAT NEARLY WRECKED ME: A LOVE LETTER
DEAR NEW YORK CITY
4 min |
Winter 2025
Runner's World US
STARTING OVERTHIS TIME SOBER
I'VE RUN ALL over New York City, but lacing up my Hokas in the community room of a rehab center in Midtown Manhattan was definitely a first.
5 min |
Winter 2025
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.
America's REBUILDERS
What does it really mean for a business to survive after a fire, flood, tornado, or hurricane? The long, slow road to building back tests the strongest founders and the communities they serve.
10+ min |
Winter 2025
Prevention US
BE MORE PRODUCTIVE
\"SCARY HOUR\" COULD BE THE HACK YOU NEED TO BREEZE THROUGH YOUR CHORE LIST.
1 min |
January 2026
Inc.
SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian was a brash avatar of Web 2.0. Today, he's funding everything from one-time rival Digg to women's sports. Has he mellowed—or is he more competitive than ever?
10+ min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
This Government Contracting Company Created a Can-Do Culture
Aalis Management Consulting and its mostly military staff help government run. Its secrets are preparation, persistence, and perseverance.
2 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
From Breaking News to Breakthrough Event Production
With Emmy®-winning roots, Alongi Media has engineered a solar-powered mobile unit that saves clients money while transforming live-event production.
2 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
BOTTLE ROCKETS
Smash Kitchen, an organic condiment brand co-founded by two startup vets and a Hollywood star, has surpassed $10 million in sales in six months.
4 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
Go Bid or Go Home
How The Bid Lab team is helping business owners change their lives-one RFP at a time.
2 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
CREAM RISES TO THE TOP
Jenni Kayne's eponymous lifestyle brand hit $140 million this year, thanks to a timeless, 50-shades-of-beige look that drives great retail math. With celeb fans and a growing customer base, the question is: Can she be the next Ralph Lauren?
7 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
From Rock Bottom to Award-Winning: One Entrepreneur's Story
A moment of desperation launched Trust Consulting Services, a respected government contracting firm specializing in technology.
2 min |
Winter 2025
Inc.
HOW A $6 BILLION COMPANY KEEPS ITS IDEAS FRESH
Known for its viral gadgets-Ninja Slushi, anyone?-SharkNinja is betting big on the next generation of innovators.
2 min |
Winter 2025
Harper's BAZAAR - US
HOW MELANIE WARD RESTYLED FASHION
FOR MELANIE WARD, fashion was never about fantasy or escape but a way to live freely and fully in the moment. The London-born stylist, who passed away in October, helped reshape fashion—and Harper's Bazaar—in the 1990s and 2000s with her modernist eye and collaborations with Helmut Lang and Calvin Klein.
1 min |
December 2025 / January 2026
Harper's BAZAAR - US
MEGHAN'S Moment
After years of being subsumed by OTHER PEOPLE'S NARRATIVES, the DUCHESS of SUSSEX is ready to AUTHOR her OWN NEXT CHAPTER
10+ min |