Articles From 2013 In August
Sat Aug 30 2013
- More Apps Are Being Created Outside the U.S. - Will Yakowicz
- There's Nothing Fun About Funding - Alexis Ohanian
- How True Innovations Really Take Off - Erik Sherman
- Paul Graham Responds to Founder Accents Backlash - Issie Lapowsky
- 6 Surprisingly Useful Leadership Lessons from the VMAs - Selena Cuffe
- Kathryn Minshew: A Simple Guide to Hiring and Managing Interns - Kathryn Minshew
- Study: Kickstarter Beats Indiegogo for Successful Funding - Abigail Tracy
- One Crazy Idea - The Build Network staff
- Personality Doesn't Determine Leadership Ability - John Brandon
- How Much Employee Turnover Really Costs You - Suzanne Lucas
- How to Build a Website: 4 Tools to Try - John Brandon
- New Foursquare Feature: Which Tech Company Wants It Most? - Eric Markowitz
Fri Aug 29 2013
- Silicon Alley, Meet London's Tech City - Stephanie Meyers
- 5 Money Moves Every Entrepreneur Should Make - Alexa von Tobel
- Rising App Marketing Costs Create Challenge for Start-Ups - Will Yakowicz
- Big Client? Big Problem - Rene Shimada Siegel
- Show Me the Money: What Questions to ask a VC/PE - Alan Ying
- Udacity Scores Higher Pass Rates in Summer Term at San Jose State University - Issie Lapowsky
- 7 Steps to Engaged Employees - Peter Economy
- Break Your Bad Business Habits - Stephanie Meyers
- Less Choice, More Commitment: Customers Want Simplicity - Debra Kaye
- 3 Things a Great Leader Would Never Say - Les McKeown
- 3 Tips to Avoid Selling Your Soul to Private Equity - Jeff Haden
- 4 Roles to Improve Your Team's Collaboration - Lee Colan
- Can President Obama's Higher Education Fix Work? - Gene Marks
- Always Take 'No' for an Answer - Geoffrey James
- Hiring? Don't Let 'Big Data' Fool You - Erik Sherman
- A Better Way to Help Your Employees Get Fit - Jessica Stillman
- 5 Reasons Why Most People Never Discover Their Purpose - Shelley Prevost
- How to Build the Perfect Virtual Office - John Brandon
- Vanessa Nornberg: Micromanaging Makes Employees 100% Miserable - Vanessa Merit Nornberg
- Managing Recent Grads? 7 Ways to Avoid a Headache - Ilya Pozin
- How to Hire a Winner Every Time - Minda Zetlin
- What to Do When Your Website Goes Down - Stephanie Meyers
Thu Aug 28 2013
- Apple Wants to Trademark the Word 'Startup' - Will Yakowicz
- Health Coverage Gets Leaner and Meaner - Adam Bluestein
- How to Make the Most of Business Travel - Margaret Heffernan
- New Zealand Bans Software Patents - Eric Markowitz
- Making the Most of Your Board - Paul Schoemaker
- 5 Start-Up Strategies You Need to Know - Peter Cohan
- 5 Desirable Traits of Great Employees - Kevin Daum
- Nodding Off in Meetings? Blame Your Office - Jessica Stillman
- Local Motion Raises $6 Million From Andreessen Horowitz - Eric Markowitz
- Turn Self-Sabotage Into Success - Geoffrey James
- Tom Gimbel: The Secret to Really Investing in Your Employees - Inc. staff
- How to Build a Compelling Brand: 7 Essential Ingredients - Christina DesMarais
- Own the Negatives When Selling - The Build Network staff
- How to Spot (And Avoid) the Business Head-Fake - Tom Searcy
- Policies Never Solve People Problems - Suzanne Lucas
- Do You Value Customer Relationships as Much as You Should? - Victor Ho
- 6 Signs You're Failing to Put Your Customers First - Minda Zetlin
- 5 Reasons To Hire Locally--No Matter Where You Are - John Greathouse
Wed Aug 27 2013
- Fritz Nol Bids $25 Million on Fisker Automotive - Will Yakowicz
- Norm Brodsky: Use Compassionate Leadership to Create a Positive Culture - Norm Brodsky
- Norm Brodsky on Leadership: 'I Was a Control Freak' - Norm Brodsky
- Norm Brodsky on Failure: 'Leadership Is a Learning Process' - Norm Brodsky
- Norm Brodsky on Culture: How to Deal With Conflicting Core Values - Norm Brodsky
- Norm Brodsky on Culture: The Most Important Job of a Leader - Norm Brodsky
- Norm Brodsky: How to Reinvigorate Your Company Culture - Norm Brodsky
- Branding: How to Become a Thought Leader - Dave Kerpen
- Social Media Marketing: More Isn't Better - Erik Sherman
- 7 Traits of Highly Effective Leaders - Peter Economy
- Kathryn Minshew: How to Get the Most Out of Every Interview - Kathryn Minshew
- Is Your Staff Always Busy? You Have a Problem - Jessica Stillman
- An Easy Way to Prioritize Your 'Big Ideas' - Karl Stark and Bill Stewart
- The One Leadership Lesson You Should Learn This Week - Les McKeown
- 8 Sentences That Drive Bosses Crazy - Geoffrey James
- Zuck's Right: The Internet Won't Build Itself - Matt Cooper
- FitBit CEO: What I'm Going to Do With This $43 Million - Abigail Tracy
- 9 Great Reasons to Start a Company - Steve Tobak
- Steve Ballmer and the Problem With Rock Star CEOs - Stacey Epstein
- 3 Secrets to Creating a Better Marketing Plan - Curt Hanke
- Pivots: What Happens When Your Business Doesn't Follow Your Plan - Jeff Haden
- Can Keeping Score Boost Employee Performance? - Lee Colan
- Sustainable Businesses Are Cash-Neutral. Say No to Family Money - Howard Tullman
Tue Aug 26 2013
- How to Build an Adaptability Advantage - The Build Network staff
- Why Putting Down Your Cell Phone Will Help Your Business - Margaret Heffernan
- 11 Body Language Essentials for Your Next Negotiation - Young Entrepreneur Council
- NYC's (Likely) Future Mayor Lays out Vision for Small Business - Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
- Full Interview: NYC Mayoral Candidate John Liu - Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
- Full Interview: NYC Mayoral Candidate Christine Quinn - Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
- Full Interview: NYC Mayoral Candidate Bill Thompson - Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
- 7 Tips for Emailing Extraordinarily Busy People - Mark Suster
- How to Get Through Founder's Despair - Chris Heivly
- John Paul DeJoria: How Growing Up Poor Made Me an Entrepreneur - Scott Gerber
- John Paul DeJoria: Talking My Way to My First Sale - Scott Gerber
- John Paul DeJoria: Why I Never Use Email or a Computer - Scott Gerber
- John Paul DeJoria: The Companies I Invest In - Scott Gerber
- John Paul DeJoria: The Secret to Selling Anything to Anybody - Scott Gerber
- John Paul DeJoria: The Difference Between a Manager and a Leader - Scott Gerber
- John Paul DeJoria: Why Customers Want us Socially Conscious - Scott Gerber
- John Paul DeJoria: Why Every Smart Entrepreneur Wants Immigration Reform - Scott Gerber
- 10 Impertinent Questions for John Paul DeJoria - Scott Gerber
- John Paul DeJoria: "When We Started, No One Wanted Us"
- What's the Future of Small Business in New York City? - Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
- Week in Tech: Elon Musk Is Up to Something (Again) - John Brandon
- 4 Sales Lessons Every Business Owner Should Learn - Michael Alter
- September 2013
- Brain Food: The Ultimate Lunch for a Productivity Boost - Abigail Tracy
- 8 Ways to Improve Your Attitude - Geoffrey James
- Miss That 'Back to School' Feeling? Here's How to Get It Back - Jessica Stillman
- Help New Employees Succeed From Day One - Kevin Daum
- The Remarkable Value Behind Sacrificing Sales for Customer Connections - Jason Fried
- Sometimes Good Enough is Good Enough - Eric Paley
- Of Drivers and Passengers. Or, How Entrepreneurs' Families Cope - Meg Cadoux Hirshberg
- The Best Exit? The One You Do On Your Own Terms - Jeff Haden
- Success Is Even Sweeter When You've Been Down and Out - Norm Brodsky
- Off Hours: Entrepreneurial Pursuits Outside the Office - Reshma Memon Yaqub and Abigail Tracy
- Is This a Great Business, or a Hobby? - Elle Kaplan
- On the Fast Track: Paul Graham's Top Tips for Start-ups - Issie Lapowsky
- Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth - Issie Lapowsky
- Marketing to Millennials: 8 Ways to Make Them Care About Your Brand - Marla Tabaka
- Better Communication: Why Context Is Crucial - Janine Popick
- Banks' Control of Commodities Stings Entrepreneurs - Jeremy Quittner
Sat Aug 23 2013
- Internet.org Could Drive $27 Billion in Online Work - Matt Cooper
- Internet.org and Online Work: By the Numbers
- 6 Ways to Combat Loneliness When You Work Alone - John Brandon
- Open-Plan Offices: Not All They're Cracked Up to Be - Jessica Stillman
- Uber's New (Huge) War Chest - Inc. staff
- 5 Ways to Overcome the Naysayers - Kevin Daum
- Hey, Recruiters on LinkedIn: Don't Pilfer My People - Janine Popick
- How to Interview a Customer - Geoffrey James
- Moving on From Catastrophe - Mayra Jimenez
- Thinking of Starting a Business? Why Wearable Computing Is Red Hot - Jeremy Quittner
- How to Dominate Mobile Marketing - Jon Morris
- The One Question to Ask in an Exit Interview - The Build Network staff
- DataCracker: How to Turn Data into Beautiful Charts and Graphs - Christina DesMarais
- 5 Leadership Tips for Introverts - Stephanie Meyers
Fri Aug 22 2013
- Pandora Founder Tim Westergren: 'Simply Put, Our Listeners Saved the Company' - Daniel Wolfman and Chris Beier
- Stephen Wolfram: 'Undoubtedly, Human Immortality Will Be Achieved' - Allison Fass
- Stephen Wolfram: 'Can We Really Be the Smartest Things in the Universe?' - Allison Fass
- Stephen Wolfram: Algorithm Discovery and Cellular Automaton Rules - Allison Fass
- Stephen Wolfram: Principle of Computational Equivalence - Allison Fass
- Stephen Wolfram: Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha - Allison Fass
- Stephen Wolfram: 'When There Isn't a Reason Why Something Is Impossible, It Ends Up Being Possible' - Allison Fass
- On CNET, Positive Editorial Reviews Are Becoming Ads - Brian Morrissey
- Indiegogo CEO on Ubuntu, Breaking Records, and Competing with Kickstarter - Issie Lapowsky
- ShoeDazzle and JustFab Merger: Subscription Models Are Not Dead - John Caplan
- Best Advice I Ever Got: John Hall - Young Entrepreneur Council
- Coding Isn't the Cure - Eric Markowitz
- The Best Way to Beat an Awkward Silence - Abigail Tracy
- 5 Ways to Build a Better Team - Peter Economy
- The Wrong Hire Pissed Off my Team, The Right Hire Didn't Have All the Answers - John Caplan
- The Real Antidote to Stage Fright - Margaret Heffernan
- Influential Leaders Ask These 6 Questions - Lee Colan
- The Essential Role of the 'Other Founder' - Jeff Bussgang
- 4 Practical Tips for Being a Better Thought Leader - Jon Miller
- 5 Great Questions You Should Ask Your Customers - Tom Searcy
- 3 Uncomfortable Truths That Will Push Your Company Forward - Les McKeown
- 10 Dumb Things Bosses Say (and What to Say Instead) - Geoffrey James
- 5 Reasons Big Companies Don't Build Start-Ups - Karl Stark and Bill Stewart
- Everything You Need to Know About Content Marketing in 2013 - Aaron Aders
- The Best Way to Send Off That Summer Intern - Jessica Stillman
- Collect Personal Data Without Angering Your Customers - Eric Holtzclaw
- Facebook and Shutterstock Team Up to Make Your Ads Prettier - Abigail Tracy
- 5 Reasons to Fire Poisonous Personalities Fast - Drew Greenblatt
- Millennials Are Judging You by Your Technology - John Brandon
- 6 Questions To Ask Before Selling Your Business - David Mahmood
- 7 Ways You're Annoying Your Employees - Ilya Pozin
- Grow Talent; Don't Buy It - Laura Zander
- Ubuntu Edge Campaign Admits $32 Million Goal Was 'Crazy' - Eric Markowitz
- Another Day, Another Delay in Obamacare - Adam Bluestein
- How to Crowdfund Like a Hacker - Francesca Fenzi
Thu Aug 21 2013
- The #1 Quality of Top Employees - Stephanie Meyers
- FEED's Lauren Bush Lauren: Social Enterprise Is Her Bag - Donna Fenn
- Too Much Targeting Misses the Bull's-Eye - Debra Kaye
- Go Ahead, Take That Vacation. This Survey Says It's Ok - Abigail Tracy
- Standout Leadership Technique From Phillies Coach Charlie Manuel - Gene Marks
- The Scientist Betting on a Start-Up to Succeed Where He Failed - Abigail Tracy
- 5 Rules for Truth-Tellers - Howard Tullman
- Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day: 4 Trends to Watch - Issie Lapowsky
- To Stay Productive, Let Your Best People Go - Jeff Hoffman
- Radically Change the Way You Sell: 7 Ways - Brian Halligan
- The Middle East Is Not One Big Place - Bill Murphy Jr.
- Can You Innovate Too Much? - Kevin Daum
- The Bootstrapped Backbone of the Quantified-Self Movement - Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
- The Secret to Making People Accept Change - Jessica Stillman
- How to Build a Really Strong Brand - Geoffrey James
- 5 Israeli Start-ups Quietly Changing the World - Christina DesMarais
- Nate Silver: 5 Data Rules to Live By - Erik Sherman
- Flickr Co-Founder on HIs Third (or Is It Fourth?) Act - Eric Markowitz
- Survey Finds Few Changes in Employer Sponsored Insurance Plans - Abigail Tracy
Wed Aug 20 2013
- Owners Most Optimistic in Five Years. Other Measures Are Mixed - Jeremy Quittner
- Helping Small Businesses Survive the Recession - Jeremy Quittner
- Be a Better Boss by Friday - Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick
- AgePower and the Quest to Help Boomers Age Gracefully - Will Yakowicz
- A Crazy Simple Productivity Tip You Need to Know - Abigail Tracy
- (Don't) Look at Me! Marissa Mayer's Vogue Spread - Steve Cody
- SBA Chief Karen Mills Names Temporary Successor - Jeremy Quittner
- 5 Steps to Delegating Wisely - Peter Economy
- Naked Pizza Founder Robbie Vitrano: 'Do You Retreat, Revolt or Rebel?' - Inc. staff
- Naked Pizza Founder Robbie Vitrano: Rebranding New Orleans
- Naked Pizza Founder Robbie Vitrano: Inspiring a Global Model - Inc. staff
- Naked Pizza Founder Robbie Vitrano: Building an Industry Ecosystem - Inc. staff
- Naked Pizza Founder Robbie Vitrano: 'Can Entrepreneurs Save the World?' - Inc. staff
- Naked Pizza Founder Robbie Vitrano: Connecting Your Cause With Your Product - Inc. staff
- Naked Pizza Founder Robbie Vitrano: Revitalizing a City Through Entrepreneurship - Inc. staff
- Thiel Fellow Launches Sprayable Energy 'Drink' - Eric Markowitz
- The Most Important 30 Minutes Your Team Will Ever Spend Together - Les McKeown
- 3 Ways to Grow a Bootstrapped Company. Fast - Dave Kerpen
- The Ups and Downs of Year One
- The Inc. 500 Under the Microscope
- Inc. 500 CEOs on the First Year
- How Inc. 500 Companies Innovate
- Facts & Figures of the Inc. 5000
- 500 Success Stories (Reality Check Included) - Eric Schurenberg
- The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship - Jessica Bruder
- From Runaway Bride to Workout Mogul - Reshma Memon Yaqub
- Matching Stars to Their Dream Cars - Reshma Memon Yaqub
- How I Turned My Bicycle Into a $4.6 Million Business - Burt Helm
- How to Fight Big Brands. And Win. - April Joyner
- From The C Suite to The Cancer Ward. And Back. - Jeremy Quittner
- Giving Vets--Both Living And Fallen--The Respect They Deserve - Darren Dahl
- How A Data-Sleuth Helps Battle Human Trafficking - Issie Lapowsky
- How I Run a $16 Million Company Out of My Living Room - Darren Dahl
- Why I Dropped Out of Med School to Start a Company - Reshma Memon Yaqub
- How We Landed a Contract With Homeland Security - Burt Helm
- Why one CEO said Goodbye, Photo Shoots and Hello, Shooting Range - Burt Helm
- How Sustainable Supply Grew a Green Business on the Sly - Reshma Memon Yaqub
- One Thing Inc. 5000 Companies Have in Common: Performance - Leigh Buchanan
- How the 2013 Inc. 5000 Companies Were Selected
- Kid You Not: The Very Serious Business of Building The Fastest-Growing Company in America - Burt Helm
- Why Parents Love the Nabi - Burt Helm
- These Inc. 500 CEOs Prove That Not All Entrepreneurs Work Alone - Jennifer Alsever
- Made by the Inc. 500 - Shivani Vora
- Debunking the Myth of Innovation - Adam Bluestein
- Things to Do Instead of Innovating - Adam Bluestein
- How Inc. 500 CEOs Approach the Toughest Task: Leadership
- It's Not a Decision. It's an Experiment - Jessica Stillman
- The Business Value of Curiosity - Geoffrey James
- Why Everyone In Business Should Write Like Elon Musk - Joe Weisenthal
- You Must Know Fear to Succeed - Lee Colan
- Want Happier Employees? Send Them Home - Suzanne Lucas
- Why the Next Facebook Won't Come From the U.S. - Minda Zetlin
- Co-Founder Conflicts: 4 Ways Snapchat Could Have Avoided an Ownership Dispute - Erik Sherman
- Square Co-founder's Plan to Fix St. Louis - Issie Lapowsky
- PriceGrabber Buys Snapette to Bring E-Commerce Local - Eric Markowitz
- 3 Brilliant Negotiating Tips I Learned From Steve Jobs - Peter Cohan
Tue Aug 19 2013
- Oakley Founder Jim Jannard Steps Back from Red - Bobbie Gossage
- Get Your E-mails Back Into Gmail's Inbox - Stephanie Meyers
- Why You Should Never Extend Deadlines - Stephanie Meyers
- Week In Tech: Google Goes Dark For Two Minutes - John Brandon
- What Your Employees Really Want - Marc Barros
- The Worst Hiring Mistake I Ever Made - Inc. staff
- Zillow Buys StreetEasy for $50 Million - Will Yakowicz
- MBA: The Musical - Leigh Buchanan
- Steve Wozniak: Jobs Movie Gets Much Wrong - Francesca Fenzi
- Simon Sinek on Great Leaders - Will Yakowicz
- 7 Ways to Generate Great Ideas - Kevin Daum
- 3 Questions Top Candidates Ask in Job Interviews - The Build Network staff
- Have Perks Become Entitlements? - Janine Popick
- Are You Infecting Your Employees With Toxic Email? - Jessica Stillman
- Steve Jobs Was Overrated as a CEO - Geoffrey James
- The Question You Should Ask Every Time You Interview - JJ Ramberg
- The Striking Downside to a Remote Workplace - Margaret Heffernan
- How to Be a Better Leader Online - Marla Tabaka
- Don't Build a Billion-Dollar Business. Really. - Gleb Budman
- 7 Qualities Every Start-up Employee Needs - Jeff Haden
Sat Aug 16 2013
- Top 10 Metro Areas of the Inc. 5000 - Will Yakowicz
- How to Leverage Your True Talent - Laura Garnett
- 3 Steps to Protecting Intellectual Property - Chas Rampenthal
- Google Secretly Phases Out '20% Time' - Jana Kasperkevic
- Create a Strong Company Culture: Step No. 1 - Paul Spiegelman
- Airbnb Could Teach You a Lot About Customer Service - Jim Edwards
- 7 Powerful Words of Advice for Entrepreneurs - Stephanie Meyers
- Does Twitter Really Drive Store Sales? Maybe - Erik Sherman
- Is Your Company Ready for the 'Mobile Mind Shift'? - Will Yakowicz
- Life is Too Short to Work With Jerks - Chip Paucek
- 8 Ways to Improve Your Communication Right Now - Kevin Daum
- They Made It: Rigid Industries - Inc. staff
- Your Essential Sales Tool: Integrity - Geoffrey James
- They Made It: Bustin Boards - Inc. staff
- A Storytelling Guide for Those Who Stink at Storytelling - Jessica Stillman
- Street Smarts: How Do I Bring on a Partner? - Norm Brodsky
- Top of the World - Inc. staff
- Into the Deep - Inc. staff
- Taking the Bull by the Horns - Inc. staff
- Protecting Our (Shallowest) Borders - Inc. staff
- Giving Vets Both Living And Fallen The Respect They Deserve - Inc. staff
- Goodbye, photo shoots. Hello, shooting range - Inc. staff
- You're Going to Have Doubts. How Do You Handle Them?
- 3 Lessons from J.C. Penney's Missteps - Eric Holtzclaw
- Be More Creative: 7 Things to Learn From Leonardo da Vinci - Christina DesMarais
- How America's Fastest Growing Companies Stay Motivated - Abigail Tracy
- Can You Answer That Big, Challenging Question <em>Without</em> Asking Google? - The Build Network staff
- Make Your Brand More Personable on Social Media: 3 Tips - Jeff Haden
- Bootstrapping Is a Business (and Not Just a Startup) Strategy - Vanessa Merit Nornberg
Fri Aug 15 2013
- Does Bootstrapping Make You More Disciplined? - Jana Kasperkevic
- How to Get Your Series A Mojo Back - Mark Suster
- How to Design Great Mobile Facebook Ads - Jonathan Steiman
- John Caplan Looks at How Arizona Iced Tea CEOs Innovated Against the Competition - John Caplan
- The Best Gift You Can Give Yourself as a Leader - Carrie Kerpen
- Is the Social Media Frenzy Over? - Jana Kasperkevic
- The Fantastic, Dystopian Future of Social Networking - John Brandon
- Are You a Subscription Email Offender? - Stephanie Meyers
- 9 Ideas to Make Your Next Business Article Go Viral - Young Entrepreneur Council
- Feel Like You're Faking It? You're Not Alone. - Minda Zetlin
- Birchbox: The Try-and-Buy Model Works - Francesca Fenzi
- Why You Might Want to Rethink Cloud Services - Abigail Tracy
- Are Employee Safety and Quality Related? - Drew Greenblatt