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Future Alert Faster Tech

The next generation of broadband wıll reshape industries—and your business.

Food Revolutionaries – Pioneer Woman

Ariane Daguin has spent almost 35 years building the artisanal food company D’Artagnan. Along the way, she’s transformed how Americans think about food. And there’s still so much for her to do.

'Girl Boss'? 'SHE-E-O'? 'Mompreneur'? No Thanks

Enough with the cutesy nicknames

Money Movers - Because Industries Could Use A Shakeup

These founders are redefining old businesses like insurance and banking, and bringing financial services to people who have never had them.

Jazzercise, Smart Socks, Massages And More

Those fitness classes you go to? she basically invented them.

A Celebration Of Women In The Workplace

How a diverse leadership team helped fuel Aflac’s success story

How To Build A Community-And Keep It Thriving

Audrey Gelman has made the Wing’s women-focused shared office spaces into a buzzy club of feminine empowerment built on inclusivity—and, perhaps, exclusivity. Change can be messy. But this is a new kind of company.

Fashion Forward - Founders Project Golden Opportunity

Style icon Rebecca Minkoff mentors Trinity Mouzon Wofford, co-founder of Millennial wellness startup Golde.

How To Create Killer Buzz Around Your Biz

Nudging your customers to sing your praises is the best advertising you never bought. But be careful: There’s an art to this ask.

Lolly Wolly Doodle's Brandi Temple Won Her Company Back-And Then Sold It

Sales at Brandi Temple’s successful children’s clothing company, Lolly Wolly Doodle, dropped by half virtually overnight. Then the real drama began.

Science Pioneers - Bringing Us Robots, Renewable Power And Food Made From Air

Robot co-workers, lifesaving A.I., and food made from the air we breathe. These innovators are engineering the future.

We Found $2 Billion For Women Founders. It's A Start

When Linnea Roberts retired in 2016 from Goldman Sachs, where she’d been a managing director, she didn’t intend to become a startup investor.

Sinking About the Future

Elkay Manufacturing has endured for a century in an unforgiving, cyclical industry by innovating relentlessly around the ordinary.

How I Didn't Get That MBA (And Still Started A Billion-Dollar Company)

In May, the suitcase company Away, which Jen Rubio co-founded with fellow Warby Parker alum Steph Korey in 2015, raised $100 million, at a valuation of $1.4 billion. The company has sold a million suitcases and estimates 2019 revenue will hit $300 million. But Rubio’s path wasn’t always easy wheeling—especially when a controversy threatened to sink her company. As told to Christine Lagorio-chafkin

How I Learned To Run My Husband's Business After He Died

For years, Mary Celeste Beall, 42, played a supporting role at Blackberry Farm, the legendary resort in Tennessee that her husband, Sam Beall, ran. When he died suddenly in 2016, the mother of five had to learn to run it herself— while shouldering the burden of devastating grief.

How I Learned To Tame My Temper - And Become A Better Boss

Samin Nosrat has always been “good with people”—when she’s not managing them. The chef and star of Netflix’s smash hit Salt Fat Acid Heat, adapted from her best-selling book, is as charismatic in person as she is on screen, with an infectious laugh. She’s starting a new company, to produce future TV projects; this time, she’s determined to be a better leader.

Now They're Taking On Saudı Arabia

Paint fumes lingered inside the airy new studio, where my thighs were burning from the endless squats.

Charging Into The Future

Lithium-ion batteries are essential to our lives and businesses—but struggle to keep up with modern demands. Inside the race to build a better battery.

How We Did It - Luke's Lobster

Luke Holden and Ben Conniff started a small chain of simple lobster shacks. Then they started thinking much bigger.

Kevin Plank Is Betting Almost $1 Billion That Under Armour Can Beat Nike

Kevin Plank built Under Armour into a $4 billion behemoth. He's just spent almost $1 billion to get into an entirely new business. Can this decade's most unlikely tech startup beat Nike?

3 Situations Where Hiring a Lawyer Will Save You Money

You can avoid hiring an attorney for many business issues. But there are good reasons not to skimp on expertise.

An Entrepreneur Lives His Nightmare as a Rival Cashes In on His Best Idea

To score big with the NFL...a small company named Lynx invented a cool new technology...but a funny thing happened on the way to the end zone.

The $520 Million Company That's Solving All Your Financial Needs

NerdWallet co-founder Tim Chen wanted to build a personal finance company that would provide smart, unbiased information. He could have used some in overcoming his company's near-death experience.

Why Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary Wants You to Be Evil

What is the fundamental purpose of a company? To benefit owners and shareholders? Or to make the world a better place? Inc. asked two notable entrepreneurs who stand on opposite sides of the debate to make their cases.

Selling a Better Night's Sleep

Casper takes the pain out of buying a mattress.

What It's Like to Run a Company in the Most Dangerous Places on Earth

Inside the deadly, controversial, highly secretive, and crucially important private warfare waged by Patriot Group.

Meet the Entrepreneurs Reinventing the Health Care Industry

Stashed away in the Byzantine language of the Affordable Care Act are rules that have caused a Big Bang-size explosion in health care startups - led by founders who will reinvent the health care industry.

The Family Feud That Almost Killed Mardi Gras

For decades, New Orleans's legendary Blaine Kern ran the company that makes the grandest Mardi Gras floats. Then it came time for the next generation to take over.

How To Navigate The Dreaded Tech Bubble

Anyone paying attention knows what it's called. But no private tech investor dares speak the word, for fear of triggering the beginning of the end. We break down the stakes for companies trying to grow during the tech...boom, bulge, barbell, or whatever you'd like to call it.

Bill Clinton On The Importance of Entrepreneurship

No president has, upon leaving office, launched himself as vigorously into supporting entrepreneurship as Bill Clinton. Both the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative have created programs to fund and mentor hundreds of entrepreneurs at home and abroad. In a wide-ranging interview - on everything from electric car charging stations to the proper role of banking regulation - the 42nd president shares with Inc. his vision and priorities for business leaders in the 21st century.