Topic: Inc. Magazine

HostGator is ranked 21st top fastest growing companies!

Host Gator is ranked on 21st place of the fastest growing companies in America, according to Inc. Magazine, 2nd place in top business service companies and number one top fastest growing company in Texas. Here is the link to top ...READ»

My Letter Published In Inc. Magazine October 2008 Issue

The 3rd quarter has started nicely - The entrepreneurship book I endorsed is on sale and doing well, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, we have a meeting with a potential investor on Sunday who approached us and I am in Inc. magazine's ...READ»

Small Business Rags

I started reading Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazines monthly last year.  I like both magazines about equally but for different reasons.  I let my subscription slide on Entrepreneur so I am only going to speak to Inc. Magazine.  ...READ»

Rags to Riches…Anecdotally Speaking

I love listening to a good story…especially ones about entrepreneurs and their path to eventual success.    The woman or man who turned nothing into something, who did it quickly, and without the help of others, AKA the ...READ»

Bigger is Bigger, Not Better

Are the days of the big design agency over? It seems to me they have been over for quite a while now. In the late 90's with the dot com craze in full throttle it looked as though they were making a comeback. With every design ...READ»

Take Our Kids To Work Day Guest Blogger

Today the children of Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Inc.com and FastCompany.com have gathered at the offices shared by their parents for annual Take Our Kids to Work day. These kids who are of a variety of different ages have spent ...READ»

Startuptoons.com Launches And Gets On Inc.com The Same Day

I have been nagging my wife with an idea since 2005 that I felt was the perfect team project to combine my business experience and her graphic design abilities: Startuptoons.com - a website/blog focused on editorial commentary on ...READ»

How Do Leaders Deal With Loss?

Adman extraordinaire Jay Chiat once proudly told me his secret for getting people to take his calls. "I call the person's secretary and say, 'Tell X it's his doctor, and I have the results of his tests.' X rushes to the phone; it ...READ»

5 Steps to Jumpstart Your Startup

The Net can help you uncover new opportunities, offer solutions to a crisis, and save you money.READ»

A WorkQuake(TM) Perspective on the Workplace

Just read the Inc. Magazine article about how Springfield ReManufacturing Corp. and CEO Jack Stack ("The Great Game of Business") are weathering the latest manifestation of the WorkQuake(tm) - the Recession. Stuff Mr. ...READ»

Want Higher Profits? Smash the Glass Ceiling

According to a near two-decade research study of Fortune 500 companies (from 1980–1998) by Roy Adler, a Fulbright scholar and Professor of Marketing at Pepperdine University and one of a very select few awarded the distinction of ...READ»

Risking Your Life (Insurance)

Your dangerous diversions could hurt your policy, even if it doesn't hurt you.READ»

Why Customers Will Pay You to Restrain Them

We worry about many things. Our kids' grades, our parents' health, the world at large. (Also, will all those unemployed investment bankers have enough to eat?) Add to that list one really odd thing we worry about: our own future ...READ»

• Successful Experiments in Customer Restraint

Personal Brands Ultimately Fuel Corporate Brands

When I sent my recent email to tell a good friend about the book testimonial, part of his reply included the following: "It clearly shows that you are cultivating a personal brand around entrepreneurship. I have seen from my ...READ»

Deal Jitters

You're not alone. Now more acquirers are buying insurance to ease their fears.READ»

Pour the Water

My wife, Gail, was dining in a local restaurant the other evening and noticed that the man pouring water into her glass was one of the owners. Now in the restaurant trade, owners do whatever it takes to run the business, even bus ...READ»

Singularity Cinema: A Q&A With the Director of Ray Kurzweil Bio-doc 'Transcendent Man'

Inventor Ray Kurzweil was never your typical entrepreneur. His first company developed omni-font optical character recognition, leading to the invention of the flatbed scanner, a technology he later sold to ...READ»

Katherine Hammer

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Katherine Hammer

Start It Up columnistREAD»

Case Study: New Orleans Business Struggles to Survive

Raymond Rathle survived a hurricane but lost his employees, customers, and insurance. Can his business be saved?READ»

Open Mouth, Close Career?

How do you talk about that problem at work that no one wants to talk about? Here's how to stick out your neck without getting your head chopped off.READ»

Why Brown Students See Green

Take a course at Startup U. Recent graduates of Brown founded CDNow, Nantucket Nectars, and Motley Fool. What's their secret? a 67-year-old professor who shows them the entrepreneurial ropes.READ»

A Twitter Business Model?

BusinessWeek has a great article that is bound to be very popular - The Trouble With Twitter. The article points out real issues with the service which doesn't seem to have a business model (GigaOm posited that maybe they ...READ»