The Book That Has Leaders Everywhere Losing Sleep
“It’s not an accident that successful people read more books.” Seth Godin said that. Sure, he may have said that because he’s the author of several bestselling business books,…
ClearFit Named Most Innovative Cloud-Based Recruitment Solution
Today, we’re breaking that cardinal rule that what happens in Vegas has to stay in Vegas. And we hope you’ll forgive us for this little breach. And that’s because, last…
Introducing Our Long-Awaited Book: What to Why
Click here to download the book for free While What to Why is only a twenty-minute read, it has been years in the making and explores a fundamental shift that…
The Scary Choice This Startup Made Before Raising $8.8 Million
In February 2013, Evgeny Tchebotarev met with his four-person leadership team at 500px, an online photography community he had co-founded in 2009 with Oleg Gutsol, a longtime friend. They were…
The Brave Strategy That Finally Helped These Two Startup Founders Dominate Their Market
In 2009, Simon Tomlinson and Stewart Wigg, the cofounders of Bluesun, a technology consulting business, came to a disturbing conclusion–they had created the wrong company. They had gone into business…
Why This Startup Bought a Struggling Product From Its Giant Competitor
In the winter of 2014, serial entrepreneur Albert Lai sat alone waiting for a friend at a restaurant down the street from his latest venture, Big Viking Games. On the…
How This Kindergarten Teacher Raised $34 Million from the Firm That Funded Apple and Google
“Your idea will never work.” These words rang through Tami Zuckerman’s head as she sat in her family’s kitchen alone one day in the winter of 2012. At the time,…
What If Your Customers Suddenly Disappeared? Try This Company’s Smart Comeback Strategy
In October 2001, Sean McDade, the founder of PeopleMetrics, looked down at the document lying on his desk–a term sheet for a $250,000 investment in his startup. His employees had…
The Secret Behind the Startup That Ballooned but Almost Popped
This post, “The Secret Behind the Startup That Ballooned but Almost Popped” appeared first on Inc. In 2007, our friends at Northstar Balloons entered the balloon market space with the…
The Founders Who Turned a Dud Into an Enterprise With a Million Paying Customers
This post, “The Founders Who Turned a Dud Into an Enterprise” appeared first on Inc. It was the spring of 2009, before we had even met Mike Silagadze. He was sitting…