Not all stories have a happy ending. Kickstarter, the world’s largest crowdfunding site, gives entrepreneurs a platform to raise money for pet projects like a new business, a film, or even a music video. To date, the site has collectively raised more than $679 million for more than 100,000 campaigns, launching the likes of the […]

Getting fired from the company you started may seem hard to imagine, but it happens fairly frequently. Avoid these mistakes and it won’t happen to you. Getting fired from the company you created is probably the last thing you can imagine. Unfortunately, it’s a fairly regular occurrence that can have devastating effects on both you […]

Dark Sky’s creators Adam Grossman and Jason LaPorte on how they developed their breakthrough meteorological technology. Adam Grossman, Jack Turner, and Jason LaPorte had an idea for a simple weather app, with one major twist. Instead of predicting weather by the day or week, their app would predict rainfall minute by minute-one hour into the […]

Your business may keep you racing like a frantic short order cook, but truly great ideas require a slow simmer, advises the founder of Behance. Save a little time to stir these pots. You’ve no doubt heard of Google’s famous 20 percent time, and here on Inc.com we recentlly offered another bit of advice for […]

There are tons of new funding opportunities for undergrad entrepreneurs. Peter Thiel may be paying students to skip college, but undergrad entrepreneurs need not worry–there’s plenty of money out there for them as well. Several VC firms on the lookout for the next Michael Dell or Mark Zuckerberg have launched investment funds aimed at college […]

When it comes to launching a small business, American entrepreneurs don’t go very far. In fact, sixty-nine percent get started at home, according to the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report. When we think of entrepreneurs, we think of visionaries working with a brilliant team of coders, disrupting an industry for millions of fans. That may […]

The product development firm, Insight, has launched a new funding model to help start-ups get through a critical stage of development Incubators are a fairly recent trend in the start-up world. They provide critical tools to a start-up; companies typically get office space that they share with other start-ups as well as access to valuable […]

A former work addict finds that taking a little time off has transformative power. As much as I’d like to boast about my ability to see the big picture, day-to-day details have long prevented me from fully observing what was happening around me. I was junkie, a common day work addict that justified her addiction […]

Are you a member of the texting generation who’s more than a little awkward on the phone? VC Mark Suster has tips for you. No one uses the phone anymore, the New York Times declared a couple of years ago and millions of young people shrugged. Texting? Sure. Chatting online? Of course, but for a […]

Face it, sometimes you’re going to mess up. Here’s how to do wrong things the right way. Winston Churchill famously said success is defined by the ability “to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” The world’s most most interesting entrepreneurs certainly lived that reality. “If we’re not making mistakes, we’re probably not […]