Finance

Over the 20 years I’ve been in business, I’ve noticed only a fraction of business owners pay attention to their business credit profile, but it’s a critical factor to keep watch over. Although the credit bureaus take their mandate to provide accurate and timely business credit information seriously, mistakes happen. Your business credit profile, unlike your personal score, is publicly available. It doesn’t require …

Today I’m going to share with you a really neat trick that will improve your life. It’s worked for me, anyway. And it has to do with listening multidimensionally to what other people say, and thus being very tuned in to decipher their motivations. Frankly, you’ll probably understand their motives better than they do much of the time. The trick …

Kalika Yap, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Los Angeles, is founder and CEO of both Citrus Studios, a branding and design agency, and Orange & Bergamot, a creative agency for female founders. As the host of EO’s Wonder podcast, Kalika interviewed Maggie Drake, co-founder and CEO of Bandolier, the original cross-body phone accessory. Kalika shared highlights of their conversation about entrepreneurial lessons learned and …

I recently wrote about Apple’s 2007 launch of the iPhone, and how the most consequential thing to come out of that keynote was easily the most overlooked. That happens because until we’ve experienced something we don’t know what to expect or to watch for.  In the process of writing that, as I re-watched that keynote the other day, I realized …

Warren Buffett has more simple wisdom in one big toe than most of us have in our whole bodies. Buffett once gave his personal pilot a powerful lesson on time management based on his own three-step productivity strategy, which has been dubbed as the “25/5 Rule”: Write down a list of your top 25 career goals. Circle the five most important goals that truly speak to you. These …

Remote work is a popular subject in 2020, but conversations have veered largely toward day-to-day efficiencies: How to create a professional background for video conference calls, what to communicate via low-bandwidth channels like email and chat versus Zoom meetings, what the etiquette is for internal versus external conferences, and so on.  Remote work, however, offers bigger challenges, including the loss of passive …

While the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in significant loss of life and severe economic disruptions, there are still plenty of reasons to have hope during these times. One of the biggest positive elements is how technological innovations are enabling better treatment and helping people get through this crisis. In many cases, the technology being used by businesses and organizations can …

Welcome to episode 55 of Inc.‘s Founders Project with Alexa Von Tobel podcast, where we bring you stories of the entrepreneurs building the future. Listen to the tales of guts, inspiration, and drive that define the people and companies at the forefront of technology. Each week, we dig into a founder’s professional playbook–and uncover what makes them tick. How to Quantify Product Market Fit, with Rahul Vohra of Superhuman Why is …

Today is a big day for four CEOs of the most powerful companies in the world: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg, and Google’s Sundar Pichai. Each of these men will be answering questions from U.S. lawmakers. And each will try to defend their companies’ business practices. In advance of the hearing, each executive was given the …

Join Inc. in conversation with Miguel Garza, CEO and co-founder of Siete Family Foods, on how to invent a new food category–and build it into a successful business today 1 p.m. ET. Garza and his sister, Veronica, started with a family business built around her culinary inventions and ended up pioneering a booming new food category, grain-free Mexican-American. Siete Family Foods …