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I had just come offstage at the Inc. 5000 Conference with Deepak Chopra, and we were sitting in my suite with a few audio producers—arranging microphones, plugging wires into sockets, taking sound levels—to record an episode of Inc. Uncensored, one o

Saysh’s founders didn’t want the shoes to look overly feminine, hence their unfussy design. As the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association found in 2009, female feet differ in shape from male feet. The shoe’s wider forefoot and narrower

Diem’s first funding paid salaries for its co-founders, an outsourced engineer, and two interns, one of whom became a full-time employee. Through this experience, Bates learned the importance of projecting confidence when pitching. “If you’re doubtin

“We are not investing in people per se. Instead, we are investing in our people. We are providing specialized training to our peak performers, in terms of sciencebased strategies to increase productivity and flow state.” —Steve Weisbrot, president an

“I could immediately tell as I started reading this book how much it resonated with Hill House,” says Nell Diamond (above), 35, founder of the New York Citybased clothing brand. After opening her third brick-andmortar storefront in 2023, Diamond read

RETROSPECTIVELY, IT’S EASY to understand which parts of our education have most impacted us. I can’t say my college European History 101 class helps me as an entrepreneur, but my seventh-grade typing class continues to serve me well, and the art clas

IN THE FALL of 2015, my recently launched New York City-based presentation software startup, Slidebean, hit a milestone two years in the making: We reached 100 customers on our platform. Whooo! For a team of sleep-deprived, broke co-founders, this wa

WHEN MY GREAT-great-grandfather owned the Louis Koch Brewery in St. Louis in the 1870s, he and his employees went home for dinner every night. In those days, before refrigeration and interstate transportation, breweries were local businesses whose sa

Inc. 5000 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT N°1365 2023 Ranking 428% 3-Year Growth $143M 2022 Revenue 250 Employees By the middle of March, Covid had shut down all the events Access had planned for its clients for 2020. State and federal regulations prohibited large

Inc. 5000 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT N°192 2023 Ranking 2819% 3-Year Growth $20M 2022 Revenue 50 Employees Small business’s access to capital remains a huge barrier to growth. Banks are tightening credit availability under regulatory pressure at the same time

Inc. 5000 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT N°720 2023 Ranking 9 Full-Time Employees 815% 3-Year Growth $5M Top Member’s Sales There is a reason why Amazon started as an online marketplace for books, notes Luke Sample, co-founder of BookProfits, a technology and tra