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Blake Mycoskie doesn't like to sit still. A serial entrepreneur, Mycoskie got the idea for his latest company, Toms Shoes, while on vacation in Argentina. After spending time in several [...]

Keep an eye on these eight rising stars. They are transforming the Web, empowering other start-ups, and turning your conference room into one big whiteboard. A sneak preview of the […]

JESSICA DiLULLO HERRIN, Stella & Dot THREE-YEAR GROWTH 3,458.1% 2009 REVENUE $32.8 MILLION RANK NO. 67 Jessica DiLullo Herrin co-founded the prominent wedding website WeddingChannel at 24, and for the [...]

Congratulations; you have survived the recession. Now what? If you have ever had the urge to start your own business, now may be a good time to make a move. [...]

After the birth of his first child, Sol Lipman, the 36-year-old CEO of 12seconds.tv, began contemplating what would become of his business if something were to happen to him. Lipman [...]

Gina Stern knows airports better than most people. Stern is the founder of d_parture Spa, a day spa in New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport that offers services such as [...]

Many big companies sell to the teen demographic, but most are blissfully unaware of what exactly resonates with their target market. Tina Wells, 30, founder and CEO of Buzz Marketing [...]

Not sure what to put on your holiday wish list this year? To provide some inspiration, we asked six entrepreneurs to describe their most-cherished gifts. 1. FILSON DUFFLE BAG $295 [...]

Lori Greiner designed her first earring organizer in 1996. Today, her company, For Your Ease Only, sells some 250 bags, organizers, and gadgets intended to make life more orderly. Greiner, [...]

Oscar Blandi founded his namesake New York City salon in 1999, a decade after moving to the U.S. from Italy. Now he has celebrity clients like Kelly Ripa and a [...]

Having launched two tech companies and a consulting business in Cary, North Carolina, Glen Lang decided to take on a different kind of challenge: politics. After Lang was elected mayor [...]

Lela Rose has a broad approach to fashion: The designer's clothing is sold at high-end stores like Neiman Marcus, but she also has a footwear line at Payless ShoeSource. Rose, [...]

Most people think of Wasilla, Alaska, as the home of Sarah Palin. Toby Foster wants you to think of it as the home of Permafrost Vodka, which is made with [...]

Jason Pomeranc supplies the creative vision for Thompson Hotels, the luxury chain that he founded with his father and brothers in 2001. They own l0 hotels in the U.S. and [...]

When Kara Goldin founded Hint water in San Francisco in 2005, her plan was to keep things simple. The strategy worked: Hint water, which contains only water and a touch [...]

Philip Kaplan, founder of Fucked Company and AdBrite, recently co-founded another au courant business: Blippy, a social network on which people divulge details on credit card purchases. When Kaplan's not [...]

There's no shortage of stuff to watch online these days--TV shows, movies, music videos, and, of course, scads of amateur video clips. Because there are so many choices, it's often [...]

Michelle Roark got the idea for her Denver-based perfume company, Phi-nomenal, before competing in the 2006 Olympics with the U.S. ski team. Roark, who skis in the freestyle mogul event, [...]

Mark Dwight founded Rickshaw Bagworks in San Francisco in 2007, two years after selling his previous bag company, Timbuk2, to a private equity firm for $22.5 million. Rickshaw, which uses [...]

There is a growing--make that deafening--buzz about building a business using the iPhone App Store. And one of the most buzzed about areas is video. Even before the recent introduction [...]

Tariq Farid didn't start out trying to become a franchiser. He just hoped to start a successful retail business selling bouquets made from cut-up fresh fruit. But from its earliest [...]

Stephen Starr is best known for his Buddakan restaurants, which have won raves for dishes like Kobe beef satay. But they are only a small part of his empire, STARR [...]

Dany Levy, founder of DailyCandy, spends two weeks a month on the road, shuttling among the 12 cities in which her company, now owned by Comcast, sends out free e-mail [...]

Through Kiva.org, the employees of Inc.com and its parent company are supporting entrepreneurs in Ecuador, Peru, Tanzania, Cambodia, and Tajikistan. ON PHAL AN'S BUSINESS MODEL: 'Her rice wine sales cover [...]

ENCINO-based GoZing, an online survey firm, has managed to rise above the clutter of the Internet. And it has done it partly by just giving better gifts than its competitors. [...]

The article narrates how Tariq Farid founded the company Edible Arrangements. To pursue his idea of edible bouquets, Farid tested several fruit-cutting equipment to find the best tool to transform pineapples, honey-dew, and cantaloupe into attractive flowerlike petals and decorative leaves. His first store was located in Connecticut while the second franchise of the company was built by Chris Dellamarggio, a manager for a marketing services company. It is noted that there are 883 Edible Arrangements stores all over the world.