When I started at Inc., just a few weeks before the pandemic, I admitted on this page that I came from a clan of failed entrepreneurs. The patriarch of that family, my grandfather ...

ONE YEAR AFTER launching organic baby food startup Little Spoon in 2017, Michelle Muller and her co-founders were still handling customer service for the company on their own—unt ...

BRAD BAXTER, FOUNDER AND CEO OF WHISKER “As a kid, I saw my dad struggle as an entrepreneur—and I didn’t realize that I was on that same path until one day, I was down in the ...

Jim Magats, PayPal’s senior vice president of payments and SMB solutions, says that since joining the company in 2004, he’s heard PayPal’s demise predicted many times—when ...

In 2014, Biggby Coffee CEO Mike McFall knew morale was crumbling in his Midwest coffee shop franchiser. The “midnight move-outs” were, for him, a red flag: Employees were resig ...

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A few years ago, I was given an unorthodox assignment: Find out why an apparel company was losing market share to a competitor. Our client, which I’ll call BestCloth,* had a stro ...