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Mike Hofman
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Editor in Chief at Inc.
With many offices being used 3 days a week versus 5, what is the future of commercial real estate? One mini solution/mini trend: Refashion your office as an events space www.inc.com/kelli-maria-...
The Future of Your Office Is an Events Space
These CEOs have found new revenue streams by opening their offices for everything from weddings to meetings.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
As Y Combinator devotes more energy to AI startups, @inc.com’s @samblum.bsky.social asks whether the powerful incubator is merely reflecting the latest hype cycle—or actively exacerbating it. www.inc.com/sam-blum/how...
How the AI Bubble Ate Y Combinator
The program is shorter, startups are pushed to build faster, and just about everyone has an AI company. What could go wrong?
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September 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
People are kind of obsessed with Vacation sunscreen. For @inc.com, @jenniferconrad.bsky.social unpacks why and how it propelled them to $80 million www.inc.com/jennifer-con...
Vacation's $80 Million Sunscreen Brand Is Surfing on More Than Just Vibes
How did these founders build a cult sunscreen with celebrity investors and a devoted customer base? One piña colada at a time.
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August 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
What happens when the company that buys you changes its mind? www.inc.com/brian-contre...
Meta Acquired His Company for $1 Billion, and Then Changed Its Mind. Now, He's Charting a New Path
Exclusive: The AI customer service company Kustomer just raised $30 million in funding after being spun off by Meta.
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August 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Has our national obsession with protein gone too far? David's frozen cod protein bar suggests the answer is yes--but also the people want it, per @inc.com www.inc.com/jennifer-con...
Why Is Frozen Cod Taking Over the Internet?
With this new drop, protein bar-maker David wants its customers to believe it's getting into the fish business.
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July 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Is this the Cybertruck of scooters? How Infinite Machine plans to reinvent the Vespa www.inc.com/rob-verger/i...
How 2 Brothers With No Automotive Experience Created a Scooter That Looks Like a Cybertruck
Infinite Machine's P1 has a $10,000 price tag. Can it compete with the likes of Vespa?
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July 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A group of Florida business owners are fighting the state's most famous resident over tariffs www.inc.com/bill-saporit...
5 Small Businesses Are Showing Big Business How to Stand Up to Trump's Tariffs
Leave it to a handful of Florida-based entrepreneurs to show some backbone and sue the Trump administration over its senseless tariff regime.
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May 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Andy Elliott is a self-described "elite sales warrior" who trains salespeople on what he calls "the 1 percenter mentality" for success. @samblum.bsky.social takes a look at his rapid rise for @inc.com www.inc.com/sam-blum/mee...
Meet the Alpha Male Sales Bros Influencing Your Sales Team
These 'elite sales warriors' are blowing up TikTok and LinkedIn. But are they offering good business advice?
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April 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Does your workplace suffer from "fake harmony"? "In the short term, skipping a disagreement is probably easiest," writes @karendillon.bsky.social for @inc.com, but "getting comfortable with a healthy amount of conflict, and having a strategy to navigate it, is essential." www.inc.com/karen-dillon...
Does Your Company Have Too Much Conflict, or Too Little?
Every business should have a healthy amount of conflict, says Karen Dillon. You just need a strategy to navigate it.
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March 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Jonathan Adler cops to having made a million mistakes in building his business. And yet his brand endures www.inc.com/christine-la...
Jonathan Adler Is Grateful for Growth Capital
The home decor entrepreneur discusses the evolution of his namesake company and why he sold to private equity.
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March 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is a juicy one from @askamanager.org: Slack feels private but is in many cases a company-owned platform. Is it ok for a manager to take a look at private channels? Is it wise? www.inc.com/alison-green...
Should Managers Stay Out Of Employees' Private Slack Channels?
... and three other tricky workplace dilemmas.
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March 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Is employee "bore-out" the new employee "burnout"? @adamgrant.bsky.social says unchallenging work could be sapping morale at your company (@inc.com) www.inc.com/bruce-crumle...
Beyond Burnout: Adam Grant Warns of Rising 'Boreout' Among Employees
The Wharton organizational psychologist joins other workplace experts noting the rise of worker ‘boreout’ produced by unchallenging jobs offering few growth opportunities that now rivals burnout as a ...
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March 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Fun little investigation by @inc.com's @samblum.bsky.social on Lovette Dobson, the Zelig of the business world, a mysterious person whose name appears on tens of thousands of LLC documents www.inc.com/sam-blum/who...
Who Is Lovette Dobson and Why Does Her Name Appear on More Than 70,000 Business Filings?
In the anonymous paperwork of LLC registrations, scam victims are desperate to find a real person to help them. Sometimes all they have is Lovette.
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March 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
For ex-Twitter workers, Musk's headlong implementation of the DOGE agenda is painfully familiar, writes @stokel.bsky.social for @inc.com: "I see his changes as less about efficiency for the U.S. citizen and more about efficiency for him,” says one former employee www.inc.com/chris-stokel...
Elon Musk Says Government Needs Innovation. His Former Employees Disagree
Moving fast and breaking things—as Musk did at Twitter—doesn’t work as well when you're disrupting the delivery of vital public services.
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March 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Is your top job candidate an AI deepfake? www.inc.com/emilymccrary...
How to Tell If Your Job Candidate Is an AI Deepfake
Scammers are creating AI-generated deepfakes to land jobs, steal company data, and funnel money to nation states.
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March 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“Sweatshop as a service” is so dark. @inc.com’s @samblum.bsky.social reports on a Y Combinator concept drawing criticism www.inc.com/sam-blum/y-c...
Y Combinator Takes Heat for Helping Launch a Startup That Spies on Factory Workers
Optifye.ai has been called a 'sweatshop-as-a-service' provider after its demo launch video left people stunned.
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February 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
How real is the threat of DeepSeek to Nvidia? Phil Rosen of @openingbell.bsky.social takes a look for @inc.com www.inc.com/phil-rosen/d...
DeepSeek Is Fueling a Stock Market Reckoning
Wall Street is panicking as China seems to have created a real competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT for cheap.
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January 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In 2025, “it’s going to get weird with retail,” branding consultant Tom Rinks tells @inc.com, as consumers increasingly adopt a “treasure hunt” approach to shopping because, for buyers, “it just feels so good to find something that everybody else doesn’t have.” www.inc.com/ali-donaldso...
What Will Marketing Look Like in 2025? 'It’s Going to Get Weird.'
Retail executives and branding experts predict how companies will–and won’t–be reaching consumers this year.
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January 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Like many employers before it, the federal government is learning that requiring 5-day-a-week RTO often outstrips existing office space www.inc.com/bruce-crumle...
The Federal RTO Crackdown Prompts a Scramble for Office Space
The General Services Administration must find workspaces for 2.3 million civil servants ordered back to offices full time—while also carrying out Trump's pending order to sell off two-thirds of the bu...
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January 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
So what exactly is Project Stargate? @inc.com's @bensherry.bsky.social takes a look at the Trump-blessed AI initiative www.inc.com/ben-sherry/p...
Trump Announces Project Stargate, a Massive New Investment in AI
The venture involves OpenAI, Softbank, and Oracle, and starts with an investment of $100 billion.
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January 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trump's tax cut-tariff-DOGE mix of policies are intended to fuel growth. Will they? @openingbell.bsky.social's Phil Rosen takes a look for @inc.com www.inc.com/phil-rosen/t...
How Trump Could Move Markets and Reshape the Economy
Trump has vowed to cut taxes and implement tariffs, among other initiatives that will affect the economy.
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January 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM