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One-Stop Facilities Management Services
THESCIENTIFICGROUP.COM NO406 2024 Ranking 210 Employees 1093% 3-Year Growth 10K+ Client Locations The Scientific Group stands out in the building services industry as a rare self-performing provider. The company is adept at delivering comprehensive s
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Backers Should Have Your Back
Three years ago, U.S. entrepreneurs were enjoying one of the best funding environments in decades. Venture capital and private equity hit all-time highs as banks loaned at historically low interest rates. All you needed to get a term sheet, it seemed
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The Unconventional Founder Shaking up IT Services
THEWISERAGENCY.COM NO1686 2024 Ranking 308% 3-Year Growth 2X Inc. 5000 Honoree HQ Austin, Texas There’s a Reddit channel devoted to talking trash about Chris Wiser. People have posted that he is cocky or selling results that are too good to be true.
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How Partnering With Private Equity Helped One Company Transform Care
BOYNECAPITAL.COM 2006 Year Founded ~$700M Assets Under Management 30 Employees 19 Portfolio Companies When Dr. Khan Nedd, founder of Infusion Associates, met representatives of Boyne Capital in 2018, he already knew he had tapped into a tremendous op
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Leadership / Workplace
1 Get vulnerable 2 Rethink your approach to hiring 3 Benchmark your benefits 4 Tighten that HR budget In early 2023, Kelly R. Culhane, co-founder and chief growth officer at Culhane, a Dallas-based law firm, noticed that one of her executive assistan
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The Best Defense
VIRTRU 2012 Washington, DC CEO: John Ackerly Company Size: 158 John Ackerly was working on federal privacy legislation at the National Economic Council, a White House advisory group, when terrorists struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on S
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The CPG Conundrum
THE BUZZ AROUND Me & the Bees lemonade just kept growing. The Austin-based company charmed its way into recent startup lore with its young founder, Mikaila Ulmer, getting stung by a bee at the tender age of 4 and then deciding to sell family-recipe l
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A Bankable Pet Project
Berenice Giannini’s startup, eTailPet, wasn’t a natural fit for Moonshots Capital. The Austin-based venture firm, launched in 2014 by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings, both of whom had previously served in the U.S. Army, frequently backs companies fou
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Never Left Holding the Bag
Dagne Dover co-founder Deepa Gandhi didn’t want to spend the week of her wedding securing a business loan. But in the fall of 2017, she found herself doing exactly that. A third-party logistics company holding Dagne’s inventory of ecofriendly handbag
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For The Love Of The Restaurant Experience
DJBHOSPITALITY.COM NO3624 2024 Ranking 5X Inc. 5000 Honoree 131% 3-Year Growth 17 Locations Chat with Dennis Barbaro about his business, DJB Hospitality, and you will leave the discussion hungry, thirsty, and ready for a night on the town. Because Ba
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Tech
1 Choose the right generative AI tool 2 Take these steps if you’ve been hacked 3 Shrink your LLM For entrepreneurs looking to use generative AI tools in their business, few choices are more important than picking the right model. To help you do that,
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LIFT OFF Would You Pay $50,000 To Touch The Edge Of Space?
SO YOU WANT to go to space. To take in the expansive curvature of the Earth glowing miles above the atmosphere, surrounded by pure darkness. To experience the mind-altering overview effect described by astronauts as a transcendent state of awe, stari
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Dew Diligence
"We made the choice early on not to name the brand after me because we wanted to make sure it could live on without me. That’s important for this new wave of influencer-driven brands to keep in mind. A lot of people think it’s taboo to say you starte
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Meet the Consulting Firm Ushering in a Retail Renaissance
NO1106 2024 Ranking 463% 3-Year Growth 45 Employees 3 Locations LEGACYRETAIL.COM The largest retailers are only getting bigger and more complex. Each retailer’s approach is different and requires deep knowledge of their merchandising strategies and p
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The Former Wall Street Analyst Teaching Wealth-Building to the Masses
EMPIFY.COM NO652 2024 Ranking 712% 3-Year Growth 2017 Year Founded HQ Atlanta, Georgia Ashley M. Fox, founder of Empify—a fintech startup on a mission to revolutionize how adults and children learn how to build wealth—never wanted to run a business.
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If You're Looking for New Revenue (and Who Isn't?), Here's an Untapped Way to Find It
I recently asked a group of Inc. 5000 CEOs which marketing channels were performing best this year in terms of sales conversion. I’m not exactly sure what answers I expected, but I would not have been shocked to hear about partnering with TikTok infl
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WHAT PRiCE iNFLUENCE?
HYPEAUDITOR 2018 Indianapolis, IN CEO: Alexander Frolov Company Size: 140
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A Scientific Discovery that Unlocks Your Body's Healing Power
STEMREGEN.CO NO 1765 2024 Ranking 2016 Year Founded 2021 Launched in the U.S. 297% 3-Year Growth Nearly 30 years ago, when Christian Drapeau first shared his hypothesis that stem cells are the body’s repair system, and plant extracts can stimulate yo
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Karen Dillon | Inner Strength Isn't Everything. When Times Are Tough, Resilient Leaders Look Outward For Support.
• Scott MacGregor, founder of Madison, Connecticutbased talent strategy company Something New, is one of the best networkers I’ve ever met. But not in the way you might think. Nearly a decade ago, Scott and I chatted briefly before I spoke about my b
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Rebounder Founders
Alphonzo Ter rell had just returned home from Twitter’s Los Angeles office in November 2022 when he found himself suddenly locked out of Slack—the first sign that he and about half of Twitter’s 7,500 employees had been laid off. “It was like the scen
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One Founder's Second Act in Hollywood
John Finn was working as an accountant in Syracuse, New York, when he decided he needed a change. A fan of 1970s films (The Godfather and The Sting are favorites), Finn moved to New York City, where he freelanced on movie sets before founding GreenSl
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A Focus on Complete Solutions for Regulatory Environments
NORTHCROSSGROUP.COM NO1706 2024 Ranking 305% 3-Year Growth 50 Employees 3 Locations Christopher Bender takes pride in competing against the big consulting firms to help clients with compliance and growth efforts. As founder and president of the North
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THE POWER TO CHOOSE YOUR TiMELiNE
CARROT FERTILITY 2016 Menlo Park, CA CEO: Tammy Sun Company Size: 450 Like millions of Americans who use employer-sponsored health care, Tammy Sun’s fertility treatments were not covered when she underwent three rounds of egg freezing about a decade
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Custom PEO Solutions for Blue-Collar Industries
COMPEO.IO NO17 2024 Ranking 10,915% 3-Year Growth HQ Dania, Florida 2017 Year Founded When COMPEO, a provider of cost-effective, customized HR management software platforms, entered the scene in 2017, most, if not all, of the professional employer or
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Homebuying Was Broken—Meet the Founders Here to Fix It
CECILIANPARTNERS.COM NO1033 2024 Ranking 492% 3-Year Growth 2024 Inc. Best Workplaces Honoree 2019 Year Founded John Cecilian Jr.’s initial pitch to his brother-in-law and co-founder Philip Worland wasn’t in a boardroom–it was in the MetLife Stadium
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The Fashion Business Model, Reimagined
MARCELLANYC.COM NO577 2024 Ranking 780% 3-Year Growth 61 Employees 3X Inc. 5000 Honoree Leaving corporate America to bootstrap the women’s designer fashion brand Marcella, husband-and-wife duo Andy and Siyana Huszar quickly recognized that they would
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Inc. Magazine
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mike Hofman EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Jennifer Henkus DEPUTY EDITOR Michelle Legro CREATIVE DIRECTOR Richard Baker EXECUTIVE MANAGING EDITOR Jada Gomez EXECUTIVE EDITORS Laura Lorber, Diana Ransom FEATURES EDITOR Graham Winfrey EDITORS
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SALES & MARKETING
1 Formulate your talking points 2 Start selling faster 3 Pick a social platform 4 Grow your community 5 Survey smarter “Sales is the numberone thing you need to learn as a business owner.” That’s according to Brian Town, a fractional CMO and serial e
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Inc. POWER PARTNERS
As 2024 wraps up, you’re probably budgeting for the new year and taking a close look at every expense. Which investments paid off beautifully, and which SaaS licenses did your teams underuse? Which business partners are worth every penny? These are t
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Why Esther Dyson Says You Should Seek Out Mistakes and Messes
Esther Dyson admits she grew up in “one of the world’s most bubbly bubbles,” surrounded by Nobel Prize winners in Princeton, New Jersey, where her father, theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson, worked for J. Robert Oppenheimer. But the 73-year-old Swis
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