Edited exclusively for CEO's and private business owners, Inc. is the handbook of the American entrepreneur. (Tradepub.com)

Inc. is a monthly magazine for entrepreneurs and small businesses based in New York City. It also publishes an annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., the "Inc. 500."

The magazine reports its paid circulation as 690,000 as of February 2007, with monthly newsstand sales topping 20,000.

Inc. was founded in Boston by Bernie Goldhirsh and its first issue appeared in April 1979. Goldhirsh was an MIT-trained engineer who worked at Polaroid and on ballistic missiles before becoming an entrepreneur and founding Sail magazine, which he sold for $10 million, using the profits to found Inc. Goldhirsh kept a low profile, and longtime editor George Gendron was the "public face" of the magazine for two decades.

Though long considered the younger upstart compared to most business publications, Inc. suffered during the dot-com era as titles like Fast Company seemed to grab more attention, but the tech crash and subsequent retrenchment saw the magazine stabilize its circulation and image.

In 2000, widowed and battling cancer, Goldhirsh sold the magazine to Gruner + Jahr for a price reported over $200 million[2]. Goldhirsh's devotion to the principles of entrepreneurism led him to create the Goldhirsh Foundation and a unique trust for his children.

The magazine was purchased in 2005 by Morningstar founder, Joe Mansueto, and Inc. and its sister magazine Fast Company constitute the publishing arm of Mansueto Ventures.

The magazine is now based in New York City, and run under the leadership of CEO John Koten and Editor Jane Berentson.

Founder Bernie Goldhirsh's son, Ben Goldhirsh, is the founder of GOOD magazine. (Wikipedia.org)

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Cover Story
Kevin Rose of Digg: The Most Famous Man on the Internet

It's Kevin Rose's Internet; we're just using it. Rose isn't only the founder of Digg, a news/technology/nonsense site that has 30 million visitors a month. He also has his own TV network (Revision3), a communications platform (Pownce), and legions of obsessed fans. He's having so much fun, you could almost miss the fact that he's setting himself up to be an Internet-age media mogul.

From a distance, it looks like a rock concert: a gritty part of the Brooklyn, New York, waterfront, where dive bars and cavernous clubs provide a backdrop for an endless parade of girls in skinny jeans and guys piloting fixed-gear bikes. On an evening in June, trickling into one of the unmarked doorways is a massive throng of young people. They are loud, obscene, and drunk with enthusiasm -- clapping, hooting, and bouncing up and down in place. Outside this dance club -- a massive box of bricks called Studio B -- a line wraps around the block for several hundred feet. ...

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