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)

Inc. is the only major business magazine edited exclusively to guide CEOs and owners of small-to-midsize companies to success. Inc. provides fresh, insightful analyses to give the major players in the business world the tools they need to excel. Each issue uses real life examples of strategies, case studies, and successes and failures edited specifically to illuminate new ways in which its readers can benefit. Big and small organizations alike turn to Inc. to make sense of ever-changing business world.

The pages of Inc.are printed on 100% recycled paper. Inc. is dedicated to the preservation of the environment and makes sustainability a part of its core mission.

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Publisher: Mansueto Ventures LLC

Read Inc. Magazine, September 2008 Online

Cover Story: Inc. 500
Half-a-thousand reminders that business ingenuity and economic leadership still start with entrepreneurs.
By: Leigh Buchanan

The size and condition of the rings testify as to whether a particular year was wet or dry or marked by frequent fires.

Someone examining this year's Inc. 500 for clues to the economic climate in 2008 would find less elucidation. Our annual ranking measures revenue growth from 2004 to 2007, a period before people automatically responded to the prompts energy, credit, and housing with one answer: crisis. Executive teams toasting their inclusion on this list will be celebrating past success. Given rising costs, tightness of capital, and the widespread slowdown in spending by consumers and businesses (nostalgically referred to as "customers"), are the companies on the list still thriving? ...

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