Inc. Uncensored

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin and Will Yakowicz examine the the current trend of teenagers skipping college to get rich out West coding for tech companies, discuss Jon Fine's new book, Your Band Sucks, and his early years playing in indie rock bands, and talk about a t-shirt startup which is trying to revive Egypt's felled luxury cotton industry.  This week’s episode was sponsored by T-Mobile. Switch your business today at www.TMobile.com/Business.

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin and Will Yakowicz examine the reasons Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion (hint: the telecom company wants AOL's prophet), discuss Tad Friend's New Yorker profile of Marc Andreessen, and talk about the startup you never heard of that is supporting the delivery logistics of hundreds of on-demand apps. This week’s episode was sponsored by T-Mobile. Switch your business today at www.TMobile.com/Business.

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Kris Frieswick and Will Yakowicz discuss Mike Judge's HBO show Silicon Valley: funny, but not as funny as the real thing? They examine how fast food chains are trying to clean up their fatty reputations, and talk about how flower marketplace startup BloomNation might weed out competitors like 1800-Flowers. This week’s episode was sponsored by T-Mobile. Switch your business today at www.TMobile.com/Business.

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Maria Aspan and Will Yakowicz explore how Apple is positioning its Apple Pay to take over the world, examine how there's no more office space in Silicon Valley (will startups rent out cellblocks in Alcatraz?), and discuss Yakowicz's trip to the center of America's legal weed industry in Denver.   This week’s episode was sponsored by T-Mobile. Switch your business today at www.TMobile.com/Business.

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Maria Aspan, Jon Fine, and Kris Frieswick highlight 2015’s coolest entrepreneurs who are still in their twenties, the pros and cons of “fintech”peer-to-peer lending, and some unexpected benefits of Bring Your Child to Work Day. More at www.inc.com. This week’s episode was sponsored by T-Mobile. Switch your business today at www.TMobile.com/Business.

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Kris Frieswick, and Will Yakowicz examine how online music streaming sales have surpassed CD sales, dissect how entrepreneur Anthony Katz convinced LeBron James and other famous athletes to invest in his sports injury remedy, and talk about how a member of the MIT Blackjack Team turned his gambling skills into business acumen. More at www.inc.com. This week’s episode was sponsored by T-Mobile. Switch your business today at www.TMobile.com/Business.

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Burt Helm, and Kimberly Weisul examine a Mets’ fan who turned losses into T-shirt sales, robot furniture that challenges today’s tech paradigm, and the definition of what legally constitutes “handmade” vodka. This episode was recorded live from the GrowCo Conference in Nashville. More at www.inc.com. This week’s episode was sponsored by T-Mobile. Switch your business today at www.TMobile.com/Business.

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Maria Aspan and Will Yakowicz take an inside look in the Ellen Pao trial and sexism in venture capital and tech, discuss Jay-Z's new music streaming startup Tidal, and examine how the green burial industry is resonating in a nation that buries 800,000 gallons of formaldehyde in cemeteries each year. 

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Kimberly Weisul and Will Yakowicz take an inside look in the story behind Banjo, a social media company that can find out what is happening anywhere in the world in an instant, analyze how CorePower Yoga aims to offer a consistent, upscale customer experience in a land of mom and pop yoga studios, and examine how tech companies are using the post-Ferguson mistrust between police and the public to sell body cameras and cloud storage to police precincts across the country. More at www.inc.com.     This week’s episode was sponsored by T-Mobile. Switch your business today at TMobile.com/Business.  

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Maria Aspan and Will Yakowicz examine the San Francisco public bus startup Leap, analyze organic ice cream company Three Twins' move to mimic Ben & Jerry's, and discuss how private companies with drones could inflict death and impose a surveillance state. More at www.inc.com.   This week’s episode was sponsored by T-Mobile. Switch your business today at TMobile.com/Business.

  Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin and Will Yakowicz examine the untimely demise of the tech site GigaOm, describe the arrival of the Internet of Things into the nursery, and predict the future of Moon commerce--coming sooner than you think. Plus they discuss state-of-the-art umbrellas, and the uber-Uber. More at www.inc.com.

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin and Will Yakowicz discuss some science fiction-y scenarios, bad (Robots Take Over the World!) and good (Biometrics Create a Future Without Passwords!), and look inside the buzzing world of relaxation beverages. Plus they reveal the strange startup that set a crowdfunding record, and raise some questions about Etsy's pending IPO. More at www.inc.com. 

  Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, and Will Yakowicz discuss some very popular – albeit odd -- app news. They talk about Trivia Crack, a trivia app whose success has lived up to its name, and an "Uber for things" app that allows users to drop off items for people (for pay!) at Waffle House. Plus, the Inc. crew check in on the risks of The Internet of things. More at www.inc.com.

Inc. editor James Ledbetter and Inc. staff members Jon Fine, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, and Will Yakowicz discuss the somewhat strange rise of the fermented beverage kombucha, the trials and tribulations of the legal marijuana business, and Facebook after death.More at www.inc.com.  

Inc. Uncensored is a lively weekly podcast exploring the fast-moving world of startups, entrepreneurship, technology, and high-growth businesses—all through the eyes of the veteran business journalists of Inc. and Inc.com.