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Kansas City Getting a Google Upgrade

The Google Fiber project will provide the metro area with blazing fast Internet access.  Read more

Why Flexible Hours Inspire Performance

Don't waste a minute tracking your employees' hours. They'll get more done. Read more

Spur Your Brain to Innovate

Tips to fuel creativity and invention--geared to your brain type. Read more

Hot or Not? What the Web Thinks About Your Brand

Use these 9 free tools to measure 'social media sentiment' around your company, your brand, or even your own name. Read more

When to Share Company Secrets

There's one simple way to make your customers trust you: be open and honest with them from the start. Read more

CEO Lessons From a Super Bowl Coach

Moves that every entrepreneur should steal from the Tom Coughlin playbook. Read more

Don’t Waste Time on Bad Customers

Take the time to discover which customers add the most value to your business. Read more

How the Super Bowl Shortchanged the Web

Streaming the Super Bowl was smart. Turning it into a second-tier version of the event? Not so much. Read more

3 Lessons From the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Disaster

The foundation's recent public relations mess offers valuable takeaways for small businesses. Read more

Shy? 3 Ways to Use It to Your Advantage

A communication coach offers a bevy of tips on how entrepreneurs who don't naturally excel at self-promotion can shed their cloak of invisibility and get noticed. Read more

Podcasting for Profits

Yes, producing a podcast is a lot of work, but you are missing a major revenue driver if you don't. Here are six ways to make money broadcasting online. Read more

Growing Fast at a Campus Near You

Applicant of the week: The Campus Special is growing fast by marketing coupons to college students the old-fashioned way. Read more

Get More PR Coverage: 5 Easy Ways

Does the press love your business as much as you do? Here are five ways to grab the media's attention--no PR expertise required. Read more

5 Tech Trends That Will Last

Feel like you're always scrambling to keep up with the latest technology? Stop. These are the only five things you need to worry about. Read more

Why Big Banks Are Stiffing You

Despite denials, U.S. banks are deeply exposed to euro debt. No wonder they're turning down 90% of small business loans. Read more

How to Be Small and Scrappy — and Win

When you're up against some of the biggest competitors in the industry, you need to learn to play the game differently. Read more

The 10 Worst Things to Say When You Fire Someone

Firing someone is hard -- but getting fired is always harder. Don't make it worse by putting your foot in your mouth. Read more

The Stealthiest Start-up Killer

It's the threat you never see coming. In fact, even after you crash and burn you still might not recognize it. Read more

Get an Offer That's Just Right

Finding the perfect investor can be a Goldilocks-type challenge. Here's how one company found that 'just right' investor. Read more

5 Tech Rules Entrepreneurs Should Live By

How you use technology not only reflects on you personally, but also on your company and its reputation. Read more

Building an iPad Rival: Crazy or Brilliant?

Most would say you'd have to be crazy. But this Chinese gadgetmaker proves being crazy can make you $100 million a year. Read more

6 Start-ups Betting on the Super Bowl

These companies are each putting $3.5M on the line for 30 seconds of fame during the big game. Will it pay off? Read more

The Secret to Attaining Work-Life Balance

As our business grew, I started neglecting my family and friends--and no advice seemed to help bring balance. That is, until I read this passage. Read more

Get Faster & More Flexible: 5 Tips

Sometimes, "perfect" can be a problem. Here's how to make your company more nimble. Read more

Why I Love L.A.'s Start-up Scene

A five-time entrepreneur makes the case for launching a company in Silicon Beach. He's not the only fan. Read more

5 Steps to Thinking Outside of the Box

How do people think outside of the proverbial box? They know how to view things more expansively. Here's how. Read more

Hack Days: Not Just for Facebookers

As part of Facebook's IPO filing, founder Mark Zuckerberg praised the concept of the "hackathon." Could something similar benefit your company, even if you're not in tech? Read more

How to Say You're Sorry: 5 Tips

A sincere apology can soothe an angry customer & put your relationship on the road to recovery. Here's how to get it right. Read more

Are You a Sales Star? It Depends

The ability to sell at the highest level is the result of genetics. But this doesn't mean you can't be a sales star. Read more

Founders: Are You Forgetting Something?

Don't be too focused on your product--because if you're not building a community for it, it may never get off the ground. Read more

Avoid These 4 Money Disasters

After all the sweat you've poured into making yourself successful, don't let these little oversights wreck your financial security. Read more

How to Create Realistic Financial Projections

Don't get called out on faulty numbers or assumptions. Take it from Dan Osit, co-founder of Ignighter, and create projections for best, worst, and modest scenarios. Watch video

Going Up Against Apple and Microsoft

In the race to get Internet TV shows and movies into the living room, Boxee co-founder Idan Cohen notices unanticipated advantages of being the (much) smaller player. Watch video

The Pride and Peril of The Iron Lady

Determination to succeed was vital to Margaret Thatcher's drive, but left unchecked it led to her undoing. Meryl Streep personifies this leadership lesson in her latest movie. Read more

Negotiating Tricks for Wimps

11 tips for the confrontation-shy: Learn how to ask for what you want ... & actually get it. Read more

How to Cash Out Sooner

I've seen founders get an early share of the upside using this strategy--without putting their companies in danger or angering their investors. Read more

8 Things Your Employees Need Most

Forget about raises and better benefits. Those are important, of course--but this is what your staff really wants. Read more

5 Alternative Ways to Get Your Story Told

The best business story might not get noticed by the top publications, but there are plenty of other ways to get it published. Read more

Silicon Valley's Race Problem

Blacks & Hispanics are almost completely absent from the ranks of tech industry executives. So why can't we talk about it? Read more

21 Weird Details in Facebook IPO

Private jets? $200 million paintings? Zuckerberg's salary? Here are few things the financial analysts aren't talking about. Read more

5 Ways an iPad Can Fix Your Meetings

The best reason to buy tablets for your team? No more death by PowerPoint. Read more

3 Characteristics of a Great Investor

Outside investors can propel your business and create a foundation for long-term success. The trick is finding the right ones. Read more

How to Pitch a Banker

There's one simple thing entrepreneurs need to do to get a banker on their side. Sadly, most of them miss it. Read more

Best Degree for Start-up Success

If you want to build a company, a new white paper argues, an advanced degree in a subject like engineering beats an MBA any day. Read more

High Cost of a Winter That Wasn't

Punxsutawney Phil says there will be 6 more weeks of winter. Who cares? The warm weather has already messed up businesses across the U.S. Read more

No Really! Change is a Good Thing

Spearheading a rapidly-growing business has its challenges but don't resist the urge to evolve as the business grows. Read more

Sales Trick: How to Use Voice Mail

Calling a decision-maker but getting voice mail again and again? Here's how to get the ball moving, even without a live conversation. Read more

9 Bookmarklets I Can't Live Without

Want to be smarter about your social media activity? Add a few of these mini-apps to your browser. Read more

When a Good Cause Goes Bad

Cause marketing seems so simple... until it's not. How Susan G. Komen could have avoided a public relations disaster. Read more

What To Ask the Person in the Mirror

Harvard Business School professor Robert S. Kaplan explains his questions for effective leadership, and identifying the impact you want to make. Watch video

Increase Your Search Engine Page Rank

Five tips to optimize your website and improve how search engines rank your site. Plus, advice from Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian. Watch video