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Facebook COO Tells Harvard Grads: Be Authentic

More on Inc. Wire: Debate Heats Up Over Genetically Modified Organisms | Facebook Wedding Creates Dress Buzz | Cloud-Based Company Raises $24 Million . Read more

6 Hot Restaurant Trends for Start-ups

The National Restaurant Association put together its hot list after surveying almost 1,800 American chefs. View slideshow

12 Online PR Blunders to Avoid

Do you Facebook during happy hour? Retweet without doing your research? You could cause a huge PR mess. Read more

VCs Are Partners, Not Bosses

What's up with the superiority complex exhibited by both venture capitalists and entrepreneurs? Read more

Get More People to 'Like' You: 3 Tips

Have Twitter and Facebook become too noisy and useless for meaningful interaction? Here are three tips for taking better advantage of social media opportunities. Read more

Defining Your Role as Chief Cultural Officer

As the founder you may hand over some duties to various leadership teams but make sure the cultural fabric of your company still represents your values. Read more

Uh-Oh: Customer Service Matters More Now

In the era of social media, your customers are less forgiving than ever--and more vocal. Are you prepared? Read more

Your Story Is Your Marketing Strategy

Even small businesses can create powerful, meaningful, sincere branding messages. Use this four tricks. Read more

5 Things to Un-Learn From School

You spent a lot of time getting an education. But if you want to make it as an entrepreneur, it's time to forget some of what you learned. Read more

Dear Graduates: Push the Boundaries

As the class of 2012 heads into the real world, here's a reminder: Never be satisfied with the status quo. Read more

How Flat Is Too Flat?

Tearing down hierarchies may be all the rage in business at the moment, but recent research suggests more traditional power dynamics can boost productivity. Read more

8 Etiquette Rules for a Business Lunch

Face-to-face interactions still matter--more now than ever. Follow these rules to make lunch meetings fun as well as productive. Read more

5 Things You Won't Learn in B-School

There are certain hard knocks you just can't get in a classroom. Read more

Making the Perfect Hire

What happened when I decided to ignore educational pedigree and big-company experience. Read more

How to Handle Pushy Customers

Don't let your company get backed into a corner by a cascade of demands. Here's how to strike a deal that satisfies everyone. Read more

How Twitter & Texting Saved Writing

The end of literacy as we know it? Get over yourself. These popular tools force people to write more clearly and concisely. Read more

Steve Jobs Had to Wait to Get Into This Restaurant

Trendy San Francisco restaurant flour + water has droves of foodies lining up for locally sourced and hyperlocal cuisine. Read more

Hot Industry: Full-Service Restaurants

Pull up a chair and stay a while! The restaurant industry will employ 10% of the total U.S. workforce, and it's one of the best industries for starting a business this year. Read more

Reputation Without Character Is Worthless

The saga of Jamie Dimon at JP Morgan Chase raises questions about the value of a good reputation. Read more

Squeeze 25 Hours Into a Day

Increase your productivity. Get yourself in the zone. Tips from Pamela Slim, author of Escape from Cubicle Nation, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Watch video

Becoming Obama's Go-To Lunch Spot

Here's how two Washington, D.C., restaurant entrepreneurs earned a visit from President Barack Obama. Read more

Grooveshark's Near-Death Experience

Grooveshark founder Sam Tarantino wanted to reinvent the music business. But then funding started drying up. Watch video

Balancing the Work-Life Equation

These three tips will help you manage the time you spend doing work and living life. Read more

How to Lead Your Company Through Change

Your employees will react differently to change. However they feel about a new situation, you can help all of them adjust. Read more

Help for U.S. Entrepreneurs in Japan

A new business incubator in Tokyo caters not only to Japanese start-ups but to foreigners looking to do business in Japan. Read more

Would You Let Your Employees Job Hunt?

Employers should relax their grip on their talent every three years, giving employees a significant break to reset expectations, argues one human relations expert. Read more

How to Find Your Most Valuable Customer

You know that shopper who just loves your products? Bad news: She can't help you improve your business. Read more

Out of 6 TechCrunch Finalists, the Winner Is...

After hundreds had been eliminated, see the six start-ups that made it to the last round--and the one who took home the prize money. Read more

Ad Smackdown: Facebook vs. Google

Still betting on display ads? Here's how to get more bang for your online advertising buck. Read more

Do Typos Matter?

In an age of tiny keyboards and emoticons, you may think typos don't matter. Not so, according to someone who's been addressed as Mr. Renay Seagull. Read more

How to Score a Job at a Tech Start-up

Can you handle long hours, low pay, and impossibly high expectations? The start-up life might be for you. Here's how to break in. Read more

Selling Your Business? Protect Your Confidentiality

Balancing buyer questions and retaining your business' confidentiality can be tricky. Laying out a plan can help set what information you can release and when. Read more

Increase Your Retail Foot Traffic

Tips on how to generate customer interest from Cyriac Roeding, co-founder of Shopkick, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Watch video

You Can Compete with Free--and Win

A good product is always more important than the free alternative, even when you sell yo-yo upgrades. Read more

Biggest Hiring Mistake You'll Ever Make

Let a good one get away? That's a bad mistake but not the worst. Here's the one that trumps all the rest. Read more

The Hack That Helped Launch a Company

Start-up Voyager Mobile got hacked--and wound up tripling the media attention for its launch. Read more

Private Markets Adjust to Life After Facebook

With their big cash cow now a public company, secondary trading markets look beyond hot start-ups to fill the void. Read more

6 Tips for Getting Government Contracts

The SBA offered nearly four hours of tutoring in how small business can get work from the feds. Here's what we learned. Read more

To Groupon or Not to Groupon?

Understand your customers--and the possible return, if any--before you make a Groupon-like offer. Read more

Never Be an Employee Again

Chef Kevin Meehan climbed the culinary ladder--then struck out on his own. Now he is pioneering a whole new movement in dining. Read more

The Importance of Giving Back

We volunteer at soup kitchens. We tutor kids. We donate. Not only is helping your community the right thing to do--it's also good business. Read more

Turn Your Interns Into Killer Employees

Forget fetching coffee and making copies. The right internship programs can build you a great pipeline to the best young talent. Read more

Making of a CEO: Leading Change

How do you become a real CEO, instead of a CEO-by-default? Part two of a five-part series. Read more

How to Sell in the Summer: 5 Tips

Summer is the most difficult time to prospect and land deals. Get ahead of the game now to max out your sales productivity. Read more

4 Strategies for High-Speed Sales

Trying to speed up your sales cycle? These organizational changes should make your team more nimble. Read more

7 Most Powerful Sales Tools

It's not about the worksheets: These tools are what really create success sales. Read more

Fixing a Nightmare With a Hammer and Wood

Builder Linda Gridley didn't understand the growing challenge of housing multiple generations until her mom moved in. Read more

Hot Industry: Residential Construction

There are big opportunities in residential housing development, where revenues are projected to rise an average 10.4% annually for the next five years. Read more

Behind the Scenes at Small Business Week

The SBA loaned small businesses more this year than ever before. But behind the scenes at Small Business Week 2012, entrepreneurs are still fretting over credit access and financing health care. Read more

Why Gotham Dream Cars Founder Ignores Traditional Media

Noah Lehmann-Haupt, founder of Gotham Dream Cars, a luxury car rental company, focuses exclusively on targeted Internet marketing. Watch video

6 Marketing Techniques for Every Entrepreneur

Tools and advice from Neil Patel, co-founder of KISSmetrics, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Watch video