Supreme Court Backs Obamacare
The Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act in a historic 5-4 decision; small business owners are split in their feelings about the ruling. Read story
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How I Fixed the Job Interview
Herb Greenberg, who lost his sight at age 10, developed a test to let employers see workers for who they really are. Read story
Meet the Innovators Who Shaped Wimbledon
A sports event steeped in tradition has gone 2.0. Here's a look at the pioneers turning Wimbledon high tech. Read story
Microsoft Acquires Yammer for $1.2 Billion
After meteoric user-growth and a fresh $85 million infusion of funding, the social network for business was just acquired by Microsoft. Read story
The Trouble With Starting Up in the Heartland
Humility, quietude, and the farm mentality are the Midwest's best start-up allies. And its biggest foes. Read story
Father's Day: What It's Like to Launch a Business with Dad?
What happens when your co-founder is your father? Entrepreneurs explain the best and worst parts of running a family business--and how mom always gets called... Read story
50 Entrepreneurs Just Conquered Times Square
An exhibition of 50 portraits of tech luminaries will be on exhibit in New York's Times Square on June 15, just in time for F.ounders down the street. Read story
Inside the Midwest's Secretive and Scrappy Start-up Scene
With roots in a rugged agrarian work ethic, start-ups are thriving around Omaha--thanks in no small part to big spenders' bankrolls. We sent a lifelong New Y... Read story
Meet 3 Start-ups Behind Apple's New Maps
Inside Apple's strategy: How the company built its new maps feature by making a strategic partnership and spending hundreds of millions on acquisitions. Read story
From Beijing to Troy: Why One VC Is Betting on America
Bruce Gibney, a partner at Founders Fund, explains why the next great technological revolution will come from the United States, not China. Read story
Belmont Stakes: Why Entrepreneurs Will Never Bet the Favorite
A look at the intersection of calculated risk, the minds of entrepreneurs, and why the best business owners make long shot bets. Read story
Frenzy, Confusion Faced by Developers & Designers for Apple
Think your job is stressful? Here's how leaks, rumors, and gossip guide the iPhone, iPad, and Mac accessory and software industry. Read story
Stay Home This Weekend. Vacation Can Be a Bummer
Vacations make you happy, right? Er, not really. Recent studies confirm that getaways don't make you a happier person. Read story
Out of 6 TechCrunch Finalists, the Winner Is...
Hundreds have been eliminated from the competition. Of the six start-ups that remain at TechCrunch Disrupt--social search, a digital guitar, and more--who ta... Read story
6 Things You Missed at TechCrunch Disrupt
Who's buying Facebook stock, the CEO that thinks Dropbox is overvalued, Tumblr's growing pains, and more from today's TechCrunch Disrupt. Read story
After Facebook: 6 IPOs to Put on Your Radar
Has Facebook reinvigorated the IPO market? Here are a few tech companies racing to go public--and what you should know about them. Read story
Facebook Pulls Off Largest Tech IPO Ever
Ring the bells: It's a landmark day for Wall Street and Silicon Valley as the world's biggest social network becomes a public company. Read story
Facebook IPO Could Spawn 1,000 Start-ups
As Facebook becomes a public company, it's making thousands of employees wealthy enough to bolt. The upside: They're ambitious, entrepreneurial, and ready to... Read story
3 Weird, Game-Changing Ways to Make Employees Happy
The founder of Second Life, Philip Rosedale, shares his strategies for sparking employee passion about your company. Step one: Introduce the "LoveMachine." Read story
Facebook IPO: Mark Zuckerberg's Smartest Moves
Facebook is about to go public, and clearly, the 27-year-old has done a few things right. Here’s a look at his best moves, and what any entrepreneur can le... View slideshow
6 Pointers from the Man Who Invented the iPod
Tony Fadell led the team that created the first 18 iterations of the iPod (and the first three of the iPhone). Here he describes his creative process. Read story
Will Investors Bet on These Entrepreneurs at the Kentucky Derby?
Startup America's Scott Case has a plan to introduce young entrepreneurs to the politicians and investors on Derby Day. Here's how he's doing it. Read story
The Truth About Bribery and Doing Foreign Business
The probe into Walmart's alleged bribery of public officials is interesting, but perhaps unsurprising. In Mexico, "mordida" is a way of life. Can you do busi... Read story
Most Exclusive Tech Conference Ever?
Founders Fund, a venture capital firm, invited engineers and budding entrepreneurs to an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii. And you probably weren't invited. ... Read story
On 4/20, Why are Some Pot Activists Fighting Legalization?
On a day celebrated as a cannabis culture holiday, 4/20, pro-marijuana activists and owners of medical dispensaries are fighting legalization in Washington S... Read story
Entrepreneurs, With Feelings Hurt, Take to the Streets
The first-ever Manhattan "Entrepreneur Walk," a charity-walk for business owners, can agree on one thing: They’re sick of being lumped into the media’s d... Read story
Are These the Seeds of an Entrepreneurship Bill?
In a year in which Washington seems fixated on small business--consider SOPA and the JOBS Act--another new piece of start-up legislation might be coming toge... Read story
Inside the New Forces Shaping Crowdfunding's Future
A surge of competition and a struggle for market share will likely define the next few years of crowdfunding. Read story
How Instagram Grew From Foursquare Knock-Off to $1 Billion Photo Empire
How do you make a billion dollars in two years? Here's a narrative look through the brief, hectic, (and lucky), 14 months of Kevin Systrom's life growing Ins... Read story
Deal of the Year: Facebook Buys Instagram
The scrappy San Francisco-based photo-sharing app company just raised a $50 million round, but now it's been acquired for $1 billion. Read story
From Start-up to Billion-Dollar Company
A new documentary, Crocodile in the Yangtze , explores the founding of Alibaba.com, China’s first successful Internet company, from tiny start-up t... Read story
Get Into a Start-up Incubator: Mastering the Video
Of the 1,500 who apply for TechStars; 1% gets in. If you want to crack the code of getting into an incubator, you’ll need to make "The Video." Here’s how... Read story
How This Gay Social Network Went Mainstream
Joel Simkhai founded the company behind an incredibly popular app called Grindr. But to take the service mainstream, he knew he had to pivot. Well, sort of. Read story
Made in USA (Again): Why Manufacturing Is Coming Home
Mismanaged supply chain decisions sent manufacturing overseas. But the industry has changed direction. Read story
Made in USA: 6 Companies That Came Home
Manufacturing in America is hardly on the way out. In fact, it's just beginning to come back. View slideshow
JOBS Act Approved by Senate
Despite delays and opposition from several Democrats, the Senate voted to move the JOBS Act forward on Wednesday morning. Read story
Fashion Start-up Takes Aim at $20 Billion Industry
Olga Vidisheva, founder of newly launched Shoptiques, an online boutique aggregator, explains how her start-up plans to disrupt the world of fashion. Read story
Notes from SXSW: Looking for Advisors?
Gary Vaynerchuk, Tim Ferriss, and others offer advice on landing celebrity advisors, how to offer them equity, and the best ways to leverage their clout. Read story
Why This 29-Year-Old's Company is Worth $400 Million
Drew Houston, founder of Dropbox, said no to offers from Google and Apple, and is running one of the world's fastest growing Web start-ups. Read story
2 Start-ups at SXSW Trying to Disrupt the Economy
Location-based apps are this year's SXSW GroupMe and Twitter. Zaarly and LocalMind are two to put on your radar. Read story
