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Is Facebook Already a Public Company?

By Max Chafkin |  Jan 3, 2011

Once again, Mark Zuckerberg has said that Facebook, the wildly popular social network, will not go public any time soon, until 2012 at least. But the ques...  Read more


How to Develop a Prototype

By Evan Klonsky |  Dec 17, 2010

Developing your prototype definitely requires a strong knowledge of your product and it may require some elbow grease.  Read more


The Dark Side of Web Tracking

By Max Chafkin |  Dec 14, 2010

The Washington Post exposes a Read more


How to Bring an Eco-friendly Product to Market

By Evan Klonsky |  Dec 13, 2010

With more sophisticated consumers and a stricter FTC, creating a green product is no longer a magic bullet to sales. But done right, it can still help you st...  Read more


Banking on the Bacon

By Lauren Cannon |  Dec 6, 2010

Bacon has proven to be a viable hedge against the recession -- its frenzied popularity has migrated from the Internet into the products of innovative entrepr...  Read more


How Would You Sell Custom Stuffed Animals?

By Shivani Vora |  Dec 1, 2010

Four entrepreneurs offer marketing strategies to a start-up that sells custom toys.  Read more


Behind the Groupon-Google Deal

By Max Chafkin |  Dec 1, 2010

Well, it's safe to say that Groupon is hot. The local coupon site, founded just two years ago in Chicago, appears poised to accept a Read more


The World's Most Unreasonable Entrepreneurs

By Suzi Sosa |  Nov 24, 2010

The founders of the Unreasonable Institute in Boulder, Colorado, are fostering intense camaraderie among entrepreneurs who hope to solve the world's problems.  Read more


Chronicles of a Young Serial Entrepreneur

By Lou Dubois |  Nov 23, 2010

As Matt Mickiewicz prepares to launch his fifth company, the 27-year-old Vancouver native talks about being a young entrepreneur and the importance of being ...  Read more


Restoring Trust to Banking

By John Gerzema |  Nov 22, 2010

Smart companies such as Venmo, BankSimple, and PayPal are experimenting with clever ways to rebuild trust in the banking system.  Read more


Steve Jobs, Circa 1985

By Max Chafkin |  Nov 19, 2010

Some weekend reading , via Read more


Twitter Now Worth $3 Billion

By Max Chafkin |  Nov 17, 2010

Here we go again : Read more


Kayak Goes IPO

By Max Chafkin |  Nov 17, 2010

Here's an...  Read more


Facebook's Grand E-Mail Plans

By Max Chafkin |  Nov 15, 2010

Yup, it's real : Today I'm excited to announce the next ...  Read more


Facebook Wants to Kill E-Mail

By Max Chafkin |  Nov 12, 2010

And you thought Facebook was already taking over your life: Back in February we wrote about Facebook's secret Project Titan&nbs...  Read more


What Would Richard Branson Do?

By John Warrillow |  Nov 5, 2010

Looking for inspiration from innovators can help you tackle tough problems. Here’s how Finnish shoemaker Pomarfin found an answer.  Read more


Tesla Finds Another Partner

By Max Chafkin |  Nov 4, 2010

I wonder what Jim Cramer has to say about Read more


Surprise! Pay Walls Make Money

By Max Chafkin |  Nov 2, 2010

TechCrunch crunches the numbers on News Corp's decision to...  Read more


Risk and the Entrepreneur

By Max Chafkin |  Nov 1, 2010

I'm pretty sure Michael Arrington had Read more


How CEOs Lie

By Max Chafkin |  Nov 1, 2010

Stanford researches tackled the problem of corporate doublespeak in a recent survey of conference calls. They looked for speech patterns of CEOs who subse...  Read more


Tapping Customers for Product Ideas

By April Joyner |  Nov 1, 2010

E-commerce company Volusion designed a system for collecting customer feedback — and turning it into new products.  Read more


4 Tools for Collecting Customer Feedback

By Inc. staff |  Nov 1, 2010

Get Satisfaction, UserVoice, and other tools help businesses tap customers for ideas.  Read more


How Would You Sell Temporary Wallpaper?

By Shivani Vora |  Nov 1, 2010

Four seasoned entrepreneurs offer marketing strategies for Tempaper.  Read more


The Demand Economy

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 1, 2010

How to locate deep pools of demand in a shrinking marketplace  Read more


The Growing Cost of Doing Business in China

By Ryan Underwood |  Nov 1, 2010

Small businesses such as Olive Juice and Gonzo Games grapple with rising prices.  Read more