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Are Your Prices Too Complicated?

Maybe customers don't care exactly how much you're charging--they just want to know why.  Read more

4 Steps to Innovate the P&G Way

Don't have the $2 billion R&D budget of P&G? Not to worry. CTO Bruce Brown says any company can master this process.  Read more

Want to Build a Business to Last? Here’s the Secret

Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook all know the strategy. Here's how you can make it work for your business.  Read more

Are You Still Using Spray and Pray Pricing?

Most retailers still advertise on price, without any data to back it up. That's a race to the bottom--and you're not likely to win.  Read more

Become an Entrepreneur--No Idea Required

You get a salary, equity, mentors, and more. An inside look at how a San Francisco 'foundry' plans to build the next killer start-up.  Read more

Greek Start-ups? Nope, That's Not an Oxymoron

A new event aims to nurture Greece's small but growing entrepreneurial ecosystem, despite the country's dire economic woes.  Read more

Have Brand, Will License: 9 Tips to Do It Right

Think you've got a brand with a life of its own? Make these smart moves now.  Read more

Should You Shack Up With Your Start-up Team?

You already spend all waking hours with your staff. Moving in together--if you can handle it--could save you serious cash.  Read more

How Uber Taxi Rolls Out City by City 

Travis Kalanick, co-founder of Uber, explains the local market approach he took to grow his car service in seven U.S. cities, Paris, and Toronto. Up next? Asia.  Watch video

4 Harvard Start-ups to Watch

A look at the latest batch of winners--and promising ideas--from Harvard University's storied business plan competition.  Read more

9 Deadliest Start-up Sins

These common assumptions can be toxic to the success of any new venture.  Read more

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 more

Patents? You Don't Need No Stinking Patents!

Your No. 1 job is to get to market and start making money. Here's why protecting your IP should stay off your to-do list.  Read more

Customer Service Victim Turned Entrepreneur

Remember the guy who created the "United breaks guitars" YouTube video? Now he's turned his experience into a start-up.  Read more

Zuckerberg Has a Sugar Daddy. Do You?

Even a 20-something billionaire could use a little help. He just got it from Microsoft--via a huge heap of AOL patents.  Read more

Why Execution (Not Ideas) Will Bring You Success

The reason so many would-be entrepreneurs fails is because they get too hung up on their ideas.  Read more

When Old IP Comes Back From the Dead

Deceased rapper Tupac Shakur came back to the stage via hologram. What does that have to do with your IP strategy? Plenty.  Read more

How to Land That All-Important First Customer

No track record? No problem. Here's how one fledgling start-up signed up 40 Fortune 500 companies as customers.  Read more

How to Create an Extra Hour in Your Day

Don't think it's possible? Try these 10 tools to give yourself a productivity boost.  Read more

Box: Can It Stop a Goliath Named Google?

If the rumors are true, Google will launch a cloud service that aims squarely at Box. Does the start-up have what it takes to survive?  Read more

Great Entrepreneurs on the Companies They Love

It takes one to know one. So we asked a range of successful entrepreneurs to name the companies they admire most and why.  View slideshow

Is Your Business Going Through Puberty?

You know those awkward growing pains? They happen to companies, too. Prepare for the inevitable changes with these tips.  Read more

How 2 Software Engineers Built GrubHub 

Matt Maloney and Mike Evans founded GrubHub, an online restaurant delivery service, in Chicago in 2004. Since then, they've expanded into 300 cities, and rai...  Watch video

Is Your Marketing Too... Nice?

T-Mobile tries on a new, tougher image in its advertising. Will it work? A look at the challenges of re-making a brand identity.  Read more

Your Business Partner Must Pass These 3 Tests

When there are only two people on your bus, and everything in your business is riding on the partnership, there are three tests you both need to pass.  Read more

How to Create a Viral Campaign (Hint: You Can’t)

Whether or not your marketing takes off--and takes on a life of its own--isn't really up to you. But you can set yourself up for success.  Read more

3 Cloud Services That Make Work Easier

Protect yourself against data loss, security blunders, and--that real productivity killer--inefficiency.  Read more

Google Glasses: The Future of Work?

Four ways augmented reality technology could change the way you work.  Read more

Apple to Launch App Tools for Non-Geeks

If Apple lives up to its promise, you'll be able to build apps yourself--no coding required.  Read more

5 Things Great Mentors Do

Your employees can achieve greater things with your help than they can alone--if you give them a chance.  Read more

7 Signs You’re Not Entrepreneur Material

Finally ready to take the plunge? Don't--if any of these signs look familiar.  Read more

The Secret to Keeping Your Company Alive

Clayton Christensen and Hal Gregersen, co-authors of The Innovator's DNA , on what makes the most innovative companies in the world tick.  Read more

When It's Better Not to Listen to Customers

Customers often have their own ideas about how to build your products. That doesn't mean you should listen to them.  Read more

Steve Forbes on Economic Cycles & Job Creation 

The Forbes Media chairman explains how entrepreneurs are impacted by and can respond to market disruption and financial crisis.  Watch video

Save a Struggling Business: 8 Tips

Starting a company from scratch has its appeal, but fixing a broken company can be more profitable... and satisfying.  Read more