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Recent Interdisciplinary Research Articles

4 Lessons From Nate Silver's Election Predictions

Why do big election predictions matter? They offer key lessons about how to be smart with 'big' data.  Read more

Why You Can't Trust What You Know

A Skimmer's Guide to The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date , by Samuel Arbesman.  Read more

What VCs Really Care About

New research offers insights into how venture capitalists make funding decisions.  Read more

Go Back to School This Fall--For Free

Want to get an edge? Tap into the free business and tech classes online taught by some of country's top universities.  Read more

Your Business Is a Blank Canvas 

Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, says you have to imagine what your business will be before you start.  Watch video

Secret Weapon: Your Lucky Underwear?

Maybe it's not such a crazy idea to wear your lucky undies to your next investor pitch. Turns out, they really work.  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

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

4 Ways Big Data Can Trick You

Analyzing heaps of data can give you an edge... or make you fall flat on your face. It all depends on how you use the results.  Read more

Why You Should Give Your Work Away for Free

If you're not devoting a small percentage of your time to working for free, you're making a big mistake.  Read more

Best 2011 Books for Entrepreneurs

Some of these choices don't fit neatly into the "business book" genre. But being an entrepreneur is about a lot more than just nuts and bolts.  View slideshow

Innovative Product Mashups

Sometimes innovation is as simple as turning a ketchup bottle upside down. But what about putting bug repellent in clothing or carbonation in milk? It's conv...  Read more

How to Make the Most of Your Time at an Incubator

Incubators like Y Combinator and DreamIt Ventures are helping young companies get their start. Here's how to make the most of your time at an incubator.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Berkeley Bionics

This California company developed a bionic exoskeleton that gives paraplegics new legs.  Read more

How to Adapt Products for Different Markets

How Violight adapted its toothbrush sanitizer into a cleaning product for cell phones.  Read more

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