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The lawsuits that often follow a cyberattack can be just as devastating as the attack itself. Cyberrisk insurance could help. Read more
Want to Succeed? Stop Being So Efficient
You might be losing key opportunities because you're too focused on saving resources and not enough on investing in them. Read more
7 Paths to a Small Business Sale
After you've made the decision to sell your company, it's time to decide which approach will best satisfying your desires and financial requirements. Read more
How to Make Next Tax Season Less Painful
Where accounting headaches are concerned, take the right medicine for a long-term cure. Read more
Why I Say No
A big part of a venture capitalist's job is saying no. Here's how, and why, I try to do it well. Read more
Negotiating With Courage: 6 Ways to Protect Your Leverage
Business owners may soon have a bit more leverage when negotiating the sales of their companies. How not to blow it. Read more
How to Handle Angels That Don't Deserve the Name
Some term sheets -- and some angel investors -- can bring down your company, not help you build it up. Read more
5 Ways to Tune Up Your Venture's Profitability
Forget venture capital, angel investment, or sweat equity. The best source of start-up capital is bringing in more cash than you pay out. Read more
Getting Credit to the Smallest Businesses
The Small Business Administration plans to waive fees and streamline paperwork for its smallest loans. Read more
The Man Who Made the Cash Register Obsolete
With the Square Card Reader, Jack Dorsey made it possible for anyone, anywhere to take credit card payments. Now, competition is heating up in the mobile pay... Read more
How to Get Booted From Your Company
Do either of these two things, and you'll very likely end up as the former CEO. Read more
Business Sales Spike in the First Quarter of 2013
Activity is strong in the business-for-sale marketplace as sale prices and closed transactions reach the highest levels in more than two years. Read more
What To Do When Your VCs Just Don't Get It
Being a trailblazer sounds glamorous, but if you're too far ahead, your investors may not be able to keep up with you. Read more
5 Best-Kept Secrets About Enterprise Software
And you thought SaaS wasn't sexy. Well, you're wrong. I've been investing in the "uncool" business-to-business space, and it's taught me not to doubt its pot... Read more
Where Have All the Big VC Deals Gone?
What's behind the Series A Crunch? Since 2008, the gap between the number of seed rounds and Series A investments has widened. Read more
Best Advice I Ever Got: Jeremy Hitchcock
Problems tend to roll uphill. That's a fact that can disarm even the most successful CEO. The co-founder of Dyn shares the 3 pieces of wisdom that help him d... Read more
Panel: Show Us the Money
Whether you're looking for debt or equity financing, make sure your investors' goals match your own. Read more
What's Your Asking Price?
How much is your company worth? Valuation tools based on your own analysis and comparables are helpful, but here are some other tips for arriving at the righ... Read more
6 Reasons Marketing to Hispanics Makes Sense
Here's why budgeting to target a Hispanic market is important, especially now. Read more
How We Got Funded: Visual Revenue
When bootstrapping didn't cut it, the founders of Visual Revenue went out and raised $2.2 million. Read more
Secret to Getting Venture Capitalists to Come After You 
Before Caterina Fake founded Flickr, she struggled to get financing for a game start-up. Here she describes what can really make the difference. Watch video
Your Biggest, Most Expensive, Blind Spot
Entrepreneurs master a wide variety of skills -- and ignore this one, crucial thing. Read more
5 Things You Must Know About Angel Investors
Inc.com contributor Erik Sherman gets a sneak peak at the forthcoming book, What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know . Read more
Can Republic Wireless Disrupt the Mobile Market?
An entrepreneur launches a mobile phone company with an amazing offer: unlimited calling, texts, and data for just $19 a month. Read more
Take the Money
Just take it. Put it to good use. You won't regret it. Read more
The Regulations That Ate Crowdfunding
The JOBS Act was signed into law a year ago, but we still don't have equity crowdfunding for start-ups. What happened? Read more
Why You Should Date 5 Bankers At Once
Don't wait until you need a banker to start looking for one. How to play the field to line up the funding you need. Read more
Percolating Business-For-Sale Marketplace
As the economy recovers, business brokers are optimistic that both buyers and sellers will be more aggressive in the business-for-sale marketplace. Read more
Government Shouldn't Be In the Accelerator Business
TechStars co-founder Brad Feld says the government should leave business accelerators to the private sector. Read more
How I Survived a Legal Battle With My Business Partner
My former friend and business partner sued me in a drawn-out legal dispute. How I got through it, and how you can, too. Read more
What's the Advantage of Going Public?
John Mackey, CEO and founder of Whole Foods, talks about growth and going public. Watch video
Why "Simple" is Getting Harder
It's easy to put together the front end of a website and mock up the back end. That's bad for anyone building a serious business that solves tough problems. Read more
Getting Your Technology to Scale
No matter what kind of company you have, at some point, its growth is likely to outstrip your technology. Here are the three things that determine how you ca... Read more
Why Great CEOs are Unfair
Not all employees perform equally and therefore, they should not all be treated equally. As a CEO, there are time when being unfair is justified. Read more
