Peer Groups


The Start-up Guru

Paul Graham's business school and investment fund, Y Combinator, has launched 145 companies -- for a lot less money than you would think

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The Power of Peers

How peer groups can help entrepreneurs accelerate their businesses' growth

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Are Peer Groups Useful?

Why joining a peer group will help you to be a better business owner

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Recent Peer Groups Articles

For Young Entrepreneurs, Safety in Numbers

Despite the economic gloom and doom, the honorees on this year's 30 Under 30 list are building wildly successful ventures with the help of their peers, paren...  Read story

Breaking Through

How companies just like yours mushroomed into powerhouses in their industries. A conversation with Keith R. McFarland.  Read story

New York Now: Small Businesses Show Resourcefulness -- But 13,000 Still in Lurch

A group of seasoned company owners are showing resourcefulness in difficult times. Here's how they've been able to survive the economic downturn and the deva...  Read story

The Peer Group: The Benefits of Brutal Honesty

There are several leading organizations, and they have some useful rules of operation.  Read story

The New Girls' Club

Here's a new organization that trains women for corporate directorships and helps female CEOs form their own advisory boards.  Read story

"My Name Is Dave, and I'm a Growthaholic"

David Pitassi, former CEO of the 1993 number one Inc. 500 company, Drypers Corp., describes the inescapable allure of running a fast-growing .  Read story

Where Great Ideas Come From

Tapping the world outside your company for the ideas that will keep you smart.  Read story

Cashing In On Creativity

Creative Think, in Menlo Park, Calif., a consulting firm founded and operated by Roger von Oech, 35, is dedicated to planting fresh ideas in stale minds.   Read story

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