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2 Joyful New Year's Resolutions

Think your end-of-the-year commitments need to be dour pledges to make worthy improvements in your life or business? Think again, says a happiness researcher.  Read more

Top Venture Capital Deals of 2012

The year featured major investments in exciting new technology companies, from business software makers, biofuel farmers--and one troubled electric carmaker.  Read more

10 Surprising Marketing Predictions For 2013

Get ahead of the curve on fast-moving, under-the-radar developments with these fresh ideas and trends to watch in the new year.  Read more

A Great Way to Get Market Insight

New analytics tools have made crowdfunding sites an excellent source for feedback on your business.  Read more

Case Study: Tea of a Kind

After spending three years and $10 million, Don Park didn't like where his business was headed. Was it too late to shift gears?  Read more

4 Ways to Protect Your Assets From Your Great Ideas

By all means, pour everything you have into that brilliant idea. But don't drain your assets.  Read more

Foursquare's Dennis Crowley: 'Our First Instinct Was That We Broke Something' 

The Foursquare co-founder describes how he adjusted the app in response to the way people used it (differently than he expected).  Watch video

10 Guiding Principles for Start-ups

To build the most successful small business in the world, it takes 10 key principles.  Read more

The Real Outcome of Anxiety

Think anxiety heightens your senses and makes you cautious? Research out of Wharton and Harvard finds quite different results.  Read more

Do You Even Need to Form a Partnership?

Before you get into the nitty-gritty of contracts and cost sharing, ask yourself if you actually need a partner.  Read more

Do Entrepreneurs Destroy Businesses?

Entrepreneurs are calculated risk takers, but do they have the right skills to manage a sustainable business?  Read more

Start-up Funding: Where to Start

What's the best source of capital for your company? Every option comes with pros and cons, so weigh them carefully.  Read more

The Non-negotiable Traits of a True Entrepreneur

Successful founders are as different from each other as they are from everyone else. Except they all, without fail, share these four indispensable traits.  Read more

Turning Screens Into a Television

Aereo, a New York City start-up, can broadcast live television to your iPad or a laptop. That is, unless a big lawsuit shuts the company down.  Read more

Will Viewers Miss 'Start-ups: Silicon Valley'? Probably Not

Bravo doesn't have a plan for a second season of its start-up reality show. And plenty of folks are happy about that.  Read more

Office Dream Day: Rocket Fuel for Your Brain

Ditch the brainstorming meetings. Forget the annual off-site. Let me introduce you to Dream Day, my office's creative time for collectively scheming ways to ...  Read more

Increase Your Chances of Start-up Success

Launching a company isn't an easy path. Get your bearings before you travel the start-up road.  Read more

4 Reasons 2013 Will Be a Good Year To Sell Your Company

Dealmaking was slow in 2012, but the stage is set for a rebound.  Read more

What to Discuss Before Conceiving a Start-up

Is there a start-up in your family's future? Here's the conversation you need to have, pronto.  Read more

12 Female Entrepreneurs Who Inspired Us in 2012

These young women behind companies including Spanx and Polyvore made it big in 2012. Here's how they made an impression on YEC members.  Read more

New LinkedIn Profile Changes Made Easy

LinkedIn keeps changing things up. Frustrating? Maybe. But if you want a power-profile make sure to check out the most recent changes.  Read more

Innovation: Mining on the Moon

Check out this solar-powered rover designed to prospect for ice on the moon.  Read more

Killer Presentation Tools

Looking to add some "pow" to your PowerPoint presentations? These great tools will help.  Read more

Why Every Company Is Now an Incubator

From Microsoft to PayPal, it seems every day another business launches an incubator. Here's what's motivating them to get in the game.  Read more

Best Advice I Ever Got: Tina Wells

The founder and CEO of Buzz Marketing Group has been an entrepreneur for more than half of her life. A few key pieces of advice helped her stay focused--and ...  Read more