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'Zumba Is a Huge Opportunity'
Z Club NY, one of several thousand standalone Zumba start-ups, expects to hit revenue of $350,000 next year. But it's still a work in progress. Watch video
5 Tips for Dealing With Holiday Stress
For entrepreneurs, the holiday season can be harrowing. Follow these stress relieving tips to deal with yuletide anxiety. Read more
Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman: 'What the Hell Am I Doing?'
When Yelp launched in 2004, Jeremy Stoppelman and his co-founder thought they were super geniuses. But the site flopped. Watch video
5 Signs You're Sucking as an Entrepreneur
How to tell if your start-up is on the wrong track Read more
Sad? Step Away From That Balance Sheet
When you're feeling blue is definitely not the time to make financial decisions about your business, says a new study. Read more
Entrepreneurial DNA: Either You Have It or You Don't
You're going to need to leap without a net. But not without plenty of data. Read more
How to Grow? Don't Gun the Accelerator
Growth is not a race. Instead, think strategically about how to create a sustainable growth trajectory. Read more
Older Entrepreneurs Get a Bum Rap
One prominent VC has publically announced his preference for young entrepreneurs, but do the facts support this bias for fresh-faced founders? Read more
5 Biggest Money Mistakes of Rookie Entrepreneurs
Money changes everything, doesn't it? Keep the cash flowing by avoiding the biggest financial mistakes you could make in your company's early years. Read more
Why Gen Y Should Get a Real Job
If being an entrepreneur is your dream, do yourself a favor and get a job in corporate America first. You'll be a better founder and manager. Read more
Best Advice I Ever Got: Chris Mirabile
Hotlist co-founder Chris Mirabile isn't new to the start-up world, but building his latest venture tested his mettle. These pieces of advice saw him through it. Read more
8 Ways to Woo a VC
Time to take your business to the next level? Here's how to land the cash to do it. Read more
Stop Making Your Employees Work Holidays
Does ever earlier seasonal madness tempt you to keep your doors open during holidays? An MIT professor explains why that's probably a bad idea. Read more
Square Makes Money Smarter | Company of the Year Runner-up
This innovative payment company enables smartphones to act like wallets--or like cash registers. And it's changing the way we think about money. Read more
A Better Way to Finance a Start-up? Venture Debt
Growing companies can get much-needed capital without giving up equity or control through venture debt. Read more
This Star Trek-Inspired Device Could Disrupt Modern Health Care
Scanadu, a Silicon Valley start-up, is developing a device that turns your smartphone into a mobile hospital. Read more
How to Turn a Commodity into a Unique Business
Here's how one founder turned popcorn--yes, popcorn--into a multi-million dollar company. Read more
America: No Longer the Land of Opportunity?
Let's face it: American innovation is losing ground to places like India, China, and Brazil. Here are five things our President should do to bring entreprene... Read more
5 Tips to Keep Your Home-Based Business Legal
It's that time of year when people think about starting a new home-based business. Here's how to find the right legal structure and stay-out of trouble. Read more
Lessons From a Bad Exit
A few years after its founding Match.com was sold for just a small fraction of its actual worth. What did one member of the original start-up team learn from... Read more
What the SEC Shakeup Means for Crowdfunding (It's Not All Bad)
SEC Chief Mary Schapiro will step down from her post next month. Will the agency's interim leader finally be able to make new crowdfunding for start-ups a re... Read more
How to Hang On When Things Go Bad
Managing a struggling company is stressful enough. How do you manage your investors, too? Read more
Kickstarter Won't Sell Out | Company of the Year Runner-up
The world's most popular crowdfunding site, founded by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler, has helped 80,000 entrepreneurs and artists fund proj... Read more
How to Be Happier Today
Well being is better achieved with small, defined actions rather than grand goals, new research out of Stanford and Harvard Business School finds. Read more
