Best Business Advice: Just Kiss the Girl
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Selling Your Business: Timing Is Everything
Knowing the right time to sell is key to getting the best return for your business. Here are five things to consider about your exit strategy. Read more
Want to Create Insanely Great Products? Lessons From Pink Floyd
The legendary band wouldn't have been so successful without some savvy business moves. Read more
Cirque du Soleil and MGM Mirage: A Lesson in Strategic Partnership
Naturally, when you seek to grow, you plan new products or marketing campaigns. Why not consider other companies who could help? Read more
When Enough Is Enough
Everyone thinks the captain should go down with his or her ship. But is that really the best attitude for someone running a young company? Read more
6 Essentials of a Successful Pivot
Think your start-up needs a change of direction? Your plan to pivot will go badly awry unless you have these essentials. Read more
10 Women to Watch in Tech in 2013
They're busy working on everything from ingenious devices to artificial intelligence to truly targeted mobile advertising. It's going to be a big year for th... View slideshow
4 Smarter Ways to Work Your Connections
Success in business is all about relationships. Your network is your most important asset. Treat it that way. Read more
To Get Big, You've Got to Start Small
A Benchmark Capital founding partner explains why, contrary to what you may believe, the secret to attracting a broad market is to appeal to a tiny, passiona... Read more
What Your Customers Would Love to Tell You
Customers are your best insight into launching a new product if only you're willing to listen. Read more
Evan Williams's Rule for Success: Do Less
The co-founder of Blogger, Twitter, and Medium explains the importance of obsessing over one thing at a time. Read more
Beware Employees Who Boast About Multitasking
Those who claim to be best at multitasking are actually the worst at it, a new study says. Read more
The Art and Science of Corporate Icons
Design experts weigh in on a cookie company's cartoon mascot. Read more
Surprising Way to Fund Your Business
Investors, bankers, friends, and family: These are the people we traditionally think of when we need to infuse money into a business. Here's a better way. Read more
Get Inside Your Customers' Heads: 3 Ways
Find new ways to mine the most important insights to improve the customer experience. Read more
Caution: Even Your Best Employees Have a Dark Side
As you prepare to promote that top performer, make sure you don't accidentally unleash the dark side of her personality. Read more
3 Rules to Work By: Elizabeth Grace Saunders
This time-management whiz says the real reason entrepreneurs feel time-strapped is simple: They honor everyone else's priorities. Here's how to change the wa... Read more
5 Must-Ask Questions for Business Buyers
Like many business buyers, you likely have some boilerplate questions to ask business sellers, but you may be missing the most important ones. Read more
How Smart Companies Use PR to Get the Word Out
What you need to know to market your new business idea, without spending much (or at all). Read more
Investor Pitches: 5 Things You're Doing Wrong
Stop saying you're solving a problem, and other common mistakes entrepreneurs make when presenting to investors. Read more
Great Ideas Aren't Enough
Lots of entrepreneurs have great ideas--and their companies still fail. Five rules to turn your idea into a viable business. Read more
4 Tips to Stay Married to a Founder
VC Mark Suster's wife offers tips for the significant others of founders to help ensure your relationship survives the start-up. Read more
It's Not Me, It's You: 5 Ways To Avoid Another Horrible Boss
A bad boss can drive you to the brink. How to make sure you never have one again. Read more
Warby Parker of Shoes? Meet Beckett Simonon
Two guys from Colombia are hacking the traditional retail supply chain and selling fashionable shoes--straight from the factory--for $79. Will it work? Read more
Are You Too Productive?
There is such a thing as too much productivity and efficiency, say neuroscientists, at least when it crowds all play out of your day. Read more
9 Sentences That Could Ruin Your Career
More people shoot themselves in the foot, get fired, or destroy promising careers by saying, emailing, texting, or posting things they shouldn't. Read more
Entrepreneurs Have Better Sex
I admit, my evidence is purely anecdotal. But I think you'll agree with me here: There are certain commonalities between making money and making love. Read more
Hot B2B Companies: It's Not About the Idea
Up-and-coming business tech start-up PlanGrid shows you can win big points for execution--even if the idea isn't unique. Read more
Finding Innovation in the Rough
Universities can be great sources of new technology for your company--if you know how to navigate them. Read more
4 Types of Time-Wasting Bosses
McKinsey outlines popular ways managers misuse their time. Do you recognize yourself in any of these four types? Read more
Transform Rejection into Success: 5 Steps
The number of rejections you get is usually proportional to the success you achieve. Read more
The Only Good Reason to Launch a Company
People start businesses for any number of reasons, almost all of which are wrong. There is only one right reason, and you already know it. Read more
4 Tips for Getting a Business Loan
Need cash? Boost your odds of getting a business loan with these simple tips. Read more
Welcome to SBA Ventures LLC.
The Small Business Administration is getting into the start-up business, helping fund high-growth companies through licensed investment companies. Read more
Investigators Probe Shady Crowdfunding Sites
The JOBS Act paved the road for new crowdfunding portals. Now regulators are sussing out the potential fraudsters. Read more
