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5 Reasons to Hire an IT Consultant (Or, 5 Reasons to Become One)

By John McDermott |  May 7, 2012

As firms move data to the cloud and employees become more mobile, IT consultants are in high demand. Here’s why you may need one, or why you may want to be...  View slideshow


Can Bonnaroo's Creators Build an Epic Foodie Festival?

By Tim Donnelly |  May 7, 2012

It's the first year the Great Googamooga festival in Brooklyn puts the spotlight on dozens of local chefs and craft food-and-drink makers. If "food is the ne...  Read more


Roll Up Your Sleeves and Get Dirty

By Malachi Leopold and Scotty Cadenhead |  May 7, 2012

As chief executive of Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, Howard Tullman works 80 to 100 hours each week to prepare digital media students for the real world.  Watch video


Daily Trick to Kill Stress, Improve Health

By Jessica Stillman |  May 7, 2012

Forget two weeks on a tropical island: Try to just shut off this one program on your computer, for a remarkable change of heart rate and stress hormones.  Read more


Fighting Crime With Jewelry

By Nicole Gull |  May 7, 2012

Jessica Mindich's company, Jewelry for a Cause, helps take guns off the street by transforming deadly weapons into beautiful jewelry, and nonprofit donations.  Read more


Bad Press? 5 Ways to React

By Bill Murphy, Jr. |  May 7, 2012

Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren fumbled news that she'd claimed ethnic minority status at Harvard Law School. When the press is all bad, here's how you can...  Read more


Toss Out Your Social Media Metrics

By Marla Tabaka |  May 7, 2012

Fans, schmans! If you judge your business by its social media numbers your bottom-line may be suffering.  Read more


Inside the World’s Biggest Tech Meetup

By Bill Murphy, Jr. |  May 4, 2012

Not Silicon Valley or Boston. Not New York or Tel Aviv. A city without much reputation for innovation had 1,100+ people RSVP for a two-hour pitch Meetup. Her...  Read more


Act Like A Big Company--on a Shoestring Budget

By Scott Gerber |  May 4, 2012

Tips from Mark Peter Davis, founder of Kohort, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.  Watch video


Will Investors Bet on These Entrepreneurs at the Kentucky Derby?

By Eric Markowitz |  May 4, 2012

Startup America's Scott Case has a plan to introduce young entrepreneurs to the politicians and investors on Derby Day. Here's how he's doing it.  Read more


4 Ways to Be Brutally Honest Without Being Brutal

By Jessica Stillman |  May 4, 2012

Tell it straight, while also keeping your relationships intact. Author Keith Ferrazzi has tips.  Read more


How to Find the Best Freelancers

By Lee Clifford and Julie Schlosser |  May 4, 2012

Since starting up two years ago, we've created dozens of relationships with freelancers. Here's what we've learned about how to find, nurture, and work with ...  Read more


Best Advice I Ever Got: John Harthorne

By Young Entrepreneur Council |  May 4, 2012

The co-founder and CEO of MassChallenge has heard his best pieces of advice repeated over and over again. John Harthorne shares how great minds--and mentors-...  Read more


5 Lessons From Your Worst Nightmare

By Les McKeown |  May 4, 2012

Want to improve your business? Think of your biggest, baddest competitor and take notes. Here's how.  Read more


Why You Want Your Competitors To Succeed

By Mark Peter Davis |  May 3, 2012

Cheer on your rivals (and try to beat them, of course). If they flourish, here's how they could help you win, too.  Read more


Best Industries 2012: Residential Construction | 5 Trends in Green Homebuilding

By Erin Kim |  May 3, 2012

Eco-friendly construction materials are poised for major growth as the residential construction industry rebounds. Take a look at the range of business oppor...  View slideshow


The Business Plan that Always Works

By Michael E. Gerber |  May 3, 2012

A business plan that attempts to account for all the possible changes that will happen in the future is obsolete before the ink is dry on the page.  Read more


Tech Bubble? Why It’s Different This Time

By Phil Simon |  May 3, 2012

There's no question that we're in a start-up boom. But the power dynamics look very different this time around.  Read more


Is the Blame Game Bringing You Down?

By Khary Cuffe |  May 3, 2012

Proving someone else wrong isn't the most effective way to get things right. When you "win" the blame game, you actually lose. Here's how to stop blaming, an...  Read more


This is What Sleep Deprivation Is Doing to You

By Jessica Stillman |  May 3, 2012

The CDC finds a staggering number of us get fewer than six hours of sleep a night, and warns there could be serious consequences.  Read more


Modcloth: Getting Customers to Design Their Own Clothes

By April Joyner |  May 3, 2012

It seems like a lofty goal, but bringing fashion-design to the masses is the mission of Eric Koger and Susan Gregg Koger, the founders of ModCloth, an online...  Read more


Bringing a Muslim Culinary Tradition Mainstream

By Adam Bluestein |  May 3, 2012

Think "halal" is a just a dietary restriction? Adnan Durrani, the founder of American Halal, wants to change the definition.  Read more


Skimmer's Guide: What Chinese Want

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 3, 2012

The new book by Tom Doctoroff, the CEO of ad agency J. Walter Thompson's China offices, explores the tantalizing-but-complex market.  Read more


Innovation in House Painting? That's Right

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 3, 2012

Brian Scudamore is creating 1-888-WOW-1DAY!, a national franchise that promises to paint your whole house in a day.  Read more


The Watch That Raised $8 Million on Kickstarter

By Andrew Maclean and John McDermott |  May 2, 2012

Eric Migicovsky created Pebble, a watch that syncs with Android or iPhone apps, and crowdfunded more money from ordinary individuals than any other Kickstart...  Watch video