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'Go Spend $2 Million as Fast as You Can'
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A serial entrepreneur who has raised $100 million in his lifetime explains exactly how he did it. Read more
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5 Steps to Creating a Great Company Culture
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Pinnacle Technical Resources CEO Nina Vaca grew up watching her entrepreneur parents fail repeatedly but learned what it takes to build a business. Watch video
Why You Need to Market to Your Employees
Marketing a new brand and product internally to your employees could be more important than what your customers will ultimately see. Read more
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Meetings get a bum rap, especially from Gen-Y founders. What are the youngest entrepreneurs actually doing behind closed conference doors? Read more
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Pinnacle Technical Resources CEO Nina Vaca says that working with family is easy. She works with her brother, sister, and husband, while running a fast-growt... Watch video
How I Did It: Rick Smolan
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The co-founder of Rebellion Photonics, doesn't traffic in 'advice'--at least, not the kind usually doled out to women in business. For her, the criticisms ar... Read more
The Quality All Great Entrepreneurs Need
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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 Reasons Chobani Rules | Company of the Year Runner-Up
Chobani grew 2,662% over the past three years and has revenue of about $1 billion. The numbers tell only part of the story of why this Greek-yogurt maker is ... 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
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Can you believe the home-rental site that lists properties in 30,000 cities across 192 countries once had trouble raising $20,000? Now it is valued at $2.5 b... Read more
12 Ways to Unwind During the Busy Holiday Season
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When You Should Hit 'Send'
An e-mail marketing firm digs through more than 20 million messages to figure out when is the best time to send marketing e-mails. Read more
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Former entrepreneur Mark Suster drops a much-deserved bomb on those who glamorize start-ups. But even he wouldn't mind another go. Read more
3 Start-up Secrets From Jerry Maguire
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2 Tools That Turn Customers Into Cheerleaders
Incentivizing current customers to buy more and bring in new business is a huge opportunity you can't miss. Read more
Take Coffee Grounds. Add Spores. See Success Sprout.
With their popular mushroom kits, Back to the Roots' founders Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez are restoring the connection between people and food. Read more
Honoring the Champions of Do-Good-ism
Business icons, including Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, turned out this week to celebrate the Social Venture Network's inaugural Hall of Fame. Read more
3 Mistakes You Need to Avoid When Starting Up
Founders look back at the biggest slip-ups they made when starting their companies--so you can avoid their mistakes. Read more
3 Basics of Facebook Analytics
You've got a few months' worth of Facebook activity under your belt. Now's the time to dig into the data and see what's working. Read more
How Education Entrepreneur Chris Whittle Disproved Skeptics
The same guy who created Channel One and Philadelphia's Edison Schools has a new obsession: a global private school he calls Avenues. Watch video
Shift in Opinions on Working-While-Parenting
A Wharton professor finds that over the past 20 years the opinions of men and women on working parenthood and the division of responsibilities are converging. Read more
