Is "American Idol" Good for Business?
A new survey reveals which TV shows generate the most buzz around the office. Read story
American Idol
A Winning Pitch
A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business. Read story
Ready for Your Product's Close-up?
The rules of product placement are changing. Here's how to land a starring role for your firm. Read story
A Recession High Note
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Market Segmentation
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Updates
Making the Most of a Brush With Fame November 2006 In our list of 50 green entrepreneurial companies ("Read story
Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 - Sean Belnick, BizChair.com
#2 SEAN BELNICK BIZCHAIR.COM Age: 20 Location: Kennesaw... Read story
The Best and Worst TV Bosses
For many U.S. employees, Sam Malone, the bar owner on the hit TV series Cheers , most closely resembles their own boss, according to a survey by C... Read story
112 Million Handsets Can't Be Wrong
Welcome to the new frontier of direct marketing -- the cell phone. Read story
Four Companies Making iPhone Video Apps
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The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals
Jason Fried hates lame meetings, tech companies that don't generate revenue, and companies that treat their employees like children. A peek inside his typica... Read story
75 Reasons to Be Glad You're an American Entrepreneur Right Now
Here's our tally of the diverse ways the culture, the economy, and entrepreneurship's own history are combining to make this a great time--the best time, in ... Read story
The Chair Man of the Board
At 14, Sean Belnick took $500 and started selling office chairs online. Today, he's running a $24 million furniture company whose customers include Microsoft... Read story
Getting Ready for Prime Time
Selling a new product? QVC's stamp of approval is increasingly powerful Read story
War Economy: When Should You Attack Your Competition?
Are we living in an attack culture in America today? Sure seems so. With Fox News, Michael Moore, and the nuclear nature of political discourse in genera... Read story
Average Employee Wastes Two Hours of Every Workday
Twentysomethings slack off more than older workers, according to a new survey. Read story
The Celebrity Pitch
America is more celebrity-mad than ever. But is hitching your company to a star really the right move? Read story
That's Chief Entertainment Officer
Smaller companies do fun better. We got that straight from the skating matador and dozens of his CEO colleagues. Read story
The Future of Advertising is Here
It's becoming increasingly possible to target "smart ads" specifically to people who want them. And best of all, you can do this for a fraction of the price ... Read story
Thinking Inside theBox
Geraldine Laybourne of the Oxygen channel has finally discovered what women want -- perhaps to her chagrin, definitely to her profit. Read story
"It's Going to Be Big"
Marc Ecko always had the dream. Over time -- it wasn't easy -- he developed the skills. Here, he talks about how he got smart, why his billion-dollar clothin... Read story
Reality Bites
The scientists at Emotiv have done the impossible: created a brain-wave-reading headset that lets you conjure entire worlds using nothing but your mind -- a ... Read story
Meet the Bill Gates of Ghana
Brash, ambitious, and optimistic, Herman Chinery-Hesse has already accomplished what many considered impossible -- building a thriving tech business in his n... Read story
The Future of Manufacturing
A New Zealand company called Ponoko has reinvented the factory for the 21st century. Read story
Things are Getting Ugly
Some company owners are really good at dancing on bars and sassing men. Others know how to expand and license their brand. It wasn't easy, but Lil Lovell, fo... Read story
The Customer is the Company
Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month -- with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force and no retail distribution. And it's neve... Read story
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