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Seeking Quality, Juicer Squeezes Out Franchisees
Given the choice of franchising or setting up company-owned stores, here's why a fruit-juice firm opted for the stores. Read more
Metaweb Acquired by Google
The search-engine company continues its buying spree. Read more
Mark Cuban: Check-Ins Are "So 2010"
That's so this year. What's that? Silly Bandz? Twilight? As Read more
How Will the IPO Market Treat Zipcar?
Despite strong revenue gains, the car-sharing service has yet to turn an annual profit, faces increased competition, and has a tricky merger to execute. Read more
Mark Zuckerberg Makes a New Friend
Facebook buys Friendfeed . Cue the puns. Facebook has friended FriendFeed. (Har har.) The deal wasn't huge--worth a Read more
High Concept: I'll Take Manhattan
A new way to build computer memory chips takes its inspiration from the Manhattan skyline: when space is at a premium, build up rather than out. Read more
The "Other" Entrepreneurship; Inside Intuit
Private companies still cutting back . A new employment report from ADP estimates that private companies Read more
Any Given Start-Up
In years past, only a Super Bowl ring could light up the eyes of a burly football player. Now he's just as likely to perk up over a new dot-com. Pro athletes... Read more
The Futurists
From solar panels to clean coal, betting big on the future of energy. Read more
Wi-Fi for the Masses
Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it--one city at a time. Read more
Wi-Fi for the Masses
Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it--one city at a time. Read more
How to Kill a Great Idea!
Jonathan Abrams created the first online social network and enlisted Silicon Valley's best and brightest to run it. Yet Friendster flamed out spectacularly. ... Read more
The Fast Track to Face Time
It's the eternal question asked by every entrepreneur who ever tried to raise capital: What do venture capitalists want? The answer, according to the Web ... Read more
New Gold Rush in the Valley
Venture capitalists are pouncing like it's 1999. Plus, start-ups' legal blunders, the advent of the CCO, and the rest of the day's news. Read more
Myth 3: Smart Money Makes You Smart
Think any Internet start-up can get venture capital? Not true. Entrepreneur Cliff Young had to grow his company before the VCs came calling. Read more
Myth 3: Smart Money Makes You Smart
Think any Internet start-up can get venture capital? Not true. Entrepreneur Cliff Young had to grow his company before the VCs came calling. Read more
Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever, Founders of Quora
While working at Facebook in 2009, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever had a question: Why isn't there a place on the Internet where a question can b... Read more
War Stories
Reviews of three new business books -- one on why starting a company is like waging war, one about a high-profile venture capital firm, and one on why you sh... Read more
War Stories
Reviews of three new business books -- one on why starting a company is like waging war, one about a high-profile venture capital firm, and one on why you sh... Read more
Your Future Car Service
Meet the 2.0 car service: Uber is a start-up that lets you book a stylish ride from a smartphone app. Read more
The Down-Round Dilemma
Once a rarity, down rounds are becoming the norm among firms lucky enough to get venture capital funding. But is topping off the tanks worth the drop in valu... Read more
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Founders of Instagram
Just after midnight on October 6, 2010, Kevin Systrom signed into his Apple App Store control panel. "Here we go," he thought. With a click, Read more
The Plot Thickens
As the initial celebrations fade into memory, our heroes from Silicon Valley discover that the Old Economy business of selling books is tougher than they sus... Read more
Meet the 30 Under 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs
They're making the hottest apps on your iPhone, and shirts that don't gap; encouraging you to eat healthier, and date smarter; fighting government censorship... View slideshow
Rewriting the Ending
The unfortunate demise and surprising rebirth of a very special business. Part 1 in a series. Read more
The Future of the Internet
Vinton Cerf, one of America's most influential computer scientists, predicts the future of the Web. Also, a new social enterprise is launched, plus the rest ... Read more
How Fast Can This Thing Go, Anyway?
Zipcar was a classic founder-run company--long on passion, short on cash. Until a new CEO came aboard, gave the business a seven-step tune-up, and put the pe... Read more
You've Been Yelped
Yelp, the rambunctious and burgeoning customer-review website, can make or break a small business. It can also drive a business owner slightly insane. Read more
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