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Case Study Update: Selling a Successful Widget

Back to Business: A marketing gimmick became a hot side act for this software maker. Selling it meant the company could refocus and grow eve...  Read story

The Great Communicator

Mark Zuckerberg created a virtual town square for Generation Y. Is his business really worth $2 billion?  Read story

The Dumbest Products of 2007

What were they thinking?!?! In praise of retail stupidity.  Read story

Is Facebook Really Worth $15 Billion?

Maybe not. Microsoft's $240 million investment in the wildly popular social networking site is turning heads, but some insiders describe the valuation as "ri...  Read story

Facebook to Offer Classified Ads

U.K.-based software development company Fuzzle Media has released its latest application for Facebook, the social networking site that Microsoft (NASDAQ:M...  Read story

SuperPoke Recruiting

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

Facebook Gets Down to Business

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

Web 2.0 Attracting Small Firms

The number of small businesses using social networking is expected to double in the next year, a study finds.  Read story

Xbox Live Leaves Indie Developers in the Cold

Xbox will be even more socially connected, come autumn, but will smaller game developers be let in on the action? Probably not.  Read story

Social Networks: Ready to Join the Party?

Marketing your small business on Facebook and MySpace.  Read story

Pulling the Plug on Facebook

All that friending and superpoking wastes a lot of time at the office -- and could be costing companies billions in lost productivity. Why a growing number o...  Read story

The Young and the Restless

Entrepreneurship keeps getting cooler, and the entrepreneurs keep getting younger. Meet five of our favorites.  Read story

Alumni Updates

Since being featured on our 30 Under 30 list, Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer sold his company for $170 million, College Hunks Hauling Junk founders Nick Fried...  Read story

30 Under 30: America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs

The honorees on this year's 30 Under 30 list are perhaps our most dynamic group yet -- building successful companies online, overseas, and in the skies...  Read story

Making Social Marketing Work

Are your social media marketing strategies well targeted, or are they backfiring? Many small businesses have embraced blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other o...  Read story

Contributors

Our Very Own Youth Movement To report, write, and photograph this month's collection of stories on promising start-ups founded by college student...  Read story

The Upstarts Are Coming

In an excerpt from Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit From Their Success , Donna Fenn explo...  Read story

Wunderkind of the Year (Again)

When it comes to Facebook's relationship status, things have been complicated. After rebuffing a billion-dollar buyout offer from Yahoo in 2006, the compa...  Read story

Using Work Tools for Personal Stuff?

The boundaries between work and personal life blur as employees sign onto Facebook at work and access company systems from home.  Read story

Conference to Promote Business in India

The President of Walt Disney International, a managing partner of Norwest Venture Partners, and a founding member of both Napster and Facebook will be amo...  Read story

What Kind of Laptop Are You?

Are you a tricked-out or geeked-up marvel of technology evolution or are you an all work and no play workhorse? Find your laptop personality.  Read story

Entrepreneurs in the News

If you have everything it takes to be a highflier except, well, a good idea, say thank you to Paul Graham. His Y Combinator, the venture ...  Read story

Superpoking Bill Gates

Ten questions we'd like to ask Microsoft's founder about his company's play for Facebook.  Read story

Ok, Everybody, Let's Do This!

Managing projects and collaborating with co-workers.  Read story

What Elvis Can Teach You About Employment Law

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

The Next $1.65 Billion Start-Up?

Google's purchase of YouTube has reignited worries of another dot-com bust. We turned our questions to Geoff Cook, the 26-year-old founder of myYearbook.com,...  Read story

A Server That Does Double Duty

The HP MediaSmart is a good tool for home or office  Read story

The Way I Work: Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione

The founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery shares a typical work day -- answering e-mails, having laid-back meetings, and of course, sharing a few beers  Read story

Productive Workers Surf the Web

A recent study reveals that employees who browse the internet for fun at work are more productive.  Read story

55-Alive! Wants to Be MySpace for the Baby Boomer Set.

Can it raise $250,000?  Read story

More Recruiters Logging On

A survey finds employers are turning to social networking sites in the hunt for talent.  Read story

Putting Widgets to Work

Widgets are no longer just for your Facebook page. Small and mid-sized businesses are using these online applications for viral marketing, to generate intere...  Read story

A New Way to Cash Out

The IPO market has all but disappeared, and lofty merger and acquisition deals are unthinkable. So entrepreneurs, as well as their employees and investors...  Read story

Are CEOs Connected?

Why business owners should be taking advantage of social networking sites as a business tool.  Read story

When Collaboration and the Law Collide

In part two of Inc. 's interview with Larry Downes, an IT, business strategy and legal expert and partner with Bell-Mason Group, he explains why allowi...  Read story

Special Offers Drive Brand Loyalty on Social Media Sites

Most consumers friend a brand on Facebook and Myspace to receive special offers; less likely to follow a brand on twitter.  Read story

Notables '07

More great people, ideas, and businesses...  Read story