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Facebook May Be Popular, But Not Well-Liked
Privacy concerns, frequent design changes and aggressive advertising earn the social-networking giant low marks on a consumer survey.
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Cool iPhone 4 Cases
Don’t feel like waiting for a free iPhone 4 case from Apple? Here are three cool iPhone 4 cases alternatives you can buy now.
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Entrepreneur of the Year: Kevin Surace of Serious Materials
The founder of Serious Materials wants to save the world and make a billion dollars. And he just might pull it off.
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Tesla Motors Goes Public
The Tesla IPO is a big day for CEO Elon Musk, and maybe for the entire car industry.
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Sean Whalen, Founder of AlterG
AlterG founder Sean Whalen brought to market an anti-gravity treadmill used by top athletes. Now he's going after the medical market.
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Build With a Buyer in Mind
Groom your company right from the start to become a part of a public company's portfolio. Read more
Where are All the Women?
Sexism in Silicon Valley? When Candace Fleming tried to raise money for her start-up Crimson Hexagon in 2007, her industrial engineering degree fro... Read more
Christopher McCann, Co-founder of StartupDigest
Young Silicon Valley entrepreneur Christopher McCann answers questions about starting a successful e-mail newsletter business. Watch video
The Silicon Valley of South America?
To spur innovation, Chile is offering American start-ups $40,000 in seed funding. Read more
Behind-the-Scenes Influencers of Silicon Valley
Get your business a bar code. Everyone knows that Google helps customers find your business online, but today's tech-savvy window shoppers are now ... Read more
Study: Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship Unique
March 27, 2007 -- Entrepreneurship rates in Silicon Valley continued to grow faster than the national average despite the dot-com bust, s... Read more
Business Plan Finalists Named
Pitches to offer cell-based transplants for stroke patients and a device for sending hand-written e-mails were among the top 10 finalists named in this ye... Read more
The Best Boomer Businesses
A provider of mobile hearing aid centers and the developer of a handheld blood analyzer each won $10,000 in this year's Silicon Valley Boomer Business Pla... Read more
Silicon Valley's Dark Days
The mighty tech corridor is losing power. Literally. Read more
The Next Silicon Valley? Part 1
Sometimes an article comes out that is so wrong headed, even delusional, that someone has to respond. In a recent piece posted on the Planetizen Read more
The Next Silicon Valley? Part Two
People around the world want to be the next Silicon Valley but today's version may not be the kind of job-generating machine that people expect. This wa... Read more
An Entrepreneurial Safari
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ... Read more
New Ways to Retain and Reward Employees (Hint: We're Not Talking Stock Options)
In the wake of media reports about abuse of stock options, some technology firms are rethinking the incentives they use to compensate valuable employees. Mea... Read more
Episode I: A New Beginning
Andrew Raskin, an otherwise sane New York company man, chronicles why he has flung himself into the mad world of Silicon Valley start-ups. Read more
Be Careful What You Wish For
Silicon Valley companies thought an act of Congress would solve their problems with Bill Lerach and his shareholder lawsuits. But the reforms may end up back... Read more
The Next Big Next Big Thing
Silicon Valley may think it has all the creative geniuses firmly ensconced in its back pocket, but it won't be long before the next big challenge pulls them ... Read more
The Good Deed Doers
Infoseek founder Steve Kirsch on philanthropy in the digital age. Read more
Episode I: A New Beginning
Andrew Raskin, an otherwise sane New York company man, chronicles why he has flung himself into the mad world of Silicon Valley start-ups. Read more
The Next Big Next Big Thing
Silicon Valley may think it has all the creative geniuses firmly ensconced in its back pocket, but it won't be long before the next big challenge pulls them ... Read more
Targeting the Right Venture Capitalists
There are many kinds of venture capitalists who invest in different types of opportunities. Some venture capitalists prefer to provide only seed capital; ... Read more
Silicon Valley's Silver Lining
Today Silicon Valley represents a microcosm of the American Dream. In the Valley, we can become what we desire to be: a millionaire or the best circuit de... Read more
Letter From Silicon Valley: What's a Nice Systems Engineer Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Every month a Silicon Valley club or hotel plays host to a networking party called the Layoff Lounge. Just another pink-slip party? Not really. Here's what h... Read more
19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now -- Michael Arrington
There are millions of blogs out there. And most of them aren't worth your time. So we scoured the Web and came up with a list of the smartest bloggers, who j... Read more
Credit Crunch Hits Tesla Motors
In case you hadn't heard, it's really, really hard to run a car company in late 2008. That's true for the Big Three, of course, but it's also the ... Read more
Silicon Valley Versus Route 128
A look at how companies are shaped by the business and social cultures around them. Read more
Letter from Silicon Valley: Success Story
If you're looking to put the proper spin on your company's story, you might want to take a cue from a screenplay or two. Read more
Business, Bureaucrats Reinvent Local Gov't
A look at how an assemblage of local business leaders are teaming up with local government to effect a change. Read more
Try Before You Buy
New company sends out complete versions of software programs for customers to try before they buy. Read more
4 Ideas From SXSW: StartupBus Edition
From dozens of ideas hatched aboard coach busses, judges have chosen the 2011 winners: two outstanding service-oriented start-ups. Read more
Five Ways to “Green” Small Business Tech
Through a variety of simple and sometimes complex changes, businesses of any size can become more environmentally conscious when it comes to energy consumpti... Read more
The Eco-Advantage
Introducing the Green 50, a collection of entrepreneurial companies that are showing what it means to run good businesses, attack the most pressing problems ... Read more
Valley Guy
Guy Kawasaki tells you where to meet and what to eat in Silicon Valley. Read more
Can You Judge a Biz by Its Color?
Race matters for entire companies now. Read more
Letter from Silicon Valley: Nothing Ventured
Just how sorry is the sorry state of fund-raising among tech companies? Our intrepid reporter went to a venture-capital mixer to find out. Read more
The Next Silicon Valley? Part Three
The Next Silicon Valley Part 3 --- The Future Since the fall of the dotcoms at the end of the millenium, the Valley and places like Boston... Read more
FASB Limits Stock Options
What new stock option rules mean for you. Read more
The 2007 CED Venture Conference
I spent yesterday meeting with some really interesting entrepreneurs and investors at the Council for Entrepreneurial Deve... Read more
The Best 4 Small-Business Neighborhoods in America
Here's what entrepreneurs are looking for when selecting a community for start-ups, and what they're finding. Read more
The Best Places For Doing Business in America 2005
We examined 274 population centers, looking for job creation and other signs that businesses are thriving. Here's what we found. Read more
Stop Enforcing Noncompetes
Because we need to promote competition for labor and talent among start-up companies in fast-growing industries. Read more
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