Is This Island Paradise for Entrepreneurs?
What happens when a flood of highly educated, entrepreneurial young people return from studies abroad to tiny Cyprus? The answer offers a trickle of optimism. Read more
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Best Advice I Ever Got: Shama Kabani
The president of the Marketing Zen Group explains how being an entrepreneur is similar to being a newlywed, and other great advice she's received. Read more
Best Advice I Ever Got: Dave Kerpen
The CEO of Likeable Media shares 3 pearls of wisdom he received as an up-and-coming entrepreneur. Read more
Young Entrepreneur, Older Employees: How to Cope
Being a young business owner with much older employees to supervise can be awkward. Or not. It depends on how you handle the situation. Read more
7 Free Apps That Will Make Life Better
These free (or next to free) apps promise to make your life easier. Read more
Leave the Nest to Start Your Company? 8 Signs You're Ready
Daydreaming about leaving your day job? See if you fit the profile of a successful entrepreneur--or if you're better off staying where you are. Read more
Fred Wilson's Latest Advice for Start-up Ninjas
When the Union Square Ventures VC showed up at Jeff Bussgang's HBS class, he advised start-up students that their new ventures should be hunch-driven early o... Read more
Raise Your Hand if You Want to Be an Executive
Anyone? Anyone? A new survey suggests the allure of C-suite positions has washed away. What's cool in 2012? You guessed it: entrepreneurship. Read more
Inside Chicago's Start-up High School
How an unusual inner-city charter school plans to groom the next generation of tech entrepreneurs. Read more
How London is Luring Start-ups
Welcome to the "Silicon Roundabout," which is luring young companies with government funding, Google-sponsored office space, and a new start-up competition. Read more
What Motivates Tomorrow's Great Entrepreneurs?
A new study reveals that young entrepreneurs are driven by rule-breaking, thinking outside the box, and friendship. Read more
What's for Dinner? Ask These 7 Start-ups
These hot new companies are looking to change the way we eat, and are bringing in lots of dough from investors. Read more
5 Ways to Look More Professional
Sometimes little things make a big difference. Here are some easy ways to get a competitive edge. Read more
Is an MBA Worth the Cost?
An MBA can cost you upward of $100,000. Will the investment really to pay off? Read more
21 Gems of Facebook's S-1 That Will Boggle Your Mind
Private jets? $200 million paintings? Zuckerberg's salary? Here are few things the financial analysts won't be talking about this morning. Read more
The Best Degree for Start-up Success
A new white paper asserts that if you want to build a company, an advanced degree in a subject like engineering beats an MBA any day. Read more
Bring Out the Nerf Guns at Orientation
When on-boarding new hires, we follow these three guidelines to get our employees behind our (epic) mission, and understand our quirky culture. Read more
Inside Facebook's S-1: What Investors Are Saying
We dug into the IPO filing. Is Facebook really worth $100 billion? What does it mean for capital markets? Is the social network just managing expectations? Read more
How to Retain Gen-Y Job Hoppers? Don't Bother
Young people these days are notoriously fickle when it comes to their employers. How should companies lock down talent? Maybe they shouldn't. Read more
"Owner:" Popular Gen Y Job Title on Facebook
Forget teacher or assistant, among those aged 18 to 29 on Facebook, owner is a more popular job title, underlining the strong connection between this generat... Read more
Pleasing the Socially Conscious Consumer
A shift in Gen Y customers' expectations mean businesses need to do more than just make money. Or does it? Read more
How to Get an MIT Education for Peanuts
It takes time to learn all the skills needed to be a successful founder, but there are low-cost shortcuts available, including MIT's new online certificate p... Read more
How to Become an Agent for Change
Few leaders know how to manage change at their company. Learn how to become one of the few. Read more
The Way I Work: Amos Winbush III, CyberSynchs
He seemed destined for music stardom, but instead Amos Winbush III started CyberSynchs, a $13.5 million-a-year New York City-based mobile phone backup company. Read more
How An NBA Ban Fueled Our Business
Last year, the NBA banned start-up APL's innovative basketball shoes and sales took off. Now what? Read more
Case Study: Josh Levy and Ross Cohen of BeenVerified
After 11 months and $550,000, they had gotten nowhere. Could they really gamble what was left on a hunch? Read more
30 Under 30: 2011 Party 
This year's honorees celebrated their accomplishments and shared their experiences of making it onto the list. Watch video
Did Your Parents Make You an Entrepreneur?
This generation is mad about starting small companies. Could parenting be behind the entrepreneurial drive? Read more
Cool Start-up? Stay in School Anyway
Want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg? Here's one way you shouldn't follow in his footsteps, writes venture capitalist Brad Feld. Read more
Is the 54-Hour Start-up a Myth?
How does Startup Weekend turn strangers into teams into companies in less than three days? A review of the new book that documents the process. Read more
What to Do About a Negative Review
Main Street Hub, a start-up that wants to help you manage your reputation on social media, received $2.6 million in funding. Read more
Will GenY Entrepreneurship Be a Disaster?
How could anyone think that GenY's love of entrepreneurship is a bad thing? You'd be surprised. Read more
Reader Mail: October 2011
Readers respond to our our story about globetrotting 21-year-old Ankur Jain and our How I Did It feature package, along with columns by Jason Fried and Meg H... Read more
How Tasty Catering Became an Illinois Incubator
On the verge of losing the business, CEO Tom Walter looked to young employees to turn his business around, and then helped them fund their own. Read more
Made in Louisiana
Two New York fashionistas launch their fashion house Jolie & Elizabeth in New Orleans and lead the charge of bringing fashion back to the Garden District. Read more
