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Find out how to be a social media maven from one of the best social networkers around: Vala Afshar.

Shopify wants you to start your own online business.

Old Trojans don't die, they just move to Newport Beach. Wealthy alums here venerate a winning USC football tradition. Houses hang USC banners and flags, Cardinal and gold colors are everywhere. I am grudgingly tolerated ...

In a recent blog post, Dan Crain, CEO of WhipTail (recently acquired by Cisco) concluded that:

It's a telling image, isn't it: a budding entrepreneur appears more drawn to the option of affordable health insurance than the latest innovation in small business financing.

Here's why the new book from Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian will be buzzed about, from its content to its groundbreaking cover.

If ever there was an example of a little company leaving money on the table, boy Instagram was it. It's a cautionary tale for SnapChat, WhatsApp, and any hot start-up to come in the future.

We all have our real selves and our "work" selves.  We pack away certain parts of our personalities and slap on our game face when we go to the office. In some ways this is well and good. We don't want to bring that fig...

Andrew Warner, CEO of Mixergy, regularly interviews the best entrepreneurs in the world to learn about their tactics and experience. He knows about founders. Entrepreneurs feel the resistance. PUSH BACK ON THE RESISTANCE...

In my introductory post, I set out the reasons for my strong belief that approaching IT solutions from an essentially operational viewpoint is both flawed and counter productive. In this post I'd like to suggest some way...

To grow your business, you need a marketing plan. The right marketing plan identifies everything from 1) who your target customers are to 2) how you will reach them, to 3) how you will retain your customers so they repea...

The House and Senate are on pace for a government shutdown. After the Senate rejected language in the House-passed bill that would have defunded Obamacare, the lower chamber met over the weekend. The result was a continu...

The weekend debate on all the major networks focused on the imminent government shutdown, which appears unlikely to be averted. I found the perspective of the US reporters stationed overseas to be the most interesting. T...

Why I like Apple stock by the holidays.

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  I know it's been a while since Christmas, so I'll do the recap. In the movie "Elf," Will Ferrell plays Buddy, a Santa's Helper now landed in Manhattan after a sheltered North Pole existence. One day, Buddy spots a si...

How is Clinkle different from Venmo and Square? This question was originally answered on Quora.

(Kitco News) - As the U.S. government hurtles toward a potential shutdown at midnight on Monday, gold prices are consolidating within recent ranges and the charts reveal a short-term holding pattern. Overnight, the yell...

(Kitco News) - Comex gold futures prices are weaker in early U.S. trading Monday. It's a "risk-off" trader and investor mentality in the world market place to start the new trading week. The main focus of traders and in...

(Kitco News) - Speculators returned to buy gold futures and options traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, but their activity in other precious metals markets was mixed, according to U.S. gove...

The Affordable Care Act is facing numerous problems that could haunt incumbent Democrats in the 2014 election, which is why they should join with Republicans in delaying the law for a year.

Editor's Note: Javier Okhuysen is the co-founder of salaUno, a health care social enterprise focused on eye care for the bottom of the pyramid in Mexico.