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If your employer pays you severance when you terminate employment or later because you sue, is it for "rendering services?" Clearly it is pay and is subject to  income tax and withholding. But as you aren't actually re...

Family and friends never suspected Ross Ulbricht to be the alleged drug kingpin behind the notorious Silk Road marketplace.

St. Louis author and inspirational speaker, Ben Newman, said the following in his bestselling book, Own Your Success, "It's hard to beat a team who refuses to quit." The St. Louis Cardinals refuse to quit. In fact, what ...

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) recently released its report, "Getting Started with IRIS," which is a comprehensive "how-to" guide for measuring impact using the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards publi...

To understand marketing is to have a sense of irony. Ask anyone to list famous professional services companies and chances are they will mention a firm known for secrecy: consulting giant McKinsey & Company. To find out ...

Runnable expands what anyone with basic code skills can do today, by giving them access to a large library of code and the ability to run and test any kind of code instantly.

An entrepreneur I met recently has several Sand Hill Road venture capitalists (VCs) eating out of his hands. Having launched their product on Kickstarter, they are collecting in pre-orders at the rate of upwards of $20,0...

Despite a tough market, Burlington Stores had little trouble with its IPO today. The company priced 13.3 million shares at $17 each, which was above the $14-to-$16 range. So far, the stock price is up a sizzling 45%.

We know the statistics by now. There are fewer women in technology than there are men. There are fewer women in science than there are men. There are fewer female entrepreneurs than there are males. Women earn less. The ...

Tsitsi Masiyiwa, the wife of Zimbabwe's richest man, Strive Masiyiwa, runs a charity that sends over 40,000 orphaned Zimbabwean children to school, including to university in the U.S.

After 40 years as a private company, RE/MAX finally came public today. "The IPO was a lot of fun," said Dave Liniger, who is the chairman and co-founder of the company.

Nearly half of U.S. small business owners surveyed said the shutdown of the U.S. government is a good thing. Why?

Bill Foulkes wants you to hire Michelangelos.

Written by Josh Manchester

The scope of the SEC's authority to enforce the Dodd-Frank whistleblower protection provisions is unclear. What is clear is that the SEC is looking to test its authority and an employer that retaliates against a Dodd-Fra...

For a few, delegating comes easily, maybe too easy. For others who are perfectionists, letting go of even the most trivial task is almost impossible. If you are in this second category, you probably don't like the refere...

This article was co-authored with Megan Rozo of Internet Marketing Inc.

Global or women-led or new business models may have trouble getting funding. Whose fault is that?

This morning, the underground, members-only dinner club, Dinner Lab, has announced expansion into five new markets, making the pop-up dinner experiences not so underground anymore.  Before even celebrating its second bi...

The team from Cincinnati based Modulus took home the Startup Champion trophy at Everywhere Else Cincinnati.

At our company, we work to fill our roster with "athletes." I don't mean this necessarily in the physical sense, although it turns out that quite a few of our members are literal athletes - we have a national-class triat...

While many business challenges are common for all founders, there are unique lessons that women entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to learn in business. Here are several essential lessons I’ve learned as a success...