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Sharing ownership with others comes at a cost and with risk. Phantom stock plans can mitigate these risks.

There's a party raging in Finland tonight. Finnish game developer, Supercell, just vaulted to multi-billion dollar valuation status after a sale to Japanese telecommunications powerhouse SoftBank.

A reader recently asked me if I would do an article on the death of the S Corporation (S Corp). At first, I wondered what he was referring to, but upon further consideration I realized he had a point. The S Corp as a bus...

If Congress doesn't raise the national debt limit, the U.S. Treasury may have enough financial wiggle room to put off default until Nov. 1. But it's extraordinarily dangerous for politicians to assume they have any addit...

Typically, after he finishes scanning a room with the Structure Sensor, a 3D scanner for mobile devices, Jeff Powers, chief executive officer of Occipital (the company behind Structure), gets a strong reaction from the a...

Screenshots From Supercell's Two Blockbuster Tablet Games

Marketing departments need to move beyond seeking only engagement on social media channels and begin building a comprehensive social presence. This will require linking your website to various social media profiles, incl...

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Will Congress act on tax extenders before year-end 2013?

Energy Future Holdings Corp., formerly known as TXU, said that it has failed to reach an agreement with creditors on a restructuring of the company's debt.

At what is likely the largest crowdfunding conference of the year, Congressman Patrick McHenry was presented with the 2013 "Crowdfunding Visionary Award" on Tuesday morning, October 15, 2013. Zak Cassady-Dorion, co-found...

Executive stress has come under scrutiny as of late, most pointedly in a piece by Keith Payne for Scientific American that claims C-level execs are boo-hooing about stress--that sometimes it's so bad that they have to ta...

A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought  Leaders changing the  Business Landscape:Wayne Jackson, Founder and CEO of Sonatype...

Governments and activists have been trying to fix Chicago's housing crisis for years. The federal government built high rise projects. Then the city tore them down and started over. Lately local groups have come up with ...

Entrepreneurs have to be salesmen to convince customers to choose their technology over others. But before you can pitch your product to customers,you need to let the customers do the talking. NorTech President and CEO R...

"We're pretty upset we didn't make the top 100,000 FORBES list of musicians," jokes Nathan Followill, drummer of family-band-turned-stadium-fillers Kings Of Leon. "Beyoncé and Jay Z are the power couple - my wife has to...

The Internal Revenue Code, as you may be aware, is about as permanent as a Kardashian marriage. Each year multiple Code sections expire, and 2013 is no exception. And while some expiring provisions are unlikely to be mis...

The 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer, a trust and credibility survey that collects data from more than 30,000 people, found that regular rank-and-file company employees have more credibility than executives. It is a fantasti...

Attempts to help small businesses paid late by their customers have not succeeded so far. What should the Government do now?

When I was 19 years old I worked on Capitol Hill as an intern and I fell in love with our political process.  I've spent the last 7 years building a tech company, and had over 800 million people worldwide visit our webs...

History books incorporate a crazy assortment of creative acts - everything from the Three Fifths Compromise (as horrific as it sounds today) to the iPhone came to be from someone who's a creative genius, a mastermind of ...

There are many startup founders who have done extremely well creating new products with a better way of doing things. But there’s a category of entrepreneur that takes it to an even higher level. That entrepreneur is t...