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Showcasing a product or service at a trade show can be a valuable investment, but it can also be expensive. Choosing the best shows and being strategic about your presence can make a big difference.

Five young female entrepreneurs who left the corporate world behind to pursue high growth startups.

Michelle Waugh's first company tanked. Luckily, that "failure" gave her the opportunity to reassess venture #2.

  Just a little while ago, media company PandoDaily announced a new partnership with the Southland conference in Nashville, TN. PandoDaily will provide the programming, and Launch TN, the public/private organization beh...

Umpqua Bank is obsessed with turning branch banking from a necessary evil to an eagerly anticipated customer experience.  And by doing so, they outshine their competition wherever they have branches (primarily the Pacif...

There were moments during last night's presentation of the 2103 Hilton Humanitarian Prize that made the well-dressed and socially committed dinner-goers in the Waldorf Astoria's historic Starlight Roof Ballroom gasp over...

Italy's iconic actress Sophia Loren is now 79. The tax evasion charges staining her name? Almost as old. Italian tax officials claimed she fudged her taxes--criminally--in 1974.

One big advantage WordPress has over other CMS software is that it is very easy to customize and create themes for. This has created an ever-growing marketplace of premium WordPress themes. No matter what your website is...

Many entrepreneurs and small business owners do everything: they are their own boss, business manager, financial officer, administrative support, and visionary. Doing everything yourself can help to keep your business li...

Might you owe capital gains tax on the sale of your home?

Did you know you can fight back if your real estate tax bill is unfairly high?

Is Vinod Khosla right that VCs should give less advice because they "haven't done shit" and that "70% of VCs add negative value in advising"? This question was originally answered on Quora.

Females Founders to Watch gets futuristic with a list of women who are working to learn more about space!

Big business wants to raise the gas tax and spend the money on infrastructure. Which sounds like a great idea, since that?s what the gas tax is supposed to pay for anyway. But the tax is broken, thanks to Congress, which...

From where I'm sitting, I can see the sparkle on the surface of that water-ish substance in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, and the gradually swelling traffic on northbound 95.

It?s likely that every single day, you use something that was made by an engineer -- whether that?s a free app or a freeway. ?Scientists study the world that is. Engineers create the world that never was."

QUESTION: WHAT’S ONE PERSONAL QUALITY YOU THINK ALL GREAT STARTUP LEADERS SHARE? PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITY “Road maps always change on the journey of making a company successful. Great startup leaders are those who kno...

The first step to overcoming your obsessive inbox-checking habits is admitting you have a problem. How many times do you check your email every day -- 10, 20, more than 30 times? Checking email frequently means you?re be...

Today the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to approve its first rules under Title III of  the 2012 JOBS Act governing crowdfunding. Experts Jilliene Helman of Realty Mogul, a crowdfunding site for real estate in...

Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey, is getting a huge amount of media fawning these days. But Dorsey's payment startup, Square, should watch its back because it has some strong rivals.

I learned something surprising this weekend. A rule I was taught back in elementary school turned out not always to be true. In the process, I discovered something worrisome about myself and how we prepare our children t...

Amazon's first employee, Shel Kaphan, sheds new light on the mid-1990s origins of the giant online retailer.