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With the holiday season upon us, high-yield retailers face a test of how heavier debt loads can weather chillier consumer sentiment.

Content marketing isn?t necessarily something new, but how brands and marketers are leveraging new digital technologies to create and promote compelling content is. According to a recent Forrester report, consumers are n...

Not all entrepreneurs who want to "scale" a business find that a cash infusion is the secret to success.

David Lee Roth, the legendary lead singer for the band Van Halen, was the poster child for 1980s excess. He was chastised in the news media for demanding only non-brown M&M's in his dressing room, the presumably obvious ...

I had not been in Rome for decades.   My memory of driving through the streets seeing intermittent archaeological ruins -- and of course the famous ones -- was as vivid as ever.  All are glorious to behold!

Does the U.S. corporate tax rate incentivize foreign acquisitions by cash-rich multinationals?

In the last Presidential election, I knew my candidate, Jill Stein, was not going to win.  I was comforted by the belief that at the Sesquicentennial of the Gettysburg Address, we would have either a member of Mr. Linco...

The safest man to have sex with in America lives in Los Angeles. He has been working on "the social side of technology" for some years now. And, he was slapped by a date who thought he had a sexually transmitted disease....

Athlete stock trading company signs another football player, but many questions regarding the viability of the offering remain.

What's been your experience with startup equity payout? This question was originally answered on Quora by Michael Wolfe.

At Hipmob, we spend all day thinking about how to help mobile businesses better talk to customers. Talking to customers helps you understand them better, better solve their problems, and grow your business. Our product i...

The healthcare flexible spending arrangement rules just got more complicated.

What does your startup do? Who does it serve, and how are you different or unique?

Earlier this month Apple released their latest operating system Mavericks, which touts over 200 new features. That's a lot for a busy entrepreneur to go through, which is why I've been using it since the release and have...

The LSTA Wednesday evening submitted its comment letter on the revised risk-retention requirements outlined under Dodd-Frank to joint federal regulators (including the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of th...

While ObamaCare stutters, these entrepreneurs are finding their own solutions to health care challenges.

Nakoo is looking to solve the question of - what is the source of human inequality?

Lawmakers are considering gimmicks to raise new tax revenue?at least on paper?without actually increasing taxes, as well as even darker Halloween magic that would allow them to purport to raise revenues by cutting taxes.

Global mobility is on the rise, and many employees want a passport filled with foreign-nation stamps to bolster personal growth and career development. Increasingly, they?re seeking expatriate, commuter, rotational or ot...

Some people think sports is just entertainment, but deep down, the industry exists to offer hope.  Hope that your franchise can field a winning team.  Absent that, fans of losing teams expect a plan to start winning, ...

By Douglas Atkin, who heads Guggenheim Partners' venture investing business.

Entrepreneurs are full of great ideas and powerful ways to implement them, but like anything in life, starting a new business requires a hefty stack of cold, hard cash. At one time, gathering this cash required hours of ...