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One of the hardest aspects of starting a new venture is obtaining financial backing. Instead of turning to an investor or applying for a loan, many entrepreneurs are taking the alternative route of crowdfunding. Crowdfun...

In theory, an entrepreneurial CEO is a dream. What executive wouldn't want a boss who gets excited about good new ideas and is willing to back them? But in reality, an entrepreneurial CEO can be a nightmare, especially a...

Rage at the idea of honoring the great wealth-creators shows the Angry Left's nihilism and self-loathing.

The smartphone patent wars get most of the ink. Last week, for instance, Rockstar, the holding company formed when Apple, Microsoft and others bought out of bankruptcy Nortel's considerable patent portfolio for $4.3 bill...

People usually think it's best to be the first to hit the market with a disruptive innovation. But more often than not, the advantages don't pan out. The career of the late Lou Reed reveals the dark side of the innovatio...

So IBM is an amazing company - it takes something special to survive multiple technology revolutions - founded over 100 years ago to make tabulating machines, IBM has navigated more technology shifts than I've had hot di...

Congressional negotiators are trying to craft a budget deal by mid-December. Fareed Zakaria's Global Public Square asked 12 experts what they hoped that deal would include. My suggestion: it's time to fix the budget proc...

A lawsuit over gambling cash seized at the Atlanta airport morphs into a debate over Internet law.

When delivering presentations to a general audience, senior management in your company, or even a venture capitalist, a successful presentation isn't about the PowerPoint slides you create - it's about much more than tha...

Is it criminal not to tell your employer your passwords if asked? It could be.

Streaming live on Forbes, Mixbook CEO and Co-Founder Andrew Laffoon will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) Tuesday, November 5th.

What would Twitter have done if Ev Williams wasn't able to buy off Odeo assets from investors? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jackson Mohsenin.

Both parties should give serious thought to greater reliance on the property tax. Yes, I know people hate that tax. I also know that politicians find it advantageous to attack it. But the property tax revolts of the late...

Vacation is awesome, but should it be unlimited?

Life for an enterprise worker, at least when it comes to the IT systems they use, is increasingly a nightmare of disconnected solutions. While the technology revolution was meant to deliver a solution to the complexity o...

With as many problems as we are all faced with in our work and life, it seems as if there is never enough time to solve each one without dealing with some adversity along the way. Problems keep mounting so fast that we f...

I recently had a startling realization: in a single day, the 375 or so people in my organization put in more work hours than I do in an entire year.

Israel has more companies listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange than any country outside the US. "How is it that Israel has, per person, attracted over twice as much venture capital investment as the US and thirty times mo...

What could possibly break the Apple and Samsung duopoly in smart phones? Could it be the rise of Chinese producers or is something else at work, under the radar? Just possibly.

If there's one thing entrepreneurs have in common, it's the inability to STOP working. Which is exactly why Prerna Gupta thinks you need to take a year off.

The Boston Red Sox won the 2013 World Series ? fulfilling my daughter?s birthday wishes for me. But in 2012, the Red Sox finished the season in last place. Their journey from worst to first offers some valuable lessons f...

Deepti Sharma Kapur was dreaming of a law school career and a life in politics until the day she found herself waiting 30 minutes in line to buy a cupcake from her favorite New York City  food truck. That's when she th...