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In the lead up to the 2013 Igniting Innovation Summit on Social Entrepreneurship, the Skoll World Forum is featuring the ideas and innovations of several speakers and delegates, all of whom are writing on entrepreneur...

Congress, not the IRS, needs to step up stop political operators from abusing a formerly obscure part of the tax code to collect money from anonymous donors and distribute it to other groups, thus creating additional lay...

Getting a small business off the ground is no easy task. If you've heard the old adage, "It takes money to make money," nowhere is it truer than when starting a business. This is particularly true for the smallest of sma...

Even the shortest form of internet communication that I know of, a tweet, isn?t really only 140 characters long. The best tweets always have a link to something longer. (This assumes, of course, that you?re on Twitter to...

Cities across the country are eager to build or strengthen their startup communities, and when entrepreneurs thrive, so do their local economies. We?ve gathered six lessons we've learned that could help other communities...

Even if he declined to talk about what we all wanted to hear about--Twitter, which is expected to go public Thursday--Jack Dorsey had a lot to say about his philosophy of attacking a problem and forming a company to solv...

In light of the upcoming Twitter IPO, it?s important to look back on the company?s immense impact on the news industry. The introduction and proliferation of Twitter, and the subsequent effects, cannot be overstated. In ...

Month of October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. "Breast Cancer Awareness" domain offers many bite-sized lessons and helpful cues to entrepreneurs. One for the taking is that when a grand vision is executed wi...

I spent five days in Europe last week talking about the hottest trend in publishing today -- native advertising. It was a powerful learning experience. Together with Charles Yardley, our managing director for the region,...

Profitable growth--and the chief marketer's role therein--took center stage at Forbes' 9th Annual CMO Summit in Miami. Nearly 100 CMOs gathered to define "the Transformational CMO"--the theme of this year's Summit--in re...

Early last week, I was in Arizona lecturing on how to determine a shareholder's basis in his S corporation stock. Exhilarating stuff.

In light of the exuberant tech market that has emerged in 2013, did Instagram sell too early? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jason M. Lemkin.

How do entrepreneurs think? This question was originally answered on Quora by Peter Baskerville.

For business owners, however, paying attention to the research on various workplace issues can make a big difference in the daily output of each worker, not to mention overall morale. Whether you're boss or employee, her...

Chaos, contained chaos, is good for an organization. We should proactively seek to avoid the tyranny of structure in order to inspire creativity and fuel business growth.

You found a mentor, but now what? It is not always easy to find one, but once you do, it is important to develop that mentor-mentee relationship in the best way possible. Read tips from Gay Gaddis's recent interactions a...

QUESTION: WHAT ARE SOME TOP TIPS FOR KEEPING UP TEAM MORALE WHEN YOU’RE FACED WITH FAILURE OR FRUSTRATION? LOOK AT FAMOUS FAILURES “Michael Jordan, Steve Jobs, Donald Trump — they’ve all failed multiple times in ...

In the wake of the PRISM revelations, sign-ups to Bit Torrent's new Syn file storage and sharing service went into overdrive but it's not just about security and privacy the company claims. Sync is about to unleash a wav...

As an entrepreneur you assess your risks, hedge against possible fluctuations, and insure against that which you can?t control. Stated bluntly, successful entrepreneurs don?t take intentionally uncalculated risks with th...

From fallout shelters to man caves, these listed or recently sold abodes offer outrageous underground amenities.

Switzerland is famous for its secretive banks, lederhosen, and noisy cuckoo clocks. But during the Cold War the Swiss were also notorious for building enough fallout shelters to house the entire population, out of panic...

The establishment of an independent tax tribunal is a positive step for tax reform in Georgia. It will reduce the bias against taxpayers and improve transparency by providing clarity and consistency in the administration...