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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 Marc Bodnick.

In my last post, ?You?re Doing It Wrong: Demand Generation,? I wrote about the gross insufficiency of the conventional wisdom on demand generation.  That CW would have B2B marketers improve the connections between the s...

There is lots of buzz around Washington about whether a laundry list of expiring tax provisions could be the key to a modest budget agreement. Sadly, it is hard to see how.   The theory goes like this: Democrats might a...

Britain's Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme offers generous tax breaks and is beginning to stimulate investment in small start-up businesses

Where to Get Your Truly Free Credit Score

This is a guest post by Melissa Thompson, CEO of TalkSession, a New York-based online network of mental health professionals.

Sometimes the best startup employees are the ones no recruiter would ever stop to look at.

Photo-sharing app Mobli is the first, third-party service America Movil is delivering to wireless subscribers through push downloads

Editor's Note: Sonal Shah (left) is a Senior Fellow at the Case Foundation and a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. She is an entrepreneur and innovator. She has worked in government, business an...

Huge exits ("unicorns") are a dilemma for entrepreneurs: they make the venture world work, but they are so rare that the great majority of entrepreneurs can't realistically expect to achieve one. The money chases unicorn...

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service issues a list of "Dirty Dozen" tax scams that can affect taxpayers. The list runs the gamut from schemes involving taxpayer participation (hiding offshore income) to schemes that t...

Harvard Business School professor, Ben Edelman -- a product of Harvard's college, law school, and economics PhD program -- believes that Google has done a nice job of rope-a-doping the legal community that has been tryin...

In many of our recent technology blogs (here, here) we have been touting the importance of taking preemptive measures to protect your website, your systems, and your customers.

As the fifth article in a series investigating how firms can create a stronger CMO-CIO partnership, I interviewed Ken Thewes and Dave Doyle, the CMO and CIO for the Regal Entertainment Group, the largest cinema-based ent...

How does IPO pricing work? What happens behind the scenes when a stock has priced its IPO but they are debating what the opening trade should be? This question was originally answered on Quora by Raj Bhuptani.

Yup. It’s Friday again. The big news in the tech world, of course, is Twitter’s flawless IPO. Evan Williams made $1.48 billion yesterday. Just stop and think about that for a minute. One guy made $1.48 BILLION yester...

You can think your way out of resentment, frustration and self-pity.

The following guest post is by Jiyan Wei, cofounder of BuildZoom, a platform that connects homeowners with remodeling contractors, a Y-Combinator-backed startup.

Engaging in tax shelters has become risky business. But the government isn?t content to target just the taxpayers who seek to lower their taxable income in inappropriate ways: It also wants to criminalize the conduct of ...

Inflight phone calls may not be in the near future for American consumers, but the next closest thing is on the way: text messaging.  The service, which comes from Gogo, will be part of the wireless product that the com...

Irwin Schiff is probably one of the more famous alternate tax thinkers.  His seminal work "How Anyone Can Stop Paying Income Taxes" is available in hardcover on Amazon for one cent.  In his twilight years (He was born ...

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