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Whether you're with a startup or a decades-old business, the key is to stick to what you're good at and find a partner for the rest.

Looking for a job or seeking to hire employees in 2014? The internet is full of advice, though separating the reputable and informative sites from the misleading sources often takes time and extensive effort.

Since joining the marketing industry primarily as a Web designer, I've worked with a myriad of different website tools to enhance our clients' marketing campaigns and boost their effectiveness. The tools shown below are ...

Recently, an iconic toy store chain in the Boston area got a new owner.  Henry Bear's Park was started thirty seven years ago to be a unique store that sold toys and learning activities that would help children with the...

As we wind down the year, here's a quick look at radical adjacency in the auto industry. As one car maker moves closer to wearables and another takes flight.

A recent Harvard Business School case study looks at the behavior of teammates who were swept up in Lance Armstrong's cheating scandal. The question raised: When do followers need to break away from their leader?

The original idea for an "idea lab" was only supposed to last one year. "I wasn't thinking long term. I didn't think I'd be doing this 17 years later," said Bill Gross, founder of Idealab, Los Angeles' first startup incu...

When asked to identify the "Most Important Problem Facing Your Business Today" over the last 40 years in the National Federation of Independent Business survey of its 350,000 member firms, the steady winner was "taxes" f...

Back in November, Sungy Mobile (GOMO) pulled off a successful IPO (up about 19%). The China-based company is a top app developer of launchers for Google's Android operating system.

Hiring isn't the only challenge for startup founders. Sometimes you have to fire people, too.

Aspiring entrepreneurs are jumping on the programming bandwagon, but do startup CEOs really need to learn code?

As the workforce ages in developed economies, the number of older entrepreneurs is set to increase significantly. In many European countries over a third of the workforce are expected to be over fifty by the year 2020, ...

A fee-shifting provision in some of the patent reform bills currently working their way through Congress could have a significant impact on technology startup companies. For those that have been targeted by dubious paten...

A unique look at the year in wine and the entrepreneurs driving innovation and change. The author visits Prague, Lebanon, France, Napa, and South Africa.

No question, it doesn't really matter if you're looking for a small business loan or an equity investor, there's nothing easy about funding small business growth. What's more, over the years I've discovered that many ent...

The future of multilateral trade has presented some vexing questions for policy watchers over the past few years. With the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations hopelessly stalled and the proliferation of regiona...

Returns and issuance of high-yield corporate bonds in 2014 are expected to fall short of this year's stellar performance, investors and strategists say. They predict that continued market strength will open the door to m...

While performing charitable work can seem as though it is a completely selfless act, the behavior may actually be good for the health and well-being of those performing the act. Studies have repeatedly shown that doing g...

The San Francisco-based startup, Munchery, applies the sharing economy to make home-delivered, fresh meals affordable and to compensate its cooks richly. Munchery is highly disruptive to the cook talent pool who largely ...

Forbes: How to improve patient satisfaction - customer service - in hospitals and healthcare: Consultant and speaker Micah Solomon offers solutions that go far beyond improving HCAHPS scores

One of the big trends that I've been paying attention to is companies not only competing for talent against their competitors but against talent who are competitors. I've been watching people quit their jobs to start com...

Politicians are, by nature and necessity, truth-challenged. It's tempting to call them liars, but that would be harsh, so let's stick with the euphemism. After all, that's what politicians do when it comes to taxes.