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Half of individual retirement account holders still have to take year-end distributions; is your distribution scheduled to come out?

Equity crowdfunding (ECF) will change considerably by the end of 2014. The introduction of Title II of the JOBS Act on September 23, 2013 gave entrepreneurs the ability to publicly advertise their need for funding. Title...

This article is by Ron Friedman, Ph.D., a motivational psychologist and the founder of the Friedman Strategy Group, a market research consultancy that helps clients launch products, reposition brands and develop powerful...

NerdWallet tallied the top 42 metro areas by population to determine this (surprising!) list of the best cities for young founders. These 10 came out on top--and (shocklingly!) the Alley and the Valley are nowhere to be ...

Many fast growing companies fall into the trap of having one customer account for over 50% of their revenue. This happens when that one customer grows rapidly as a major revenue source. The initial euphoria turns into a ...

You don't need a fancy offsite in Tahoe or a PhD facilitator to build team cohesion. Meebo's Elaine Wherry offers three activities you can do over lunch.

The following post was published on the Knowledge@Wharton website on December 17, 2013.

Robin Farmanfarmaian did not have an easy childhood. Misdiagnosed as a teenager with an autoimmune condition, she entered into what might best be described as medical nightmare: 41 hospitalizations and 6 major surgeries.

This article is by Andrew Sirotnik, chief experience officer at Fluid, Inc.

After a two-year slump, China venture looks poised to rebound as the window for successful IPOs reopens in the U.S. and Chinese exchanges start to work through a backlog of IPOs.

Patience is often overlooked as a key trait, especially the sort of patience that allows a company to know when to pick a blossom (or to enter a new market) that's still nascent.

If you're like most digitally connected folks, you probably have access to a video subscription service like Netflix, or maybe a music subscription service like Spotify. In that case, new services that do the same but fo...

This blog is about some commonsense perspectives which every CEO -- or indeed anyone in the C-Suite -- needs to consider when the decision is made to develop and mine data to build sales, enhance marketing and strengthen...

It was 19-year-old Ali Hamed's summer before sophomore year at Cornell, and instead of taking a summer job or going home to Southern California he found himself sleeping in Union Square Park.

The most expedient way to eliminate competition is to acquire it and kill it. In the fight for dominance in the event ticketing world, another player has bitten the dust. New York-based event ticketing search platform, S...

When subject to an adverse court judgment, hiding assets and failing to disclose assets is not a substitute for proper asset protection and risk management. Hiding assets and failing to disclose assets to a court in a de...

Language learning company Rosetta Stone announced it has acquired Vivity Labs. The creator of educational gamification platform FitBrains was snapped up for $12 million. "There is significant overlap between language lea...

Studies suggest that nearly 90% of customers consult a review site before making a purchase or visiting a restaurant. When sites like Yelp and Google Places for Business first came on the scene, many companies failed to ...

Recently, I met Bill Bynum, the CEO of HOPE Enterprise Corporation (HOPE), a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution that provides financial products and services to communities living in the "bank deserts"...

Craig Dubitsky of hello products is bucking the consumer loyalty trend by taking a design-led approach to their business and, in the process, they are reinventing the oral health care product market.

NoRedInk, a fun way to practice and master grammar & writing skills.

Who benefits from the tax credits, deductions and exclusions that have become such an integral part of the modern tax code? Nearly all of us. And that's why any tax reform that eliminates or scales back many of these pre...