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Want to sell your startup someday for a big-dollar figure? Start by taking a hard look at your financials today -- even if a sale isn't on your immediate horizon.

In trying to fix quickly its China problem, Nu Skin (NYSE:NUS) committed a big strategic mistake, in our opinion.

When Lyndon Johnson declared his War on Poverty 50 years ago this month, he could not have imagined how many battles would be fought through the Tax Code.

If you consider the historical perspective, the business motivations for each brand, and the potential for new market exposure, the new partnership between Riedel Crystal and the Coca-Cola Company appears more savvy than...

If "software is eating the world," as Marc Andreessen has said, then Runnable is the high-end restaurant's kitchen.

By Michael Evans and Jennifer Knight

According to the Kauffman Foundation, 2010 and 2011 saw the highest rates of entrepreneurship in the past 15 years. Here, 11 industries that are ripe for the picking.

No stats.  Just a hunch.  Disasters are increasing.  Whether floods, terrorism, tsunamis, plants collapsing, fires, oil spills -- the list goes on and on and on.  And it seems disasters are coming more frequently tha...

The New Year is all about making resolutions and improving things from the past; however, for those in the marketing space hoping to improve their SEO this year, it's important not to forget the new things that will need...

When I heard in November that Toms co-founder Blake Mycoskie had launched The Marketplace, where consumers can buy from social entrepreneurs, I was reminded, once again, why I love marketplaces.

by Gwen McDonald, EVP of HR, NetApp ?What's the secret of your business success??

Will 2014 be the year we trade in our credit cards and abandon our wallets in favor of virtual currencies? Who will tax bitcoin and how?

Gamification could be a great way to bring more innovation and entrepreneurs to ecosystems outside Silicon Valley.

New book BOLD: Get Noticed, Get Hired is out and will help you get the necessary skills to land your dream job.

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster.  Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regiona...

Apple and Wal-Mart are very much alike. They favor bad tax policy when it helps their bottom line.

By Paul Glader

I was going to skip writing about the IRS budget, as it has been pretty well covered.  I was also thinking about being done with Bridgegate.  I thought I had done my duty as one of the native cliff dwellers who look do...

LinkedIn's creation of an online marketplace for nonprofit volunteering could send big ripples through the civic and philanthropic worlds.

Like most other legal documents, state law requires that Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDDs) be delivered to prospective franchisees in paper format. Many of the reasons for this are relevant (security concerns, eviden...

Entrepreneurs are avid readers and for good reason. Here are some of my favorite books for entrepreneurs.

If low salaries equal startup success, and low salaries go farther outside Silicon Valley, then the logical conclusion is...