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Three founders from Forbes' list of America's Most Promising Companies gather at the Aileron Institute to discuss the art of hiring, firing and retaining talent.

FORBES caught up at Davos this week with billionaire Richard Branson, who has completely shifted from profit-seeking serial startup mode to non-stop philanthropy and social change. Branson now spends some 80% of his time...

I am an incredibly curious person. I am also, at least I like to think I am, a very well-read person, particularly when it comes to the world of marketing and advertising.

How to Minimize Fallout from an IRS Audit? Consider Getting Injured Or Having Sex.

On January 14, uTest – customers of its in-the-wild app testing services include Google, Microsoft, Amazon, USA Today, Rolex, Box and Runkeeper -- announced that it had closed a $43 million Series E round of funding -...

LegalZoom, the online legal-services firm, announced earlier this month that it had dropped its plan to go public and instead will sell a controlling stake to Permira, the U.K. private-equity firm that also owns brands l...

Whether you deal with sales prospects yourself or manage a team of sales reps, getting a complete view of your company?s sales pipeline is no easy task. In this post I will show you how to set up a simple and (almost) fr...

Most people know of David Robinson as a legendary NBA basketball player. Since he retired back in 2003, he's become a philanthropist, venture capitalist and advisor. During his time on the San Antonio Spurs, he won two N...

Investors and business people should read the 73-page Pennsylvania Energy Plan just released by my former boss, Governor Tom Corbett.

A lot of people have questioned the sanity of Midwestern mega-financier Dan Gilbert in his focused determination to bring back the city center of Detroit through hundreds of millions of dollars of investments in downtown...

My previous two blogs focused on the importance of growing leaders from within your company, and then on what we learned from our own company’s initial leadership offsite.  On to our next topic: Most successful startu...

The publishing house that Stieg Larsson built with his Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series is now up for sale. Enthusiast publisher (and my employer) F+W Media made an acquisition last week that added 40% to its revenues....

Many people start wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth when mention is made of allowing third parties to use an individual's geo-location data. The naysayers say that it's the start of mass surveillance while th...

Outside Silicon Valley, does access to early-stage VC create high-performance ventures and jobs, or can well-trained, high-performance entrepreneurs offer more benefits, and develop more high-growth ventures without VC i...

In just a few days, Kyiv, the normally peaceful Slavic capital, has become an epicenter of chaos and violence. The unprecedented unrest and peaceful protest in Ukraine in recent days has shifted to brutal confrontation b...

This really is not a simple question to answer.  There are so many nuances that go into assessing the right answer.  What is going on with the economy?  How liquid is the fundraising climate?  Are you B2B or B2C?  A...

The Largest Company in History: “The United States Corporation of Government (USCOG)” I follow global social and commercial networks, looking for entrepreneurial opportunities.

By Dorie Clark

Whether or not someone should ever work for free is one of the debated topics in the startup and entrepreneurial world. On one hand, if you're brand new to your field and nobody knows you, how are you supposed to get you...

With the deadline for the filing of 1099-MISC forms fast approaching – it is January 31st for contractors – there are lots of business owners scrambling. Yet many think that the only requirement is for IRS purposes.

I recently wrote that Kent Hovind probably does not quite fit the definition of a tax protester in the classic Irwin Schiff mode.  Hovind was claiming that he was exempt because he was a minister and that Creation Scien...

What were the boards of IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Yahoo thinking when they appointed their latest crop of CEOs? Each of them have presided over lumbering giants that have shrunk in the last year.