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Suspicious NSA and FBI agents have contacted Jacob Allred about his websites, and Social Security Administration investigators, waving badges, have showed up at his door. Businesses have cursed him. Some have telephoned ...

Today Starwood Property Trust (NYSE:STWD) spun-out Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust (NYSE:SWAY), which is focused on rentals of single-family homes. The company is now one of the largest publicly traded operators in t...

You’ve probably read dozens of articles about how to raise capital from venture capitalists. However, as a venture capital fund, we have the opposite problem: how do we find companies in which to invest?

How do you start a decent winery in California these days? Unless your family’s been making wine in Napa or Sonoma County for decades or you’re looking into winemaking as an expensive hobby, stumping up $100,000 an a...

A Tale of Two Dry-Cleaners  I was in a meeting of small business owners when one owner suddenly broke into tears. He owned a multi-store dry-cleaning business that he desperately wanted to be continued as a family legac...

And in the end, there was less sizzle and more fizzle, as this year’s crop of Super Bowl ads elicited a collective yawn as a whole.

Dave McClure is never short on things to say. Here are some of our favorite quotes from one of the startup world's most colorful advocates.

Most economic forecasts are looking better. We economists are upgrading our predictions for 2014 and 2015. The improvement is clearly visible in our estimates of the risk of recession. The chart shows the monthly average...

Selecting a business structure is one of the most important decisions that will impact your business today and for years to come. We present a starting guide to understand how each of the common business structures affec...

Michael "Luni" Libes is the founder of Fledge, an accelerator for social entrepreneurs in Seattle that has already launched some remarkable social enterprises.

How do you become a better leader? How can you enjoy more work-life balance? How can you advance up the ranks faster? Those are the questions New York-based executive coach Alisa Cohn addresses every day with her clients...

In an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he thought it was “somewhat of a burden” if you are “always under the pressure of a real identity.”

New York isn't Silicon Valley - in many ways not evident to the naked eye. Here are five things to know about startups in NYC.

The implications for such a future are profound. Aside from saving lives, industries will be changed forever, starting with the auto industry itself. Obviously the technology will be different, but if cars no longer requ...

Talk to auto executives, transportation professors and sustainability experts, and they'll tell you these are what drivers can expect to see in the next 20 years.

How was the first year of Kickstarter? This question was originally answered on Quora by Yancey Strickler.

News flash: It takes almost 42 gallons of water to make one single slice of pizza - 18 for the flour, 21 for the cheese and 2.5 for the sauce. And that pound of chocolate in your pantry? A whopping 3170 gallons.

Today of course is the Super Bowl post mortem. The day after. The day when we all share our collective thoughts on the game - if you even want to call it that, and of course the barrage of TV commercials. Marketers, adve...

In Case You Missed It, here’s a roundup of last month’s notable articles at Forbes NetAppVoice. Hold onto your headgear...

The future of American innovation is in the hands of our next generation of entrepreneurs and relies on their ability to solve problems and connect multiple technologies in creative ways.

Fraud can represent a great opportunity for property and casualty insurers.  That may sound counter-intuitive, but it is a hard fact.  Claims and related costs tend to be significant, and fraud control can offer real p...

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