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Here are what a few successful entrepreneurs have to say about making transitioning past $1MM per year in revenue, and how to keep on growing.

Harley Davidson, the brand behind those often obnoxiously loud V-twin motorcycles favored by bikers, has built an electric motorcycle. No, the sky is not falling. Called LiveWire, the new electric motorcycle pairs Harley...

Location, considered by many to be the “mobile cookie,” is being used in increasingly sophisticated ways to help brands better connect with consumers. VentureBeat’s upcoming MobileBeat event — July 8-9 in SF — ...

Khosla Ventures has raised another very tall pile of money to invest in startups. The company disclosed the new $1 billion fund, named Khosla Ventures V, L.P., in a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Comm...

All editors and journalists could risk legal persecution just for doing their jobs if U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder doesn't drop his four-year-old investigation into WikiLeaks' Julian Assange. A warning letter from m...

Enterprise-focused cloud file-sharing company Box has been on a difficult road to an IPO, and it might be raising some extra money before it actually goes public. Box is in talks with private-equity firm TPG to raise a n...

Love the idea of owning a smartwatch but hate the idea of giving up your existing watch? Glance is a tiny add-on that gives your wrist the best features of a smartwatch at a rock-bottom price. Wearables — and smartwatc...

Here come lots more apps for Amazon's new Fire Phone.

This year, TripAdvisor announced the “10 highest-rated TripAdvisor GreenLeaders hotels” in the U.S. and, at the same time, published the results of its eco-travel survey of more than 2,100 people. According to the ...

How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $200! T-Mobile�...

Studios such as the folk behind mobile-hit Threes are already claiming it is easy to implement Amazon's nifty 3D feature on the Fire Phone, but that doesn't mean every game will use it.

Path, the private social network that has been trying to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up, is now trying out several new directions. It is dropping its characteristic limit on friends, splitting off its me...

Online real estate marketplace Zillow has been a Wall Street darling and for good reason -- its revenues and stock price have been rising by leaps and bounds.

We take a look at the Fire Phone and break down how its Dynamic Perspective technology works.

Improving the patient experience: Consulting other hospitals means looking at the wrong benchmark Five tips to build a better benchmark--and better results, even better HCAHPS --from Ritz-Carlton, Cleveland Clinic, and o...

We’re building something cool, and we’d like you to be a part of it. The $10 billion dollar market research industry is doing business the same old way it always has: inefficiently. And, in some cases, with lack of t...

The banks are lining up. When that happens, you know that the betrothed, in this case T-Mobile and Sprint, are serious about getting hitched. Sprint has eight banks lined up to finance the deal. In the long run, the deal...

Cooking, gaming, and lifestyle products come together in Starship's grand vision.

The New York Venture Summit I attended earlier this week was packed with over 200 attendees from life sciences/healthcare, tech and education. Of the nearly 90 companies presenting, about 5% of the presenters were women....

Humans are superheroes and one of our main superpowers is curiosity. As we all know, most superheroes usually have a great weakness--the primary suppressor of power. Micro-defeatist thoughts are the primary destroyers of...

How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $200! Google dev...

"No guile, no game, no girl," said the fictional dating coach Hitch, played by Will Smith in the movie of the same name, to his newest customer. Dating advice, in formal and informal manners, has probably been around sin...