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By answering Quora questions, Nicolas Cole, 26, has found great success in short order.

GUEST: Don't tell your favorite grade school teacher, but bots are infinitely more patient instructors that are willing to offer assistance and information for as long and as often as they’re needed. That’s one reaso...

A serial-hacker-turned-founder reflects on how participating in hackathons prepared him to become a founder.

After LivingSocial laid off Kate Levenstien, she launched a live events company that hosted sold-out food festivals centered on a pairing most sports fans may find irresistible: bacon and beer. They've since expanded to ...

We had no website to iterate on and no user test groups. We had raised zero cash and were working on a very limited budget of our own funds. All we had was a prototype of a product based on our gut instincts. In this abs...

With millennials' stereotypical attitudes and rejections of traditional norms, are they functioning well in subordinate positions? Or do they respect their employers' brands less than generations who came before?

GUEST: Traditional media is in trouble. They are no longer the only source of news and information. Internet and social media have become the main platform for news sharing. Pew Research Center Reports indicate that 62 p...

Do you know of a competitor's blog that's more popular than yours? You can use this as a learning opportunity. Here's how.

Here's a captivating interview with Jeff and Rachel Delkin of bambu on how their purpose-driven business growth and defined core values have navigated their decision making for the better.

Home-sharing platforms Airbnb and HomeAway have settled with the city of San Francisco over a lawsuit the companies filed, challenging the short-term rental law put in place two years ago. Under the agreement, the legal ...

Less than a year after departing Google as its head of human resources, Laszlo Bock has become an entrepreneur. On Monday, he announced that he’s working on Humu, a startup designed to help us work better. He’s joine...

Facebook has grown so large that the company’s products have become incredibly important for a lot of people, be it for socializing, doing business, or simply communicating. But for more than 13 years, everything has b...

PRESS RELEASE: Wellington Financial LP, a privately-held specialty finance firm, today announced it closed a US$15 million growth financing for a US-based, venture capital-backed information technology company servicing ...

TwitchCon has become a place where the influencers on the Twitch video livestreaming service gather. And this year, the event will take place will take place October 20 to October 22 at the Long Beach Convention and Ente...

One of the most lucrative games ever released for smartphones is coming to an end — at least in its English form. Developer Mixi revealed today that it is shutting down the English version of Monster Strike, the mobile...

This weekend, I attended my first egg freezing party (possibly, the first ever). When I mentioned the party to some other friends, both men and women, negative commentary started to drip in. But sometimes it takes a publ...

If you have to ask whether you're an entrepreneur, you're likely not, or you'd already know. That follows what I call the Miles Davis Test. Davis was asked late in his life whether he planned to keep making music. "I hav...

Cheer up, Silicon Valley. People may not love you, but it appears they liked the latest attempt to mock the region’s culture even less. Last weekend saw the debut of The Circle, a dark satire of Silicon Valley based on...

News and insights for business owners from around the Web, including how HotelTonight stopped burning cash and started turning a profit, hardware startups take root in Brooklyn, and how hiring refugees saved a maker of p...

Stackify intends to address this problem with APM software that provides deeper insights for developers. The Stackify platform checks code for errors in real time and analyzes applications for performance problems result...

SPONSORED: Presented by Eversign Even in the paperless digital future of our dreams, paperwork needs to be signed. The White House has the autopen. Plebes like us, without access to the fancier sort of remote robot arms,...

Wolfe and Lynn Perkins, CEO and Founder of UrbanSitter, Gloria Feldt, cofounder of Take The Lead, Lauren Weiniger, cofounder of SAFE Group and Amani Al-Khatahtbeh took time out during a busy SXSW week to share their time...