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Alexander Osterwalder is an expert on business model innovation. Heres what he has to say about your current business model -- and why its not working.

Do you attend a lot of boring meetings?

CEO Doug Ulman explains how the new social tool puts the emphasis on overcoming challenges over time, something Lance Armstrong knows about. In 2010, when Fast Company profiled Doug Ulman , the President and CEO of the

Women are starting businesses at a record rate, but the number that break a million in revenues is flat. What's up with that? The start-up rate of women-owned businesses is soaring while the number in the big leagues—well above $1 million in revenue—is stagnating, according to The American Express OPEN State of Women-Owned Businesses Report .

I’m sitting in my rental car outside of eBay headquarters on a rainy day in San Francisco. I’m about to step into my second day delivering an Outthinker workshop to group of technology execs from various companies. Television news here centers on the rapidly reorganizing technology landscape: the Yelp IPO, Yahoo suing Facebook during its pre-IPO quiet period

The death of Davy Jones on Wednesday from a massive heart attack at age 66 elicited all the standard commentary about the Monkees, the band that made him a star: The Monkees were a made-for-TV boy band. They recorded tunes written not by them, but by reputable songwriters like Neil Diamond ("I'm a Believer"), Harry Nilsson ("Cuddly Toy"), and the team of Carole King and Gerry Goffin ("Pleasant Valley Sunday").

Planned Parenthood launches new website called "Where Did You Wear It," encouraging online check-ins after safe sex

A Canadian woman was nowhere to be found when her cruise ship docked in Florida, prompting an FBI investigation and a Coast Guard search Thursday between Palm Beach and the Bahamas, authorities said.

Air traffic controllers at the Philadelphia International Airport had to scramble to avoid an accident Thursday after spotting a Jeep on a runway where a passenger plane was coming in to land.

Cheezburger Network CEO Ben Huh oversees 60 humor websites like the I Can Has Cheezburger cat blog. Forget viral hits. He says user loyalty--his network gets more than 24 million visitors each month--has less to do with funny cats, and more to do with data, consistency, and supply chains.

Americans spent $200 billion online in 2011. The opportunity for retailers is huge--but you're not going to grab it with a DIY website. A report this week from Forrester Research confirmed what just about everybody in business already knew: Americans are buying online and they are buying a lot

Here's five ways you can reduce your business expenses including the negotiation tactic Siamak Taghaddos, CEO of Grasshopper, used to launch for less.

Sprucing up the office computers is a lot more affordable than replacing them.

Why you should think twice about an advertising scheme coming from a company that's about to IPO. A funny thing happened to Facebook on the way to its IPO: It decided that mobile ads are a must. During its first marketing conference , Facebook announced new ways for companies to get in front of consumers, including ads on the social network's mobile apps

Researchers surveyed 156,000 Americans about their sleep quality and found octogenarians reported the fewest complaints