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Preparing to launch your start-up means more than simply making sure you have a viable product and potential customers. Here are five tips on how to prepare yourself to be a founder. John Bradberry was fascinated by the idea of how someone may prepare to start a company.

Steve Jobs's return to Apple in 1997 is often referred to as the greatest second act in business history. He had been ousted more than a decade earlier in 1985, and was forced to watch helplessly as the company he built tumbled toward bankruptcy, hampered by poor management, a weak product line, and a dearth of innovation

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Experimental anticoaguant apixaban cuts stroke risk, mortality while doing away with regular blood tests

Google's digital marketing evangelist breaks down five steps to starting your company on the right web-analytics track. There are world-class analytics tools available for free from both Yahoo and Google that will get you more data than God ever intended you to have. Yet, perhaps shockingly, a vast majority of decisions website owners make are based on faith rather than data

Studies in which participants ate most chocolate were linked to 37 percent heart disease reduction, compared to studies in which participants ate least amount

Mutant strain of H5N1 virus spreading in Asia, raising possibility of human epidemics

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Want to wake up to something besides murderous rage at a blaring klaxon? These alarms use people, podcasts, and science to help you rise without raising your ire. If you own a smartphone, it's easy to gaze at an old-fashioned, single-purpose alarm clocks and conclude it doesn't do nearly enough.

An Iowa convenience store employee took no-longer-saleable soup from the dumpster to feed to her dog--and was fired. The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld a decision to deny unemployment benefits to a convenience store employee who was fired for taking soup from the dumpster. The company, an Iowa-based chain of franchises called Casey's General Stores, has a policy that employees cannot remove any company property from the stores without paying for it—including out-of-date, no-longer-saleable items such as doughnuts and soup

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Take a look around you. Are you surrounded by clean, uncluttered space or piles of paper, old magazines, dirty coffee cups and little items begging for a home? If clutter has taken over your space, think about how it makes you feel.

Mell: So much happened to Kelly Kraft this weekend, he could barely process it all. Not only did he win the U.S

Kelly Kraft took the lead when Patrick Cantlay bogeyed the 16th hole, then hung on to win the U.S.

To help master the artful combination of smoke, fire, and meat, the Alisal Guest Ranch and Resort in Solvang, Calif., is now offering a three-night, four-day BBQ Bootcamp. From October 27 to 30, up to 40 guests ($2,500 for two) will learn different grilling techniques; attend tastings, food pairings, and ...