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Jim Schleckser, CEO and Managing Partner at Inc. CEO Project and Kirk Aubry, Partner at Inc
Read More »Fight Credit Card Processing Fees
Start-ups are always looking to increase revenue or save costs. When Sean Harper was running his e-commerce business, he started looking at costs, and zeroed in on how much he was paying his credit card processor
Read More »Intel’s Hybrid Cloud For SmallBiz
For many smaller businesses, outsourcing IT to "the cloud" is tempting (read that; cheap and easy), but scary (at the mercy of someone else having an outage or getting hacked leaving the company exposed). Intel is hoping to ease anxiety with a new offering it describes as a "hybrid cloud" solution, specifically targeting nervous small business owners. See what you think
Read More »10 Steps From Idea to Business
A cheat sheet to turn your vision for a successful new business into a reality Some of the most important things in life don’t come with instruction manuals: homes, spouses, kids, and start-ups are a few. That’s why I created this start-up road map. Inspired by the lean approach often favored by today’s tech entrepreneurs, the principles apply to any industry
Read More »Tiger’s agent out at IMG as contract renewal fails
Mark Steinberg, the agent for Tiger Woods the last 12 years and head of the IMG golf division, did not renew his contract Tuesday and is no longer with the sports management company.
Read More »PGT: Reaching top 50 in world is ‘golden ticket’
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Read More »Korean Kingpin: Introducing the All-New 2011 Hyundai Equus
It’s amazing how some things can seemingly materialize overnight and take an entire industry by storm. Extraordinary anomalies like Facebook, the iPad, and reality television all fall into this category, and—whether you have noticed it or not—Korean automaker, Hyundai appears to be on the fast track to this sort of ...
Read More »Sneak Peek: Hotel Schweizerhof, Bern, Switzerland
The 150-year-old Hotel Schweizerhof in Bern, Switzerland, reopened after a two-year, $50 million renovation. The hotel now has 100 rooms and suites (rates from $500 to $3,000), a new lounge and bar, and its historic restaurant, Jack’s Brasserie, was refurbished and presents new menus weekly. This summer, the hotel will ...
Read More »Shipwreck Champagnes on the Auction Block
Two of the oldest and rarest bottles of wine in the world will be sold on June 3 at Alandica Culture and Congress Center in Finland’s
Read More »A Muscular Nine-Year-Old
Back in the 1980s, the late Booker Noe, master distiller emeritus of Jim Beam, created what many have come to regard as the modern-day equivalent of pre-Prohibition bourbon, Knob Creek. Aged for nine years (and one of the few bourbons to carry an age statement on the bottle), it was ...
Read More »PGT: Azinger among players pulling out of Senior PGA
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Read More »Square Field Test: Whipping Out Jack Dorsey’s Digital Wallet In The Wild
Square promises to put an end to the headaches of traditional purchases: having to fumble with your wallet, exchange and swipe the credit card, wait for a paper receipt. But someone still needs to convince merchants.
Read More »Brazil Cuts Tablet Makers A Tax Break, As China’s Foxconn Eyes A Move
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has signed a provisional bill that would allow manufacturers of tablet PCs to sidestep a 9.25% social-security tax and benefit from a reduction in the industrial-production tax, which would drop from 15% to 3%.
Read More »The Unbearable Lightness Of UPS’s Plastic Trucks
UPS is testing trucks made of an ultra-light material that makes them more fuel efficient than their sheet-aluminum counterparts. UPS has the unfortunate task of figuring out how to deliver packages without bleeding cash in our resource-constrained world
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