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Meet Doug Ludlow, CEO of the postcard site Hipster, whose viral marketing campaigns have almost overshadowed the product itself.

Look beyond patriotism: Veterans' technical skills (and the tax breaks that come with hiring them) make vets great small business hires.

Conventional 'wisdom' about selling is frequently dead wrong. Here's a reality check. The business world is full of conventional wisdom that gets passed from office to office

Home to a burgeoning concentration of tech start-ups and incubators, Detroit's "Webward Avenue" is not just a street--it's also a movement. Can it transform Detroit

The first-ever satellite office for the United States Patent and Trademark Office will open in July. Here's what it means for Detroit. When David Kappos took over the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2009, he faced a seemingly insurmountable task: The office was dealing with a backlog of more than 750,000 patent applications, with an average wait time of three-to-four years.

Can paying recent graduates to work and play in Detroit infuse the city with extra creativity? Challenge Detroit is banking on it. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," President Obama's then chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is reported to have said of the 2008 meltdown of the financial sector.

Detroit isn't a blank canvas. Instead, it's a complex scene that has everything an entrepreneur needs to start his dream company, Josh Linkner writes. "Detroit is a blank canvas." I cringe every time I hear this phrase, even though it's used by people who mean well.

(Yes, really.) For a start-up boom, a city needs an explosion of tech talent. Nicole Carter breaks down Detroit's entrepreneurial education system

This scene is nothing like Silicon Valley, New York or Boston. We asked a few of the Motor City's finest to share the moments that define the way they work. Detroit's start-up scene may be as young and zealous as the start-ups that comprise it, but make no mistake, the city has a deep-rooted, roll-up-your-sleeves culture that has shaped its entrepreneurs from day one.

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Step inside any company, no matter the size, stage of development, or level of success, and the culture is either driving the strategy or undermining it.

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To build a better company culture, start in the kitchen. Here are the 8 delicious ways we fuel our company's growth. At Thumbtack, we make food a priority.

In a charm offensive to woo advertisers before its IPO, Facebook pitched brands new features to guarantee they reach fans' timelines and profile pages. Facebook announced a redesign for Pages at its marketing conference, fMC, held today in New York City