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The bank for some of America's most successful tech companies is looking to take advantage of the U.K.'s thriving start-up community. Silicon Valley Bank has crossed the pond.
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Obesity is a growing epidemic in America that's being fought on many fronts.
Read More »How Green Dot Charter Turned Around L.A.’s Worst Schools
At L.A.'s worst high schools, gangs controlled the bathrooms and students regularly set hanging artwork on fire. Today, Green Dot Public Schools have dramatically increased graduation rates and college preparedness at a fraction of the cost.
Read More »Angry Customer? 5 Rules for Handling Complaints
The Internet gives angry customers a megaphone; even one angry one can do a lot of damage. Here's how to defend your company and defuse a crisis.
Read More »8 Top States for Start-Up Hiring
Silicon Valley is a no-brainer. But where else in America is hiring at the smallest, scrappiest, biggest-growth-potential companies? (Hint: Don't mess with Texas!) Want to hone your entrepreneurial skills and get a feel for the start-up scene before diving in to found your own company
Read More »Power of the Quiet Entrepreneur
Why you don't have to be loud to be a great leader. Think back to your elementary school report cards
Read More »How My Business Idea Grew Into a Social Mission
Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week Sure Prep Learning is taking it's tutoring services global and expanding help for underserved communities
Read More »Building a Strong Business: Bob Vila
Bob Vila isn't just a brand, he's an entrepreneur reinventing himself in a new economic landscape.
Read More »Greatest Entrepreneur: Round 1 Winners
It's not too late to fill in your brackets Round 1 Winners: You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Famous. In Inc.'s tournament of entrepreneurial titans, money wasn’t everything, but it sure helped, especially when combined with name recognition and staying power. Rich and famous though they are, Tony Hsieh, Jerry Yang and Arianna Huffington all lost to even more famous and wealthier entrepreneurs.
Read More »Made in USA (Again): Why Manufacturing Is Coming Home
Mismanaged supply chain decisions sent manufacturing overseas. But the industry has changed direction
Read More »Fake Avastin importer claims he broke no laws
CBS News' Armen Keteyian talks to Tom Haughton, the man responsible for bringing counterfeit cancer drug into America
Read More »Congress Grills NASA Chief on Planetary Science Cuts
Lawmakers grilled NASA chief Charles Bolden today (March 21), saying the deep cuts to NASA's planetary science program in the agency's 2013 budget request will "cannibalize" future Mars exploration and threaten America's leadership in space. [More]
Read More »Is This Island Start-up Paradise?
What happens when a flood of highly educated, entrepreneurial young people return from studies abroad to tiny Cyprus?
Read More »Who’s the Top Entrepreneur? Your Call.
Who Is the World's Greatest Entrepreneur? You Decide. Who Is the World's Greatest Entrepreneur
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