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Facebook's tour to meet with investors before its initial public offering was like no other IPO roadshow.

West Coast business schools are entrepreneurial breeding grounds, but not just for the next hot thing in tech--here's what mix-and-match watch company Modify learned during its launch. I graduated from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business in May 2010. Friends from school included the founders of ideation space

How to live the entrepreneurial dream while minimizing your risks and maximizing your success.

You may have superior technology or a great feature set, but if your product doesn't create value for the customer, its chance of success is slim. We've heard a number of CEOs say, "Our product is more advanced than anything else on the market.

The secret to increasing your sales is to win the hearts of your sales team. At some point every sales manager watches Alec Baldwin in the 1992 movie, Glengarry Glen Ross, and dreams of the day they can deliver that iconic speech, "As you all know first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado

The nation's 36th president, Lyndon Johnson, offers five tips you can use every single day to make your business stronger. For the past 30 years, author Robert Caro has been working on a five-volume biography of one man: President Lyndon Johnson.

Since when does a mea culpa deserve praise? JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon shows how low the leadership bar can go. If you watch certain financial news shows you'd think that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is a genius.

The upcoming Facebook IPO will make this group worth billions. How many Silicon Valley start-ups will they create?

Claiming your product will revolutionize the industry? Dissing your competitors? Comparing yourself to Steve Jobs

No need to pretend you're a large company. Your small size can help you beat the competition. Entrepreneurs, especially in the early years of developing their businesses, worry a lot about the perceived size of their companies--and they do many things to appear bigger from day one.

What separates the best from everyone else? (Hint: It's not about the money.) Good entrepreneurs make money. Great entrepreneurs make serious money.

Usually rumors are... just rumors.

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You don't have to be Einstein to apply this success theory to your business.

As a business owner, you go above and beyond to keep customers happy. But your employees might not feel the same.