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Alice's tips on raising capital for your enterprise--and the best and worst funding experiences from her two decades of working with boards. For most nonprofit organizations, financial success depends on building a board of directors that is generous in helping to contribute and raise the "venture capital" to launch the enterprise, and strategic in working with the CEO to help establish and achieve a financially sustainable revenue model. It's nearly impossible for a CEO to maximize an organization's financial potential without a highly effective board

Chef Zac Pelaccio and partner Rick Carmac already have a stable of successful eateries serving tasty, Southeast Asian-influenced fare—three Fatty Crab locations in New York City and the Virgin Islands and two Fatty 'Cue posts in Brooklyn and the West Village. But the pair's most recent venture is considerably smaller: Four Fatty Snack and Fatty 'Cue kiosks in New York City's Financial District, Battery Park, and around Central Park. Carmac tells us about the decision to start smaller outposts

A Los Angeles judge has given troubled actress Lindsay Lohan 21 days to seek psychological treatment. Her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, says her client can't afford to pay for counseling

No longer a spokesman, Powers is now the MFCEO. Multi-league lockout threats. Sex scandals involving Perkins waitresses

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We continue our series uncovering the key decisions that made a campaign an award-winner. Here, Eric Quennoy and Mark Bernath, ECDs at Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam dissect Film Grand Prix winner Write the Future. Due to irresponsible use, the word "epic" is a shell of its former self, but it’ll have to do the heavy lifting here to describe Nike’s Write the Future campaign.

When pitching your business for funding, a common question that investors will ask is “Have you achieved market traction?” Market traction is just one factor that that will determine a VC or Angel’s interest in funding your company, but it can be very important. One simple definition of market traction, credited to Angel List co-Founder Naval Ravikant , is “quantitative evidence of market demand.” I spoke to serial entrepreneur and angel investor David Beatty about finding quantitative evidence.

Need to get from Aspen, Colorado, to Miami? How about from Los Angeles to Dubai? If you want to do it in style, the private-jet service to call is evoJets

The humble webcam has enabled many things: racy adventures on Chatroulette ; Skype chats with Grandma; remote learning. With this week's launch of YouEye , the hope is that the webcam will become a powerful--and inexpensive--new tool in user-experience testing for companies looking to quickly evaluate the effectiveness of their websites. YouEye pays people recruited from the client’s site, outsourced panels, or YouEye’s panel an average of $7 each to evaluate things like online advertising and attention spans by tracking their eyeball movements via their own webcams.

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At Menlo Innovations, all work (seriously, all work) is done by pairs. Why teamwork? Richard Sheridan likes to talk about joy and why software development can be such a joyless occupation.

The streaming movie service has grabbed over 30% of Net traffic into U.S. homes during peak evening hours.

The battle between the Silicon Valley greats isn't typical corporate warfare.

The push for efficiency defines many organizations, and Greenleaf Book Group is no exception. I push my staff to eliminate silly wastes of time and money as often as I can. We've adopted best practices from many organizations and have become a training ground for operational efficacy.