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Don't be too focused on your product--because if you're not building a community for it, it may never get off the ground. When you are first starting your business, it can seem as if there are an infinite number of items on your to-do list and not enough hours in the day.

Don't be too focused on your product--because if you're not building a community for it, it may never get off the ground. When you are first starting your business, it can seem as if there are an infinite number of items on your to-do list and not enough hours in the day. While it's important to put in the necessary time to build out your product or service, there is a danger in being overly focused

It's lonely at the top, according to a new survey that found fully half of all chief executives suffer from isolation and loneliness. When starting a business , many young entrepreneurs dream of the day when the enterprise has grown and they sit atop a successful company as CEO. This makes sense.

By asking peers to decide who deserves the most government aid--instead of using empirical measurements--money can have more lasting effects. When governments and NGOs plan on giving assistance to the most needy, how do they know who needs the most assistance? It's a question people are at great pains to answer, yet social welfare programs around the world are still plagued by error and abuse

It sounds like a forward-thinking energy policy, but giving away the bulbs won't solve the country's electricity problems, and the money could be spent on developing truly innovative solutions. Zimbabwe's power supply is erratic, to say the least

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Mobius has created an SUV that's strong enough to brave Africa's deteriorating roads, but frills free, to make it more affordable. Imagine a place where 2 million kilometers of roads have become virtually non-functional after decades

By connecting conservation with wealth, Blue Ventures has found a way to convince fishing communities in the developing world that saving fish doesn't mean starvation--it means getting rich. There are not, in fact, always more fish in the sea. That we have overfished our oceans to near the point of no return has been rehashed over and over now for years.

The FCC's "The Information Needs of Communities" report is out , examining the state of news sharing across the U.S., and boy, it's a doozy.

The study: "The Social Attachment to Place," by Michael S. Dahl, Aalborg University; and Olav Sorenson, Yale School of Management; published in the journal Social Forces. The finding: Proximity to family and friends is a more important factor than wages when people consider a new job

EBay has gone shopping again. This time it's buying a little company called Where. Where is a location-based software company that develops apps for all the major platforms

JR, the graffiti-artist-turned-photographer-turned-global-phenomenon, talks to Fast Company about embarking on his global TED project, which encourages citizen artists to document and display the faces of their own communities. Last fall, the French street artist JR , known for his haunting, massive posters of the faces of ordinary people, won the 2011 TED Prize