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Aaron Levie , the 26-year-old founder of enterprise cloud startup Box.net, always has something to say.

This HR start-up makes it easy to screen job candidates. Can it raise $1.25 million? FOUNDER: Danielle Weinblatt LOCATION: Cambridge, Massachusetts EMPLOYEES: Five full time; three part time FOUNDED: January 2011 2011 PROJECTED REVENUE: $100,000 NUMBER OF USERS: 100 (including Cactus Restaurants, Harvard Business School, and Deloitte) VIDEOS RECORDED: 160 COST: $45 for one posting; $70—$300 for up to six postings a month; about $25,000 for an enterprise package PREVIOUS FUNDING: $200,000 in angel funding FUNDING SOUGHT: $1.25 million The Pitch: "Screening job candidates is a huge waste of time.

Congratulations to two council members for recognition for business achievements that will help take their companies to the next level.

The snack giant is investing in a program to help Ethiopian farmers develop a chickpea crop. But it's not altruism: Pepsi wants access to a lot of chickpeas, because that's what they want to sell us.

We can debate all day if the chicken came before the egg. We can also debate whether it is smarter or not to have the carriage in front of the horse. But what is not debatable is the need for you to have sales, any sales, in order to get investors excited

Really? Is this a strategy that will backfire on the mobile industry? If true, I think this way lies madness, HTC! In an interview with China's Economic Observer, HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang confirmed her company is possibly in the market for an operating system

As "Star Trek" marks its 45th anniversary, space exploration is less about the voyages of the starship Enterprise and more about robots that boldly go where no man has gone before. But surely even Lieutenant Commander Data would approve the slate of robotic missions looking out beyond Earth orbit toward extraterrestrial destinations both familiar and mysterious

How can Obama have the biggest impact when he speaks to Congress about job creation Thursday evening? It’s hard to overestimate the delicacy of the challenge President Obama faces in his speech Thursday night to a joint session of Congress

The company famous for the BlackBerry smartphone and the recent PlayBook tablet is trying to maintain its stronghold on small businesses. RIM is on the ropes

At the moment, that's how it looks! Hewlett Packard has announced it is buying search software company Autonomy for $10.3 billion.

Last month, I had the chance to speak to a room full of entrepreneurs and angel investors at the Bethesda Green Business Incubator about the dos and don’ts of raising money from “angel investors.” Here are a few highlights from my remarks. Many service-oriented businesses can be started with minimal start-up capital

New Social CRM software is being developed everyday.

Aaron Levie, No. 59 on our list of the Most Creative People in Business, has a simple vision : Users should be able to share and access their content from anywhere, on any device. But as simple as that notion sounds, the execution is far from effortless for Levie, the co-founder and CEO of cloud-storage startup Box (formerly Box.net)

Its a fact: More companies fail than succeed.

Sheena Lindahl and Michael Simmons met their third day of college and started dating on their fourth. Both are business-oriented by nature; Lindahl juggled five jobs to pay for New York University and Simmons ran a Web development shop in high school. "My friend and I made $40,000 our senior year of high school, working 10 hours per week," says Simmons.