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Measures like Price-Earnings Ratio and EBITDA multiples are just gross generalizations of the value of your business. Here's how to determine the real value. Estimating the value of your business is usually calculated through measures such as earnings, EBITDA, and “comp” multiples.

See which parts of social media and brand stewardship to manage yourself--and which to delegate.

Pivotshare wants you to make money on your digital media. The social content creation platform isn't aiming to be the next YouTube. Founder Adam Mosam says he wants experts, businesses, and enthusiasts to dust off their libraries and start earning

Forget getting your employees to think "outside of the box." Instead, use these four ways of challenging your team.

Over the past six months, Issa's launched an interactive subcommittee livestream, produced a new form of online polling, and sponsored a bill to make government spending trackable. Engineer and congressional Republican firebrand Darrell Issa is leveraging his supporters' collective outrage against a contentious anti-piracy bill , SOPA, to showcase his new experimental crowdsourcing legislative platform.

Evidence points to information from trusted sources getting a better hold on our brains than the noise from everything else. So it's no surprise that companies want to capitalize on those feelings.

Running a startup is a lot different than running a more mature company. Will you be able to make the transition? Here are three ways to find out.

Since he experienced tragedy at age of 14, the real-life psychologist who inspired the show "Lie To Me" has searched for signs of hidden human emotion in faces. New applications based on his findings are getting attention from Apple, Pixar, Google, the Army, and others. Expert humans or face-reading machines could have saved thousands of lives on 9/11 by detecting the emotional states of hijackers

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The lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case against Obama's health care act filed for bankruptcy. That raises some thorny legal questions about the future of the case. Mary Brown became the face of the anti-Obamacare movement last year, as she and Kaj Ahlburg became the lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit to stop the administration's healthcare overhaul.

Terracycle has been criticized for collecting--and recycling--the packaging for less-than-healthy products.

There is one way to prepare for a Euro zone meltdown. If you do business overseas, it's time to consider hedging

Experts warn smoking soon after plastic surgery could cut off blood supply

Author David Weinberger's latest ponders how knowledge-"previously a finite body of expert opinion and accepted fact-"is now unbound, thanks to the Internet. The book: Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room, by David Weinberger; Basic Books.