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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.

25-year-old Kyle Coleman sings in Perfect pitch, but even more incredible is the fact that this autistic young man has only ever said a handful of words. Antony Robart reports.

I've had the application to be certified as a women-owned business on my desk for six years. Here's why I just can't mail it in

How to Explain Climate Change to a Skeptic Rick Santorum has recently described climate change as a hoax a bunch of bogus science that tries to make nature s normal boom and bust cycle into something man-made. His comments illustrate how, despite the fact that the scientific community accepts climate change as truth, and despite the fact that the science is gaining greater acceptance among the general public, you may still run into people that just don t believe the theory of climate change. In my experience working for oil companies and environmental organizations alike, I have heard pretty much every argument for and against climate change

BizBuySell report reveals that, gradually, it's becoming a good time to be a seller. For the second year in a row, sales of small businesses crept up in 2011, according to a new report.

In spite of the fact it has a distilling history as old as Cognac, as unfettered as single-malt Scotch, and as American as bourbon, no one takes moonshine seriously.

This Boston venture capitalist will vote for Obama in November. But he praises Mitt Romney's work at Bain Capital and the private equity industry as a whole.

France Has Self-Driving Cars Too Google doesn't have the monopoly on clever self-driving cars, and now France has joined the fray . Deveoped by research company IFSTTAR and engineers from the ESIGELEC school in Rouen, the machine is a Renault vehicle that's been heavily modified to turn its wheel and operate its pedal controls. The roof is peppered with sensors, including GPS, cameras to monitor around the car and the lanes in front of it and a LIDAR system on the nose to accurately determine the positions of other vehicles and unexpected alerts like a pedestrian.

You re reading a blog. This almost guarantees the fact that you re a staunch supporter, and fan, of open-access publishing. Many of us who publish technical research really do try to publish in open-access venues as often as possible

You can resolve any ethics dilemma you face by running through this series of questions"and only one of them really matters. Peter Drucker, the late management guru, said: “As to ‘ethical problems’ in business, I have made myself tremendously unpopular by saying, again and again, that there is no such thing as ‘business ethics.’ There is only ethics.” You can solve most ethical dilemmas by running down this checklist, which I've used successfully for 30 years at my company.

Behind the spandex and the melodrama of those WWE matches, there's solid business advice. Seriously. There’s a professional wrestling term —please don’t ask me how I know this—that you should apply to your business

When the ensemble of cesium beam and hydrogen maser atomic clocks strike 11:11 today at Boulder’s National Institute of Standards and Time nothing will happen. Never mind the fact that the numbers are both binary and identical and that the square of any cluster of 1′s is going to be palindromic as well.

It's going to be a wild ride on Friday when Groupon launches into the public markets. Here are three things to keep in mind as you watch the price race up and down.

Growing up we’re always told that it’s what’s on the inside that counts. And while that’s certainly true with respect to personal integrity, I’ve learned that when it comes to beverages, if your label doesn’t catch peoples’ attention, they may not get the chance to taste what’s inside. (Unless of course you have a sampling team in the store, which is still our primary marketing strategy.) One of my favorite ways to test the effectiveness of our labels is walking into a store and seeing if I can spot our brand in a cooler in the back.

Many have threatened to leave Netflix. But do they have anywhere to go? Supposed "Netflix killers" in the space are going after its customers--even if they offer very different services, and in certain instances, more expensive prices.