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If your beta product isn't ready for prime time, the last thing you need is attention from the media. As someone with a marketing background, I've always been overly zealous to make noise about what I'm working on even before the product is entirely ready for public consumption

The capital gains tax has been touted as the brass ring for business owners. But if you self-fund your growth, it's anything but.

Three new studies report that a daily dose of aspirin appear to dramatically reduce the risk -- and even stem the growth -- of many cancers. Erica Hill reports.

Dave McClure, the brash-mouthed angel investor and entrepreneur-magnet, shares his lean start-up philosophy and his excitement about female entrepreneurs. The premier session of South by Southwest's "Lean Startup" track was a frank discussion between Lean Startup guru Eric Ries and Dave McClure, founding partner and "Sith Lord" of investment firm 500 Startups . While the talk covered material fairly similar to what Ries discussed in the October issue of Inc.

By focusing efforts on your best customers, you can increase customer value and grow your business.

Youre ready to start investing again in growth initiatives but your management team is at odds over what to do next. Building a value model will help train everyone's focus on your growth goals. Most of us spent the past few years doing more with less.

Youre ready to start investing again in growth initiatives but your management team is at odds over what to do next.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new paper scheduled for publication in the January issue of Nature Photonics describes the use of spinning microparticles to direct the growth of nerve fiber, a discovery that could allow for directed growth of neuronal networks on a chip and improve methods for treating spinal or brain injuries.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new paper scheduled for publication in the January issue of Nature Photonics describes the use of spinning microparticles to direct the growth of nerve fiber, a discovery that could allow for directed growth of neuronal networks on a chip and improve methods for treating spinal or brain injuries.

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Your customers that is. If you're spending tons of money on attracting new customers, you're making a mistake. If you’ve ever tried to explain the concept of "make new friends but keep your old ones" to a five-year-old, you have a pretty good perspective on how many high-growth businesses approach customer acquisition and retention.

Why the logic of focusing on growth first and worrying about profitability later is often a bad idea. Every management team that wants to build a much bigger business eventually asks itself this question: "Why don’t we focus on growth first and worry about profitability later?" Bad idea. The logic may be valid, but the strategy is often flawed

I’m halfway around the world, in Brisbane, Australia, where, yesterday, I finished an intense two-day strategy session for the top 50 managers of a company determined to take over the world. Maybe not your world, but the world of installing large AC systems. During the strategy session, we stepped through a process of "strategic imagination" that I introduce in my next book, Outthink the Competition

By Christopher Le Coq STRASBOURG (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers on Tuesday called for stronger action to protect Europe's bees, saying that the rapid decline in the bee population could affect the growth of important food crops.

Main Street Hub, a start-up that wants to help you manage your reputation on social media, received $2.6 million in funding.