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FamiliesGo! founder Eileen P. Gunn reflects on her initial ups and downs. I recently wrapped up FamiliesGo!’s second month.

Companies with fewer than 50 employees were responsible for two-thirds of the jobs created last month. Businesses with fewer than 50 employees added two-thirds of the 91,000 new jobs that private employers created in September, says the ADP National Employment report released Wednesday. The report analyzes payroll data for 337,000 private, non-farm U.S.

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Brand strategists Chris Bryant says the U.S.

Start-up founder Eileen P. Gunn writes about how she budgets time to maximize focus, momentum--and rest. I wonder if Congress would consider creating a longer day, specifically for entrepreneurs

Just about every news outlet in the world is buzzing about the launch of Amazon's new Kindle tablet, called the Fire. The real story is not the Fire, however. It's Amazon Silk, the new properietary browser created just for Kindle

Can you predict change? Michael Raynor, author of The Innovator's Manifesto, explains his theory for identifying disruption early, and dramatically changing your industry. What if we could predict which businesses would survive, and which would crumble

Forty venerable watchmakers, including Harry Winston, Montblanc, Breguet, Van Cleef & Arpels, Chopard, and more, have each created a special timepiece for the fourth annual Only Watch charity auction at the Hotel Hermitage in Monaco on September 23. Prior to the auction, the Only Watch 2011 collection will be showcased ...

Creatives gravitate to a showy New York hotel lobby to work hard and look good doing so.

Apparently when it occurs on a business trip. An Australian public servant is suing her employer for compensation after being injured while having sex during a business trip. She works for ComCare, the Australian government’s—wait for it—workplace safety organization

What happens when parent-travel website FamiliesGo! goes live. I have officially launched FamiliesGo! We decided we would open the site to the public on a Friday, so we’d have the weekend to let Google AdSense, the advertising placement service we’re using, come online and “acclimate” its ads to our content before publicizing on Monday

After Hotels.com founder Bob Diener sold to IAC in 2003, he went to kite-surf camp in Costa Rica.

The founder of parent-travel website FamiliesGo! chronicles her start-up shuffle. Tuesday was an interesting day

The site that lets you crash in a stranger’s house closed a huge round of funding today.

Social travel advisor Gtrot is banking on your friends to make its business model work: The newly launched travel-recommendation system leverages the wealth of travel and venue advice available from your extended social graph. Gtrot's system is pretty simple: It looks at the information available from your social network on Facebook and Twitter , determining information about where your contacts have traveled, where they've stayed, or if they live near where you're going. Instead of relying on "Bob, age 48" on TripAdvisor, who may have hated the hotel you're considering, you can solicit a more personal, trusted opinion from someone you already know pretty well