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Why Google Is Investing $168 Million in a Giant Solar Farm

We had a feeling that BrightSource Energy was destined for big things when Google first announced it was investing $10 million in the solar thermal startup in 2008. After all, Google only invests in impressive ( TechnoServe , eSolar ) and profoundly weird ( wind power from kites , anyone?) companies.

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Will the Angry Birds Phenomenon Match the Beanie Baby Craze?

The recently released Forbes list of America’s billionaires is chock-full of the usual suspects--oil-magnates, captains of the computer industry, and world-famous financiers. But one person seems incongruous among the bunch. Tied with the ever-present and ever self-promoting Donald Trump as the 153rd wealthiest person in the country is Ty Warner

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Trapper John, CEO

A sampling of Wayne Rogers's business ventures: Wayne Rogers & Co. After providing financial advice to fellow actors, Rogers launched this investment firm in 1971

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Photo Sharing App Gets VC Boost

Legendary VC firms Sequoia and Bain Capital are investing $41 million in photo sharing app Color. And that's before the app had launched

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How to Properly Insure Your Business and Employees

Earthquakes, fires, mold, asbestos, employee hacker—there's any number of calamities that can shutter the doors of your business. When disasters happen—man-made or natural—you want to be able to rebuild when the time comes.

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Should Your Business Be an LLC or an S Corp?

You've finally decided to start a business of your own. Or maybe you have been running one as a sole proprietor, even moonlighting on the side, and have decided you need to protect your personal assets from those involved with your growing business. You might even decide there could be a tax break in it for you

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Scared Green: Ideas for Tough-Love Climate Change Campaigns That Get Results

The sustainability movement is stuck in a slump, a stall, a "trough," as moderator Scott Henderson of CauseShift called it on the PepsiCo Plugged-In Stage at SXSW yesterday. He wanted to give it a kick-start, he said. "How to we get past the idea that someone else is going to take care of it, and start taking action?" Henderson asked his three panelist to present big ideas for how to inspire Americans into action--and these weren't your typical green-is-good approaches

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Web-Based Live Chat: Good for Business?

Depending on how you deploy it, live chat on a company website can be a boon for business or a terrible calamity. For some, it’s like adding a crack team of ace deal-closers who contribute directly to the bottom line. For others, it’s like hiring a surly, inattentive sales clerk who sends customers fleeing for the virtual door

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Inc. 5000 Update: Brewing for Dollars

Greg Koch took his first sip of a craft-brewed beer in 1987. Nine years later, he co-founded, with Steve Wagner, Stone Brewing in Escondido, California

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Robert T. Kiyosaki on Wealth Mindset

Robert T. Kiyosaki on Wealth Mindset

In countless countries and in every bookstore, there is a name synonymous with creating generational wealth, Robert Kiyosaki. In this exclusive interview on the Philippe Matthews Show, Robert talks candidly about his philosophy on boldness, trump, racial depression and paying the price to be rich.

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