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A group of advisors can be extraordinarily useful. Tricks to make sure yours is

A group of advisors can be extraordinarily useful. Tricks to make sure yours is

A group of advisors can be extraordinarily useful. Tricks to make sure yours is.

If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year. One semester in college I won a fellowship that included a very small stipend to defray the cost of living in Washington, D.C., so I could be a congressional intern.

If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year.

Want to know which buyers are getting a great deal--and, who's getting stiffed?

From a bed-and-breakfast to a consulting practice: See which businesses people start most often after they quit the rat race. Some people are not looking forward to retirement—they are not ready to settle into a golf routine and move to Florida just yet.

Vayable helps tourists get off the beaten path. Can this San Francisco start-up find its way beyond seed funding? The Pitch: "Vayable makes it easy to find unique things to do when you're traveling.

The "Flex and the C-Suite" series periodically showcases leaders who have made flexibility at work a key strategy for achieving smarter and better business results.

In 1984 the Hatch-Waxman Act made it cheaper and easier to put generic versions of a drug on the market. As a result of the expedited approval process, generics now make up more than 60 percent of prescription drugs sold in the U.S. and have saved the health care system $734 billion between 1999 and 2008 alone

Another sci-fi dream deferred: Funding gave out before the six-year-old startup could perfect its futuristic three-wheeler. Electric car startup Aptera's futuristic three-wheeled two-seater won't be rolling off production lines anytime soon – the company has run out of gas. The company has failed to come up with enough money to produce the cars, reportedly raising only around $40 million of the $150 million it needed for a federal matching grant to keep operating.The grant would have let the company produce an all-electric four-wheel, five-passenger sedan that would have retailed for less than $30,000 – and employed some 1,400 workers in the manufacturing process

Social-media advertising start-up Adaptly is less than two years old and is growing at lightning speed. Its founder thinks it's ripe time to add a social mission.

The entrepreneur turned VC warns that there is too much money chasing too few marketable ideas. The crash, he says, is coming next year.

You could wade through dozens of reviews of the new Amazon Kindle Fire--or let us extract the best bits for you. Here's the most meta version of the story you will read online, offline, and everywhere else, each line taken from professional reviewers, tech bloggers, Tweeters, and Amazon customers. It seems like ages since Amazon introduced us to the $199 Fire at a hectic New York City event, but in truth that was only about six weeks ago

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.