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SUBSIDIES AND HORMONES In “ How to Fix the Obesity Crisis ,” David H. Freedman proposed behavior modification as a solution, but it cannot be applied to 200 million overweight people. Freedman also seems to support subsidies for fruits and vegetables and other government-sponsored programs.

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This article is part one of a two part series. In part two, we will look at what small businesses should know. Jack Plunkett is the CEO of Plunkett Research .

Use continuous updates and punchy messages to heighten interest and keep your customers informed about products or services which in turn can boost sales.

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"Win the Future," if you're not into the whole brevity thing. He registered it in '06. Then Obama stole it

The battle between the Silicon Valley greats isn't typical corporate warfare.

A decade ago, Israel had the highest density of start-ups in the world, and attracted more venture capital than anywhere. Today, the entrepreneurial hotbed feels decidedly lukewarm. Author Sarah Lacy analyzes why.

Foggy Bottom has a plan to jump-start a venture-capital approach to the field of humanitarian tech. When the earthquake decimated Haiti last year, technologists around the world converged online to develop tools to help rescuers find victims and raise funds .

Sachin Agarwal, the founder of Posterous, a blog hosting service, got bogged down in the numbers as his company grew. Then, he writes ( blog.posterous.com ), he got smart: He hired a CFO. "Last month our new CFO came into the office and I transferred all the finance knowledge that was in my head over to her.

An energetic young man by the name of Ankur Jain blew into the Inc. offices a couple of months ago to sell me on the idea of getting involved with the Kairos Society, an organization he launched three years ago. Its focus, he told me, "is to bring together the world's top collegiate entrepreneurs to create the next billion-dollar, high-growth, job-creating ventures to solve some of the world's greatest problems." Jain is all of 21, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, the son of a muckety-muck with contacts to spare, and, like a lot of entrepreneurs, a whirlwind of ambition, salesmanship, and enthusiasm.

A public digital forum in every book is the Dutch startup Openmargin's aim. It even thinks it can make money at it.

Do you dream of helping others when you “make it big”? Do you imagine all of the good that you can do once you have no money woes whatsoever

Nonprofits are fueled by tax-deductible donations—cash from individuals, public grant funding, or money from foundations. As of 2010, nearly 1.3 million 501(c)(3) organizations were registered with the IRS; they raise more than $300 billion in charitable donations a year

Scott Harrison was 28 years old, sitting on a beach in Uruguay with a model girlfriend, a Rolex watch and a BMW waiting nearby—a life the nightclub promoter in New York City had been chasing after for nearly 10 years—when he realized (in his own words) "what a selfish scumbag" he was. His entire adult life had been geared towards serving himself and the club patrons, and when he had done nothing to help others, it made him step back. Seven years removed from that day on the beach, Harrison is still in New York, heading up charity: water , a non-profit organization that has delivered clean drinking water to over 1 million underserved people in 17 different countries, and aspires to help more than 100 million in the next ten years.