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"Its one thing not to have anything, it is another to have people coming after you. It is one thing to have a very limited amount of resources for yourself and your family and that is a traumatic station in life to be poor but you add the stress of having yourself in debt and you cannot make those payments so, you have all of these people coming after you. From an emotional standpoint it is a much worse position to be in."

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

There's always a hand out-stretched begging for cash for a cause, it seems. And you probably rarely, if ever, give.

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.

Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: $12 - The minimum wage Walmart could pay its workers without affecting prices. Walmart is plowing through its global responsibility goals , cutting down on plastic waste, improving energy efficiency in factories, and reshaping the crop diversity of entire U.S. regions.

It's the biggest deal Google has landed yet, an event to be watched by billions of people around the world--many of whom will check it out online.

Android phones have many good qualities, but privacy protection and personal data security aren't high on the list .

Remember a few years ago when everyone decided that using algae as a biofuel feedstock would be the best thing ever? Well, progress on that front is moving so slowly that companies have realized that that might not be where the money is

Richard Miller has had one of the toughest jobs in higher education. The Olin Foundation tapped him a dozen years ago to create an engineering college on a hilltop in the Boston suburb of Needham.

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.

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

As a nation, we went from being gold based to debt based. It really allows the nation and the government to print money at will. To control inflation, to control pricing and the flow of currency so the other nations around the world that are based on the US dollar also went through that change. By going through a resource based currency to a debt based currency, the skies the limit unfortunately.

Photographs by Darren Soh An elderly women holds a sign that says "Please, sir hold on. I'm not asking for a red envelope." | Photographs by Darren Soh It is a couple of weeks before Chinese New Year and Chen Guangbiao is sitting in the back of his SUV, barking orders out the window at his press secretary, a serious lady with a serious clipboard: "Beijing News, Beijing Evening News, Beijing Youth Daily ..."Chen, a member of China's new and fast-growing billionaire ranks, has just paid these newspapers to publish articles listing the charitable deeds he's done over the course of the year.

A sort of Match.com for philanthropy pairs up industry executives who want to give back with non-profits who need their skills. People who reach a certain level of success often decide they want to give back.

One of the reasons that so many companies are formed in Silicon Valley is that they are all groomed from Day One for sale to another Silicon Valley company.