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Will your idea fly with customers? Here's the best way to find out. Editor's note: This post is part of a series featuring excerpts from the recently published book, The Startup Owner's Manual , written by serial entrepreneurs-turned-educators Steve Blank and Bob Dorf.

Use these 5 simple steps to win back a customer who has jumped ship to another vendor.

The secret to successful selling? Don't sell right away. If you’re in a position to “sell” at your company (and no matter what you do for your company, you should be), then you know it’s not always easy to get the ear of the prospect you’re trying to sell to.

The founder of an online shopping community implores other entrepreneurs to be more honest about their problems. "If nobody shares they are struggling, nobody will know anybody else is struggling.

In his new book, "Reinventing Fire," Lovins creates a system for powering a 21st century civilization without using 20th century methods. Amory Lovins, the chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute and the author of influential books like Winning the Oil Endgame and Natural Capitalism, is back with a new book--and this time, he's claiming that the U.S.

Special Issue: Cities The city is a solution to the problems of our age, and this week, we present it in the true urban spirit: best ideas forward

From Nature magazine. When it was first used in the 1990s to treat an immune deficiency, gene therapy -- treating diseases by correcting a patient's faulty genes -- was touted as a breakthrough that was likely to cure scores of hereditary diseases. But when 18-year-old Jessie Gelsinger died in 1999 after having a corrected gene injected to treat his liver disease, the field became wary, and researchers found it difficult to fix the problems associated with the technique

Special Issue: Cities The city is a solution to the problems of our age, and this week, we present it in the true urban spirit: best ideas forward

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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Many people are trying to build a quantum computer," Olivier Pfister tells PhysOrg.com. "One to the problems, though, is that you need hundreds of thousands of qubits.

CBS News correspondent Armen Keteyian reports on the problems caused by lack of sleep. Then, Erica Hill talks to Dr. Jennifer Ashton and Adam Bryant, author of "The Corner Office," about the conflicts between healthy sleep and a successful career.

Bill McKibben is one of civilization's most civilized critics. For decades this humane journalist-activist has been warning that our high-technology, high-consumption ways are harming nature and our psyches