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Small businesses often fret over when to hire additional employees.

Emphasize the virtues of your product or service, rather than the price. It will keep your competitors at bay, and your customers close. As business owners, we are often tempted to discount our product or service, thinking it will somehow win us customers and drive growth.

News updates all day from your Fast Company editors. After cornering the online retail space for (e)books , electronics and consumer goods, Amazon

Steve Grubbs, 47, started his career in politics, before parlaying his campaign experience into two businesses in the late '90s.

Rob Auerbach, founder of Louisville-based Candyrific, knows what kids want. Rob Auerbach knows what kids want. Candyrific, his Louisville-based company, manufactures sweets in attention-grabbing packages that often feature plastic cartoon characters, battery-operated fans, flashing lights, or other doodads.

Seven things you can do to convince potential customers your site isn't a fly-by-night operation. Nobody in the world hesitates about making online purchases from Amazon, iTunes, or Dell.

Want to pitch TechStars Founder David Cohen? You better make sure your pitch looks like this.

Inc. 5000 applicant Snikiddy, founded by Mary Schulman and her mother, is finding success in the health food market with its snacks

Conflicts rarely end well, so it's natural to want to avoid them. But you can't hide from them forever. For every hard-nosed, coldly logical businessperson there are hundreds of entrepreneurs just like us: Worried about how others perceive us and avoiding confrontation at all cost

Conflicts rarely end well, so it's natural to want to avoid them. But you can't hide from them forever.

Two Chapman University sophomores are working to improve dog and owner relationships everywhere--with a simple patch of fake grass. Dylan Balsz and Tilden Smith had a simple vision: take a product, make it better and sell it for cheaper.

Several MIT students have engineered apparel that makes sweating through your dress shirt a thing of the past. Yellow stains on dress shirts from prespiration is a nightmare for every professional working today.

See each honoree give their best elevator pitch! Learn more about the founders. Bone up on the products and services. Click 'like' to vote your favorites to the featured spot! Company Videos, ranked by “Likes” Click company name to play video

There's a reason ESPN, Google, and Zynga lead their industries.

Use these 4 smart tricks to create and share customer testimonials. Nothing sells your product or service better than a passionate customer. Strong customer testimonials break the ice with prospects on the fence.