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If you're not devoting a small percentage of your time to working for free, you're making a big mistake.

If you ever wondered whether starting a business is worth the hell you put yourself through, read this. Every time a new founder/billionaire is minted—and there have been plenty lately—people who aren't entrepreneurs tend to lose sight of what this calling is really about. One social entrepreneur we interviewed for our book Breakthrough Entrepreneurship, an Episcopal bishop named Rev.

Forget teacher or assistant, among those aged 18 to 29 on Facebook, owner is a more popular job title, underlining the strong connection between this generation and entrepreneurship. Exactly how entrepreneurial is Gen Y? That's a contested issue in the blogosphere with some saying today’s young people are a born generation of business owners and others arguing they’re simply victims of the terrible economy forced into finding alternate routes to employment

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as an author, artist, poet, architect, and philosopher. Probably sometime in the 1430s, Alberti wrote “De commodis litterarum atque incommodes” (The Use and Abuse of Books), in which he extols the virtue of scholarship

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as an author, artist, poet, architect, and philosopher. Probably sometime in the 1430s, Alberti wrote “De commodis litterarum atque incommodes” (The Use and Abuse of Books), in which he extols the virtue of scholarship.

Dear John: My partner and I are architects, which means our business relies on our professional know-how and expertise. It's not a business whereby we sell widgets and that can implement systems and procedures which anyone can follow