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Landlords are becoming more understanding--even baking Airbnb language right into the lease--but you've got to be honest with them. Yesterday, Brooklynite Chris Dannen told the tale of how he made $20,000 from renting his spare rooms out on accommodations marketplace Airbnb --that is, before his landlord hit him with a restraining order.

Too anxious to take a vacation? An expert insists stepping away can actually improve your business--if you do it right. Vacations: We all know we should take them for our mental health and the health of our relationships, but many entrepreneurs stress that stepping away from work responsibilities will harm their businesses and land them with a painful backlog of tasks upon their return.

After a deadly fire, Providence officials enacted strict building codes that virtually dismantled the city's lively arts scene. The task has fallen to a RISD grad to rebuild it, one abandoned warehouse at a time.

Meet Ziad Dalal, CEO of Nestlé Toll House Cafe By Chip, and a man with a mission to make the humble chocolate-chip cookie go global.

Before you raise money from the masses, a few words of warning.

If you don't have empathy for the loan officer sitting across from you, you won't understand how to get the funding you need. Empathy is an essential characteristic of a successful business owner. In all aspects of business development—whether is customer relations, labor management, or seeking a strategic new business partnership—assuming the viewpoint of the person across from you is an invaluable practice

Who Is the World's Greatest Entrepreneur? You Decide. Who Is the World's Greatest Entrepreneur

Talented engineers and project managers both play key roles, but much of the success of your website hinges on this key person. Last week, I talked about all of the people involved in designing a website that drives business

Are you using informal contacts to drive your business? Here are six relationships that are worth nurturing. No, I am not referring to formal partnerships from a legal perspective, but to connections that are made informally or from a marketing perspective.

Okay, everywhere I go I tell the story about my addiction to watching the hit reality show, The Apprentice. Mark Barnett and Donald Trump struck gold with this TV deal, earning it stratosphere ratings. Thirteen candidates coming to New York ...

Founder Scott Finkelstein is expanding NextLot, this week's Inc. 5000 applicant of the week, for the next generation of Web users. As we process applications for the 2012 Inc

They're tiny, powerful, and just might inspire tech envy in everyone around you. But before you buy, check out the pros and cons. Much ado was made at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show over Intel’s so-called “ultrabooks.” Still not sure what those are?

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second Mobile First, Web Second (continued) .

Rufflebutts founder Amber Schaub reinvented the bloomers from her youth, which led to a full-fledged childrens apparel company she now runs with her husband. As we process applications for the 2012 Inc.

In which our hero, flush with $400 million from the sale of his company, attempts to reinvent his city, Zappos-style. "You can't tell anybody about this." Tony Hsieh takes a shot of vodka, and then he tells me a secret, eyes wide, voice rising. He wears, as he almost always does, a navy T-shirt that bears the logo of Zappos.com, the online shoe retailer he helped start in 1999, that he has run as CEO since 2000, and that he sold to Amazon.com for $1.2 billion in 2009.