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Jonathan Kaplan has launched The Melt, a chow chain backed by James Beard award-winning designers, Michelin Star award-winning chefs, kitchen workflow engineers, and millions of dollars from Sequoia Capital. The Flip Cam was pretty awesome, too.

Foodie and former dotcom entrepreneur Sharelle Klaus was frustrated with her nonalcoholic drink options in fine restaurants when she was pregnant with her fourth child in 2004. So she created her own. Sharelle Klaus —who in 1999 launched Planet Squid, an Internet portal for 10-to-14-year-olds that went under during the dotcom bust—wanted something to drink that would pair well with food, that was all natural, and not too sweet.

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The inaugural post of Eileen P. Gunn's new Inc.com blog, Start Me Up. Being an entrepreneur energizes me.

For working women on the go, MyDailyMoment is a one-stop shop for everything fitness, beauty, recipes, and more. As we process applications for the 2011 Inc.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Music Sales Up Thanks To Hipsters, Old People Nielson released a piracy apocalypse-busting stat about the music industry: sales are up 1.6% in 2011. Premium content, such as the Beatles' albums , and a 37% surge in vinyl (thank your local hipster, everybody), helped propel a trend for a sector that hasn't always had much to celebrate lately

Remember all the talk about how there's no money in social networks? Well, it now seems strangely academic

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

The current energy landscape is rife with contradictions: gas prices are shooting up, renewables are being implemented at a seemingly rapid pace, natural gas is being simultaneously demonized and hailed as an energy savior, and electric cars are finally starting to roll off production lines. Fortunately, your tax dollars fund a government agency devoted to making sense of energy.

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Recession drove industrialized nations' greenhouse gas emissions down 5.6 percent in 2009 but analysts said the plunge may be a brief, misleading sign of progress in slowing climate change.

This article is part 4 of an 8 part series. Read Part 3 for more information about how to gain market power.

LeBron James He’s the self-proclaimed king of the NBA, a twotime league MVP who is used to getting his way.

This article is Part 3 of an 8 part series. Read Part 2 to learn about Geoffrey Moore’s new book.

When the housing bubble burst and the recession hit, real estate became an industry to exit, and exit quickly. Home values may not have fully recovered, but those assigning those values are making a comeback. The real estate appraisal industry grew a modest 1.6 percent since 2008, but IBISWorld expects a 5.2 percent growth in industry revenue for each of the next five years

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