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Studies show that teaming up with a prime contractor may be the fastest way to breach the seven-figure mark. Here's what you need to know.

Much has been written recently about the venture capital "ecosystem"--whether there is enough capital flowing into the industry for it to thrive, or even stay afloat. As the 2011 numbers rolled in, many observers were aghast to see that VCs invested twice as much as they raised.

Self-promotion is a necessary evil for anyone starting a business.

During the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray concerning the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, prosecutors used Dr. Murray's iPhone to collect forensic evidenc.

Sageworks CEO Brian Hamilton discusses which industries are hot and which are not in 2012. The year 2011 has seen a surprising amount of growth and recovery among private companies in the United States, reports Brian Hamilton, co-founder and CEO of Sageworks, which tracks the financial performance of privately-held companies. Sageworks, which also ranked No.

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Cause marketing has been proven to boost sales, engagement, and customer loyalty, but are the new models of embedded generosity a passing fad or the new fundamental?

The latest batch of leaked State Department cables from WikiLeaks reveals the U.S. government's deep interest in how tech giants like Apple and Oracle perform overseas.

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Warwick physicist has produced a galaxy sized solution which explains one of the outstanding puzzles of particle physics, while leaving the door open to the related conundrum of why different amounts of matter and antimatter seem to have survived the birth of our Universe.

I'm not a fickle person, but I admit I've treated my business plan shoddily.

After being the victim of a fake website, coal giant Peabody Energy responded with some "interesting" stats about the benefits of energy use. Yesterday the world's largest privately held coal company, Peabody Coal , was hoaxed by Coal Cares , a Yes Men -sponsored website that promised free inhalers for children with asthma from coal plants. As has become typical with these things, the hoax was revealed and the company issued a statement denying any connection to the satirical site.

I’ll never forget a conversation I had 15 years ago with paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.

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

Greg Tseng, CEO of the social networking website Tagged, had just landed in Manila, on Saturday, June 6, 2009, to kick off a long-awaited vacation. As soon as he dragged his jet-lagged body up to his hotel room, though, an onslaught of phone calls, e-mails, and text messages from his co-founder, Johann Schleier-Smith, and other Tagged employees began: Something was seriously wrong with the site. In the 24 hours since Tseng had left his office in San Francisco, thousands of complaints had been filed by users—who claimed that Tagged's new registration process had somehow tricked them into spamming all of the contacts in their e-mail address books

Apple has some hot products on sale, and its designs push many an envelope. But are its decisions skewing the PC industry somewhat