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Will your idea fly with customers? Here's the best way to find out. Editor's note: This post is part of a series featuring excerpts from the recently published book, The Startup Owner's Manual , written by serial entrepreneurs-turned-educators Steve Blank and Bob Dorf.

Which problem-solving technique do you use? Here's four examples--as well as what each conveys about you and your company (for better or worse). As a business owner, employer, and customer, nothing irks me more than lousy problem-solving skills

Executive summaries seem simple--until you get them wrong. Make sure you're following this simple outline. The most important part of every sales proposal is the executive summary–but many people in sales get it completely wrong

A bus company in China has launched a new “safe driving” campaign by suspending bowls of water over their drivers.

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The superconducting cables designed for the ITER fusion reactor (cost: 16 billion euros = $21.2 billion) are unable to withstand the planned forty to sixty thousand charge cycles. Barring a solution, the troubled mega-experiment will suffer still more delays and cost overruns.

The author of a new book offers a solution to those who can't stop stressing about their to-do lists: swap big verbs such as "implement" and "plan" for more manageable ones. In many ways all-pervasive tech helps us be more productive

Stop having conversations about price.

Use these nine techniques to account for how your customer's brain could be wired, and seal the deal.

The secret to successful selling? Don't sell right away. If you’re in a position to “sell” at your company (and no matter what you do for your company, you should be), then you know it’s not always easy to get the ear of the prospect you’re trying to sell to.

It's not just for marketing. Crowdsourcing is an efficient way to take advantage of cognitive diversity

Despite what you may think, a perfectly crafted email can actually close a deal. In most cases, you’ll want to close deals either in person or on the telephone

Want to launch a membership website? These experts explain what it takes

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clean cookstoves that burn more efficiently and channel smoke outside could save millions of lives around the world, but only if the cooks themselves are part of the solution, scientists reported on Thursday. [More]

The grandson of the legendary investor aims to bring some private-sector savvy to the growing world of mega-philanthropy.