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When it comes to giving the world insight into your business, nothing beats a great blog. It can also help grow your business. I started writing blogs six years ago because I was told it would help my business

And other thoughts from Steve Jang, avid surfer and co-creator of the social music app SoundTracking. "You get that timing, you pop up, you find your balance, and you ride that wave--and you have to do that over and over." Steve Jang is the cofounder and CEO of Schematic Labs , whose social music app SoundTracking just hit its one-year anniversary. The app is steadily approaching 2 million users, and its ranks include the likes of Snoop Dogg

A new tool scans all of your online activity and lets you know if it's in danger of tainting your reputation.

Patience requires absolute control over your thoughts, words, and deeds. Here's how you can ace it

Lack of focus can be a core competency.

Lack of focus can be a core competency. Here are six principles to encourage innovative thinking, lots of experimentation, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Elon Musk's Tesla Motors isn't just an electric car company--it's perhaps the greatest test of Silicon Valley's innovation model.

If your growth has stalled, encouraging innovation on the front line will make all the difference. This past week, our team was working with members of a family-owned manufacturing business who had watched their product sales shrink over the past 10 years. Highly motivated to keep sales up as their core profitable products started to lose traction, they took whatever work they could find.

Why serial entrepreneur Seth Epstein says, among other things, that start-up founders should streak. Seth Epstein, the founder and CEO of SocialStay , which creates mobile apps for luxury resorts like the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, and Hollywood Roosevelt in Los Angeles, spoke recently as part of the University of California at Santa Barbara Distinguished Lecture Series.

A great mentor won't actually do the work for you--but he or she will help you develop your own opportunities.

Step 1: Get a mentor who's 10 (or more) years younger than you. See the other tips. A friend of mine came back from a national meeting of sales leaders in her industry and sent me a very frank and telling note.

You'll sell more if you make closing a natural part of your conversation with the customer. There comes a time in every sales conversation when you've got to "ask for the business." For many people—including those who sell for a living—closing is scary

AUSTIN, Texas Use your brain to control the world. That’s the promise of the brain-machine interface , a system that directly translates your thoughts into actions. Here at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova, technologists from the Near Future Laboratory , have showed how popular culture has explored the possibilities of the devices for both good and evil and how researchers are making the technology a reality today.

These free (or next to free) apps promise to make your life easier. Who doesn’t like the word free? I know I sure do

These free (or next to free) apps promise to make your life easier. Who doesn’t like the word free?