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Meet the 2.0 car service: Uber is a start-up that lets you book a stylish ride from a smartphone app. Imagine your flight arrives four hours later than expected.

AutoSlash cuts the time it takes to find the best car rental rates. Enter your desired dates and location on AutoSlash.com, and the service scours the Web for discounts and coupon codes from companies such as Hertz and Avis

Dog-friendly work environments are one new trend making companies friendlier, more collaborative, and ultimately more productive. Leib Lurie never intended for his company, message delivery service One Call Now, to be pet-friendly. But his dog, Ivy, had other ideas.

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Planes, trains, automobiles--and ferries.

"We got rid of all the bells and whistles." Jenna Goebig, a graduate student in business and architecture at the University of Illinois, visited India this winter as part of the Subsistence Marketplaces class. My team is developing a disaster relief shelter

University of Illinois Taught by: Madhu Viswanathan and John Clarke Both the socially conscious and the profit-minded see opportunity in a global market of up to four billion people living in poverty. Yet in most entrepreneurship classes, financially comfortable students develop products for customers who look a lot like themselves.

"I was sweating bullets." Phillip Leslie is founder and CEO of ProOnGo, a Chicago company that makes expense-reporting software for smartphones.

AutoSlash cuts the time it takes to find the best car rental rates.

A free service called Gogobot makes it easier to tap people in your social networks for travel recommendations. After creating a profile page on Gogobot.com , you can post questions about your trip directly to your Facebook and Twitter accounts.

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