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Taking Teams to the Next Level Software design company Menlo Innovations believes in team work. So everyone works together in pairs, sharing one computer and one mouse.

Netflix and Hulu should probably be paying attention. HBO's lone-cowboy strategy might be brilliant. HBO Go , the app from HBO that gives streaming access to 1,400 titles (including the big ones--The Sopranos, True Blood, and so on) hit 1 million downloads in just a week

Think you've honed your 4H chops with hours of online agriculture? You can now control a real British farm to see how you do. God save the cows

There's a green card . Then there's silver, gold, and platinum

Hosting an event can easily cost companies thousands, even millions of dollars—and the bills rack up fast.

You’ve probably heard bosses, parents and peers say it time and time again, “Time is money, let’s get moving.” For some, it’s difficult to equate the intangible concept of time to the concrete touch and feel of the almighty dollar bill. But this simple phrase, when taken at its word, just may be the answer to your financial woes.

Congratulations. If you've clicked this link, you're probably running a fast-growing company—a fortuitous position for any business owner. However, if your company grows too fast and without the correct infrastructure to let it grow, it can quickly spiral out of control

Conferences, symposiums, and meetings are going virtual for some companies.

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.

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Israeli settlers on the West Bank have discovered a new way of getting their message across: Violent shoot 'em ups based on the Six Day War and Biblical history. Israeli settlers in the West Bank have stumbled on a new way to get their message across: computer games

Stanford's new entrepreneurship class is not for the faint of heart. Launchpad is designed around a series of hurdles: the elevator pitch, the functional prototype, week after week of sales results.

Next time you're shopping online , be prepared for a chat. As live chat technology evolves, e-commerce sites are finding that virtual clerks are becoming crucial to customer support and sales systems. Earlier this year, Bold Software, a live chat and click-to-call service based in Wichita, Kansas, polled 200 of their customers—mostly online merchants who use the software to interact with customers browsing their sites—to see just how effective live chats really were.

Next time you're shopping online , be prepared for a chat. As live chat technology evolves, e-commerce sites are finding that virtual clerks are becoming crucial to customer support and sales systems. Earlier this year, Bold Software, a live chat and click-to-call service based in Wichita, Kansas, polled 200 of their customers—mostly online merchants who use the software to interact with customers browsing their sites—to see just how effective live chats really were

By the end of this year, around a billion people across the globe will be mobile workers, according to IDC, a global market research firm. As virtual work becomes more accessible to small businesses on a tighter budget, some CEOs and entrepreneurs are beginning to recognize that a virtual sales force not only can cuts down on costs, but can also add a competitive advantage for the company. "As organizations become more geographically distributed, they're going to try to access the best talent wherever they may be," says Richard Lepsinger President of OnPoint Consulting, a virtual consulting company based in New York, and co-author of Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance