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This CEO sold his last company to Nokia for $225 million. Now he's aiming for a billion-dollar business.

During the July 4th weekend of 1994, while riding in a 1988 Chevy Blazer with his wife at the wheel, a computer engineer named Jeff Bezos laid the groundwork for a retail revolution. Back then, the Internet was an insider's tool, largely limited to government and academic circles

Too anxious to take a vacation? An expert insists stepping away can actually improve your business--if you do it right. Vacations: We all know we should take them for our mental health and the health of our relationships, but many entrepreneurs stress that stepping away from work responsibilities will harm their businesses and land them with a painful backlog of tasks upon their return.

Company leaders with motherly traits can help employees develop into the best they can be in their field.

Troubles arise when the spouse's paycheck supports a family and a business. During the perilous early years of Stonyfield Farm, I didn't work outside the home. My husband, Gary, and I managed to live on his meager income

You don't have to be a Hollywood mogul to have someone do mind-numbing tasks for you. Just ask Ted Roden

These trends could make for huge opportunities--or huge disruptions to your business. Either way, they are ones to watch

Meet Roy Gilbert, a former Googler and the CEO of "social learning" company Grockit, who finds similarities between his experience aboard a nuclear attack sub and the world of Silicon Valley. Roy Gilbert is the CEO of Grockit , a 3-year-old social learning company that aims to make test prep more fun, and in the process hopes to democratize what companies like Kaplan typically peddle to the relatively well-to-do. Grockit's users are on track to soon answer their collective 15 millionth question, and each day the site gains more users than would fill the chair-desks of a pair of American high schools

Hiring? Young veterans with a true entrepreneurial inclination can thrive at a start-up

Write your own eulogy today. Reflect on your life so far, and whether you're satisfied with the path you're on

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The community you build at work is just as important as anything else you do. A case in point. I debated sharing this story here because of how recently these events had taken place.

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After a couple dozen successes, Howard Tullman is building Flashpoint Academy, which he calls the front seat of the world stage. From the moment he queues up a movie, boots his computer, and hits the treadmill at 4 a.m.—unfathomably refreshed after three hours' sleep—Tullman is a blur. By 8 a.m., having consumed several newspapers, watched half a film (he sees about 120 a year for professional reasons), and cleared his first 100 e-mails, he arrives at Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, the showplace digital-media-arts college he built one summer in Chicago while all the normal people were at the beach

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