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How well would your company be doing if the number of employees remained static while your customer base grew by a third and you started providing dozens of more services?

What every business owner needs to know about protecting valuable intellectual property. I am often asked do I need a trademark for my slogan? Can I patent my idea

If you don't, your business is never going to be more than a chore. And the first people to notice will be the ones who pay your bills.

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Entrepreneur advisor Melinda Emerson explains her six steps to end small-business failure.

Survey shows business owners expect a hectic holiday season and 2012.

Avoid common mistakes in your startup's infancy. Take the advice of Jake Nickell, founder of Threadless.com

Are you wasting time courting customers that don't have budgets or venture capitalists that don't have any money?

Before you ring in 2012, you'll want to get a head start on taxes, insurance, suppliers, among other things.

Mallika Chopra describes how her father's well-being techniques served her, especially as she launched her own company, Intent, a social network. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201112/deepak-chopras-daughter-mallika-on-work-life-balance.html Advertisement: Are your best customers still out there?

Why your website user experience matters--and how to create a great one. Facebook vs

The writer who made up stories for The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Harper's and others (then tried to lie his way out) is fighting to become a lawyer in California. To the journalist who busted his original lies, Glass's tactics sound eerily familiar.

Folger Shakespeare Library director David Witmore is using 21st-century tools to analyze the Bard's work. When data-mining techniques borrowed from the sciences and business research were applied to classic Shakespearean plays, surprising discoveries were made

After testing it out on himself and 100 other storytellers, Jonathan Harris launches Cowbird, a website that seeks to become the ultimate public library of human experience. Our standard mode of written expression, which started as letter writing, currently hovers around the level of the tweet--140-character missives about anything (or nothing) at all. Perhaps not for long, though.

The New York-based startup demolishes conventional wisdom about the best ways to draw in readers--and snaps up $64 million in financing. Online recommendations systems are usually based on the assumption that if you're interested in one thing, you'll be interested in similar things--a principle called "relevancy".