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Plenty. When your connection to a mission or idea that is so strong that it inspires you to take risks, your company can soar, and your customers benefit.

General Mills is moving its open innovation efforts to the digital world. With G-WIN Digital, the food company is looking for your gaming and mobile ideas

Too often company executives driven by expanding their empire or blinded by a "quick fix" for entering a new market end up in an overpriced deal. An acquisition can provide a successful avenue for growth and obtaining competitive advantage. But many acquisitions end up as failures for the buyer

Last year, the NBA banned start-up APL's innovative basketball shoes and sales took off. Now what? One afternoon last October , Adam Goldston met with his twin brother, Ryan, in their company's Beverly Hills, California offices to draw up marketing plans.

Start-up founders don't just wake up one day and decide to launch something entirely different. It's a gradual--and more grueling--process.

By knowing their rights, two small companies made Apple and RIM back down over trademark conflicts. You could do the same. When you think of Apple (AAPL) and Research in Motion (RIMM), it’s probably as mismatched competitors.

CFOs are paid to see risks and downside.

Students need work, and real on-the-job skills. That's just your luck. This start-up hopes to help you find the right matches for your task, and your price

Breaking into an international market is time-consuming, and risks becoming a big distraction. What can you learn from how Eileen Fisher did it? I wrote recently about how hard — but also how important — it is to export right now

Despite the recent boost in holiday sales, debts past, present and future make it impossible for consumer spending to drive a recovery. The holiday shopping season has begun with a hopeful bang. Americans said they intended to spend more this season, and, so far, there are numbers to back that.

Here's what you need to know to plan a publicity stunt. Plus, David Meerman Scott, who wrote The New Rules of Marketing & PR talks about what the Chilean miners have to do with it. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201112/how-to-create-a-publicity-stunt.html

New legislation that could free up start-ups to fundraise online is gaining steam. Here's how it could disrupt traditional capital formation.

The Company of the Year is rejecting industry trends, getting customers to pay for something that's free, and reinventing the way we remember. Phil Libin remembers the moment he left childhood behind.

Chris Christensen's $4 million company is growing fast in a business without rivals: Creating and selling high-end products for dog shows.

New legislation could expand crowdfunding options through websites such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.