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I want to start by saying I love music. Sharing music with my friends and colleagues is even more fun.

Most of us have something to pitch. You may be pitching your startup to a VC to secure funding

As tech-sector regulations pile on for start-ups, here's how to keep innovating while weathering the legal storm. Is your company a scofflaw? Are you sure

How my refusal to wear shoes and get a haircut shaped my entrepreneurial path and company's culture. I became an entrepreneur because I wanted to wear flip-flop sandals to work and not worry about getting haircuts when my bangs grew too long. I was not quite sure what I wanted to do exactly, but I knew that whatever I did it would include the values I hold close: integrity, hustle and individuality over antiquated cultural norms

Building these steps into your operations will help you to significantly improve customer retention and create significant value for your business. We hate to sound like a broken record, but we can't say it enough—developing loyal customers is the most important thing you can do for your business

Crazed radicals (like the president of the Dallas Fed) think banks should suffer the consequences of their actions instead of relying on the government to underwrite executive bonuses. The theory behind bailouts of big financial institutions is that if they collapse they will infect other financial institutions.

If you can't describe your own products without resorting to marketingspeak, you're losing sales. Here are 3 mistakes to avoid. Most product descriptions suck, especially when they’re written by marketing people who have never sold anything.

Brooklyn's business leaders ponder the future of hacking, crowdfunding, and your customers' shopping habits in the second TEDxBrooklyn. How will you "redefine better" in 2012? Friday's TEDxBrooklyn conference focused on that theme by bringing together some of the biggest forces that have "bettered" the borough in recent years

You need to get the word out about your new product or service. What if you paid someone -- or a lot of people -- to review it for you?

Here are the steps to take to prevent yourself from getting burned by your clients.

StumbleUpon , the discovery engine that enables its users to "Stumble" onto personalized web content, unveiled a major redesign Monday, introducing a slew of upgrades that include a streamlined interface, recommendation improvements, and the addition of brand channels.

At universities, educational software largely means enterprise-scale, expensive, feature-stuffed "learning management systems." Blackboard has the majority of the market, but professors and students are about as enthusiastic about its various updates, crashes, and bugs as people are with the latest version of Windows (Blackboard scores a whopping 93% "hated" rating on website Amplicate ). Last week, a new alternative was launched--built by students--that looks and works a lot more like the social platforms people actually choose to use in their spare time.

[youtube pjIK5BOADVI] Apps are coming at us from all directions, and they're getting both more sophisticated and simpler--the app economy is booming. But as everyone and their dog makes something they deem fit to call an "app," the supply will arrive like a flood. Then what will we do as a consumer society--wallow, sink, or swim?

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