There’s a fundamental difference between the rebels of the past and today: Generation Y are born entrepreneurs. Every generation rebels against their parents. When parents approve, their offspring disapproves.
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Read More »Are Start-ups Overfunded?
Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder and Facebook president, says early-stage investors will fund almost anything these days. That's not good. The normally party-happy but press-shy tech entrepreneur Sean Parker was a bit of a buzzkill on the subject of Silicon Valley Tuesday
Read More »What Do Founders Do All Day?
Do other owners kill cockroaches? Here's a look at what I take care of on a typical Wednesday. 1
Read More »Get Your Focus Back
Took your eye off your goal? Take these suggestions to get back on track. Becky McCray publisher of Small Biz Survival advises how to stay focused day to day
Read More »Occupy Wall Street Moved Out Of Zuccotti A Long Time Ago
Today was perhaps the most emotional day in the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement. Coming shortly after dramatic park clearings in cities such as Oakland (for the second time) and Portland, the epicenter of the movement, Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, was trashed, hosed, and disinfected starting about 1 a.m.
Read More »The Library Treasure Hunt
More adventures in gamifying higher education. One challenge facing journalism educators in this age of instant-access Internet is getting students to leave the warm glow of their computer screens to conduct primary source research
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Reflections from Occupy Wall Street
As the tents are carted away from Zuccotti Park this morning, just blocks away from Inc. Magazine's headquarters, I've been reflecting on the "Occupy" movement. As the tents are carted away from Zuccotti Park this morning, just blocks away from Inc
Read More »How I Launched in Mexico—In Just Three Weeks
Cliff Schertz decided that Mexico was a better spot than India to locate his software start-up. Here's how he got it going in record time.
Read More »"Twilight" Soundtrack Saga: Why There Will Be No "White Wedding" For Bella And Edward
The retail music landscape may be walking dead, but the carefully curated soundtracks to the Twilight franchise are alive and well, thanks to music supervisor Alex Patsavas "marriage" of story and song, featured in the upcoming Breaking Dawn--Part 1. Darkness may have washed over the retail music landscape (RIP, Tower Records ; Fare thee well, Virgin Megastore ), but hordes of teenagers dressed in black and clutching hardcover books nonetheless descended upon Hot Topic stores in malls across America last weekend for a nationally synchronized CD listening party. On November 5th , Twi-hards, those obsessive, dedicated fans of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series and the blockbuster movies it spawned, gathered to listen to the soundtrack to Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn--Part 1, just as they had in 2008 , 2009 , and 2010 .
Read More »Penn State: What Would Your Employees Have Done?
Mike McQueary's failure to stop the crime he witnessed was tragic, but not unusual. How can you be sure your employees would have done better?
Read More »Can The Bump Cube Connect Merchants And Consumers (While The Company Collides With Cash)?
What's the future of Bump? The popular iPhone and Android app , which enables users to share media simply by "bumping" smartphones together, recently hit 63 million downloads. It's likely one of the few social networks that's actually social, requiring physical interaction to work in most cases, with users sharing everything from contacts to apps to music to pictures (close to 2 million photos are bumped over the network per day)
Read More »AmberWatch TV Dials In On Child Abuse, Cyberbullying
The AmberWatch Foundation amps up its fight against child abuse with a new interactive TV channel that will reach 3 million viewers. Call it kismet, coincidence, or something else. Today AmberWatch TV is launching, right on the heels of the Penn State alledged child sexual abuse case
Read More »How to Spread a Great Idea
Got great ideas? Channel your inner Seth Godin and start spreading them around
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