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Why I Hired My Replacement

Elias, the co-founder and CEO of Red Ventures, explains how he grew his company by giving up control. Nearing the end of 2009 , Ric Elias made a decision that would make most entrepreneurs cringe: He ceded control of his day-to-day business operations to four of his managers.

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Sell What Your Customers Want

Honest Tea CEO Seth Goldman explains how he made the mistake of selling what he wanted to drink, instead of what his customers wanted.

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Kickstarter Fights Patent

Kickstarter is asking that a patent be invalidated--or at least, that it not be found to be infringing upon it. Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website that helps advance original ideas, is under attack for being a copycat.

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Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

Apple co-founder Jobs was one of those people who kept topping himself, writes veteran technology journalist Lee Gomes. Here's a look back through Jobs's life as entrepreneur, designer, and ultimately, icon. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who pioneered the personal-computer industry and became an emblem of Internet-era culture, died Wednesday at the age of 56.

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How to Kill Good Ideas

As brainstorming has become customary, has it also lost its sparkle, and value, for your company? Here's where you may have gone wrong, and what to avoid in the future

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Lessons Learned: Beer Taps to Well Pumps

charity:water founder and CEO Scott Harrison tells the story of how he went from being a nightclub promoter to building one of the fastest growing charities ever.

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Apple Pie Redux: The Tastiest iPhone 5 Rumors Debunked/Verified

Apple's new CEO Tim Cook, and senior execs Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall just revealed all we need to know about the iPhone 5 and what was rumored or expected to be a suite of new Apple hardware and software products and tweaks. Some of what we thought was going to happen happened. Some of it, for reasons we'll understand later, didn't.

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Meet The iPhone 4S–It’s What’s Inside That Counts

It's here, Apple's iPhone 5, or rather the iPhone 4S--ending a ton of speculation about its name, and spurring hundreds of "what, no iPhone 5?" comments from webizens who'd been hoping for that exciting-sounding re-design to surface. The thing is, though, the iPhone for 2011 is very similar in external design to the iPhone for 2010, but its real selling power is what's inside

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