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Feed SubscriptionWhy 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.
Read More »Steve Jobs Dead at 56
Co-founder and former CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, has died at the age of 56.
Read More »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.
Read More »Live Chat With Eric Ries
Eric Ries is an entrepreneur, business advisor and author of The Lean Startup.
Read More »Are Wimps Bad for Business?
Ric Elias discusses why fear is bad for business at the Inc. 500|5000 Conference
Read More »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.
Read More »Free Sneakers And Gym Memberships: Just Perks Or Smart Policy?
The Republic of Tea invests heavily in its employees well being. CEO Ron Rubin says it's not just about lowering health care costs, but about the company living its own values
Read More »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.
Read More »What If You Can’t Give Things Away?
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Read More »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
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Janine Benyus: Biomimicry Is Innovation Inspired By Nature
Janine Benyus helped bring the word "biomimicry" into 21st century vocabularies. What is biomimicry? Let Benyus explain in this video
Read More »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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