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He is the founder of Kiip.me, a rewards network and the youngest person to receive funding by a venture capital firm. Advertisement: Helping the first responders respond 25% faster in the City of Madrid.

When Dolores Labs changed its name to CrowdFlower, it left behind a sprawling loft of an office, a hip logo, and a culture of innovation. A VC firm seized the opportunity. When Dan Scholnick of Trinity Ventures was considering investing in San Francisco-based crowdsourcing start-up Dolores Labs, he laid one significant stipulation on the company's CEO, Lukas Biewald

Not all financings are created equal. This is especially true when you factor in the different stages that your company will evolve through over its lifetime

"She doesn’t need customization," WePay co-founder Rich Aberman says of a Nebraska theater major. "She just wants to get up and running quickly." Let’s say you’re a 20 year-old college student, and you want a simple way to sell the crafts you make as a hobby to help fund a summer trip. Where do you go?

From the twisted mind behind some of the funniest, weirdest, cringe-inducing comedy of the last decade comes a new podcast channel born for Funny or Die. At any given moment of the day, you can be in the front row of your own curated comedy club: Conan sidekick Andy Richter yukking it up with comedian-writer Paul F. Tompkins , for instance, or Patton Oswalt expressing deep disgust about well--does it matter?

The company is so ubiquitous it has no incentive to "delight" users. Wikipedia topped the social media sites for customer satisfaction.

A Chicago agency is finding that the best way to tackle a conundrum, no matter how big, is to put the best and brightest together to think it through.

Don't want to compromise on price? Experts explain how to stay competitive based on the value of your product or service to consumers.

The gang behind Plants vs. Zombies just found a broad new audience. It's a clever move--reminiscent of the way bigger gaming houses launch titles--but it carries the whiff of Android fragmentation.

Apple's explosive sales, pondering a Yahoo-Hulu marriage, Spotify's American success, and more.

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Sending young entrepreneurs to companies outside of major cities gives struggling economies an infusion of new talent, and budding business people a chance to be at the front lines of innovative startups. Schools and startups in economically challenged areas share a similar problem: a difficulty in attracting and retaining young talent. Teach For America has worked for decades towards fixing the education issue by placing top-notch college graduates in struggling schools.

Understanding people through direct experience has become a forgotten part of American business. Here's how strangers can and should help shape brands. As I crawled up to the 19th floor, stumbling over broken glass, old beer cans, rat droppings, and a smell that made me gag, I found my way to apartment number 19294--my home for the next two days

In the future, electric cars will work together with the smart grid to charge at off-peak hours and put energy back into the grid when its needed. For the first time, we're seeing this plan in action. Automakers and power companies have talked for years about the day when electric cars could work together with the smart grid by charging only during off-peak times and even giving energy in their batteries back to the grid.

I’m going through the steps of starting up FamiliesGo!, a travel planning website for families, and I would like to file the business with New York State as a limited liability company. I have the papers on my desk.