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"Oh, great! Another cupcake shop!" I hear these words as soon as I step onto M Street, the posh, townhouse-lined retail thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., and most lately the raging epicenter of the great American cupcake pandemic. I'm standing in front of an outpost of Sprinkles, a California cupcake chain that joined the fray just the week before.

"Oh, great! Another cupcake shop!" I hear these words as soon as I step onto M Street, the posh, townhouse-lined retail thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., and most lately the raging epicenter of the great American cupcake pandemic.

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Sooner or later, every growing company reaches a point at which the entrepreneur behind it should start wondering whether he or she is the right person to be CEO. The answer has a lot to do with the company’s stage of development.

Our top pick, the 3.3-pound ThinkPad, which lasts 6.5 hours fully charged, aced our Photoshop test, applying a Liquify effect, used for retouching photos, in 44 seconds. Video looked crisp on the 12.5-inch screen

I'm not a born networker. I go to a lot of events and conferences, but I'm not great at walking up to strangers, unless I have a specific goal in mind. Even when I do go home with a fistful of business cards, there's a good chance they'll wind up crammed in the back of a drawer

The "aha" moment: Thomas Davis was working out at a Pittsburgh YMCA one afternoon in 2009 when he noticed his fellow gymgoers moving their sweaty towels from one machine to the next. Davis, a former consumer products consultant at Pfizer, thought there might be demand for a more hygienic gym towel.

Overseas roaming charges tend to add up during international travel. EZ Roam, a new cell-phone service available in 170 countries, has an alternative.

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I run a market research firm with a virtual office. My two partners and I have 20 employees around the country.

A real-life version of the tracking devices seen on detective shows, the Garmin GTU 10 lets you keep tabs on prized possessions. The waterproof GPS transmitter, which is roughly the size of a cigarette lighter and weighs 1.7 ounces, comes with a case, a carabiner ring, and an adhesive strip for attaching it to objects—a briefcase, say, or a dog collar

With so many people using smartphones, everyone is searching for ways to reach would-be customers on mobile apps and websites. Here are three mobile-advertising services tailored for different business needs

The study: "The Social Attachment to Place," by Michael S. Dahl, Aalborg University; and Olav Sorenson, Yale School of Management; published in the journal Social Forces. The finding: Proximity to family and friends is a more important factor than wages when people consider a new job

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