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Marc Lore and Vinit Bharara lure moms to their websites to buy diapers, soaps, and other essentials. Quick delivery, simple experience, and good customer service gets them to return.

Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann explains why the social network updated its profile pages, and future plans for more extensive changes. Earlier this week, we heard a vague promise from Pinterest's founder Ben Silbermann : The fast-growing social bulletin-board website would be adding user profiles by week's end. Voila! On Friday morning Pinterest introduced profile pages that showcase a user's photo more prominently, as well as the other individuals that user most often re-pins

Bot Vid: Robo Squirrel Working with wild rattlesnakes is not exactly the safest or simplest job in the world. It's harder to study them in a realistic enviroment than friendlier, less fang-y animals...like squirrels

The best gauge of a company's longterm health? Mindshare

Stop trying to balance the mythical scales so that work and family demands and rewards are exactly even.

The president of the Zen Marketing Group explains how being an entrepreneur is similar to being a newlywed, and other great advice she's received. Being an entrepreneur is similar to being a newlywed: Everyone has a piece of advice to "gift" you with

Susan Davenport, senior vice president of the Austin Chamber of Commerce, tells Fast Company how the city--home to the uber-popular SXSW festival--stays vibrant. [twistage a61f4ef0faa88] Want more great ideas from top entrepreneurs? Our cameras were at SXSW; check out more videos on 30SecondMBA .

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Meet Roy Gilbert, a former Googler and the CEO of "social learning" company Grockit, who finds similarities between his experience aboard a nuclear attack sub and the world of Silicon Valley. Roy Gilbert is the CEO of Grockit , a 3-year-old social learning company that aims to make test prep more fun, and in the process hopes to democratize what companies like Kaplan typically peddle to the relatively well-to-do. Grockit's users are on track to soon answer their collective 15 millionth question, and each day the site gains more users than would fill the chair-desks of a pair of American high schools

Want to get more done? Then stop using this time-sucking class of words

Vision will push you to reach higher, has to come before anything else, and must be the center of all decisions.

While luck isn't an exact science, there are certainly ways to cultivate your own luck. Here are six easy ways. Many entrepreneurs believe their success is in part due to a little bit of luck-- that chance meeting with a potential investor or that dinner conversation that sparks a new idea.

In a world of near-constant innovation and disruption, the definition of a great boss (or leader or manager) may be the one thing that doesn't require reinvention. This is the fourth in a series excerpted from a new chapter in the paperback version of Good Boss, Bad Boss , a New York Times best-seller by Robert Sutton . Read the three other installments here .

Dont add to the marketer bashing: avoid these pitfalls and be a marketing hero. Why all the hating for marketers? It seems that those of us responsible for creating a compelling message about products and services are under some heat these days.

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