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Thinking of making the leap from a big corporate executive to a start-up? Do it. Here's why

The path of entrepreneurship isnt smooth. Here are five tips to survive the start-up roller coaster.

Want to pitch TechStars Founder David Cohen? You better make sure your pitch looks like this.

Whether youre pitching a product, an investment, or an idea, these questions will help you seal the deal without any fancy sales pitches or techniques. Convincing other parties to buy into your viewpoint is critical to growing your business.

The last thing we need are more meetings, but having a company-wide gathering will allow you to make sure that everyone is marching toward the same goals. I admit it, all-hands meetings are a tough one, especially if you’ve got a larger small business. At my company, VerticalResponse , we were once split between two floors in a building and didn’t have the luxury of space to get everyone together

A new survey asks accountants to name the most common errors small business owners make when filing taxes. Here's what you need to know this tax season. April 15th is looming.

Your money is just a set of bits these days. So why shouldn't it be treated as such--and make your life easier?

Leslie Bradshaw, president and cofounder of data-visualizing agency JESS3, tells Fast Company how her company's culture is the fiber that keeps her far-flung team working together successfully.

Cofounder and CEO Ben Silbermann also talks APIs and affiliate links at SXSW. Pinterest, the addictive image collection and sharing site, will soon release a new profile page, possibly as soon as this week, and expand the types of items people can collect to include video.

Stars can often score hot products before the rest of us.

The cost of starting a business today is lower than ever. If you have an idea, pursue it.

You don't have to be beholden to a particular location.

When it comes to selling your company, the rules are not so obvious Is a dollar a dollar no matter what the source? Should you lavish attention on your biggest client? Or the most prestigious client?

OneID 's team knows that logging in to site after site is a pain for users--and as a sequence of high-tech hacks have shown, passwords are generally insecure. Which is why OneID's proposing a new tech "next-generation digital identity service" to neatly scoot around both of these issues.

In the quest to win the hearts and minds of the press, you're going to have to do all the work. I'm in the middle of trying to publicize my new series of technology focused parenting books called, The Modern Parent’s Guide . I knew it was going to be difficult: Getting the press to pause its 24/7 schedule to take a look at a book can be a Herculean task.