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Read More »Airbnb Responds To Tenant-Landlord Restraining Order, Battle Over $20,000 Apartment Listing
Landlords are becoming more understanding--even baking Airbnb language right into the lease--but you've got to be honest with them. Yesterday, Brooklynite Chris Dannen told the tale of how he made $20,000 from renting his spare rooms out on accommodations marketplace Airbnb --that is, before his landlord hit him with a restraining order.
Read More »Why Did Mark Zuckerberg Just Join High-End Pinterest Competitor The Fancy?
Is he interested in buying the company, or just a gift for Priscilla? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Read More »NASCAR And Twitter Team Up For Audience Growth
Twitter and NASCAR are debuting a new augmented television project for Sunday's Pocono 400. The partnership goes way beyond hashtags. NASCAR and Twitter are unveiling a new sports product at the Pocono 400 race on Sunday, June 10: A co-branded racing page for fans to follow the event in full-time.
Read More »Facebook Launches App Center
Developers and gaming companies see the social-networking giant's new app-discovery platform as a boon for business. In a move that is sure to make many app developers happy, Facebook this week launched its App Center, which aims to help users find apps to use on Facebook.com, iOS, Android, and the Web. The new platform let users can browse apps by category and find out which apps their friends are using
Read More »To Thine Own Brand Be True
In order for people to buy into your brand, you have to know who you are. You must convey to them that you truly understand the problem you are trying to solve and that you care about their experience. But, unfortunately, startups don’t always think about this from a consumer perspective.
Read More »Make A Web Troll Cry: Watch This Video
This musical ode to those nasty web commenters known as trolls is a bit, well, trollish and NSFW in itself.
Read More »Leadership Lessons From the World’s Top Cop
Collaboration--or lack of it--can determine whether an enterprise survives or fails, William Bratton told an audience at the Inc.
Read More »5 Ways to Win With Creativity
Stuck in a rut? Josh Linkner shared a few ways entrepreneurs can boost their teams' creativity, and use big ideas to beat out big competition. "Stop competing on price and start competing on imagination," Josh Linkner told attendees at the Inc
Read More »8 Big Opportunities to Tap in Water
It's a low-cost commodity, but make no mistake--there's money to be made in water. Water entrepreneurs are problem solvers who look at global issues like water scarcity and failing infrastructure and see opportunity.
Read More »Why Entrepreneurs Will Never Bet the Favorite
A look at the intersection of calculated risk, the minds of entrepreneurs, and why the best business owners make long shot bets. I'll Have Another had a chance to become the 12th horse in history to become a Triple Crown winner, a feat that has not been accomplished since 1978.
Read More »4 Reasons to Love the Facebook IPO
Contrary to popular opinion, the IPO was good for the company and investors.
Read More »Cracking The Venture Capital Glass Ceiling
The founders of True & Co. put lacy thongs in the swag bags at a mostly male tech conference; their eyebrow-raising approach to launching caught the eye of a few women investors
Read More »Keep Your Passwords Safe: 5 Rules
The lesson from LinkedIn's data breach? Most online passwords are easy nuts to crack.
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