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Business owners sometimes make these common revenue-killing mistakes.

SXSW Interactive is one of the biggest tech and start-up conferences of the year. It's also overwhelming.

Whether youre launching a start-up or looking to grow a mature business, you wont get very far unless you stick to these basics. Being around other entrepreneurial CEOs is invigorating and a great way to step back and think about the basics of your business

These techniques will help you to recharge your organization's culture climate.

How to determine you're on a dead-end business path. Tips from Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, and Marc Barros, CEO of Contour hands-free video cameras.

[twistage 84d3fb5e5b41c] As a Senior Researcher for Microsoft, danah boyd , (yes, all lowercase, she had her name legally changed), studies how we work, live, and play on the Internet. While the well-known researcher truly loves social media and the online universe, she also understands that sometimes we all need to turn off and tune out.

Getty Images has just signed up the snapshots of photographer Nick Laham into its photo archive, ready to license them out for use online, in newspapers, or even on TV. That's not a shocker seeing as this is what Getty does.

You may be too proud to admit it, but you've probably Googled yourself at one point or another. And why not?

These behaviors drive employees crazy and limit your own advancement. Here's how to avoid them. Being the boss is hard work, but it's even harder if you're stumbling over your own mistakes

Job descriptions are about following the rules. Innovation is about challenging them.

Meet Elle Luna, a former IDEO designer who believes design plays a role at every stage of the process--even before teams start to think visually. Elle Luna calls herself a "designer, storyteller, and startup advisor." As a mentor at the Designer Fund , which believes designers should be startup founders rather than late-stage additions, Luna feels designers have a role to play at every stage of the process, including the gleam-in-eye phase. FAST COMPANY: You recently left your position at the major design firm IDEO

They're small things--but they can completely change someone's day. I left the company years ago for another but I still run into former colleagues. Usually the ensuing conversation involves something along the lines of, “Hey, did you hear about the (latest management decision I think is really stupid) at the plant?” This question was different

Getting customer feedback is essential in the early stages of your company--but it's what you do with it that determines your fate. Note: A version of this post first appeared on steveblank.com . The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers

Jay Lapeyre, president of global manufacturing company Laitram LLC, shares why his company's history of innovation (it was the first ever automate shrimp peeling via machinery) and commitment to quality gives it an edge against a growing number of overseas copycats.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Getty Images Licenses Instagram-shot Yankees Series . Smartphone photo app Instagram has got the Getty Images seal of approval