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Are you aware of the little ways you damage your reputation and your business? Here's how to maintain your self-respect and that of others. I'm sure you have either heard or said at one time or another the phrase, "Do as I say, not as I do." The phrase is so overused, in fact, that people generally consider it to be clich

I’ve been directing or advising innovation and commercialization efforts in Silicon Valley for most of my career. While the popular stories we tell about innovation usually focus on eureka moments and brilliant individuals, anyone involved in successful innovation knows that getting a new product to market is often more about convincing smart people to back your idea, corralling lots of different agendas, aligning incentives, and navigating bureaucracies.

Don't overlook the survey power of social media channels, says Idea Paint's Jeff Avallon. Plus, tips from Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.

Austin Evarts of GoChime believes that the future of social media advertising is the person-to-person pitch--and that the human element can never be automated. In other words: Social media is people! Austin Evarts is the CEO of GoChime , a platform that mines social media for phrases like “I want” and “I need,” and then uses an army of brand advocates to respond with special offers. Live on Twitter , GoChime is working on expanding to Facebook , Pinterest , and Instagram .

If you have similar products in your portfolio, setting pricing that enable both of them to succeed can be a big challenge. Here's how to do it.

Law & Order: Intellectual Property Unit. We're gonna spider, parse, and scan like it's 1998, when Lycos acquired patents that could cost Google hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties. To understand the patent mess that is gripping Silicon Valley right now, you need to travel across the country to a dark-paneled federal courtroom in Norfolk, Virginia, just down the block from Bob's Gun Shop.

Incremental success can lull you into dangerous complacency.

Sally Hogshead, author of Fascinate: Your Seven Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation explains how to exploit your own personality traits in order to knock anyone's socks off. Sally Hogshead is in an unenviable position. As the author of a book called Fascinate: Your Seven Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation, she addresses audiences who will feel shortchanged if their socks aren't knocked off.

Avoid profit-killing discounts and price wars by differentiating yourself, your firm and your offering from the competition. When you're selling against a lower-priced competitor, you have two choices: discount or differentiate.

Members of the Young Entrepreneur Council answer the question: What's your best tip for staying on task in a busy start-up?

Pitching your company to investors daunting. We know that firsthand.

Author Laura Vanderkam reveals how highly successful people put their pre-breakfast hours to use and explains how you can be more like them. The day may have 24 hours of equivalent length but author Laura Vanderkam says not every hour is created equal

Wayne Embree, a vice president at the Oklahoma City nonprofit incubator i2E, offers five tips for entrepreneurs who want to make the most of small- and medium-sized markets.

Inclusion draws upon the two-way nature of real human conversation. Yet inclusive communication goes a crucial step further: It extends the practice of back-and-forth interaction in a way that entitles people to give as well as take--to provide their own ideas, and not simply to parry the ideas offered by others