Will Curran turned his passion for entertaining and music into a successful one-stop shop business for teen events. Will Curran loves music. He also loves to entertain.
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Douglas Hanna helps run a company with revenue in the millions and keeps your website online--when hes not in class. Douglas Hanna is the CEO of a multi-million dollar company, but you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at his office filled with mostly empty desks. But Hanna is confident that business is steadily humming—just not there
Read More »Technology For Generation Next: Teens in Tech Labs
Why Microsoft is backing a technology incubator for teens, an idea that Daniel Brusilovsky came up with at 15 years old. Daniel Brusilovsky started his first business when he was 14.
Read More »Turns Shipping Containers into Med Clinics: G3Box
Through their young company, Gabrielle Palermo and her three co-founders are donating clinics to those in need. In 2009, Gabrielle Palermo entered Arizona State University to pursue a medical degree because she wanted to help people in need
Read More »Making Gift-Giving a Cinch: BetterBoo
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Read More »Doing it for the Troops: Salute the Brave
Ryan Morris launched Salute the Brave, a clothing line designed to give back to the United States military members stationed overseas. After being cut from the University of Southern California baseball team, Ryan Morris was devastated. Baseball had been his life and without it, he knew that things were going to change.
Read More »Cracking the iPhone: iCracked
A college student stealing business from Apple? AJ Forsythe has built his business on fixing iPhone cheaper and more conveniently. AJ Forsythe was becoming one of Apple’s best customers
Read More »Knight News Challenge Gives Away $5 Million On Tumblr
The 2012 Knight News Challenge is looking for a few good journalism projects to receive $5 million in funding... but applicants share their ideas with Tumblr's user base
Read More »What Good Bosses Do With Bad Apples
This is the second in a series excerpted from a new chapter in the paperback version of Good Boss, Bad Boss , a New York Times bestseller by Robert Sutton .
Read More »With At Bat 12, MLB Pitches New Features And New Pricing
For the hard-wired and digitally wired baseball fan, the season doesn't start when pitchers and catchers report to spring training. It starts when At Bat reports to the iTunes store. The wildly popular app, made by MLB Advanced Media (BAM for short), puts live game video, live stats, and the latest news and scores at your fingertips on a smart phone or tablet
Read More »5 Innovative Uses Of Timeline For Facebook Pages
More than a pretty new layout, here are the ways Timeline is helping everyone from Coldplay to Sierra Club and The New York Times to Doctors Without Borders rethink their public personas. Facebook rolled out its Timeline format for brands this week. It's still early, but we've already seen how the new format opens up fresh opportunities for businesses.
Read More »When Loyalty Programs Are A Waste Of Money
In times like these, cost cutting and streamlining are compelling business strategies. Business executives sometimes have second thoughts about their loyalty programs and ask our consultants whether it’s really worth the cost.
Read More »Learning To Be A Power Listener
In business, the consequences of failing to properly frame or assess an issue can be dire. Often such a misdiagnosis is the result of not having the right information. Though the necessary information is often available, businesspeople sometimes don't know how to find it or don't see it in front of them.
Read More »How To Lose Friends And Alienate Twitter Followers: 5 Stupid Social Media Mistakes
When I interviewed entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki recently, I chatted
Read More »New-Hire Training: 5 Foolproof Steps
Here's how I make sure my employees are ready to help our customers.
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