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There is an unprecedented opportunity today to make money while doing good for the world. Here's how to find a place to break in.

The founder of Alltop.com explains his social media strategy (and tells uis why Google+ may overtake Facebook). Guy Kawasaki wears many hats.

There's a weird tendency among business owners: to hire clones of themselves.

All customers ask the same questions--of themselves & of you--in this exact order. If you want to sell more, be prepared to answer them.

This is the only way to win at networking: Always offer to help. Never expect anything in return. I call it Golden Rule of Networking, and it should permeate all your networking efforts

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These mobile apps can help keep track of business expenses by logging each trip and creating IRS-friendly reports.

After a couple dozen successes, Howard Tullman is building Flashpoint Academy, which he calls the front seat of the world stage. From the moment he queues up a movie, boots his computer, and hits the treadmill at 4 a.m.—unfathomably refreshed after three hours' sleep—Tullman is a blur. By 8 a.m., having consumed several newspapers, watched half a film (he sees about 120 a year for professional reasons), and cleared his first 100 e-mails, he arrives at Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, the showplace digital-media-arts college he built one summer in Chicago while all the normal people were at the beach

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New Hampshire's Capital Well is facing a classic predicament; Its core product is rapidly becoming commoditized. It needs to innovate--fast. Here's how

When Vibram had trouble meeting demand for its popular FiveFingers running shoes, the market became flooded with counterfeit, nearly identical, shoes. Here's how it fought back.

Here's how New York City's Big Fuel created a system to help new employees find their way, and stay put. Over the past year, Big Fuel has seen its revenue more than triple, to $40 million, and its head count swell, from 70 employees to 140. But with growth comes growing pains.

Butch & Harold's peel-and-stick wall art, dry-erase boards, and sticker picture frames were a hit with retailers, but online sales were nearly nil.

If nine out of 10 entrepreneurs are starting Web-based businesses. Is that trouble? I spend a lot of time traveling and talking to aspiring entrepreneurs

He's the frequent subject of Meg's Column.