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Want to pitch TechStars Founder David Cohen? You better make sure your pitch looks like this.

Firms like Intuit, eBay, and PayPal are intensely focused on improving online user experience. Here's five more ways you can be, too. I recently posted the Top 5 Habits of Customer-Obsessed Companies , gleaned from the work done at my digital consultancy, AnswerLab, with companies who dominate the digital space like LinkedIn, Intuit, and eBay

Microsoft is letting you try its latest operating system before you buy. Here are the business features not to miss.

Investors reveal what grabs their attention--and what makes them cringe. For a certain kind of tech start-up founder, the pitch contest offers a thrill that few other events can deliver: You have only a few terror-filled minutes to successfully demo your product (using shaky wi-fi, no less) in front of a firing line of judges who can—and will—find holes in your idea big enough to drive a truck through. I've spent the last two days camped out at this year's Launch Festival , a tech start-up competition in San Francisco founded by entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis, where more than 40 start-ups competed for more than $1 million in prizes and seed capital.

There are methods and techniques used by the highest-paid and most successful people in our society to get paid more money for what they do and get promoted faster to higher levels of authority and responsibility.

What if your brand was sucked into a controversy it had nothing to do with? Here's how it happens.

Kenny Nguyen of Big Fish Presentations is ridding the world of humdrum slide shows, one client at a time. Kenny Nguyen, founder and CEO of Big Fish Presentations knows how to give an amazing presentation.

Your creativity may not work in a corporate environment, but could be perfect for starting your own business. In a traditional corporate setting , expressing one’s unique quirks, differences, and opinions is sometimes frowned upon—or even considered a weakness

We're not saying Pinterest won't help your business--it very well might, especially if you're in retail, design or travel. But make sure you're being smart about it. Have you heard about Pinterest, the latest social media darling

Even at the best of times, naming is a contentious and emotional business.

No one has time to listen to chit-chat. Use these tricks to get more out of less in conversations with busy executives. Who has the time now for long conversations

It's easy, it lets you swipe away tasks, and you literally can't get too detailed while using it. And Clear might just be the thing you need to make knocking out tasks fun again. There’s a lot that’s interesting about Clear , an iPhone app that, at its core, makes gradient-colored lists of things

A serial entrepreneur describes her public relations mistakes--so you don't make the same ones.

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Don't just publish a blog willy nilly. Plan, set goals, and--most importantly--know what you're getting into