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What can science reveal about our “character” -- that core of good, or evil, that shapes our moral behavior? The answer, according to a new book, is that there may not be much of a core, after all.

Passion alone is typically what drives a founder to get a new business off the ground.

This article is part 7 of an 8 part series. Read part 6 here . Geoffrey Moore’s latest book, Dealing with Darwin , addresses how to achieve innovation at each stage of a company’s development.

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My desk used to have a very large pile of envelopes stacked in the corner. It included notices from various agencies in the states in which our employees live, pitches from would-be business partners, personal correspondence, and too many other things to list. Under the desk was a box, which contained all of the stuff that had been crowded off my desk

A public digital forum in every book is the Dutch startup Openmargin's aim. It even thinks it can make money at it.

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Baby boomers have been nicknamed the "Silver Tsunami" for their impact on every facet of society. Now, as 76,000,000 of them reach age 60 and beyond, it seems they either can't or don't want to stop working.

A few days ago , I met Ben, a first-time founder who's been working on his business idea for 10 months. I asked him to give me the two minute overview of his business idea (or the "elevator pitch" in investor speak)

1. Google is taking its war with Apple to a new front: video rentals in iTunes (currently the industry leader). YouTube has apparently sealed all the required deals with movie studios to enable on-demand streaming of movies from major studios--an evolution of its (slightly disastrous) experiment with renting indie movies a while back

This article is Part 5 of an 8 part series.

Former Wall Street Journal fashion journalist Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan was toying with the idea of writing a food memoir when she was laid off in 2009. She promptly landed a book deal and spent the next year traveling to Singapore to research what became the just-out A Tiger in the Kitchen

We continue our examination of the business book First, Break All the Rules with an interview of author Marcus Buckingham. Why did he write the book, and why are managers more important than leaders?

Ramon Ray, journalist and editor at Smallbiztechnology.com , sums it up perfectly: "Small businesses can do BIG things using low-cost technology and readily available expertise." It doesn't matter if you're running a business out of your home, the local Starbucks (free Internet), or an abandoned warehouse, if you have the right tools to reel in a large consumer base, it's not necessarily important how small your business is because it's doing big things.

Ramon Ray, journalist and editor at Smallbiztechnology.com , sums it up perfectly: "Small businesses can do BIG things using low-cost technology and readily available expertise." It doesn't matter if you're running a business out of your home, the local Starbucks (free Internet), or an abandoned warehouse, if you have the right tools to reel in a large consumer base, it's not necessarily important how small your business is because it's doing big things.