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You'll likely take a revenue hit and strain your operations.

How can you tell if your e-commerce company is going to grow or fall flat on its face? These three measurements hold the key.

If you're a Star Trek aficionado, then not only have you heard of the " Kobayashi Maru Scenario " but you can recount it easily to others. For those of you who may not be familiar with it, the Kobayashi Maru Scenario is a no-win situation cadets encounter at the series' Starfleet Academy. In it, the cadet is in command of the Federation ship, responsible for rescuing another Federation vessel (the Kobayashi Maru) from attacking Klingon Warbirds

I recently spent the day with author Andrea Kates, who was challenged to connect the relevance of the working philosophy found in her best-selling book, Find Your Next , with real solutions that can help move businesses forward.

Essential lessons about life turned out to be lessons for business. In my speaking engagements, I often get asked how I decided to focus on culture and employee engagement as the most important drivers for my business

How do you know if your company will succeed? Venture capitalists give their perspectives on traits that define the best start-ups

Sometimes the best way to keep your business growing is to analyze what would bring it to an end. Judge Smails (aka Ted Knight) once famously quipped in the iconic Caddyshack, "It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat

Fast-growing Fab.com joins the expanding list of flash sales sites that are putting the spotlight on small designers. Need to Grow Your Business?

Mistakes are a great way to learn. But why not skip the pain and suffering yourself--at least on these 9 mistakes

Most people wish they could say they do what they love. Here's how one business owner actually made it happen

The best leaders recognize their weaknesses--and struggle through them. I am known as a pretty quick study on most issues I face in my professional career

The formula for a great company is not a business model, or financial projection. I used to think that company culture happened naturally. After starting and building five companies, I've learned that great culture doesn't just happen—you need to make it happen

How one company re-incentivized its sale force to pursue high-value customers. All customers are not equal

Believe it or not, the founder of Reddit also has to avoid spending all day killing time on Reddit. Here's his advice for staying productive. Reddit is arguably the most successful social news site on the Internet

Yesterday Coinstar, the parent company of Redbox, the 35,400-kiosk-strong movie-rental service, announced a joint venture with Verizon to provide a subscription-based streaming video service, thus positioning the companies in direct competition with Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Coinstar also announced that it would acquire NCR's entertainment business , which includes its former rival Blockbuster Express, adding more than 9,000 kiosks to Redbox's roster around the country. Now new details about the combined companies' plans have emerged.