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Meet Sen Sugano, Director of Business Development at the dinner-with-strangers startup.

Need a good hired gun? Here's what to look for. I'm a freelancer

Some of your best business opportunities will be at social events. How to bring out your inner schmoozer. Some of my best business connections have been made out of the office, over food and drink

Sometimes little things make a big difference.

They seem like friendly, harmless queries, but they can land you in a serious legal tar pit. Here's how to learn safely what you need to know.

Moves that every entrepreneur should steal from the Tom Coughlin playbook. Following one of the most thrilling Super Bowl games in history, the New York Giants are champions of the world

Take the time to discover which customers add the most value to your business. The CEO of one of our clients , a public company that provides credit card processing services to merchants, had a problem: The company had consistently delivered revenue growth rates better than most of its competitors, but its price-earnings multiple was lower than those companies.

Streaming the Super Bowl was smart.

As a business owner, if you can tap into the passion of your workforce the same way that Wikipedia taps into its army of unpaid volunteers, you can accomplish things that no amount of money can buy. Have you ever stopped to consider how remarkable Wikipedia is? The online encyclopedia represents arguably the greatest collection of knowledge and information ever assembled--and the overwhelming majority of the work in creating and maintaining it has been done by unpaid volunteers .

The foundation's recent public relations mess offers valuable takeaways for small businesses. Last week, we saw one of the country’s most well-known cancer research advocacy organizations, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, go from being revered to reviled.

Yes, producing a podcast is a lot of work, but you are missing a major revenue driver if you don't.

The Coinstar subsidiary announces plans to partner with Verizon to compete with streaming video giants Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. Coinstar subsidiary Redbox today announced a new partnership with Verizon for the launch of a streaming video service.

In the 30 years since In Search of Excellence was published, critics have found flaws in its methodology, its content, and even its writing style.

An MBA can cost you upward of $100,000. Will the investment really to pay off?

Firing someone is hard -- but getting fired is always harder.