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Can you set out to fail? Yes, in fact, you can -- if you do one of the following things. Fellow Inc.com columnist Paul Schoemaker recently wrote about how mistakes can be the secret to success

With a $5,000 monthly budget, Buyosphere cofounder Tara Hunt has a dilemma. How would you spend it? When I landed a job at my first start-up I wasn't given a marketing budget.

In our last India edition of The Great Tech War of 2012 , we noted how Facebook was emerging as a clear winner. Since then, things have gotten more competitive.

The biggest names in jazz have flocked to a basement in New York City's Greenwich Village: Lorraine Gordon's The Village Vanguard. Here's how she did it. For 77 years , the biggest names in jazz have flocked to a basement in New York City's Greenwich Village

Sometimes, the best way to improve something is to begin again from scratch. Even if it's your top-selling product. In 2004, 37signals, the software company I co-founded, released a Web-based project-management and collaboration tool called Basecamp.

The latest tactic in the tech talent hunt: Get your techies to blog about how smart they are. On July 21, Filip Mares sparked a small uproar in the blogosphere with the following posting: "In order to query the post from memory, we bind a click event function to retrieve the contents for the < l i > id in question," he asserted.

By the time Norm's new hotel opens, it will have been booked for the next three years, and therein lies an important lesson for any entrepreneur. The news from Tioga, North Dakota, is that Black Gold Suites—the new hotel I'm building there (see "Black Gold for You and Me," September 2011)—will open on March 1. But don't bother trying to get a reservation: By then, we'll have been booked up for the next three years

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A behind-the-scenes look at the small companies that make business possible at a busy salon training-ground in Milwaukee. Vic

Marketing today is all about geography, as companies try to appeal to local tastes on a global scale, writes John A. Quelch. The book: All Business Is Local: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World, by John A.

People do business with people they like.

Looking for a supportive start-up community in which to launch your venture but hoping to skip the extreme competition of the likes of Silicon Valley? If you hurry, New Orleans may be the answer.

Bigger, wealthier rivals can and will stack the deck against you. And they will involve lawyers.

Turnaround specialist Glen Blickenstaff, in the fourth of five articles, explains how to turn a failing company into a breakout success.

Sometimes the Web services you rely on crash... or get taken down by the feds (sorry, Megaupload.com!).