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Co-founder Marc Nager reveals why the Startup Weekend model fosters the most innovative ideas. Startup Weekend is simply an event that challenges teams to start a company in one weekend

Hit a performance wall? Here are four ways to break through it.

Watch out, Craigslist: Cinchified aims to match buyers and sellers in a ridiculously simple way.

Hint: It's harder than it sounds. Here's how we make it work, and stay happy while running a successful business.

Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, on how she came up with the idea for footless pantyhose.

Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, explains the steps she took to land her girdles on Oprah and, ultimately, built the Spanx brand. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/sara-blakely/how-sara-blakely-got-spanx-on-oprah.html Advertisement: Are your best customers still out there?

Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, talks about how she picked her team members, handled public relations, and avoided paying for advertising. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/sara-blakely/how-sara-blakely-grew-spanx.html Advertisement: Are your best customers still out there?

How Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, took $5,000 and an idea for footless pantyhose, and turned it into a multi-million dollar women's undergarment business. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/sara-blakely/the-spanx-story-how-sara-blakely-turned-footless-pantyhose-into-a-business.html Advertisement: Are your best customers still out there?

Last year saw the explosion of deals companies trying to duplicate the success of first-mover Groupon.

A new report shows that venture capitalists invested much more in 2011 than in 2010 -- but that the amount of money going into seed-stage deals plummeted.

Two consumer electronics retailers: One gets it, the other doesn't even come close. One of the biggest mistakes Web designers make is cram too much information on a homepage

For the entrepreneur, creative capital can be the catalyst to compel investors to sign on earlier in the start-up process. In 2006, after designing products and brands for other companies for 12 years under ASTRO Studios (my design firm), I teamed up with some outstanding business partners and spun-off a separate, product producing, direct-to-consumer brand of premium video gaming products called ASTRO Gaming

Is there anyone outside of your company challenging you to grow yourself and your business? The "Master Mind Group" I am in is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year

At a Hewlett Packard event in late October, company suits showed off the latest HP tablet: the Slate 2. The second version of the Slate 500, HP's Slate 2 is a thick, Windows 7-based device targeting the enterprise that comes with a stylus and starts at $699. It might be hard for consumers to imagine buying this tablet over the best-selling iPad 2, which starts at just $499.

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. Here's how to leverage their expertise to keep your company growing. Your company can have the most sophisticated equipment, the sleekest facilities, the best location and in-demand products, but none of it works without the human touch.