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If you’re a small business owner with customers on the go, or employees that work in the field or remotely, you may want to provide them with a mobile app to connect with your business.

A New York nonprofit offers money, mentorship, and community to young, underprivileged, urban entrepreneurs. A couple years ago three serial entrepreneurs got together to create a different kind of entrepreneurial venture: a nationwide community that would foster small-business ownership among minorities, and those from low-income areas of America's biggest cities. The result: 100 Urban Entrepreneurs , a nonprofit foundation headquartered in New York that hosts city events where entrepreneurs can pitch start-up business ideas to judges, meet mentors, apply for funding—the best ones get a $10,000 grant—or just sit in the audience and learn from other aspiring entrepreneurs

"I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late, and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette.

Startup fever is in full gear these days. Between the LinkedIn IPO , billion-dollar valuations, and enthusiasm in the investment community, there's a lot of energy around entrepreneurship right now.

Clayton Christensen is someone I greatly admire.

While a quick source of capital, cash advances can be a gamble. Ask yourself these four questions before tapping into this source

On September 15, 2011, the week of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Lower Manhattan and The Pentagon, a group of Inc. Business Owners Council Members and Inc. 5000 honorees from the Greater New York area were given VIP tickets to visit the 9/11 Memorial just steps away from Inc.

Facial recognition, eavesdropping apps, augmented reality...these aren't security protocols but new ways for you to be able to market your business. Marketing isn’t what it used to be.

If there's one movie that should top the queue for Netflix CEO Reed Hastings today, it's

What can your business learn from the innovative ways nonprofits operate today? We've tapped the best ideas and business strategies from seven nonprofits. What good could possibly come from one person giving one dollar at time

If there's one thing entrepreneurs have to work harder for than winning business, it's some well-deserved time off. As mobile technology has made it easier than ever to work from anywhere, it also seems harder than ever to take a non-working vacation. You're expected to be on your smartphone no matter what's going on in your life—at least that's what we tell ourselves.

Most CEOs are hesitant about putting their email address on their company website. Here's why I do it. Yep, I did the unthinkable.

A few short months ago, Netflix made the bold decision to increase the price for its DVD-by-mail and streaming subscription plan by 60% . The announcement inevitably inspired universal vitriol among customers, but Netflix stuck to its guns, saying in a recent earnings call that the negative reaction hadn't been as bad as the company anticipated. Now, however, only a short while since the price plans went into effect, Netflix is singing a much different tune: Mea culpa! Last week the company adjusted its guidance because of worse-than-expected subscriber declines (estimating a loss of 800,000 DVD-by-mail customers and 200,000 streaming customers); its stock price took a huge tumble of 19% (down 44% overall since the price plans were announced); and on Sunday night, CEO Reed Hastings took to Netflix's blog to apologize and offer a slew of (dramatic) solutions.

Web reviews from online everymen are either low-hanging fruit for DIY marketers, the best thing to ever happen to e-shopping, or bait for angry cheapskates.

When Facebook pulled out of the deals space, some people started predicting the end of the industry as a whole.