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Today, Blackbox launched the Startup Genome Compass, a benchmarking tool designed to help entrepreneurs keep track of their startups' progress and know what to do next, based on data from more than 3,200 startups and research from Berkeley and Stanford. Many a bright-eyed entrepreneur heads west hoping to strike it big in the Silicon Valley startup game, yet 94% of them fail

A few months ago, the team at Blackbox seed accelerator set out to decode the "genetics" behind successful startups (See this short piece at Fast Company and also " Love in Startup Land ."). Their initial report, the Startup Genome Project , surveyed over 600 tech startup companies in Silicon Valley and around the world and gave them insights that let them continue their survey.

Google's digital marketing evangelist breaks down five steps to starting your company on the right web-analytics track. There are world-class analytics tools available for free from both Yahoo and Google that will get you more data than God ever intended you to have. Yet, perhaps shockingly, a vast majority of decisions website owners make are based on faith rather than data

Take a look around you. Are you surrounded by clean, uncluttered space or piles of paper, old magazines, dirty coffee cups and little items begging for a home? If clutter has taken over your space, think about how it makes you feel.

Encouraging your employees' creativity can not only create an engaging work environment, but create new business. Seven experts share their tips on getting employees to share their ideas. The origin of the humble Post-It Note is perhaps the best-known story about a million-dollar innovation that sprang from an unexpected place within a company

What happens when a software company owner, a roller coaster designer, and a condom maker walk into a monastery?

Can you predict change? Michael Raynor, author of The Innovator's Manifesto, explains his theory for identifying disruption early, and dramatically changing your industry. What if we could predict which businesses would survive, and which would crumble

A look at the key milestones--and quotes--that shaped this true visionary's career 1955: Steve Jobs was born and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, a machinist and an accountant, in Mountain View, CA. 1974: After one semester at Reed College, Jobs, at age 19, drops out and takes a job at Atari, but leaves shortly later to travel India

Starting a business has its challenges.

The company famous for the BlackBerry smartphone and the recent PlayBook tablet is trying to maintain its stronghold on small businesses. RIM is on the ropes

Collaboration tool Yammer has announced Yammer Connect, a suite of plug-ins that let you integrate Yammer’s capabilities into other business applications.

The discovery of lager yeast's parentage has implications for brewers, and Diego Libkind, the primary researcher on a new study, is already tapping into some of these ideas. A new discovery has unlocked the secret story of lager beer’s South American origins, and is letting scientists piece together the genetic history of the domesticated microbe that keeps lager cool.

Citelighter makes web research tools. CollegeHumor makes fun of everything.

Almost every car company in the world relies on Renesas computer chips for its electronics. The only factory in the world where Renesas chips are made is in Naka, Japan. Devastated by the March earthquake, the factory had to get quickly back into chips.

More than 20 percent are seeing drops of more than 25 percent. One in five small businesses are reporting that profits are plummeting by more than 25 percent compared to last year, says a new survey