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Its a fact: More companies fail than succeed.

Lisa Kornstein shrugged off her husbands and her doctors advice that she slow down. She has since divorced and opened a fourth store. The best medicine Lisa Kornstein shrugged off her husband's and her doctors' advice that she slow down.

Bar and nightlife consultant Jon Taffer talks about helping businesses be profitable and hosting a new reality show on Spike TV. In-your-face business consultant Jon Taffer has spent 20 years turning around struggling food, beverage, and nightlife companies

Author Richard P. Rumelt offers three simple steps to developing a strategy for your business. The book: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, by Richard P.

The rock celebrity launches a new retailing business, called AbbeyDawn.com. Like many celebrities hoping to break into fashion, Avril Lavigne partnered with a big national retailer when she launched her Abbey Dawn clothing line in 2008. Just two years later, though, the business-savvy pop star and Kohl's ended their relationship, and Lavigne set out to build a global apparel company

Tech Trends columnist John Brandon gave two DIY app building tools a whirl. Here are the results. Over the past few months, I've been getting loads of PR pitches about software that lets you create your own smartphone applications—no coding or design skills required

Entrepreneur Parag Shah explains how he uses MeetingMix to plan meetings and keep track of minutes. My product development agency helps companies bring innovative ideas to market.

The giant robots in the new Transformer movies are all computer-generated. The ear-rattling sounds, however, are 100% real. Right down to the tiger with emphysema playing Megatron.

You can plan a relaxing summer vacationeven if you're the boss. Here's how: Fifty-four percent of American adults say they won't take a vacation this summer, according to a Rasmussen poll taken in May. And it can be particularly tough for entrepreneurs who are the lifeblood of their businesses.

The June SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard is a bit of d

Social-gaming powerhouse Zynga just filed its S-1 to raise up to $1 billion in IPO. It appears virtual farms and online cities have treated the San Francisco-startup well: Zynga pulled in $91 million in profit on sales of $597 million. What's more, revenue is rocketing

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Navman Wireless’s Vice President, Renaat Ver Eecke . What Renaat said about how he led his company to success sounded very similar to Adrian Slywotzky’s hassle map . Below, Renaat describes how market research led to big success for Navman Wireless.

There are now 100,000 iPad apps, a new look for Gmail, the mysterious Hamptons ATM millionaire, and more.

Jack Dorsey's Square is on a ($100 million) tear this week, but the competition is heating up--and they have bigger plans for a wireless payment future that could arrive as soon as next year. Square just received a $100 million cash injection and is now valued at a cool $1 billion

VCs do not support an entrepreneur in a garage with a vision or an entrepreneur who just got his first product out the door. VCs focus on rapidly growing businesses that can be scaled in the very near future--so they can simply cash out. It's been a year since my article " Angel Investors More Powerful Than VCs "