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The worst of the economic plummet appears to be over. Use this upswing to your advantage with these tips on getting the money your business needs. It would be an understatement to say small business lending has taken a significant blow over the past few years.

Google+, Netflix for theaters, Egypt's new incubator, living on Groupon for a week, and more. Google introduces its own social network.

Adrian Slywotzky is an expert in profitability, evident in such books as The Profit Zone and Profit Patterns .

Yep, it's still the economy stupid, and the former president is talking small business and job creation at the Clinton Global Initiative this week. With job creation at the heart of the economic discussion in America, former President Bill Clinton will soon be joining the conversation in a big way

There was a point over the winter where every germ in New York City seemed to find its way to my doorstep and I was alternating between playing nurse and patient for from mid-February to the end of March. No problem. One of the perks of being an entrepreneur is that you’re the boss.

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We must think about biotechnology differently, says Reshma Shetty , cofounder of Boston-based startup Ginkgo BioWorks. And we must evolve how we view the science's purpose and participants. During a recent talk at Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business event, Shetty, No.

Discover how to find angel investors and make an impact once you do meet with them. There are critical steps you need to take to be prepared, find out what they are

If a brand can describe its core values and philosophy on its business card without a detailed description, the brand becomes a full representation of its vision. I heard a story that a few years ago Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea , happened to drive past one of his stores.

At an annual gathering of budding socially conscious businesspeople the money-for-good-deeds company held a competition to find the best path toward massive growth. For a company that wants to quickly grow its business from 2 million users to 10 million, there are a few obvious steps to take: consultants, marketing, focus groups. One less obvious step is the one Recyclebank --the company that offers redeemable rewards for recycling and other good behavior--took in its quest to grow: hold a competition of young social entrepreneurs to see who could come up with the best idea.

Do you believe that there exists a right way and a wrong way to market your business?

Need to get from Aspen , Colorado to Miami? How about Los Angeles to Dubai? If you want to do it in style, the person to call is Adriann Wanner, president and co-founder of evoJets , an upstart private-jet charter company

When Rochelle Behrens was a lobbyist for a Washington, D.C., public affairs firm, she'd pin her conservative button-down shirts from the inside so they wouldn't gap at the chest. "I was pinning my shirt before work one morning and it was hole poked and wrinkled and I had a flash of inspiration," she recalls.

When Facebook launched its API in 2007, allowing developers to build games and applications for the social medium, Kristaps Ronka and Hussein Fazal "just started building things for fun." For instance, they built a treasure hunter app and an app to share documents with friends. At the time, Fazal was a software developer for Bell Canada and Ronka was an intern. "We started talking about how to make money off the applications," says Fazal.

Jason Ross has always been the person his friends would turn to for the latest on cool things. And thanks to his Mom, Ross was always a discount shopper. His business, JackThreads.com , "is about everything I'm about, which is cool, cutting edge brands, and products at 40 to 80 percent off retail," says Ross