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For businesses just starting out (and even for businesses that are already established), writing a business plan that bankers and investors can understand can be difficult. What is the point of a business plan

On Wednesday, June 22, I have the privilege of interviewing Steve Forbes, former Republican presidential hopeful, in front of an audience of the Greater New York business community at the Lighthouse Theater. This event is part of our "Mind of the Entrepreneur" series, sponsored by Rothstein Kass

The Hippo Roller has made life easier for thousands of water-starved people--but it's very expensive. The WaterWheel--designed to solve the water crisis in India--is the next generation of wheeled water carriers. Not everyone can just turn on the tap to access clean water; in the developing world, women regularly carry five-gallon, 42-pound buckets of water on their heads.

As a business owner you may be a great salesperson but a lousy sales manager. So remove yourself from the equation by hiring a self-directed salesperson.

In defense of Groupon, tech investors, small business hiring, a new mobile payment app worth knowing about, and how to handle a request for a raise. The Rib Man responds.

If you are starting up a company and find yourself pitching everything that walks upright these days, please watch this video called "Hardly Working, Start-up Guys." Clearly the folks at CollegeHumor are embellishing for the sake of parody, but boy do they offer a reality check. So how about you? Are you a start-up jerk

"Street Smarts" columnist and senior contributing editor Norm Brodsky is a veteran entrepreneur who has founded and built six businesses.

Good times and laughs are only part of the reason the satirical newspaper works.

Groupon complaints, LawyerUp, Harvard's entrepreneurship machine, how ATMs kill the economy, an anarchist start-up, and more. How anarchy can help your business.

Don't let your new sales rep call on just any prospect.

While the deal makes sense on paper, you know it's never that easy to pull off, which is why you'll need your management team prepped to make it happen as smoothly as possible. Your business , unlike your competition, is doing well and growing. Or, perhaps your growth has reached a lull and you'd like to rectify that

Restaurants are notoriously difficult businesses, and less than half make it past their third birthday. The handful of chefs who not only stay afloat but rise to the very top rely as much on business savvy as knife skills

Mark Peter Davis, co-founder of Kohort, a social media start-up in New York, discusses the best way an entrepreneur can face the moment he asks this question. We entrepreneurs are told to listen to feedback, but ignore the naysayers.

Where else but at a Fast Company event can White House assistant chef and food policy advisor Sam Kass trade beer tips with Sam Calagione , the founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery? [video_twistage 1] The two Sams, Nos. 11 and 46 on our Most Creative People in Business list, respectively, put their heads together last week at Fast Company's Most Creative People conference, where Calagione praised the White House's home brewing and cooking initiatives

Leading Net radio service Pandora has just priced its IPO, ready to lead a nascent industry into the next phase.