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Two Yale students used their college weight gain as motivation to start a thriving, health food restaurant. For Yale University students Jerry Choinski and Etkin Tekin, the dreaded “freshman 15” came two years late.

Think bars are just for unwinding after work? I built one right in my office.

Can paying recent graduates to work and play in Detroit infuse the city with extra creativity? Challenge Detroit is banking on it. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," President Obama's then chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is reported to have said of the 2008 meltdown of the financial sector.

After a couple dozen successes, Howard Tullman is building Flashpoint Academy, which he calls the front seat of the world stage. From the moment he queues up a movie, boots his computer, and hits the treadmill at 4 a.m.—unfathomably refreshed after three hours' sleep—Tullman is a blur. By 8 a.m., having consumed several newspapers, watched half a film (he sees about 120 a year for professional reasons), and cleared his first 100 e-mails, he arrives at Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, the showplace digital-media-arts college he built one summer in Chicago while all the normal people were at the beach

In her sophomore year at Chicago's ACE Technical Charter High School, Kewauna Lerma had a 2.25 GPA. Yet when Jeff Nelson met Kewauna, he knew she was capable of getting into and graduating from a four-year college. Nelson is the cofounder and Executive Director of Urban Students Empowered ( US Empowered ), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to college preparedness and college persistence (keeping students in college once they have enrolled) for low-income high school students.

How an unusual inner-city charter school plans to groom the next generation of tech entrepreneurs. If you think the next generation of start-up founders will hail from Stanford, Harvard, or some other university cranking out MBAs, you might want to expand your thinking.

Oribital gestures, child-like androids, robotic spacecraft--it's all in our robotic roundup.

Cash flow can be a real pain point for start-ups. These new solutions by young companies are helping start-ups scale quickly without cash infusions from investors

Meet Sen Sugano, Director of Business Development at the dinner-with-strangers startup.

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For many big nontech companies, the best way to innovate quickly is to fund startups that pioneer their future business.

A five-time entrepreneur makes the case for launching a company in Silicon Beach.

When brands ask consumers to snap a product photo and text or email it in, Pongr recognizes the image and replies. Is that really better than QR codes? We asked its president

A behind-the-scenes look at the small companies that make business possible at a busy salon training-ground in Milwaukee. Vic

They're affordable, full of start-up geeks like you, and way cooler than any office you could afford. Ready to get out of the basement and into a real office? Before you strike out on your own and get locked into a lease, consider a coworking space.