Americans spent $200 billion online in 2011. The opportunity for retailers is huge--but you're not going to grab it with a DIY website. A report this week from Forrester Research confirmed what just about everybody in business already knew: Americans are buying online and they are buying a lot
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Sci is…a really competitive person. I’m so competitive that I will easily get into a contest with someone to prove I am more competitive than they are
Read More »Have You Earned Your Self-Confidence?
Self-esteem is a loaded word these days. But when you're the boss, it's actually a sign of mental health
Read More »Startup Weekend: Entrepreneurship’s Democratizer
Co-founder Marc Nager reveals why the Startup Weekend model fosters the most innovative ideas. Startup Weekend is simply an event that challenges teams to start a company in one weekend
Read More »The Envy Effect, Part Two: How Friendly Competition Spurs Innovation
Think all the banter on Twitter and in blog comments is for naught? Here's how social envy and the competition of ideas it generates will lead to faster innovation
Read More »Why It’s Not A Bad Thing For Solar Power That Solyndra Went Bankrupt
The end of the solar company--with $1 billion in investments and hundreds of millions in government loans--is bad for the U.S. economy.
Read More »Inc. 5000 Update: Auction Systems Auctioneers & Appraisers
Auctioneering, not prostitution, is the oldest profession known to man. Deborah Weidenhamer seemed destined for a career in finance until a chance conversation led her to become an auctioneer
Read More »Optimizing Facebook Ads
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.
Read More »What Keeps Your Utility Company Up At Night
It's not profits or the end of coal (they're pretty confident about both those things). Rather, it's a dwindling resource that you wouldn't expect. There are endless aspects of our energy economy to think about--including an aging power grid infrastructure, the lack of rare earth metals , the need to build more robust transmission lines, and so on
Read More »No Competition? No Business
John Warrillow, author of Built to Sell, answers questions from readers about building a sellable business. Dear John: I have an idea for a business, but there is already a lot of competition.
Read More »What Apple Will Show Us On Monday: Code, Clouds, And Steve Jobs
Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference kicks off on Monday, with Steve Jobs giving the keynote address.
Read More »Buying Local for Baby
The locavore movement makes its way into organic baby food. You may have heard of organic baby food and even gourmet baby food
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