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If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year

If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year.

If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year. One semester in college I won a fellowship that included a very small stipend to defray the cost of living in Washington, D.C., so I could be a congressional intern.

If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year.

In a 2008, for a few moments, Republicans and Democrats came together in support of action to mitigate the impacts of climate change. In an ad sponsored by former Vice President Al Gore’s group, Alliance for Climate Protection , Former Speakers of the House Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich sat down together and voiced their agreement that the “country must take action to address climate change.” Pelosi went further, saying that the country needs “cleaner forms of energy.. fast.” [More]

As Washington maneuvers on skilled immigration reform, the United States is loosing its near-monopoly on entrepreneurship by forcing its educated Indian and Chinese immigrants to return home.

Occupy Wall Street is meant to be a leaderless movement. But that hasn't stopped some people from trying to identify leaders.

Small businesses are pessimistic because of lack of demand for their products and expected increases in health care costs. Thanks to growing economic uncertainty, small-business confidence has fallen to a two-year low, according to new research

By now, our overwhelming tendency to look for what confirms our beliefs and ignore what contradicts our beliefs is well documented. Psychologists refer to this as confirmation bias, and its ubiquity is observed in both academia and in our everyday lives: Republicans watch Fox while Democrats watch MSNB; creationists see fossils as evidence of God, evolutionary biologists see fossils as evidence of evolution; doomsayers see signs of the end of the world, and the rest of us see just another day

You wouldn't want to miss Michael Arrington publicly needling his AOL bosses Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington. "Do you see acquiring more content companies like TechCrunch and HuffPo?" Michael Arrington pointedly asked his boss-and-AOL chief Tim Armstrong earlier today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the annual tech conference and start-up competition put on in New York by the site Arrington founded and co-edits. There was an uncomfortable silence

Funding for projects like Data.gov and mobile apps for agencies is in danger of being almost fully slashed. The Obama administration swept into Washington in 2008 with promises of both increased transparency and increased use of modern technologies, two things our political system desperatley needed. And while both promises somewhat fell victim to standard Washington infighting and inertia, some of the results were impressive, especially the high-profile Data.gov , which aggregates all government data sets, and USASpending.gov , where you can see how much money government contracts are worth.

The sustainability movement is stuck in a slump, a stall, a "trough," as moderator Scott Henderson of CauseShift called it on the PepsiCo Plugged-In Stage at SXSW yesterday. He wanted to give it a kick-start, he said. "How to we get past the idea that someone else is going to take care of it, and start taking action?" Henderson asked his three panelist to present big ideas for how to inspire Americans into action--and these weren't your typical green-is-good approaches