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As a founding entrepreneur, you'll always be a leader in your company, no matter what your official title is. So how do you respond? When do I need to start being a leader?

Why, oh why?

Pivotshare wants you to make money on your digital media. The social content creation platform isn't aiming to be the next YouTube. Founder Adam Mosam says he wants experts, businesses, and enthusiasts to dust off their libraries and start earning

How better to judge loyalty than by seeing which of your employees would come to your aid at two in the morning. For anyone who has known me for any period of time you will, from time-to-time, hear me extoll the virtues of the 2:00 a.m. test.

Starting and running a company in an emerging market means you need to forget some of the basic things you've learned about entrepreneurship.

From using protests in Egypt to promote clothing lines to a viral campaign video, we take a look at the worst social media blunders of 2011 and what you can learn from them. Social media is immediate. An insensitive or inaccurate tweet can quickly make it around the world before any apology or explanation can even be typed.

Most human resources departments consider very carefully when its appropriate to let an employee go. But then theres the few that, well, end up in hot water.

From personal image curating to social task-mastering, these seven start-ups are set to make waves in 2012. Which start-ups are likely to make headlines next year?

You talk about your company all the time, to investors, to clients. What if someone rips off your great ideas

David Friend, chairman and CEO of Carbonite, an Inc. 500 company, discusses how he got ready and squeezed into the IPO window in August

David Friend, chairman and CEO of Carbonite, an Inc. 500 company, discusses how he got ready and squeezed into the IPO window in August. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/abram-brown/david-friend-carbonite-ceo-talks-about-going-public.html Advertisement: Are your customers tuning you out?

This time of year, goal-setting becomes a bit of a cliche. That's because we're doing it wrong. How our goals can help us learn who we are, and what we're capable of.

Negotiating is not about sealing the deal, but framing the optimal relationship. Sometimes that's impossible. When you start negotiating—to hire someone, to put a partnership together—it's human nature to want to seal the deal

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How knowing that you don't know much can help you make smarter decisions. You probably don't know nearly as much as you think you do. I certainly don't