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How Tony Hsieh built Zappos, hi-tech tools that can help your business, a start-up with serious brain power, the Pandora IPO, and more. The Zappos legacy. OPEN Forum asks the entrepreneur, author, and company culture obsessor Tony Hsieh nine questions about how he thinks, what mistakes he's made, and what advice he'd give to his 18-year-old self.

John Warrillow, author of Built to Sell, answers questions from readers about building a sellable business. Dear John: I've had my company up and running for five years. We've gotten past the start-up days where it felt like survival most of the time.

Entrepreneurs can be reluctant to pull away from work. But slogging it out through the summer may not be good for your healthor your business

The crucial element in well-run companies? Leaders who know what they believe in.

The “list” gets longer and longer. Ideas and goals fall to the wayside remaining incomplete or never even seeing the light of day. There’s just no time; even less energy.

Sooner or later, every growing company reaches a point at which the entrepreneur behind it should start wondering whether he or she is the right person to be CEO. The answer has a lot to do with the company’s stage of development.

One morning last January, a franchisee of Nurse Next Door in Edmonton, Alberta, sent an e-mail to company headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. John DeHart, Nurse Next Door's co-founder and co-CEO, clicked on a link in the message, which led to the website of Eldercare, a competing company based in Toronto

My mother always says there are problems, and then there are troubles.

"Oh, great! Another cupcake shop!" I hear these words as soon as I step onto M Street, the posh, townhouse-lined retail thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., and most lately the raging epicenter of the great American cupcake pandemic.

Scott Harrison was 28 years old, sitting on a beach in Uruguay with a model girlfriend, a Rolex watch and a BMW waiting nearby—a life the nightclub promoter in New York City had been chasing after for nearly 10 years—when he realized (in his own words) "what a selfish scumbag" he was. His entire adult life had been geared towards serving himself and the club patrons, and when he had done nothing to help others, it made him step back. Seven years removed from that day on the beach, Harrison is still in New York, heading up charity: water , a non-profit organization that has delivered clean drinking water to over 1 million underserved people in 17 different countries, and aspires to help more than 100 million in the next ten years.

Start a company. Change the world

Gone are the days when having a website for your business was optional. In fact, many businesses these days can't afford even a few minutes of downtime where their customers can't access their site

The meme-friendly site is positioning itself as the the ultimate go-to for pop-music centered celebrity journalism--and aims to capitalize on the branded opportunities that come with that. Popdust , the pop-music news site that debuted earlier this year, is--like a post-haircut Justin Bieber--on the verge of coming of age. Over the last 30 days, the site has garnered 350,000 unique visitors, and has formed new partnerships with AOL, MTV, CNN, Gawker, Vibe, Grammy.com, and others

Entrepreneur and adventure-seeker Sir Richard Branson wants to import endangered lemurs to one of his two private islands in the British Virgin Islands (B.V.I.), giving them a safe haven from the political unrest and habitat destruction on their native Madagasca r. But scientists and conservationists aren't exactly hopping with pleasure over the plan.

Recently, I was interviewed about entrepreneurship by Business Insider.