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We idolize entrepreneurs, like Mark Zuckerberg, who hung on when everyone urged them to sell. But sometimes selling early makes a lot of sense. In 2007 I started a company called Tikatok.com, an online self-publishing platform for children.

Investors reveal what grabs their attention--and what makes them cringe. For a certain kind of tech start-up founder, the pitch contest offers a thrill that few other events can deliver: You have only a few terror-filled minutes to successfully demo your product (using shaky wi-fi, no less) in front of a firing line of judges who can—and will—find holes in your idea big enough to drive a truck through. I've spent the last two days camped out at this year's Launch Festival , a tech start-up competition in San Francisco founded by entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis, where more than 40 start-ups competed for more than $1 million in prizes and seed capital.

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Meet Elle Luna, a former IDEO designer who believes design plays a role at every stage of the process--even before teams start to think visually. Elle Luna calls herself a "designer, storyteller, and startup advisor." As a mentor at the Designer Fund , which believes designers should be startup founders rather than late-stage additions, Luna feels designers have a role to play at every stage of the process, including the gleam-in-eye phase. FAST COMPANY: You recently left your position at the major design firm IDEO

You won't convince investors, customers or employees that you can change the world unless you convince yourself first. How on earth do you do that

Our distrust is very expensive.--Ralph Waldo Emerson As the Susan G.

They're low-cost, and provide the typical office amenities--conference rooms, photocopiers, etc. But there are other less tangible benefits for entrepreneurs. Garages and bedrooms may be the archetypal home of scrappy new ventures, but these days entrepreneurs have another option when it comes deciding where to locate a fledgling business: coworking spaces.

Meet Eric Kuhn, who has one of the few startups in America that isn't rushing to gain millions of users. Eric Kuhn, 41, is the founder and CEO of

Genius sometimes just means not realizing that something is impossible. A college student arrived a few minutes late for his final exam in mathematics. The room was quiet, with everyone working hard, and the profes

I may be a rule-follower by nature. But when it comes to my own company, I've learned when to color outside the lines.

These six mantras help keep me focused, and help keep my business sailing along, no matter what the day brings. I’ve founded two companies and co-founded two others, but some days, I still feel like I never know what’s going to hit me next. Luckily, I’ve found a few simple mantras that help me stay steady even when things get ridiculously hairy.

This classic 25-word definition pares entrepreneurship to its essence and explains why it's so hard. And so addictive

Entrepreneurship can fix many of our economic woes, explains the author of The Coming Prosperity. Here's his thought-provoking metaphor for our current economy. How should you think about the relationship between established, large businesses and scrappy upstarts like the one you’re trying to build?

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.