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Investigation innovation. On June 30th, 1999, officers in St. Louis, Missouri, found the body of Ricky McCormick, 41, in a field.

Phil Mickelson says it was exciting to share his 2011 Houston win with lots of people who have helped his family the past few years and believes maintaining his focus going into the Masters is the most important thing. (NBC Sports)

When Ian Gaffney and Samantha Abrams were looking to expand their upstate New York organic, raw, and vegan snack food company, they turned to an unlikely source for business advice: Gaffney's brother's rock band. The band, the Makepeace Brothers, had just successfully paid for the recording of their latest album using IndieGoGo , the crowdfunding site that lets users raise money for projects—and that means anything from a rock album to an art projects to cancer research.

Sylvia Wildfire, like many business owners with children, would love to pass her Thousand Oaks, California-based business, OnCallMedic, which supplies emergency medical technicians to weddings and big events like the Grammy Awards, on to her son, Michael.

Even in the most favorable business climate, starting a company is no small feat.

In 1970, Dov Frohman was a young electrical engineer working for a relatively unknown 100-person company called Intel. While troubleshooting a problem with an Intel product one day, Frohman stumbled upon a radically new way to record memory on a semiconductor.

If there's something aflame in your neighborhood, you may soon call for firemen toting backpacks blasting bursts of electricity to snuff out the firey problem. You listening, Bill Murray? Remember Ghostbusters ?

Picture an old-fashioned covered wagon . Now, imagine your job is to pull that wagon. The wagon carries all of the concerns and goals of your business; understandably, this is a pretty heavy wagon, so you consider finding someone to help you pull it.

Last night, Zynga brought virtual reality to real life. At a press event in New York City, the social gaming giant erected highly detailed sets for its most popular games, including a pastoral landscape complete with watering cans and crates of actual FarmVille apples; a dusty old-western saloon for FrontierVille; and an upstairs speakeasy with bartenders serving 1920s-style cocktails in honor of Mafia Wars

Photograph by Jeff Minton Food styling: James Parker, founder of Veggie Art | Photograph by: Jamie Chung Jeff Dunn believes he can double the $1 billion baby-carrot business -- and promote healthy eating -- by marketing the vegetable like Doritos. His secret weapon? He knows every snack-marketing trick in the book.

We're all familiar with ultrasound technology--the arrival of sonograms has changed pregnancy forever. But now a development by scientists in the U.K. could bring incredible MRI-like powers to your family doctor.

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I was at lunch at Japango with some of my Foundry Group gang yesterday. When I went to my house in Alaska last July, I took a Mac with me but left my PC at home. Ross bet me $100 that before the month was out I'd beg him to fedex my PC to me.

From the beginning, True You Cosmetics was a labor of love. The cosmetics line was created my Jessica Truesdale, a sociology major at Spelman College who started doing make-up artistry at age nine, and began developing the blueprint for her line in high school.