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Between a great start-up concept and a great business lies a virtue no one much talks about any more. Do you have it

Between a great start-up concept and a great business lies a virtue no one much talks about any more. Do you have it? How many times have great brainstorms gone nowhere with your business partners

Sure, a corporate gig might (initially) pay more than a startup and come with cushy benefits, but there are real, career-defining reasons to heed the siren song of a startup.

With winnings from "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," Nik Bonaddio created a predictive sports system Billy Beane would be proud of. Nik Bonaddio was in the hot seat on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire one night back in 2009. He had coasted through the first few questions.

Step 1: Get a mentor who's 10 (or more) years younger than you. See the other tips. A friend of mine came back from a national meeting of sales leaders in her industry and sent me a very frank and telling note.

Any computer gamer old enough to remember floppy disks probably paid at least a fleeting visit to SimCity, the legendary franchise that let players build -- and destroy -- the metropolises of their imaginations. After passing through half a dozen incarnations in the two decades since its debut, the game is back, and its creator, Maxis Studios, says that this time, it's putting more than bricks and mortar into the mix

As announced this week, the new Apple TV brings a new UI, better internal specs, and full HD capability to the table. But there's the business equivalent of an Easter egg hidden in it for Netflix subscribers: From now on, if you want to join Netflix you can do it through your Apple TV, and Apple handles the payments via its iTunes back channel. Essentially it works like this: The Apple TV functionality hinges on your iTunes user account, the same kind that's powered 25 billion app downloads to date

The checklist for hiring is pretty simple: write a job description, post the job, screen resumes, prepare interview questions, conduct interviews, call references, and write the offer or rejection letter.

Sometimes, being a CEO is a lot like being a major-league coach. That means you need the right mix of playmakers in your locker room. Here's how I do it.

I’m sitting in my rental car outside of eBay headquarters on a rainy day in San Francisco. I’m about to step into my second day delivering an Outthinker workshop to group of technology execs from various companies. Television news here centers on the rapidly reorganizing technology landscape: the Yelp IPO, Yahoo suing Facebook during its pre-IPO quiet period

A NCAA basketball brackets pool is a great way for employees to bond. It can also be a great way for a careless boss to get in trouble. The NCAA basketball tournament, better known as March Madness, is here again.

Home to a burgeoning concentration of tech start-ups and incubators, Detroit's "Webward Avenue" is not just a street--it's also a movement. Can it transform Detroit

Step inside any company, no matter the size, stage of development, or level of success, and the culture is either driving the strategy or undermining it.

There is an unprecedented opportunity today to make money while doing good for the world. Here's how to find a place to break in.

Thiel Fellow Dale Stephens explains how "Does it scale?" applies to education. In Silicon Valley, one often hears the question, "Does it scale?" What a technologist means by this is: How can a specific technological innovation be applied in a broad manner to affect a wide range of people? If Google only searched two websites it wouldn't be terribly useful