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In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company.

People and businesses are buying stuff again, which is just what has to happen for a healthy recovery. Unfortunately, it's not all that has to happen.

People and businesses are buying stuff again, which is just what has to happen for a healthy recovery. Unfortunately, it's not all that has to happen

People and businesses are buying stuff again, which is just what has to happen for a healthy recovery. Unfortunately, it's not all that has to happen. Did the economic spring arrive in December?

Republican presidential candidates can't wait to cut the federal budget. But for small businesses, big government isn't just a big pain -- it's a big client, too. In the wake of the Iowa caucuses, only one character is likely to be less popular than President Obama: Big Government itself

Republican presidential candidates can't wait to cut the federal budget. But for small businesses, big government isn't just a big pain -- it's a big client, too.

Entrepreneurship training is what teaches essential workforce skills, and enables class mobility.

A recent Gallup poll says that more Americans are afraid of 'big government' than 'big business.' Small businesses should be afraid of both. A recent Gallup poll revealed that two-thirds of Americans fear of “big government” while a little more than a quarter of Americans fear “big business.” What’s funny about that statistic, IMHO, is that the question suggests that there’s a fundamental difference between the two.

Over the past six months, Issa's launched an interactive subcommittee livestream, produced a new form of online polling, and sponsored a bill to make government spending trackable. Engineer and congressional Republican firebrand Darrell Issa is leveraging his supporters' collective outrage against a contentious anti-piracy bill , SOPA, to showcase his new experimental crowdsourcing legislative platform.

Can digital games change the world (for the better)? This entrepreneur thinks so.

European leaders are meeting today on yet another Grand Plan to bail out the Euro. Why you, and your business, better hope they succeed. The drama is building over European leaders’ continued inability to solve the debt crisis that threatens to explode the euro zone.

Despite the recent boost in holiday sales, debts past, present and future make it impossible for consumer spending to drive a recovery. The holiday shopping season has begun with a hopeful bang. Americans said they intended to spend more this season, and, so far, there are numbers to back that.

How will technology change our electoral process? Fast Company gets Crystal Ballin' with Keya Danenbaum, the founder of ElectNext, which applies the techniques of dating websites to representative democracy

In this extended version of the talk from our latest issue , we speak with Jimmy Samartzis, managing director of environmental affairs and sustainability at United Continental about testing biofuels and partnering with biofuel producers. Photo by Jay B.

As tech-sector regulations pile on for start-ups, here's how to keep innovating while weathering the legal storm. Is your company a scofflaw? Are you sure