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Next time you stand in front of your closet with no idea what to wear, remember there’s an army of wannabe Anna Wintours and Rachel Zoes on Polyvore.com, ready to crank out trendy head-to-toe looks by tapping a vast database of designer apparel and accessories. Next time you stand in front of your closet with no idea what to wear, remember there’s an army of wannabe Anna Wintours and Rachel Zoes on Polyvore.com ready to offer inspiration.

The purpose-driven company is lead by someone who has a reliable inner compass guiding them.

The Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's compound was the ultimate lesson in project management. Here are four relevant lessons in planning, executing, and shifting on a dime.

What do you give the entrepreneur who has everything? To find out, we asked several business owners to describe their most cherished gifts. For my birthday a few years ago, my now-ex-husband gave me bound copies of every Vogue magazine published in the 1960s.

Now that Kim Kardashian is on Google+, can we say the service has arrived? Nothing signals the success of a social network or propels its growth more than power users, the influentials who boast both clout and Klout. Their mass followings can drive a service's success, from celebs-turned-techies (Ashton Kutcher) to techies-turned-celebs (Robert Scoble)

What's one way to get people to pay to see you demo your product? Host a user conference. Recently Salesforce.com hosted their 9th annual Dreamforce event.

Google+ has everything you'd expect from a fully featured social network -- except the right kind of users. And that's a big problem

Funding science has always relied on public support. Traditionally, scientists at research institutions are awarded money from government agencies and sometimes private foundations.

How a 55-person business in Minnetonka developed the software solution India needed to tackle its energy problems. Pull out your world map and smack in the middle of the eastern hemisphere lies India, that colossal diamond-shaped country brimming with more than 1.2 billion people—the majority of whom are under the age of 35. Its economy is growing like gangbusters, it is now an influential member of the G20, and foreign firms have made significant investments there.

Don't let big buyers turn your business into a doormat. Keep your eye out for these common threats. Don't kid yourself.

Don't let big buyers turn your business into a doormat.

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In the wake of Airbnb's home-vandal scandal, start-ups in the collaborative consumption space are rebuilding peer-to-peer buying's reputation. Here's how. Airbnb found itself in a public relations nightmare this summer that threatened to undermine its whole ethos of amiable and unique person-to-person connections