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Along with writing his own business books, Adrian Slywotzky writes for many publications such as Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal . He is a sought after business consultant and a Partner at the consulting firm, Oliver Wyman .

How often do you change your Facebook photo--and how do you measure up against the rest of the world? Okay, this Facebook post is about you. Let's conduct a little survey

Back in November I took the Kauffman Foundation’s FastTrac program, a boot camp for aspiring entrepreneurs. I spent seven days over four weeks immersed in researching, developing, and vetting my business idea with 26 other would-be entrepreneurs from across New York City. It was intense and an experience I can’t recommend enough.

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Photograph by David Heerde To build this school in Gando, Burkina Faso, Kéré used local materials designed to withstand weather conditions ranging from blazing sun to torrential showers. His schools now serve 500 children

One of the last followers of tech news to hear the reports Thursday that Apple had sued Fei Lam, the 17-year-old Queens high school student who infamously sold White iPhone conversion kits to eager buyers tired of waiting on Apple's release, was Fei Lam. How did Lam hear about it? "I came back from school today and saw your email," he tells Fast Company via chat message, adding, "Lol." For someone who allegedly made contacts in China to import iPhone parts before Apple, started his own business (WhiteiPhone4Now.com), and pulled in tens of thousands of dollars in revenue--sometimes as much as $8,000 a day --it's easy to forget that Lam is just a teenage boy still living with his parents

There are whispers from a pretty reliable source that the House of Jobs is testing a MacBook computer powered by one of its own ARM A5 chips, straight from an iPad. It may be the Mac of the future.

Twin brothers from Chicago mix up the nightlife scene with their Acai-infused drink, VeeV. As we process applications for the 2011 Inc.

Can laughs make the sale? Plus, the new deal-site ecosystem, loving the Like button, and the rest of the day's news for entrepreneurs. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs

The crucial element in well-run companies? Leaders who know what they believe in.

An employee's introduction to the company is equally important to the later success of both the individual and the company. Here are some tips from top workplaces on how to handle new hires. Picture this: You've just hired some wonderful new talent to join your company but you don't have a specific role intended for them

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Every employee at Projectline Services has an opportunity to shape the direction of the company. "You spend a lot of time working with the people around you, more so sometimes than you get to spend with your family," says Mike Kichline, CEO of Projectline Services. "You have to like being around them." That's why Projectline Services established an employee panel that serves as a liason between employees and the executives, helping make benefit decisions and suggestions to improve the company.

A 25-year-old Columbia Professor of Journalism, Vadim Lavrusik, is Mark Zuckerberg's media macher. Facebook now accounts for more than 5% of traffic for many major news outlets. As the Internet floods users with options from every possible newspaper simultaneously, many began filtering the firehouse of information through Mark Zuckerberg's site, using their friends' recommendations as an alternative to visiting the websites themselves.