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News updates all day from Fast Company. Spotify and Yahoo just announced a global distribution deal that will put Spotify in front of 700 million users--a hefty leg up from its current 10 million actives. It's another way the streaming company is making the experience less about its mothership interface.

Here's how a banker will cut to the chase -- and decide if your company is worth taking a risk on. I have a friend in the baseball business who used to value players. He could take a player’s statistics, compare them to other similar players, and help his clients (the baseball clubs) come up with a value range for the player.

Here's how a banker will cut to the chase -- and decide if your company is worth taking a risk on. I have a friend in the baseball business who used to value players. He could take a player’s statistics, compare them to other similar players, and help his clients (the baseball clubs) come up with a value range for the player.

This simple, 3-step approach helps you sell against a cheaper competitor--without having to discount. This is an important column, maybe the most important ever I've published. It contains the key to keeping your company profitable and free from debilitating price wars

Every entrepreneur makes mistakes when starting out. Some are fixable, some don’t matter that much in the long run. Some really bug you and can’t be fixed and you just have to learn to live with them for a while

From IT services to industrial supply, these are the top small businesses run by CEOs of South Asian heritage. I.T. Source Los Angeles No

Running a business should earn you an honorary degree given all you will learn, says Brian Hamilton, the co-founder and CEO of Sageworks. We live and we learn

Alice's tips on raising capital for your enterprise--and the best and worst funding experiences from her two decades of working with boards. For most nonprofit organizations, financial success depends on building a board of directors that is generous in helping to contribute and raise the "venture capital" to launch the enterprise, and strategic in working with the CEO to help establish and achieve a financially sustainable revenue model. It's nearly impossible for a CEO to maximize an organization's financial potential without a highly effective board

The burden of having people's livelihood in your hands never fully goes away, but knowing where your revenue to cover your expenses will be coming from does reduce the heavy feeling of being the boss.

Social-gaming powerhouse Zynga just filed its S-1 to raise up to $1 billion in IPO. It appears virtual farms and online cities have treated the San Francisco-startup well: Zynga pulled in $91 million in profit on sales of $597 million. What's more, revenue is rocketing