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What's the most important lesson entrepreneurs should learn from Steve Jobs? Gary Hamel, a management expert, believes it's how to talk to your employees. Have you told your employees you love them recently

The Inc. 500|5000 Conference plays host to vets and military spouses who are starting companies all over the country. As the wife of an active duty service man, South Carolina-native Stacy Swearengen knows the most challenging aspect of military spouse life: maintaining a career through multiple relocations.

The American Jobs Act includes a clause that--if enacted on the venture capital industry--could hamper start-up investment, innovation, and, ultimately, job creation. Tucked away on Page 139 of Obama’s American Jobs Act, after the sections on payroll tax credits and unemployment benefits, are a few lines of text that could change the way venture capital investment works in this country.

This HR start-up makes it easy to screen job candidates. Can it raise $1.25 million? FOUNDER: Danielle Weinblatt LOCATION: Cambridge, Massachusetts EMPLOYEES: Five full time; three part time FOUNDED: January 2011 2011 PROJECTED REVENUE: $100,000 NUMBER OF USERS: 100 (including Cactus Restaurants, Harvard Business School, and Deloitte) VIDEOS RECORDED: 160 COST: $45 for one posting; $70—$300 for up to six postings a month; about $25,000 for an enterprise package PREVIOUS FUNDING: $200,000 in angel funding FUNDING SOUGHT: $1.25 million The Pitch: "Screening job candidates is a huge waste of time.

A new study points out that "small business" and "innovation" are not synonymous.

For an industry that is based on diving into the unknown, the news business has been notoriously adverse to exploring real innovation in its own industry—despite the fact that it has been floating in a sea of disruption for at least a decade. That’s why the work of The Washington Post Company and its two-year-old WaPo Labs is notable. The principles under which the Labs were founded serve as a roadmap for reinvention—not just for the news business but for any company whose once-firmly entrenched industry is now being shaken up

Why is the economy so dismal? The Federal Reserve warned in September 2011 that the U.S. economy is facing "significant downside risks" as stocks and commodity prices are falling around the world

Clayton Christensen is someone I greatly admire.

People need to move around, but we can do it in a less impactful way with these five innovations. Some are new and some are old, but together they could remake transportation.

A new Knight Foundation study finds that using Facebook and Tumblr leads teens to a greater appreciation of the First Amendment--but their teachers think unbridled free speech for teens online isn't such a good thing. Teens hate censorship--at least if they're using social media

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Want to get in on the action at fashion week? Here's a look at how some small businesses are using the event to market their brands

Entrepreneurs are often ousted from the companies they start. Management experts weigh in on why founder succession happens, and how you can avoid it. In July, Etsy CEO Rob Kalin was moved out of the top spot at the handmade goods retail website he founded in 2005.

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In a month, the fastest solar cars will meet in Australia for a 14-hour race to determine the speediest sun-powered vehicle. After a disappointing finish in 2010, Stanford's team thinks they have what it takes