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When it comes to selling your company, the rules are not so obvious Is a dollar a dollar no matter what the source? Should you lavish attention on your biggest client? Or the most prestigious client?

By helping organizations trumpet the world's most pressing causes through social media, three college students give back exponentially. With the overwhelming influence social media has on daily life, people are constantly bombarded by tweets and status updates. In the last few years, the use of social media has risen exponentially around the world, creating new communities and outlets for communication—something Patrick Ip, Sonia Chokshi and Kavya Shankar decided was an opportunity to trigger social change.

Last year, from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, it was impossible to escape the concept of the "Lean Startup"--especially the great ideas espoused by the preeminent thought leader on the topic, Eric Ries . Hundreds, if not thousands, of entrepreneurs embraced these tenets and joined the "Lean Startup movement." In addition to curbing costs, an entrepreneur would begin by creating their first "minimal viable product" to test that initial business idea

Running your company in the cloud without any servers isn’t just a dream of the future--it’s happening right now.

Journalist Jeffrey Bartholet talks about his June Scientific American magazine article on the attempts to grow meat in the lab, and Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talks about the cover piece in the May issue on radical energy solutions. Web sites related to this episode include "Inside The Meat Lab " and "7 Radical Energy Solutions". [More]

I work so hard and I still can’t make ends meet.

The Flexjet 25 Jet Card program (operated by Jet Solutions) is offering its first 10-hour summer jet card, the lowest amount ever featured on a jet card, starting at just under $50,000 through May 14.

Chicago is finally showing signs of spring! For me, it’s a wonderful reminder that soon I will want more time away from work to enjoy the beautiful lakefront and all that the Windy City has to offer. After all, isn’t this freedom one of the key reasons that we are in business for ourselves