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As Meg Whitman joins Zaarly, an e-commerce start-up, the company's CEO offers advice on finding your company's next advisor, and why you might want to consider a boldfaced name. Bo Fishback believes that Zaarly , the e-commerce start-up he co-founded six months ago, can change the world. But he knows he will need help building it

A new White House initiative hopes to alleviate the pressure student debt places on recent grads.

Dreaming up travel on Trippy makes it all a reality, says J.R. Johnson, the startup's founder

The New York City company describes itself as "people-powered antivirus for bills." Personal finance security start-up BillGuard, which describes itself as "people-powered antivirus for bills," has closed $10 million in second-round financing. The New York City-based company scans credit card bills for unauthorized, wrong, or deceptive charges using a combination of algorithms, complaints posted on the Internet about scams, and feedback from users (the last bit being the "people-powered" part of the equation).

From faster vaccines to automated traffic reporting, scientists are taking ideas developed in the lab and applying lessons from the startup world about how to turn innovation into business. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds approximately 18,000 scientists and researchers with nearly $7 billion each year, but much of the research never makes it out of the lab. A big part of the problem is that scientists don't always make the best businesspeople and, as a result, many brilliant ideas that could be spun off into commercial businesses stay buried in prototypes and research papers

At a recent Startup Weekend event, an impromptu gathering with young women in tech brought up some interesting questions. My e-mail marketing company, VerticalResponse, recently partnered with Startup Weekend , an amazing event where entrepreneurs get a little over two days to come up with an idea, pitch it to a crowd and work on one of about 20 ideas selected by their peers. Participants choose whether or not they want to participate on any of the 20 teams and they start to solidify the idea of a product

Time is running out to register for Innovation Uncensored in San Francisco. We're only three weeks away and we're excited! Can you blame us? The CEOs of eBay, Ticketmaster, SolarCity, craigslist, Virgin America, Startup America Partnership, Erly, Livestrong, and Path are coming.

Anyone can be a tour guide--and redefine the term while they're at it--with this Japanese travel startup. Tatsuo Sato got the idea for his startup, Shiroube , during a trip to Eastern Europe. While in Belarus, Sato made a sort of barter arrangement with a local student.

As big businesses and consumers slowly realize that oil prices won't drop precipitously anytime soon, biofuels and biochemicals have begun to look ever more attractive. But up until now, there hasn't been a truly cost-effective way to to make fuel and chemicals out of biomass (i.e switchgrass, woodchips, and other nonedible crops). Enter Renmatix , a Kleiner Perkins-backed startup that emerged from stealth mode today.

Only 14 percent of Inc. 500 companies are venture backed, which makes you wonder: Is it worth it to take on venture funding? Tonight was movie night at the Inc

Wieden bakes major brands and the Portland tech community into a fresh PIE. When Wieden + Kennedy launched its tech incubator, the Portland Incubator Experiment in 2009, the effort proved a fruitful collaboration between the ad agency and local tech talent; it even spawned a few going tech concerns

A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical? Fast Company goes inside the Sept

A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical

What happens when a group of young Swedes rent a New York loft for one month to launch their business?

Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams.