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We're living in a world of beta tests and products that are released and then improved.

A Silicon Valley CEO tells how he learned that company values aren't a nice add-on. They're mandatory to holding your business together.

Chances are there's not many differences between your business and your competitors. Some creativity can add value and uniqueness to your venture, brand, or product.

Self-esteem is a loaded word these days. But when you're the boss, it's actually a sign of mental health

Working overtime doesn't increase your output. It makes you stupid.

Start-ups on a shoestring might not have the money for a public-relations agency or even a PR pro. Here are seven steps to do-it-yourself PR.

Starting today, the app from 1000memories lets users conveniently start digitizing the world's 4 trillion paper snapshots and slapping them on Facebook.

Despite major oil finds off Brazil's coast, new fields in North Dakota and ongoing increases in the conversion of tar sands to oil in Canada , fresh supplies of petroleum are only just enough to offset the production decline from older fields. At best, the world is now living off an oil plateau--roughly 75 million barrels of oil produced each and every day--since at least 2005, according to a new comment published in Nature on January 26. ( Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) That is a year earlier than estimated by the International Energy Agency--an energy cartel for oil consuming nations

It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg, Germany.

Researchers working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a two-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the first time. This feat, reported today in Nature, takes scientists a significant step forward in understanding the most extreme matter found in the hearts of stars and giant planets, and could help experiments aimed at recreating the nuclear fusion process that powers the sun.

Silicon Valley appears to be the world's greatest meritocracy. Unless you're a female entrepreneur trying to raise venture funding. In my last two articles, I discussed why, based on my research on immigrant entrepreneurs, I believed that Silicon Valley was the world’s greatest meritocracy.

In the world of boring corporate earnings calls, Apple's investor Q&A sessions are about as exciting as it gets--the equivalent hardcore pornography for most tech geeks. Offering a rare peek inside the famously secretive company, Apple's earnings are watched by every industry analyst and news outlet--and even live blogged in some instances, like a worldwide sporting event. With such attention paid to the spectacle, Apple has used the forum to go after competitors--Steve Jobs once passionately used his bully pulpit to aggressively knock Android--and it appears current CEO Tim Cook plans to use his megaphone in the same fashion.

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We asked members of the Inc. community what one question they want the president to address in Tuesday night's State of the Union. Here's what they had to say.

By Deborah Zabarenko and Nina Chestney (Reuters) - Representatives from around the world gather in Rio in June to try to hammer out goals for sustainable development at a U.N. conference designed to avoid being tripped up by the intractable issue of climate change.