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Roughly three-quarters of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. As I stand on a beach in Hawaii and look out over the vast, blue expanse in front of me, I am overwhelmed by the immensity of the Pacific Ocean. My brain wrestles with numbers far beyond its capacity to visualize
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Don't assume a socially conscious angel will be a soft touch. To win their money, you've got to get a lot of things right.
Read More »Bringing Order to Crazy Creatives
Behance founders Scott Belsky and Matias Corea want to fulfill a broad creative industry need--for better organization--with web tools, events, even notebooks. How Behance Brings Order to Crazy Creatives Behance founders Scott Belsky and Matias Corea want to fulfill a broad creative industry need—for better organization—with web tools, events, even notebooks.
Read More »6 Traits of Great Leaders
The best entrepreneurs are passionate, innovative, demanding and caring. See what makes them excel.
Read More »9 Reasons To Choose A Corporate Job Over A Startup
Startups can be amazing places to work, and the euphoria surrounding them has a high degree of contagion. But future leaders have unique lessons to learn by working for larger, more established companies as well
Read More »Build a Website That Inspires Trust
Seven things you can do to convince potential customers your site isn't a fly-by-night operation. Nobody in the world hesitates about making online purchases from Amazon, iTunes, or Dell.
Read More »How to Cultivate Collective Intelligence
Unleash your worker bees. The power of swarms and cooperation to attack business problems.
Read More »Why Premature Hype Kills Start-ups
If your beta product isn't ready for prime time, the last thing you need is attention from the media. As someone with a marketing background, I've always been overly zealous to make noise about what I'm working on even before the product is entirely ready for public consumption
Read More »Fashion Start-up Takes Aim at $20 Billion Industry
Olga Vidisheva, founder of newly launched Shoptiques, an online boutique aggregator, explains how her start-up plans to disrupt the world of fashion. Gilt Group may have redefined the discount shopping experience for shoppers seeking high-fashion labels such as Marni and Prada, but Olga Vidisheva, the 26-year-old founder of Shoptiques, thinks her start-up can disrupt the $20 billion boutique shopping industry. The site, which officially launches today (it has operated in beta for several months), is essentially a retail aggregator—boutiques from around the world apply for "shelf space" on the site, and revenue is shared among the the two parties.
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Want your app to be the next Angry Birds or Pinterest?
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Agency or freelancer? Big firm or small? And will this really work
Read More »Why Companies Should File For Patents Now
Filing patent applications between now and March 2013, while the first-to-invent rules are still in place, can provide some significant benefits. Companies should proactively manage their intellectual property strategy to make the most of this opportunity. Note: This is the second of a series of articles on the America Invents Act (AIA) , the sweeping patent reform legislation signed into law in September 2011.
Read More »Why Companies Should File For Patents Now
Filing patent applications between now and March 2013, while the first-to-invent rules are still in place, can provide some significant benefits. Companies should proactively manage their intellectual property strategy to make the most of this opportunity.
Read More »Why Companies Should File For Patents Now
Filing patent applications between now and March 2013, while the first-to-invent rules are still in place, can provide some significant benefits. Companies should proactively manage their intellectual property strategy to make the most of this opportunity. Note: This is the second of a series of articles on the America Invents Act (AIA) , the sweeping patent reform legislation signed into law in September 2011
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