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Yeah, you read right. Here's why most sales forecasts fail, and how to craft one that will be more accurate.

Want to know which of your employees are doing a bang-up job, and which are falling down on it? Take a few calls from irate customers.

I often hear from business owners requesting financial advice--as in, “Where should I put my money?

As the web universe continues to expand (just like the real one-- Hubbell’s Law anyone?) Kurt Abrahamson is hyper-focused on drilling down.

Want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg? Here's one way you shouldn't follow in his footsteps, writes venture capitalist Brad Feld. College is generally considered a time to expand your horizons, learn to live on your own, have a ton of fun, and even, perhaps, learn a little something

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Norte Beer is friending drinkers with a new face-saving social media helper--the Photoblocker. One of the great ironies of our time is the sheer number of Facebook users who label their debauched post-Las Vegas photo albums some variation of: “What Happens in Vegas…” Obviously, very little that happens in Nevada’s party district, or anywhere else, manages to stay there these days

In May, cloud-based enterprise company Salesforce.com acquired

Facebook will likely go public by next summer, making its founder Mark Zuckerberg (even more) stinking rich. Clearly, the 27-year-old has done a few things right.

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What happens when an entrepreneur does everything right... but can't seize the day. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life

Don't look to Facebook's financial future to learn much; it's the company's early history that start-up founders should study. In case you hadn't heard the latest rumors—that is, in case you've been off-planet for the last day or two— Facebook plans a $100 billion valuation IPO , probably in the April to June 2012 range. Lots of buzz about this in high tech, but don't pay any attention

There are lots of ways to ruin your company blog, but these six are among the most egregious. Want people to read your business blog

A sales meeting is no time to talk about the weather.

"It was devastating," says multi-hyphenate performer-musician-artist Aleksa Palladino about the too-short life of one of Boardwalk Empire's nuanced characters. And she shares the alternate ending for Angela that never aired. To play Angela Darmody, the dreamer wife of conflicted gangster Jimmy Darmody [Michael Pitt] on Martin Scorsese project