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Just good enough doesn't cut it. Here's how to identify, and test for, these very important qualities. Let's face it: People who work at start-ups are an unusual breed.

App developers are cashing in on the business of love. Download these apps just in time for Valentines Day

Sex, speed dating, monogamy--for Valentine's Day, we look at the science behind the mating game [More]

Love might be in the air on Valentine's Day, metaphorically speaking.

You know it's important to say thank you. Here are some easy ways to express gratitude--and have it impact your bottom line

Show your heart some love this Valentine’s Day by nibbling a few chocolates—and making them a regular treat throughout the year.

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, chocolate lovers across the land are anticipating heart-shaped boxes of Russell Stover, Godiva, or See's chocolates. But those whose tastes run a bit more to the wild side are really in luck. There's a delicious new world of innovative, artisanal chocolates out there creating new tastes, experiences, and sensory perceptions.

Researchers offer strong medicine for those who are too scared to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, finding evidence that, in the long-term, we regret actions not taken far more than failed attempts. So you have dreams of starting a business. You also have a long list of potential downsides of following that passion, including perhaps significant financial and personal costs and a lizard-brain terror of failure and rejection

This Valentine’s Day, La Maison du Chocolat is thinking outside the heart-shaped box with four new chocolate confections handcrafted with exotic fruits, spices, and cocoa beans from around the world.

Human males living with their moms may not expect to have much luck hooking up this Valentine’s Day. But among the northern muriqui monkeys, males that spend the most time around their mothers seem to get an added boost when mating time rolls around. [More]

Entrepreneurs who launch companies don't always stay in charge. Etsy founder Rob Kalin was replaced in July, and nine other examples. Rob Kalin is perhaps one of the few start-up founders to be replaced not once, but twice in his tenure as CEO

"Oh, great! Another cupcake shop!" I hear these words as soon as I step onto M Street, the posh, townhouse-lined retail thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., and most lately the raging epicenter of the great American cupcake pandemic. I'm standing in front of an outpost of Sprinkles, a California cupcake chain that joined the fray just the week before.

With the release of Portal 2, game developer Valve has followed-up the critically acclaimed original with more head-bursting puzzles, fanatical computers, and immersive story. We spoke with lead writer Erik Wolpaw, designer/engineer Jeep Barnett, and VP of marketing Doug Lombardi to find out how they created the setting of the game, what drives their innovative storytelling techniques, and more.

George Doriot, the father of venture capitalism, liked to quip "Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete." Doriot died in 1987, but his ideas about venture funding can be seen to this day; Intel, Apple, and Cisco (to name a few) are some of the first companies to be funded by venture capitalists. The VCs that followed in his footsteps—including Tom Perkins, Arthur Rock, and Don Valentine—have, through their work, trailblazed a path of American innovation.

Singer is heard crying and screaming into the phone on Valentine's Day, telling authorities "I wanna go, and he won't let me!"