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When Project Runway winner Chloe Dao's national spotlight faded, she needed help, but couldn't afford a consultant. Chloe Dao knew she needed help. But she didn't know where to find it.
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Your online customers need help, not template e-mails.
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Breaking into an international market is time-consuming, and risks becoming a big distraction. What can you learn from how Eileen Fisher did it? I wrote recently about how hard — but also how important — it is to export right now
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Every end-of-year gesture says something different. Last year, I chose to give a gift that honors the craft of tool building.
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The actor again makes himself look like a jerk on social media. Two simple questions could have saved him
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Chief Executive Officer doesn't reflect the CEO's most important responsibility. Here's a title that does. I propose dropping the "Executive" part of the CEO title
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As if bedbugs weren t gross enough already, entomologists have now found that they get ahead by mating with their own mothers, brothers, sisters and fathers.
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The "Flex and the C-Suite" series periodically showcases leaders who have made flexibility at work a key strategy for achieving smarter and better business results.
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Every TV manufacturer agrees, the remote control will change more in the next three years than it has the previous six decades. But how will it actually change? Sony, Samsung, LG, and Vizio tell us
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Everyone at my company understands that the next sale begins when the customer says yes, and making that sale is part of their job.
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To hire or not to hire is never just one simple question.
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With its new apps platform, the music start-up is trying to follow in Facebook's footsteps. But it would be much better off taking a cue from Zynga.
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Through a new membership model, Do Something is counting on text messages to create a movement of 5 million teenage activists by 2015. Can they get Generation Text to care about poverty, hunger, homelessness, and disease
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Oversharing is an overwhelming problem online. Keeping up with all your news and interests and social channels can be exhausting--it's why innumerable aggregators exist (from Huffington Post to Reddit and Pinterest) to help us manage our consumption habits. Today, the startup Flavors.me takes another swipe at the problem, launching a new version of the service aimed at tackling our social media A.D.D
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