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Nearly every entrepreneur exaggerates his or her company's size to impress clients. Jason Fried says such behavior is sillyand unnecessary

There's an overwhelming amount of content available online, so how do you know what's worth your time and what isn't?

When your business vision and the reality in which you live are miles apart, it may not be for the reasons you believe. Lack of money and time are the most typical issues that soloists cite for the mile-wide gap between vision and reality, but as they progress in coaching they discover that the true missing pieces are clarity, strategy and an empowering mindset.

Robots that walk, robots that talk, robots that suck and, yes, robots that blow. We've got them all in this week's roundup: (Okay, we lied about the robots that talk bit...but some of them do, you know?) Loch, Singapore's Android Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has been working on its nation's most complex full-scale android yet--Loch, the Low Cost Humanoid--for a few years, but he's been largely overlooked. This is a shame, because though he's from a nation you wouldn't normally associate with advanced robotics, he can walk, manage stairs, and resist being pushed off course.

Plastic doesn't have to end up in landfills or the ocean.

CEOs of two breakthrough, webby businesses show Fast Company how office policies built on frankness, trust, and occasionally awkward closeness engender a culture of success. Inside the multi-million dollar video streaming giant, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar has gone to extraordinary lengths to subvert his own power: He has no office, has a makeshift desk partly built from empty boxes, and personally takes each new hire out to lunch to learn what he or she thinks the company can do better.

A new report says that 41% of mobile workers have a tablet, and another 34% plan on buying one inside six months. We're doomed.

An employee's introduction to the company is equally important to the later success of both the individual and the company. Here are some tips from top workplaces on how to handle new hires. Picture this: You've just hired some wonderful new talent to join your company but you don't have a specific role intended for them

Providing the best customer service and rewarding their stellar staff goes hand-in-hand for these two co-founders. Co-founders, Thomas P. McGraw and Bill Wentworth, started the company with the goal of hiring the best people to provide the best service.

In the previous blog entry my colleague Jim Haw gave the rationale for our work on Guam. After a week on Guam we will make the two-hour flight to Palau. The highest level of species biodiversity occurs in the Indo-West Pacific region, with nearly 2 percent of the world’s reefs distributed throughout Micronesia

Robots, robots everywhere, and soon they'll begin to think. The tech behind our future android assistants evolves every minute. Here's the latest

Good managers know that happy employees are loyal, productive employees. Below are seven areas to improve employee satisfaction. Employee attitudes typically reflect the moral of the company.

Whom do bold thinkers look to for inspiration?

The inaugural post of Eileen P. Gunn's new Inc.com blog, Start Me Up. Being an entrepreneur energizes me.

Apple and Google testified yesterday before a committee examining smartphone user privacy, particularly regarding location tracking. The first conclusion: Senators don't understand the tech, nor do most people.