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Naming unmet need may not be enough for start-up

"Keep your eyes open to an unmet need, and then keep very, very focused."

Inside Entrepreneurship: No need to pay to find free money

Are any of these resources worth my money?

Comparison of Angels to Venture Capitalists

Despite the similarities between venture capitalists and angel investors, significant differences abound.

Plentyoffish: 1-Man Company May Be Worth $1 Billion

In terms of traffic, currently POF gets 1.2 billion page views/month, and 500,000 average unique logins per day.

Directors Who Don’t Deliver

These five types of dysfunctional board members "serve" at many companies

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

"Strategies that presume complete global integration tend to place far too much emphasis on international standardization and scalar expansion."

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Many managers in business experience difficulty dealing with their best creative thinkers. So how does violinist Paul Robertson, who leads one of the great string quartets in the world, manage himself and 3 colleagues? One idea: Don’t make life too comfortable for them.

Women gather to share know-how at the ‘She’s Geeky’ high-tech confab

A VENTURE CAPITALIST who rejected Mary Hodder’s startup for funding later told her he did so in part because Hodder had no male co-founder, and he thought she would quit because she’s a woman.

How new technologies are changing the way we innovate

It is possible that
it will have as profound an impact on
economic growth and social well-being
in today’s knowledge economy as the
development of machine tools had on
the industrial economy of the mid-19th
century.

After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again

The Internet, a low-overhead medium with a global reach, has greatly accelerated the wealth creation phenomenon, producing a larger breed of multimillionaires even younger and richer than in the past.