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What the Beatles' early failures can teach you about staffing, timing, market research, and product development. The words "failure" and "the Beatles" seldom appear in the same sentence. But the...

Not a natural optimist? Use these simple exercises to train your brain to more easily pick out the positive. You know how when you play Tetris for awhile, even after you stop, you can still see...

Forget your best friend. Working with someone who drives you crazy is more likely to help you achieve your dreams. When you think about founding your dream business, you might imagine working...

  Let’s get this right: mobile ads suck. And if you’re planning to have that as your revenue model, you are throwing your app into a gorge unless it’s a really kickass application that people...

Industry watchers are hopeful that entrepreneurship is on the rise.

Hailo announced it raised a new $30 million round of funding led by Union Square Ventures. Here's what that means. As taxi-hailing-app maker Hailo attempts to tackle the crucial New York City...

Want to gain confidence, wisdom, and leadership skills in record time? Go to work for a floundering company. If you've never worked for a floundering company, you don't know what you're missing....

A fascinating article on "emotional labor" argues against companies coercing staff into feigning cheerfulness. Is it OK to pay workers to pretend to be happy? You go into a fast food shop or a...

Users will hand over a lot of data to an application, sometimes without even noticing that’s what they’re doing. Unless you’re working with a particularly savvy group of users, the only time your...

The business titan behind KB Home and Sun America--also an author, philanthropist and art collector--on the trait that brought him success. Hint: It's not complacency. Slightly built,...