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Failure in life or in business can be painful. But it can also be one of the best teachers we entrepreneurs have, challenging us to learn from our mistakes and take the steps necessary to achieve success in the end. Read More

Lately, I've been seeing signs of the irrational exuberance of 1999. Internet pioneer and dotcom veteran Scott D. Sullivan Reinhart sat down with me recently to share his views of what went wrong back then and how entrepreneurs can do it better today. Read More

It is estimated that workers suffering from repetitive strain injuries cost U.S. companies between $15 and $20 billion annually. I recently sat down with ergonomics expert Brian Bentow to discuss how we constant computer users can protect ourselves. Read More

Sometimes, for a little shock value, I like to tell people I grew up in the back of a liquor store. And I did -- sort of. When I was born we lived down the block from the liquor store my grandfather and uncle owned in Brooklyn, and I spent a lot of time in the stock room building castles out of liquor boxes and packing materials. We moved from Broo Read More

Executives from Net Impact, eBay and Timberland discuss the skills employers find desirable for positions with an environmental or larger CSR focus. Read More

Just about every survey and data source says that trade credit is the second largest source of small business financing after banks. The question is: are you taking advantage of it? Trade credit simply means that a vendor extends you credit terms, giving you extra time to pay or giving a discount for early payment. Read More

"Anyone serious about promoting wealth-creating entrepreneurship must at some point direct attention toward how the moral, legal and political environment aligns incentives. Entrepreneurship -- like everything else -- doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's long past the time we stopped pretending it does." Read More

Starting today, anyone can make their blogs available via the new Kindle Publishing for Blogs Beta program. All you have to do is make your blog's feed available to the Kindle Store, and Amazon will do the rest, formatting your content for the device. According to the email from Amazon, after a few easy steps, your blog should be up and ready Read More

Achieving success with cold calling is all about maintaining perspective. Too often people approach cold calling with the idea that they want to see results now. They end up abandoning the activity because they don't feel like they are making any progress. Check out these 2 Simple Goals for Cold Calling Success... Read More

No matter what you sell, the core competency every sales person needs is the ability to build relationships. Whether you've got five minutes or five months, your capacity to build rapport with your prospects is critical, and that was the topic of our discussion with Kim Williams, Vice President of Sales at Pike's Home Maintenance. Read More