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You Never Thought Social Media Could Look Like This

Artists have created an installation that allows us to see social-media sentiment in the physical, real world. It's so weird you have to see it for yourself.

By Kate Taylor

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5 Guidelines to Maximize Freelance Employees

By Stephen Key

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5 Quotes to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

By Adam Toren

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3 Historical Habits That Improve Modern Entrepreneurs

By Matthew Toren

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Wi-Fi Revealed Through Stunning Photos

A researcher in the United Kingdom built a device that transforms wireless networks into light and sound.

By Nina Zipkin

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Meet the Incubator Shattering the Left/Right Brain Divide

New Inc believes in mixing art and business.

By Lana Bortolot

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From Glow-In-The-Dark Highways to ‘Smog Diamonds,’ One Man’s Vision of a More Beautiful, Sustainable World

Social designer Daan Roosegaarde has built a career applying technology to the world that exists outside our screens.

By Laura Entis

Thought Leaders

Stop Being a Jack-of-All-Trades. Join the Billion Dollar Unicorn Club.

All founders can be seen as either artists, entrepreneurs or managers. Often multitasking, they may need in time to choose to focus on their strengths.

By Mitchell Harper

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The Art World Tells Us Much About the Value of Wealth

Want to talk about inequality? It's worse in the fine arts, and that isn't such a bad thing.

By Ryan Shea

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How to Be More Creative, Wherever You Work

One in three employed adults in the U.S. want to quit their job to pursue a more creative position. Here are five ways to get the creative juices flowing right now.

By Kate Taylor

Business News

From Beethoven to Marissa Mayer: The Bizarre Habits of Highly Creative People

These artists, scientists and CEOS reveal that some of the world's most innovative individuals have some eccentric habits.

By Drake Baer

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This Entrepreneur Shows How to Paint a Picture of Success

Entrepreneur's Growth Conference keynote speaker Erik Wahl takes us on a visual storytelling journey providing inspiration, motivation and entertainment.

By Andrea Huspeni

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Consumers Fed Up With Canned Soup?

With global soup sales declining steadily over the past half of a decade, a new study indicates that an iconic packaging format may be to blame.

By Geoff Weiss

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From Gum to the Grammys: How Artist-Entrepreneur Kenna Bulldozed the Status Quo

Kenna Zemedkun has launched television shows, carved out his own music genre, created new ways of raising money for the issues he cares about and helped overhaul a social networking site.

By Catherine Clifford

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Why Companies Are Hiring Artists for Their Meetings

Creative agencies like Scriberia and Innovation Arts are offering 'scribing' services to companies who want an illustrated record of their meetings and events.

By Katrina Bishop

Business News

Would You Buy a $39,700 Bottle of Wine? Someone Did.

A case of 1978 Romanée-Conti Grand Cru sold for $476,280 -- or about $39,700 a bottle -- on Saturday, making it one of the most expensive cases ever auctioned.

By Robert Frank

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Artists Are Job-Creating Entrepreneurs, Too.

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Kauffman Foundation released a report today on how cities can encourage cultural entrepreneurs.

By Catherine Clifford

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Why Every Entrepreneur Should Unleash Their Inner Artist

Here are five ways to let your creative side shine to be a better entrepreneur.

By Sharí Alexander

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What Salvador Dali and Jeff Bezos Have in Common

Think more like an artist and you'll unleash the kind of creativity and forward thinking that makes the greatest entrepreneurs thrive.

By Duane Edwards

Entrepreneurs

9 Iconic Motivational Posters

Successories posters were office icons of the 1980s and 1990s. From 'teamwork' to 'commitment,' we've gathered some of our favorite inspirational artwork.

By Kathleen Davis

Buying a Franchise

A Winning Business Idea: Wine & Paint

So-called "paint and sip" franchises promise an evening of cheap entertainment -- and the satisfaction of creating your own work of art.

By Sarah Max

Thought Leaders

Art Entrepreneur Wins $100,000 Pittsburgh Prize

Artist Tess Lojacono talks about winning the "Experienced Dreamers" contest designed to lure middle-aged entrepreneurs to Pittsburgh.

By Patrick J. Kiger

Marketing

How One Business Is Expanding Beyond Its Local Market

What is your company doing that takes you outside the comfort zone?

By Erika Napoletano

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Portable Design With Poketo

A startup founded by two artists puts art in people's pockets (and on their backs).

By Carolyn Horwitz

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Artopolis: The State of the Creative Nation

Arts entrepreneurs won't save the day for every city, but in some spots, they're the new oil (paint) barons.

By Adam Davidson

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New York Startup Brings Art to the Online Masses

Entrepreneur Jen Bekman envisions--and is creating--a world that puts art in reach of the masses.

By Caroline Tiger

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Why Artists Are Buying into Chattanooga

Artists gave Chattanooga's Southside a new life--and the neighborhood returned the favor.

By Margaret Littman

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The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne on Reinventing the Music Industry

For this iconoclastic rocker, there are no limits to how music can be packaged, delivered and consumed.

By Jason Ankeny

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For This Entrepreneur, Velvet Elvis Paintings Were Just the Start

A Portland painter finds her niche with customized paintings on the 1970s' favorite fuzzy fabric.

By Michelle Juergen

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Innovator: DeviantART’s Angelo Sotira

How Angelo Sotira turned 14 million independent artists into a groundbreaking social network.

By Jennifer Wang