Marketing
3 Ways to Meet the Endless Challenge of Coming Up With Great Content Ideas
To meet the incessant demand for content, read widely and don't be shy about asking your team for suggestions.
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Building a Business
Don’t Let the Fear of Your Idea Being Stolen Hold You Back
Instead, focus your efforts on protecting yourself with these seven strategies.
By Stephen Key
Online Presence
Mark Zuckerberg Calls the ‘A-Ha!’ Moment a Myth
In his third-ever town hall-style Q&A, the Facebook founder discussed some misconceptions that surround entrepreneurship.
By Geoff Weiss
Building a Business
5 Tests to Figure Out If Your Business Idea Has Legs
Consider these questions to help you determine if your concept will pan out into a successful enterprise.
Building a Business
3 Steps for Franchisees Who Want to Be Heard by Corporate
A franchisee for over 30 years explains what to do to make the company hear your idea.
Thought Leaders
Are You Serious About Becoming An Entrepreneur?
There are four types of people who talk about being entrepreneurs. Most never become one. Here's how to see if you're serious.
By Greg Shugar
Business Ideas
Get Your Innovation Mojo Back With These 8 Tips
Let's face it: most big companies are bad at innovating.
Thought Leaders
The 3 Gifts Entrepreneurs Provide the World
Although people usually associate business with taking, the holidays serve to remind us the good of those who strike out on their own.
Building a Business
Do You Need a Great New Idea? Stand On the Shoulders of Giants.
Go shopping -- not for products -- but for new concepts you could use to improve your business.
By Jeff Shore
Building a Business
6 Ways to Stay Mentally Fit for Life
Put yourself on a no-junk intellectual diet to spark creativity in your business.
By Marty Fukuda
Entrepreneurs
Too Bad We Can’t Store Calories in the Cloud
We came up with three hypothetical inventions that would make Thanksgiving more enjoyable.
Building a Business
Use Kickstarter to Validate Your Million-Dollar Idea
Crowdfunding platforms can be about more than selling concrete commodities.
By Meiko Patton
Building a Business
Finding Innovative Ideas in Unexpected Places
Looking far outside your own industry can yield surprising solutions to tough problems.
By Anne Fisher
Thought Leaders
The 5 Most Popular TED Talks of All Time
They don't call them "ideas worth spreading" for nothing. These five TED Talks are the best of the best.
Building a Business
GE’s Beth Comstock: Here’s How I Sell An Idea
You put it out there, but then you have to be prepared to defend your brilliant idea.
Building a Business
Is Your Startup Idea a Killer, or Should It Be Killed?
Follow these four steps to determine whether you have a good business, or just a smudge on a cocktail napkin.
Entrepreneurs
7 Entirely Reasonable Excuses for Doing Nothing That You Must Ignore to Succeed
If you can't get started because you need more time, money and helpful contacts, turn off the TV, do things on the cheap and meet some people.
Thought Leaders
The Idea vs. Execution Debate: Why Ideas Are Everything
Leonardo da Vinci never stopped exploring and challenging conventional wisdom. And neither should you.
By Amy Cosper
Marketing
What’s the Big Idea? 10 Qualities That Set Big Ideas Apart.
Thinking up the idea that will change everything for your company will never be easy but you can learn to recognize the ones that have the potential.
Building a Business
Embrace Your Ideas, Even If They May Sound Ridiculous
A fiction writer who regrets not pursuing a now billion-dollar idea shares four reasons to push your thoughts closer to reality.
Thought Leaders
Who’s in Your Corner?
Surround yourself with a bevy of business professionals to stimulate and inspire you to realize your goals.
By Lou Solomon
Brick & Mortar
Who Will Step Up and Disrupt the Real Estate Industry?
Much like the media, taxi and hotel industries before it, smart entrepreneurs can and will inject new ideas and technology into a traditional market.
Building a Business
How Watching the Movie ‘Frozen’ 1,000 Times Helped Me Build My Business
Inspiration to take a new tack comes from a fanciful source.
Building a Business
You Have A Great Idea For A Product, So Now What?
Most entrepreneurs have lots of ideas but few of them are able to successfully execute that one idea that makes all the difference.
Building a Business
Best Idea Ever, or Forget It? 7 Ways to Reality Check a Startup Concept.
How does any entrepreneur know what ventures to pursue, and which ones are best left behind?
Business News
How to Discover Your Purpose in Business and Life
You might not know it right now, but once you discover it, it's time to take on your quest.
By Lewis Howes
Building a Business
Validate Your Business Idea — Quickly — With These 5 Steps
New product and service concepts are stifled by the process of taking them to market. If you can prove a demand, however, the next steps become much less intimidating.
By Peter Gasca