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Growing a Business

Figuring Out What Can Sink Your Business -- and How You Can Save It

Here's how to spot hidden weaknesses within your operation and steel yourself for unexpected battles.

Growing a Business

How 3 Entrepreneurs Started on the Fast Track

From finding the right customers to creating an apparel brand in a few weeks, founders share their first-time challenges.

Growing a Business

Post-it Will Introduce Extreme Notes, and It's a Textbook Lesson in How to Solve a Customer Problem

The handy yellow sticky note is getting an upgrade for non-office settings.

Innovation

Tosca Musk, the Youngest Sibling of the Famous Family, Talks Romance, Problem-Solving and Growing Up Musk

The filmmaker wants to empower women with her latest venture.

Celebrity Entrepreneurs

Elon Musk Admits He Was Wrong, But His Confidence Is Still Intact

Tesla suffered production line delays throughout 2017.

Growing a Business

This Entrepreneur Said Yes Too Many Times. Then He Learned to Say No

The founder of Crown & Caliber needed help, and discovered that 'no' is the secret to success.

Growing a Business

How to Win in a Ruthless Industry? Try Being Nice.

When an entrepreneur entered a vicious, grueling industry, she approached it differently than her competitors.

Leadership

4 Tactics to Transform Obstacles into Opportunities

Really difficult problems often demand an entirely fresh examination of the business.

Buying / Investing in Business

This Entrepreneur Explains How He Survived 150 Rejections From Investors

When funding fell apart for Sam Sisakhti, he embarked on 18 months of brutal rejections and learned invaluable lessons about himself, his business and the nature of entrepreneurship.

Innovation

Find Your Startup's Equivalent of Elon Musk's Mission to Mars

Musk's bold bet to colonize Mars is a lesson in future-focused innovation.

Growing a Business

How to Find Huge Opportunities Right Under Your Nose

It happened at Quizlet, where its CEO once overlooked a chance at 300 percent more ad revenue. Could it happen to you too?

Growth Strategies

Investors Fancy Startups that are Solving Larger Problems

The company CEO feels in any part of the world, startups should be working to solve a large problem that concerns many to get investors' support

Growing a Business

How Yogurt Brand Noosa Thrived By Cancelling Its Biggest Retail Deal

The brand's first big break nearly broke it. But it also taught Noosa an important lesson about growing at the right pace.

Business Ideas

The Funding Problem No One Talks Enough About -- and What You Can Do

Forget what's trendy with VCs or which cities get funded most, and go after the problems affecting the masses.

Celebrity Entrepreneurs

Elon Musk Has Resorted to Sleeping at Tesla's Factory to Try to Get it Back on Track

The electric car company is way behind on its production goals.