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Starting a Business

Want More Customers? Use This Simple 5-Step Process to Create an Irresistible Pitch

It's not hard to get customers to "yes" if you know what they need.

Growing a Business

This Ancient Ritual Is Key to How I Run a Company of 500 People. Harvard Research Shows Why.

Rituals are underrated ways to keep people connected.

Growing a Business

Want to Sound Smarter? This Stanford Professor's Simple 3-Point Technique Will Help

With a little structure, you can impress audiences with your ad-libbing all day.

Starting a Business

Its First Year, This Startup Struggled to Get 75 Clients. Five Years Later, They Have 18,000. Here's How They Did It.

Financial planning startup Facet knew they were targeting a huge untapped market. But getting clients wasn't as easy as they hoped.

Growing a Business

Think You Screwed Up? These 6 Business Leaders Share Their Big Mistake — and Lesson Learned

Too often, we think a leader has to be right. But these businesses transformed when their leaders realized they'd had it wrong all along.

Growing a Business

Before She Started Slutty Vegan, A Disaster Taught Her the Difference Between Making the 'Best' Choice and the 'Right' One

When things go wrong (and they will), Cole says it's all too easy to ask, "Why is this happening to me?"

Growing a Business

Want to Do Better Work? Just Start Saying This One Word More.

It's not easy, but it's the key to each new accomplishment.

Starting a Business

This Startup Is Reinventing the Yellow School Bus. Here's Its Playbook for Winning Over the Hardest Customers (Like Public Schools).

Zūm started out selling its "Uber for kids" service to parents. But then its founder realized they could sell to school districts, and have a much bigger impact. Of course, that was easier said than done.

Living

Chris Hemsworth Used to Bomb Auditions. Then This Mindset Shift Made Him a Movie Star, and the Founder of a $200 Million Startup.

The Australian actor won't let himself forget where he came from, and what the point of success is.

Growth Strategies

A Staple Drink From History

Rooh Afza, a bright rose flavored syrup, has a long history and an unchanged taste. Forty years older than independent India, this nostalgia-tinged beverage is a permanent fixture in the South Asian imagination and aptly called the summer drink of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan

Technology

Making Avatars 'Intelligent'

Scanta出生out of curiosity about the augmented reality is now striving to make AR avatars 'intelligent' with immense possibilities awaiting to be leveraged

Entrepreneurs

The Man with a Pony & a Mallet

Decoding Naveen Jindal's love for Polo