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Think there’s too much government regulation of business? How about if you had to comply with foreign law, too, even if those laws weren’t even enforced in those other countries. You might be breaking the law right now, for all you know. And U.S. law enforcement might be ready to[...]
Is knowledge really that dangerous? It's a question worth asking in the wake of the controversy over 23andMe, the genetic-testing company backed by Anne Wojicki and her estranged husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The Food and Drug Administration ordered 23andMe to stop selling its home-testing kits, saying there isn't enough data[...]
When it comes to deducting a company’s auto expenses, mileage is often a business owner’s first choice because it’s the most known practice. But it may not be the best option for you. Instead, you might go the “actual expense” route, which involves factoring in depreciation. This option may be[...]
Economists and others who warn of the business impact of excessive regulations are often derided as Chicken Littles and proto-anarchists who put corporate profit over public safety. I should know, since I'm often on the receiving end of such screeds. But it isn't Laissez-Fairy-dust dreams that drive such vigilance. Rather,[...]
A popular startup company has given up after a brief yet public legal fight with the Beastie Boys over copyright infringement. That company is GoldieBlox, the girls game-maker that produced a video featuring three young girls and a re-write of the 1987 Beastie Boys song "Girls." It was cute. It was clever.[...]
The decision by the Supreme Court earlier this week to hear an appeal to Obamacare forcing companies to provide contraceptive insurance coverage, over objections of owners who resist such coverage as a matter of their faith, will once again bring up a subject of much debate among business owners: Are the for-profit[...]
Are you a rock-star salesperson or just a garage-band salesperson? Rock stars seldom drop prices. Selling tickets and merchandise isn't a struggle. Fans line up for hours to buy tickets and over-pay ridiculously for the band's tour t-shirt. The rock star salesperson makes more money, works smarter, and has more[...]
The online shopping cart - what makes it in and why? These are crucial questions for ecommerce, a $231 billion industry that, while growing, still represents just a fraction of the overall retail space. This infographic from Walker Sands shares results from its 2014 study on the Future of Retail, featuring insights on a[...]
Editor's note: Over the next few months, we'll be taking a virtual tour of U.S. cities to see how the 2008 financial crisis has changed the entrepreneurial landscape, for better or worse. Boise isn't exactly a bustling metropolis. Yet, its entrepreneurs know how to think big. Chalk it up to the nearby[...]
This past year, I was introduced to the Silicon Prairie when I hosted Big Omaha and spoke at Thinc Iowa. What's the Silicon Prairie you ask? It's just the hottest area in the country for tech startups that you never heard of. Spanning from Nebraska to Iowa to Missouri, Silicon Prairie companies are[...]
From Silicon Valley in California to Silicon Alley in New York, it may seem that those areas have cornered the market on tech genius, but don't be fooled. The internet is decentralizing business, allowing entrepreneurs to build smart, lean businesses in far-flung places. These eight places may not leap out as startup hotbeds,[...]
While the Midwest has long been known for farming and agriculture, it only takes a trip around the region today to discover hot tech startups like online-food ordering platform GrubHub, online-payment system Dwolla and farm-management software FarmLogs, residing in spots where factories and farmland once stood. These startups, along with[...]
