Nate C. Hindman

Small-business owners are leaning right leading up to the U.S. presidential election. Forty-nine percent of business owners plan to vote for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, while 32 percent of respondents say they'll support President Obama, according to a report released this week by Manta.

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Congratulations, Pinterest. Welcome to The $1 Billion Club.

After your $100 million round of financing closed Thursday, the total value of your shares soared to about $1.5 billion, vaulting you into an exclusive club of venture-backed companies that have reached or exceeded the $1 billion valuation...

NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday the launch of a website mapping Internet startups in New York City that are hiring.

Speaking at Internet Week New York in SoHo, Bloomberg unveiled the Made in NY Digital Map as he touted the city's fast-growing technology...

Convinced that cash prizes stimulate innovation, the CEO of one Bellevue, Wash.-based technology firm is giving $100,000 to employees with great ideas.

Naveen Jain is the CEO of Intelius, which provides online information about people to businesses. In addition, he sits on the board of...

NEW YORK -- In December 2010, Jason Goldberg gave his investors the bad news first. Fabulis, the gay men's social network he started one year earlier with more than $2 million of their money, was a flop.

But the good news was that Fabulis' "Gay Daily Deal of the...

The world's first floating startup community is gaining steam.

Blueseed, a company that wants to house entrepreneurs aboard a vessel anchored near Silicon Valley, has announced that it will set sail before 2014. Nearly 150 technology startups have said they're interested in building businesses on the...

In January, e-commerce site Etsy.com banned Tracy Robertson from selling goods on its marketplace after discovering that she had outsourced some of her work.

"My business is completely crippled right now," Robertson, a model and fashion designer, wrote in an email to Etsy after the company...

A Mitt Romney gaffe has brought a wave of customers to one Pennsylvania mom-and-pop.

Bethel Bakery, a 57-year-old Pittsburgh staple, found itself in the national spotlight after Romney compared its cookies to snacks found at 7-Eleven. The slip-up came last week when the GOP...

Startup fever is spreading.

The number of startup jobs posted online in 2011 jumped 23.5 percent from the year before, according to StartupHire.com, a free job search engine for venture capital-backed companies.

And while most companies in hiring mode have a big pool of jobless Americans to...

Remember that movie "Armageddon"? Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck travel to space to drill into an asteroid and break it apart before it collides with Earth.

Here are two pieces of good news while that late-'90s classic is fresh in your mind: Flaming spheres of death are...

Venture capital financing fell 21 percent in the first quarter of 2012 to its lowest level in nearly two years, according to a new report.

That's after 2011 marked a 10-year high for venture capital.

Hear that? Has a bubble popped in 2012?

Not...

Signed into law earlier this month, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act makes it easier for the general public to invest in startups by removing rules that previously allowed only wealthy investors to buy stakes in young companies. Under the new law, effective early 2013, a...

Another win for Silicon Alley. Women are twice as likely to start new companies in New York than they are in Silicon Valley, America's largest startup hub, according to new research.

The findings come courtesy of Startup Genome, a research project launched by three entrepreneurs, in conjunction with...

Rick Santorum made the sweater vest cool again. Campaign battle-cries like "fear the vest" and "sleeves slow you down" empowered high school history teachers everywhere.

And even though Santorum withdrew from the presidential race Tuesday, his trademark garb will live on in the...

The newly renovated space at 49 Mercer Street in Manhattan's SoHo District offers complimentary food, drink, slippers, a robe and, of course, a private room where patrons can rest their loins, replete with scented candles, plush bedding and an oversized shower. But 49 Mercer isn't SoHo's latest boutique hotel or...

Could a Groupon deal ruin your business's reputation online?

Three computer scientists from Boston University and Harvard set out to shed light on that question last fall. They found that businesses tend to see their Yelp rankings decrease after offering a Groupon deal. That's because Groupon subscribers give...

Facebook could have bought The New York Times for less.

That's right, the $1 billion in cash and stock that Facebook paid for Instagram Monday values the two-year old mobile photo-sharing app more than The New York Times.

Instagram, a social network built around cellphone photos...

When David Eyerly earned a partial scholarship to attend a California flight school, he asked his older brother Wade for some advice. Pilot jobs were tough to come by and David didn't see the payoff. But Wade, 32, wanted his brother to stick with flying and asked what it would...

Kane Sarhan first realized there was a gap between college and the real world as an undergraduate working part-time for the owner of a large bar and restaurant chain. He recalls going back and forth between courses and corporate meetings, wondering when the skills he learned in the classroom would...

New York's booming Internet sector is spawning some workplace wonderlands. For proof, look no further than the in-office DJ booth or the rooftop lounge in this roundup of Manhattan's swankiest startup spaces, released by SecondMarket, an online marketplace for alternative investments, with headquarters in New York's...