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Class of 2012: Get Uncomfortable

Jeff A. Katz | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Graduation, Commencement Speeches, Commencement, Unemployment, Startup, Student Debt, College, Graduating College, Graduating, Student Loans, Hard Work, College News
Jeff A. Katz

After you walk across the stage and accept your diploma, there is a question you need to keep in mind and an answer for yourself when things get rough (and they will): What great things have come from being comfortable?

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Nate C. Hindman

New York Tech Booms, Even As City's Jobless Rate Rises

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: New York Business, New York Tech, Etsy, Small Business, Rachel Sterne, Startup, Mayor Bloomberg, Internet Week New York, New York Startups, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, New York, Dumbo, Tumblr, Small Business News

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

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Designer Co-Founder Series: Fab.com

Chris Johnson | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: News and Trends, Startup, Startup Offices, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Small Business America, Fab, Small Business, Small Business News
Chris Johnson

A design shopping site emerges, investors line up, and soon Demi Moore is tweeting about sales and signups go moonward. It all happened. Fab now has 160 design-obsessed staffers. We stammer when we say it too -- one-sixty. They had 10 when Fab launched 11 months ago.

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Hear the One About the Lawyer Who Started a Company?

Chris Johnson | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: News and Trends, Small Business News and Trends, Startup, Lawyers, Startups, Small Business America, Small Business, Small Business News
Chris Johnson

He realized he wanted to build things more than be a lawyer. So he left Cahill Gordon & Reindel and taught himself to code, learning Ruby on Rails in a six week self-imposed lock-up.

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What Happens When You Don't Mail the Invites

Bryce Longton | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: News and Trends, Startup, Startup Offices, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Small Business America, Paperless Post, Small Business, Wedding Invitations, Small Business News
Bryce Longton

You're up to your neck in cake, music, and photography and now it's the invitations. The lingo comes in like, caliper, grammage, and calligraphy, and that's before you even get to RSVP cards and return addresses. A lot to consider.

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Nate C. Hindman

Fab Pivots From Gay Social Network To Online Retail Phenom

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Fab, Small Business, Internet Retail, Online Retail, Gilt Groupe, Retail, One Kings Lane, Slideexpand, Fab.com, New York, Amazon, Etsy, Video, Startup, Startups, Technology, Small Business News

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 ...

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How About We Do Pushups

Bryce Longton | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Startup, Startup Offices, Small Business News and Trends, How About We, Startups, Small Business America, Small Business, Small Business News
Bryce Longton

The clock turns to eleven and everyone hits the floor, palms flat or knuckles down, planking. Every hour, on the hour, the team gets down and sweats it out together.

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Shop Main Street From Your Street

Bryce Longton | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Startup, Shopping, Startup Offices, Y Combinator, Small Business News and Trends, Soho, Startups, New York, Small Business America, Small Business, Shoptiques, Small Business News
Bryce Longton

That jacket right there. That's the one you wore right out of the store in Tuscany. And those funky sunglasses? Bought from a street vendor in Seoul. ...

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The Rise of Social Trading

Michael Giles | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Uber, Investing, Trading, Finance, Startup, Social Trading, Small Business News
Michael Giles

The nature of our platform cuts out the noise and provides only the most important signals -- when a trader buys or sells through their real online trading account.

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Teenage Whiz-Kid Raises $7 Million For Startup Payments Company

Reuters | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Video, Small Business, Teenage Entrepreneurs, Startup, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Venture Capital, Technology Startups, Technology, San Francisco, Entrepreneur, Small Business News

(By Sarah McBride - Reuters) - Gumroad, a start-up payments company run by 19-year-old entrepreneur Sahil Lavingia, has raised $7 million in a funding...

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Fresh Start For Seamless

Chris Johnson | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Startup, Engineers, Startup Offices, Small Business News and Trends, Engineering, Seamless, Startups, Bryant Park, New York, Small Business America, Small Business, Small Business News
Chris Johnson

Founded in 2000, Seamless flourished in the post dot com era as a web-based food delivery service, was acquired six years ago, and then spun out again last year. The spin out came with new capital and a renewed focus on product (think mobile) and innovation (think more mobile). It's a fresh start -- a born again startup.

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Nate C. Hindman

On Etsy, Scandals Highlight Thin Line Between 'Handmade' And 'Factory-Made' Crafts

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Handmade Crafts, Etsy, Artisan Vendors, Video, Crafts, Startup, Factory-Made Crafts, Handmade Goods, Tracy Robertson, Small Business News and Trends, Craftspeople Factory, Small Business News

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

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Tumblr's All Star Staffers

Bryce Longton | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Flatiron, Small Business America, Small Business, Startup, Tumblr, Startups, Startup Offices, New York, Engineering, Engineers, Small Business News
Bryce Longton

It's neither the office space nor the clever perks that make Tumblr such an of-the-moment place to work: it's the people.

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The Top 13 States For Startup Jobs (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Small Business, Video, Startup, Startup Jobs, Technical Jobs, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Jobs, Hiring, Slidepollajax, Engineering, Small Business News

Startup fever is spreading. The number of startup jobs posted online in 2011 jumped 23.5 percent from the year before, according to StartupHire.co...

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Entrepreneurs Find Cash In Trash

Reuters | Christina Hernandez Sherwood | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Recycling, Environmental Protection Agency, Recyclematch, Video, Small Business, Ecoscraps, Startup, Recycle, Epa, Environment, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Trash, Small Business News

(Reuters) - Some entrepreneurs across the country are building businesses based on the belief that garbage -- once destined to rot in a landfill -- ca...

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Two Places at Once: Divide's Merging Personal and Work Devices

Bryce Longton | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: London, Small Business America, Small Business, Startup, Hong Kong, Smartphones, Startups, Small Business News
Bryce Longton

This is the life at Divide, where multiple-personas are a reality of having such a global team.

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Did A Startup Bubble Just Pop?

The Huffington Post | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Small Business, Video, Startup, Venture Capitalists, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Startup Bubble, Bubble, Startup Investing, Venture Capital, Tech Bubble, Small Business News

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 ...

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Nate C. Hindman

Former FBI Agent: How To Spot A Startup Scam

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, JOBS Act 2012, Crowdfunding, Startup, Obama Jobs Act, Crowdfunding Law, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Small Business Fraud, Corporate Fraud, Securities and Exchange Commission, Jobs Act, Small Business News

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 r...

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The Rise Of The MBA Entrepreneur

Reuters | Mike Taylor | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Video, Small Business, Education, Startup, College, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Masters of Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, Mba, Small Business News

(Mike Taylor - Reuters) When Chika Ekeji enrolled in the MIT Sloan School of Business' full-time MBA program, he was ambivalent about actually finishi...

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New Crowdfunding Law Helps Small Businesses Find Investors

AP | Joyce M. Rosenberg | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Video, Small Business, Startup, Crowdfunding, Kickstarter, Crowdfunding Law, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Venture Capital, KickStarter.Com, Crowdfunding Bill, Jobs Act, Small Business News

(AP - Joyce M. Rosenberg) Finding investors is probably the biggest challenge that business startups and small companies face. But small businesses ar...

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Startups Bloom In Wake Of Arab Spring

Reuters | Mirna Sleiman | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Small Business, Video, Arab-Startups, Arab Spring, Startup, Arab Entrepreneurs, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Small Business News

(Reuters - By Mirna Sleiman) - Jordanian entrepreneur Majied Qasem waited three years before arranging outside funding for his start-up company, d1g.c...

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Startup Minerva Project Seeks To Rival Ivy League

Reuters | Stephanie Simon | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Small Business, Education, Ben Minerva, Startup, Minerva Project, Ivy League, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Video, Small Business News

(Reuters) - Former Silicon Valley CEO Ben Nelson has two years and $25 million to transform higher education. The 36-year-old executive, who has ru...

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Jay-Z's 40/40 Club Hosting Startup Party

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Small Business, Video, Startup, Singapore, Social Networking, 40/40 Club, Mobile Phones, Yuuzoo, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Jay-Z, Technology, Small Business News

When Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club in Manhattan's Flatiron District re-opened in January, there were a slew of stars and celebrities there to celebrate, includ...

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Her Second Act: Building An Empire On Bloody Marys

Lori Weiss | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Encore Careers, Reinvention, Small Business Success Stories, New Orleans, Baby Boomers, Small Business, Stephanie Sanoja, Startup, Bloody Mary Mixes, Second Acts, Garden District Bloody Marys, Slidepollajax, Starting Over, Marlos Slideshows, Huff/Post50 News

One of the reasons I started my website, MarloThomas.com, was to have a place where women could come together and dream. Women should know that they ...

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The Hottest Industries To Start A Business In

Mary Ellen Biery | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Start a Business, Entrepreneurs, Small Business, Private Companies, Small Business America, Startup, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Small Business News
Mary Ellen Biery

There are, of course, many considerations to starting your own business. But if you've been wondering what fields might be fertile for a new business, a good place to start is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' new employment projections for 2010 to 2020.

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