Editorial

Crowdsourcing: Trusting Your Loyal Community With The Task At Hand

Startup businesses are always looking for new ways to grow. Whether you’re trying to grow your audience or grow creatively as a company, crowdsourcing is becoming more relevant in the business world.

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CEO Sundays: 3 Disruptive Startups That Are Revolutionizing Traditional Industries

Entrepreneur Ryan Croft takes a look at the new crop of startups that have emerged to dethrone certain industries that have gone seemingly unchanged for decades.

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ACLU: Does The Government Think It Can Read Our Email?

The human rights watchdog filed a lawsuit against the federal government earlier this month to find out to what extent the government is reading our emails and texts.

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Is Choremonster Helping Us Raise Little Monsters? A Skeptic’s View

By trading good life lessons for goodies, Choremonster sidesteps the important dialogue of personal responsibility and introduces kids to a reward-centered work environment.

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How Non-Programmers Can Get Hired By A Startup

Want to score your dream job at a startup? Here is some advice from non-programmers and the founders who hired them.

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CEO Sundays: Secrets To Making Great Hires

Finding good employees is one of the toughest challenges that C-level executives face. Kevin Watson, CEO of Unrabble, a cloud-computing hiring software solution shares a few tips in this week’s CEO Sunday series.

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Think Before You Incubate: How Incubators Can Hurt Your Startup

So you just got into your dream startup incubator. Here are some things to consider before you sign on the dotted line.

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Mocial is the New Social: Picking Howard Tullman’s Brain

How do we even begin to describe “mocial” to our grandparents? Could we ever really expound it? A mix of mobile + local + social, the term encompasses universal human concepts (“social,” “local,” the like) with vastly different connotations than their historical predecessors.

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Why Startups Won’t Let You Out Of Their Database

Have you ever tried to get out of a company’s database? It’s almost impossible and most likely, that’s on purpose. There’s a dirty little secret in the startup world: if you are still a company’s database, they can continue to make revenue off you even if you are not an active user.

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Techweek Chicago 2012: This Year in Conference Swag

Let’s face it: the only perk second to learning about awesome new startups at a tech conference is the swag, and Techweek had plenty of it. How do the goodies stack up, and what hidden messages do they reveal about the companies they represent? Also, who had the coolest swag?

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