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TAKING CARE OF the people who take care of you is always a smart move. Send a client a well-planned gift, and you could kick off a whole year of [...]

Margo Redfern's first attempt at building a website was a disaster. In 2007, she started a business, FlattenMe.com, to sell personalized children's books and cards. To build the site, Redfern [...]

SHOULD YOU SET up shop on the Internet? That's a no-brainer. Launching a Web store lets you sell to a worldwide audience, seven dales a week, at any time of [...]

CONFLICTING PERSONALITIES, CONTROL freaks, and co-workers who don't pull their share of the load are just a few of the potential problems you can encounter when working as a team, [...]

HERE'S AN INCONVENIENT truth: U.S. businesses still use about 21 million tons of paper each year. So much for the paperless office. But greening up at the office isn't just [...]

NINE YEARS AGO, Rick Hawkins was driving through west Austin, when he spotted a real estate agent hammering a for-sale sign into the yard of a faux Mediterranean villa. 'I […]

BETWEEN LONG WAITS on the tarmac and having to pad around the security line in your stockinged feet, what's left to love about business travel? Certainly not the rundown 'elite' […]

FOR YEARS AARON KENNEDY had admired a particularly bucolic stretch of road on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado. But when a plot of land on that road finally went up [...]

The cherished belongings of the next style maven. Ryan Underwood Name: Chris Casson Madden. Occupation: CEO and founder of Chris Madden Inc., a growing domestic-diva fiefdom that's filling the vacuum [...]

THAT BREAKTHROUGH idea you had that doubled sales? Your incredibly funny quip at the strategy meeting? Don't get too full of yourself--you were probably just having a good day chemically. [...]

THE FAMOUS LINE from Socrates that the unexamined life is not worth living has taken on a new meaning in the modern era. A wave of companies, many of them [...]

Want to develop a product that customers will love? Take a cue from Internet companies DESIGNING AN INNOVATIVE product requires impeccable taste, sharp instincts--and, of course, good data. Taking a [...]

Want to build your social-media following? Get visual. FORGET ABOUT 140 CHARACTERS. Increasingly, photos and videos are driving customer engagement on social media. On Facebook's top brand pages, videos are [...]

IT'S A COOL TRICK: Aim your smart-phone camera at a building or an object, and--onscreen, anyway--other things seem to suddenly materialize out of thin air. The idea of augmented reality, [...]

Since its 2010 launch, Q&A site Quora has used its $61 million in VE funding to probe doozies like 'What should everyone know about prison?' (It's 'overcrowded ... yet it [...]

The Made in America brand once embodied ruggedness and a kind of strait-laced patriotism, but recently it has morphed into a symbol of artisanal design and environmental sustainability. Fueled by [...]

Entrepreneurs who have been waiting to take advantage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (or JOBS) Act may have to wait a little longer. The Securities and Exchange Commission continues [...]

By all indications, mergers and acquisitions should be booming right about now. Corporations are sitting on mountains of cash--Apple alone reported a stockpile of $117 billion in its most recent [...]

Mitt Romney is the latest in a long line of successful business people who think they know how to fix the country. Success in business, of course, doesn't always translate [...]

We're not nearly as globalized as we think we are, says Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor of global strategy at Spain's IESE Business School and author of the new book World [...]

8 hours About how long it takes to fly directly from Miami to Santiago 85° The average high temperature in Santiago in January. The average high temperature in July is [...]

Within months of launching Somnio, a running-shoe company in La Selva Beach, California, Sean Sullivan was selling shoes in Europe and Asia. 'With something like running shoes, it takes a [...]

Jeffery Adler always knew he wanted to take his San Diego company global. He just didn't realize it would happen so soon. In Southern California, Adler oversees three Dlush Beverage [...]

When MotoSport made its first international sale, things didn't go smoothly. The Portland, Oregon-based online retailer of motorcycle parts and accessories had received a $99 order from Canada. It seemed [...]

Maryellen Kane and Robert van Gool don't seem to have much in common. Kane owns Olive Juice, an upscale children's clothing company based in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Van Gool runs Gonzo [...]

In its quest to become the global powerhouse of online daily deals, Chicago-based Groupon has learned a few things in the two years since its launch. Germans really dig package [...]

WHETHER THEY ARE OUT-of-control cranks or out-of-the-blue evangelists, customers want to have their say. And if you won t listen to them, the Internet is teeming with people who will. [...]

IN THE THREE YEARS SINCE its founding, YouTube has lodged itself so firmly in the culture that the video-sharing site even scored a starring role in the presidential primary debates. [...]

MICROSOFT OUTLOOK MAY be the most widely used e-mail tool on the planet, but it's hardly perfect, which is why enterprising programmers have created a cottage industry in the design [...]

WHETHER YOU WANT to trumpet a new product, spread the word about a sale, or simply say, 'Hey, [first name], you are important to us,' e-mail, marketing is a great [...]

REMEMBER WHEN THE promise of being able to ditch the office to work from home in your pajamas sounded like the best invention since Pop-Tarts? Alas, far from making our […]

THINK OF A GRILL as being like a car: Its fundamental purpose is to get you from one point to another--in this case, from raw to cooked. Grill buyers can […]

AUSTIN ANTHONY CAMARGO AND NAK ARMSTRONG--jewelers to Austin's A-list crowd, the Bush twins chief among them--spend much of their waking lives surrounded by all things design. So in 2003, when [...]

Let's be real. The reason that cell phones, BlackBerrys, and other hand-held gadgets of all descriptions have taken over the civilized world is not that these things are convenient, useful, [...]

The biggest problem for flower shops? Spoilage--a large portion of the inventory usually withers before it can sell. That's what inspired Bryan Burkhart and Sonu Panda to create H. Bloom, [...]

Sand is so last century. Step on a playground today, and you'll probably find a spongy surface that provides both grip and safety padding. Much of this multicolored flooring comes [...]

In 2009, Matt MacInnis quit his marketing job at Apple to start Inkling, a San Francisco-based platform for publishing interactive textbooks and manuals. Five years and nearly $50 million in [...]

After years as a tech entrepreneur, James Plante founded San Diego-based Pathway Genomics in 2008, following his father's death from cancer, Plante's company provides DNA collection kits and screening for [...]

Joshua Feast arrived in the U.S. from New Zealand in 2005. He wanted to attend business school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and start a company. He did both. [...]

These Turtle Shell wireless speakers were made for the great outdoors. The water-resistant devices from Los Angeles-based Outdoor Tech can be plopped In the sand at the beach or mounted, [...]

There are few injustices quite as cruel as a shattered iPhone screen: Not only does it look terrible, but it's also likely to slice a finger before persuading someone to [...]

The survival skills former U. S. Army Captain Alan S. Knitowski honed through his service helped steer his Austin-based mobile-focused development company. Phunware, into deals with the likes of ESPN, […]

Turns out that fancy puppies and zebra danios are great at growing basil. Meet the AquaFarm, which is part fish tank, part herb garden. Using a technique called aquaponics, the [...]

TheraPearl, the Columbia, Maryland-based maker of hot-and-cold packs, launched in 2008, after a patient and her doctor went searching for something better than a bag of frozen peas. Their solution? [...]

* Three-year growth 8,239.8% These washable paints for kids--seen here in watermelon, lemon, orange, and green apple varieties--smell almost good enough to eat. (Though that is not recommended.) WeVeel, which [...]

In a strange twist, online technologies are driving a surge of new tabletop board games. But these are no Parcheesi or Monopoly, Today's games mirror the fantasy themes and intricate [...]

Bareburger-whose 20 restaurants are mainly In the New York City area-has made pasture-raised, hormone-free meats its calling card. Behold its 'supreme' burger-topped with colby cheese, bacon, fries, onion rings, and [...]

When it comes to kids' lunchboxes, potato chips are out. SeaSnax are in. These crispy sheets of seaweed, seasoned with sea salt and olive oil, are low calorie, vegan, and [...]

On her honeymoon to Paris in 2007, Alison Cohen found a new love: a citywide bike-sharing program. Now, she s helping to bring a similar concept to several big cities [...]

Starting a business is hard enough. But try launching a venture while training for the Summer Olympics. That's what Jake Cornelius, Charlie Cole, and Nick LaCava did. Last year, these [...]