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The back-of-the-napkin business plan is not just a myth. Here are just a few examples of business ideas that took shape over drinks.

When you start a fast moving and disruptive business, VCs may soon knock on your door. Until, then check out Joe Fernandez of Klout's top five feeds to follow on Twitter.

This new service scans the web to aggregate offers. Plus, a look at other game-changing companies catering to bargain hunters.

Sometimes in business it actually helps to follow the crowd. Here are five tweeters to follow if you're just getting started up.

When it comes to turning moms into customers, these tweeters have insights in spades.

Here's who celebritweet Sean Malarkey follows on Twitter to learn about what's new in social media.

Keeping up with the latest tech news can be daunting. Here's who to follow on Twitter to help you stay in the know.

Attracting and retaining top-flight workers is a constant challenge for small businesses. Here's who to follow on Twitter for advice and hiring help.

As the economy fights to rebound, many employers are forgoing paying full-time employees, and are instead tapping into the online community of hungry freelancers. Many business tasks — marketing, public relations, research, design, legal services — can be handled quickly and affordably through crowdsourcing sites. One of the first to latch onto the opportunity was […]

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Swipely aims to turn people's purchases into an online conversation by merging shopping with sharing.

Randall Weidberg knows a bit about e-commerce. He’s the founder and chief nerd at Giantnerd.com, an online store and popular social shopping hub for outdoor gear and apparel. Social shopping is a form of e-commerce where user-generated content drives the shopping experience. Founded in 2009, the Boulder, Colo.-based company tries to empower its users to […]

How Twitter, Digital Chocolate and SmugMug symbolized their brands.

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Milo bridges online and in-store selling with a site that lets consumers search for products offered by local merchants.

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CEO Dick Glover follows a healthy mix of comedy, tech, business and sports feeds.

Go Try It On brings crowdsourcing to bear on that age-old question: 'How do I look?'

Twitter has announced that it will start rolling out a new interface in the coming days. The updated version will include photo and video sharing capabilities integrated directly into users’ streams. Though the facelift does give the 160 million-member micro-blogging site a more sophisticated look, not much is likely to really change for many users. […]

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To avoid association with the Gulf oil spill, independent BP gas station owners across the country are considering reverting back to the old Amoco brand, NPR reports. Since the spill began, there have been protests and vandalism at local BP stations and many owners have reported a decline in business. BP and Amoco merged in […]

When a 15-year-old pizza franchise in New Zealand needed to generate some buzz, they did what any logical small-business owner would: They employed a throng of blood-thirsty zombies. Wellington-based Hell pizza shop recently produced an interactive viral movie called “Deliver Me to Hell.” The objective is to help Steve stave off the lumbering corpses and […]

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How Peter D'Amato's strange obsession made him America's biggest dealer of carnivorous plants

Bryan Green doesn’t blame you that you’re horribly out of shape. He understands that our society makes it very difficult to get your butt out of that office chair and into a gym. Working from a lifelong passion for fitness, Green has built his business around the desire to get people active. In 1996, after […]