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David Fincher’s new film, The Social Network, could be subtitled “The Unauthorized Biography of a Startup.” Based on the book ‘The Accidental Billionaires’ by Ben Mezrich, The Social Network tells the story of Facebook’s founding and rise to fame through the lens of the lawsuits that arose around it almost from the beginning. While critics [...]

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Recession Successes

by Steve Lange on October 7, 2009

It’s always difficult to keep an upbeat view during hard times, and to remember that there are always opportunities for those who look close enough. Still, without those doggedly incurable optimists, we would still be plodding along without the benefits of some iconic inventions. A list of Recession Inventions: Success Stories in Bad Times, was [...]

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Creativity Lists

by Tim Berry on July 24, 2008

Take five minutes to list all the uses you can think of for a brick. (Pause for five minutes. Write your list.) How many items do you have on your list? I’ve done that exercise with groups of small business owners. Some get 30 and even 40 items, some only 10 or 20. And the [...]

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