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There are tons of books that promise to help people become entrepreneurs—but most of them are targeted at adults. We asked experts on kids and business for their top picks to get youngsters started.

Tumblr founder David Karp switches from building site to seeking ads and sponsors.

Without the resources to hire professional shutterbugs, many small companies tap employees to handle the pointing and clicking—with disastrous results. Here's how to do it right.

In a bid to reduce patent litigation, Twitter has drafted a policy that will put control over how patents are enforced into the hands of its engineers and employees.

Dozens of companies are trying to get into the "geofencing" business—sending out mobile coupons to nearby shoppers. But so far the hype is bigger than the actual use.

Say an assignment will be tough and your employees will struggle with it. But tell them it's easy and watch them excel, says columnist Mike Michalowicz.

Local small-business owners give San Francisco and New York failing grades for burdensome regulations on start-ups.

These days, making a video to promote a start-up doesn't require Hollywood skillfulness or a fat wallet. You can download video-editing programs and take advantage of free and widely viewed distribution channels like YouTube.com and Vimeo.com.

The recent opening of upscale restaurant Radio Africa and Kitchen is a symbol of the changes unfolding in the side-by-side Bayview and Hunter's Point neighborhoods, currently the poorest in San Francisco.

What do a flame-resistant apparel maker, gold-for-cash business and petroleum distributor have in common? They're among the 50 fastest-growing companies owned or led by women in North America last year, according to an annual ranking to be released Thursday.

Boston-based National Bank Holdings Corp. — which has acquired a pair of Colorado banks in the last 10 months — is moving its headquarters to the Denver area from Boston, the company announced Friday. The company will have offices in Greenwood Village and Denver. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper joined Tim Laney, president and CEO of National Bank Holdings, in making the announcement. “National Bank Holdings Corp. has maintained a presence in Colorado for the past year, and the positive business...

There's been a mild amount of celebrating about Massachusetts' economic recovery and the relative strength of the Bay State economy. Indeed, the news has been good, if not spectacular: Massachusetts added 2,500 jobs in April, and businesses have generated over 30,000 jobs so far this year. The unemployment rate is 6.3 percent, the lowest since October 2008 when the national economy was on the cusp of unraveling. But there is a number that few people mention when the unemployment numbers are released,...

The Beal Cos. and Rockpoint Group have sold Seaport Center, the nine-story office building in South Boston, for $110 million. San Francisco-based Shorenstein Properties closed on the purchase of the 461,046-square-foot building at 451 D Street in Boston’s Seaport District on Thursday. Built in 1909 as a wool warehouse, the property is 88 percent occupied and its major tenants include the Boston Herald, JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), Monster Worldwide (Nasdaq: MWW) and Verizon (Nasdaq: VZ). This...

It has been one of the more closely watched congressional races in the country for some time, and now the U.S. Senate race between Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren and Republican incumbent Scott Brown is easily the nation's most expensive. As of April 30, Warren and Brown had raised a total of $58,669,885 and spent $14,237,227 since 2011, according OpenSecrets.org. A Texas race is the second most expensive race in the U.S. with $25,615,406 raised and $13,915,507 spent so far. The website,...

Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE: BSX) won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval and immediately launched its Epic Vascular Self-Expanding Stent System, which is designed to open blocked arteries in patients with a form of peripheral vascular disease. The clearance by the U.S. regulatory agency comes three years after the system was approved in Europe and other international markets. The Natick, Mass.-based medical device company said that the stent system demonstrated a low nine-month major...

To remedy the crippling problem of underemployed young lawyers, law schools should become more like medical schools, complete with legal residency programs that teach practical skills, according to a new report from the Massachusetts Bar Association. The MBA’s 32-page report, “Law, the Economy and Underemployment,” was created by the organization's Task Force on Law Schools, a group of 14 lawyers who took six months to study the growing issue of underemployment among lawyers, and how law schools...

With a VC round for Pinterest that values the company at $1.5 billion — and Facebook going public — 20 privately held venture-backed companies are valued at more than $1 billion, according to an analysis by Dow Jones VentureSource. Just one is a Massachusetts company — Kayak Software Corp. That's compared to the "bubble era" of the late '90s to 2000, when four Boston area companies were among the 18 VC-backed firms with billion-dollar valuations, according to VentureSource. Kayak, a travel...

Evidence is mounting that the Massachusetts residential real estate market has bottomed out and is stabilizing. Single-family home sales surged by more than 18 percent in April compared with a year ago — the ninth-straight month of increases, and median prices increased for the first time in 11 months, according to data from the MLS Property Information Network. Last month, agents sold 3,129 single-family homes in Massachusetts, compared with 2,642 in April 2011. While the volume increased, the...

On Friday, the Boston Business Journal Research Department published the BBJ 150, a list of the top 150 public companies in Massachusetts, ranked by 2011 revenue. This year, Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN) lost its top spot on the list. The top company in Mass. is now Staples Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS). Staples hit a rough patch in the first quarter of 2012, but it followed a year in which the company posted a modest increase in revenue, cracking $25 billion, with net income approaching $1 billion. That may...

PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - George Forni will spend most of next week holed up in his home in Sullivan, Maine, guarded by a new surveillance system and armed with a stun gun and pepper spray as he...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Consumer comfort, social media and mobile devices lie at the heart of online retailer My-wardrobe's strategy in Asia, said Sarah Curran, the company's founder, on Wednesday.

BOSTON (Reuters) - There are ways to cope with the email overload that could be weighing down your work day, says Harvard Business Review.

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - Andrew I-Jen Chen swapped a career crunching numbers at French bank BNP Paribas to take up an apprenticeship at one of Switzerland's most prestigious watchmaking...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of women in senior technology positions at U.S. companies is down for the second year in a row, according to a survey published on Monday.

PARIS (Reuters) - When Vincent and Heloise opened a mash eatery in Strasbourg, they had a feeling their unusual concept could thrive elsewhere in France. But one thing was painfully missing: cash.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An index of confidence at small U.S. businesses rose in April to its highest in over a year as companies stepped up plans for hiring and investing, a survey released on Tuesday...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. private foundations with less than $50 million in assets have since 2007 taken in as much new capital as they gave out, despite a sluggish economy that kept total assets...

LONDON (Reuters) - British online payday loans provider Wonga.com launched a credit service for small businesses on Monday, aiming to fill a gap in the market left by banks who have been hamstrung by...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Gumroad, a start-up payments company run by 19-year-old entrepreneur Sahil Lavingia, has raised $7 million in a funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,...