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Strategies to overcome obstacles to building a successful marketplace business: one which connects buyers and sellers in some niche.

Immigration lawyers and Department of Homeland Security officials say that many thousands of people in the military have spouses or close relatives who are illegal immigrants. Many of those service members have fought to gain legal status for their family members — only to hit a legal dead end created in 1996, when Congress last made major revisions to the immigration laws.

After years of trying to broaden the appeal of Reader’s Digest, the publishers are pushing it in a decidedly conservative direction.

A government made up of rotating amateurs cannot maintain the steadiness and continuity that our expansive Republic requires.

Ten percent of the U.S. News rankings are based on spending per student, with additional points for high faculty salaries and other costly items. If an innovative college found a way to become more efficient and charge less while maintaining academic quality, its U.S. News ranking would actually go down.

The Internet highly values people who know things and can find things out, who can distinguish between what's important and what's not, and who can communicate succinctly and effectively. But it abhors the absence of voice.

An excellent and intriguing backgrounder on how Demand Media makes money from algorithmic determination of demand and low-cost content production.

A mini case study of how the Huffington Post grew its traffic.

The ability to deliver a persuasive elevator pitch and follow it up with a substantive presentation is the difference between a funded entrepreneur and those having coffee complaining that they’re out of cash. It’s a litmus test of how you will behave in front of customers, employees and investors.

The basics of converting an existing web page to a more iPhone-friendly format.