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Whether it was a fresh startup or a fresh start, fewer Americans seemed willing to take career risks last year, according to a new report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The percentage of job-seekers starting their own businesses or relocating for new positions fell to historic lows in 2010.

The Obama administration is launching a "private sector alliance" to help entrepreneurs. Startup America Partnership will bring together entrepreneurs, start-up financiers, CEOs and others to help companies start or grow, the group said in a statement. Steve Case, co-founder of AOL (AOL), will...

The recession has been deep, but it hasn't stopped those who want to be their own bosses from switching careers to pursue that dream. In 2008, 626,400 employer businesses were started, according to the Small Business Administration. Another 552,600 employer start-ups joined their ranks in...

They say necessity is the mother of invention. But for the young entrepreneurs behind WePay.com, necessity looked less maternal--and more like a confusing mishmash of cash and checks as they tried to collect money from friends to cover a bachelor-party tab. Their solution--a group payment epiphany...

We've all been told that a requirement of success now is a four-year college degree, at the very minimum. But Peter Thiel disagrees. That idea, says the PayPal co-founder, is so 20th century, that the self-made billionaire plans to award cash grants of $100,000 to college students -- if they'll...

Over the last decade, 140,000 women have exited Wall Street -- with many betting instead on their own entrepreneurial ventures. In fact, women have started companies at twice the rate of men over the past few years. Jules Reid is one of them. She left her 10-year career as a stockbroker to pursue...

For married couples of opposite genders, the downturn's inordinate impact on men has resulted in an increasing number of wives becoming the primary breadwinner. Surprisingly, many men don't mind at all.

From brainstorming to patenting, Rick Miller followed the book in getting his RBI Pro Swing batting aid into production. Then he swung for the marketing fences: he got a former Major League hitting star and the New York Yankees to check it out. Now his small business is a hit, helping players from...

As journalists and business-minded folk scramble to solve the media crisis, three 21-year old women believe they have created a working model for online content--which makes sense, given that they come from the same school where Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook. After winning Harvard's i3...

Changing the direction of your career can be scary. Obstacles litter the path, from a mortgage to uncertainty about what that new profession should even be. But 13 people over 60 took the leap in Bruce Frankel's inspiring book, What Should I Do with the Rest of My Life. At an age when many of us...