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Thought Leaders

After Building a Mail-Order Empire, One Entrepreneur Has a New Mission

With Living Goods, Chuck Slaughter has taken up selling health products door-to-door in impoverished communities.

By David Bank

Building a Business

Keeping Girls in School Is This Startup’s Mission

By Jenny Griffin

Building a Business

What Employers Need to Know About Ebola for Now

By Jonathan Segal

Tech

Bright Idea: Startup Finds Unexpected Use for Solar-Powered Lights

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Buying a Franchise

How Social Franchising Is Bringing Jobs to the Developing World

The aid community is taking the efficiency and standardization of the franchise model any applying it toward philanthropic endeavors.

By Jason Daley

Building a Business

Set the Most Competitive Prices for Your Cleaning Business

Follow these tips for determining a price that makes you a profit without gouging your customers.

By Entrepreneur Staff

Thought Leaders

This Mega-Funded Startup Wants to Forget the Chicken and Redefine the Egg

Josh Tetrick wants to remake the food industry from the bottom up, starting with the traditional egg.

By Nina Zipkin

Building a Business

Diversity Defines Our Global Economy. Do You Speak the Language?

Chances are that you'll interact with people in the business world of different cultures, whether its your workforce or your customers. Are you ready to dive in?

By Johann Xavier

Building a Business

The 10 Most Corrupt and Least Corrupt Countries in the World

Not sure where to set up shop abroad? Worried that foreign governments might try to shake you down? Find out which countries are squeaky clean and which are dirty when it comes to public sector corruption.

By Brian Patrick Eha

Building a Business

Starting Up in the Developing World: More Risk, More Reward

Entrepreneurship consultant Sarah Green offers some perspective on starting up in the developing world, by way of Nigeria.

By Sarah Green

Thought Leaders

Lack of Confidence, Fear of Failure Hold Women Back From Being Entrepreneurs

A new report measures the rates of female entrepreneurship and the sentiments of female business owners around the world.

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

New Product Makes You Invisible to Mosquitoes and May Save Lives

Kite Patch makes people virtually undetectable by mosquitoes and could save millions around the world from mosquito-borne diseases.

By Jenna Goudreau

Building a Business

Bright Idea: Startup Aims to Advance Solar Energy in Developing Countries

With a low-cost technology, 21-year-old Eden Full seeks to make solar energy more efficient and affordable.

By Sarah J. Robbins

Business Ideas

‘Impact Entrepreneurship’ Places Importance on Social Consciousness

As a social-impact entrepreneur, you need more than a passion for doing good. Here's how some 'treps are putting their chops to work to run successful enterprises and make the world a better place.

By Michelle Goodman