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How to Crowdfund Your Creative Project
Once a quirky financing option for intrepid entrepreneurs, crowdfunding has evolved into a fast, effective way to raise cash for just about any endeavor. Even the producers of the upcoming Charlie Kaufman movie, Anomalisa, raised …
Top New Cars of 2013
Cars are Americans’ most trusted servants. For 2013, automakers are making them more efficient, yes, but also smarter: Various new models can now read e-mail, find addresses, shuffle through music, park themselves, and even avoid …
10 Best & Worst Sports-Team Relocations in History
There’s no shortage of speculation about which NFL team might relocate to Los Angeles, despite recent news that Anschutz Entertainment Group, a leading force in the development of a downtown stadium, has been put up for sale by its billionaire owner. But for all the excitement in the nation’s second-largest media market about the return …
Beyond the Food Truck: 10 Offbeat Mobile Businesses
It started with the food truck. Hey, you can get Korean tacos on the street corner! Now, a growing number of service businesses have gotten on board, giving an entirely new meaning to the phrase “mobile commerce.” These days, …
5 Best Places for the Rich and Single
You might think New York or Los Angeles — two large, affluent cities with an endless number of singles — would be the best place for the well-off and unattached. But you’d be wrong. In fact, it’s the cities right next to …
Terrible Financial Advice: Top 10 Tips You Shouldn’t Follow
It seems like everyone from bloggers to your next-door neighbor doles out financial advice these days. It can be difficult figuring out who to believe, and bad tips can pop up as frequently as thunderstorms in the summertime. In …
9 Products Enjoying a Curious Surge in Sales
It’s always interesting when sales of one product or another suddenly take off. Sometimes it’s just a passing fad, while other times a curious sales increase is a sign of a shift in the economy, or it comes in reaction to a major …
12 Things You Should Always Haggle Over
You know the saying “Everything is negotiable”? It’s true, and the mind-set that no price is set in stone can be applied to a wide variety of goods and services. Some people are intimidated by the idea of haggling or think it …
10 CEOs Trying to Do the Nearly-Impossible
It’s hard to generate much sympathy for people who are making tens of millions of dollars a year. But at least the CEOs we’ve listed here can justify their paychecks by having taken on seemingly impossible challenges.
The World’s Nine Most Interesting Hotel Rooms
Sixty years ago today, the first Holiday Inn opened, and thus began the process of standardizing the hotel experience across the U.S. and the world. While most of us are grateful to find a simple, clean hotel room while on the …
Top 10 Conspicuously Expensive Purchases
Fancy cars and flashy jewelry are classics for consumers who are eager to show off. For more creative ways to make an “I’ve got money to burn” fashion statement and demonstrate one’s wealth (if not taste), consider these pricey, …
