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November 25, 2015

For entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs

How An Airline Pilot Realized His True Calling Was In Worm Castings

Jack Chambers, a former airline pilot, likes to joke that he’s the largest employer of laborers in Sonoma County, if not the entire state of California. In a sense, he may be right. As president and cofounder of TerraVesco, Chambers oversees some 25 million workers – all of them worms. Here’s how an airline pilot reinvented himself as a worm farmer and built a growing business. Read more.

The Last Days Of Marissa Mayer?

While the very idea of an Internet portal—a Yahoo or an AOL—is a relic of an earlier Web era, many observers considered Marissa Mayer a good or even a great hire. Those hopes are now fading. FORBES spoke with more than a dozen current and former executives, and tracks the points where the turnaround attempt came apart. Read more.

The Next Big Four Of The Auto World

As we move toward driverless cars, things like car bodies and engines are on their way to becoming commodities. And Silicon Valley is suddenly in the driver’s seat -- many saying the big four in the coming years will be Tesla, Google, Apple and Uber. That will create a whole new market for nimble tech entrepreneurs, who will treat the driverless car as just another platform and ignite a whole new tech revolution. Read more.

In Search Of Great Small Companies

In February, Forbes will publish a brand new list of The Best Small Companies. We’re looking for privately owned companies that have made a conscious decision to be great rather than big. Know any? Please review our criteria and nominate them now.

The Tastemaker: How David Dafoe Turned A Sensory Gift Into A Real Business

With his uncanny ability to identify and create flavors, David Dafoe's Flavorman and Moonshine University are riding the boom in craft distilleries. Along the way he has survived several traumatic reversals, including a flawed business model, the exit of a too-big-to-lose client and a devastating illness. Read more.

Need A Good Crash Course in Content Marketing? Start Here

There’s a lot of buzz about this “new” marketing approach that creates and distributes relevant content in order to get and keep customers. Seventy-eight percent of CMOs think content marketing is the future of marketing, and 93% of companies practice it in some form. It's time. Read more.

What Dogs Of Instagram Can Teach You About Millennial Business

Here’s a formula they don’t teach in business school: Start an Instagram account, lovingly build a community and translate it into a growing retail business. Sounds too good to be true? It’s not. It’s the story of Dogs of Instagram, an Instagram account that today has 2.4 million followers, and it's full of lessons for companies trying to understand their audience. Read more.

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