Teenage obesity is a dangerous ? and widespread ? problem. While there’s no magic bullet for teen weight loss, there’s plenty you can do to help. Start by encouraging your teen to adopt healthy habits that can last a lifetime.

As founder and chief shoe giver at TOMS, a retail company with a mission of social entrepreneurship — Blake Mycoskie launched his company eight years ago intent on giving back. The premise of TOMS was simple: For every purchased pair of shoes another pair would be donated to children in need in 60 countries all over the world.

Content_Promo_Megaphone_Blog_Image-1Lately, I’ve been hearing more and more questions about earned, owned, and paid media. What are the differences between the three? How do they work together? How can they work separately? Which one is ?better? than the others?

The recent news that the lost or destroyed Lois Lerner emails were actually not lost or destroyed surprised some people. That they will now be sorted, cataloged and released provokes mixed reactions. It has some Republicans upset that more wasn?t done and more transparently. It has some Democrats upset that more money is being spent on what some see as a witch hunt that reveals not even a smidgen of corruption. Despite the 18 months of dissembling about who did what and when, the latter reaction may be premature.

In the book, Write Your Business Plan, the staff of Entrepreneur Media offer an in-depth understanding of what?s essential to any business plan, what?s appropriate for your venture and what it takes to ensure success. In this edited excerpt, the authors offer tips from an investing expert about what you need to do to improve your chances of getting a VC to invest in your company.

There are 284 million monthly active users on Twitter and chances are, you’re one of them — we’re certainly are. Unfortunately, just because all of us are active on Twitter doesn’t mean we’re using it the right way.

Call centers are not, typically, very happy places?especially around the holidays. Workers have quotas to make, and often sit in bleak cubicles, headsets on, plowing through calls from stressed shoppers, as they count down the minutes until lunch.

A popular myth these days is that finishing college only dilutes your entrepreneurial instincts, and the best of the best, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out early to hasten their success.

Earlier this year, the founders of Needham, Mass.-based virtual phone system Grasshopper, Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser, launched a petition with the help of the Legacy Foundation’s Amir Tehrani. The goal? To make National Entrepreneurs’ Day a national holiday ? one celebrated the third Tuesday of every November.

Uber and Lyft made chauffeured cars accessible to non-Wall Streeters, and sites like Airbnb and Flipkey made it possible to find a sweet deal on a beachfront villa. Now Alfred, a startup born on the campus of Harvard Business School, wants to let you pay for just a fraction of a personal assistant, at $99 a month.