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Avi Millman, the co-founder and CEO of mobile gaming startup Stray Boots, has made it his mission to help urbanites get to know their cities better. Stray Boots' text message-based games are part treasure hunt, part guided tour, and designed to appeal to locals as well as tourists.

 
Major League Baseball's 2012 World Series kicks off tonight, with the National League's San Francisco Giants up against the American League's Detroit Tigers. While much rests on how the players perform, each team is guided by its manager, who is responsible for making decisions in key moments that ultimately affect how games are won.

There are many leadership styles and a cottage industry has cropped up around defining them. Gayle Lantz, president of WorkMatters, Inc., a human resources consulting firm in Birmingham, Ala., uses the popular DISC assessment tool to as part of her practice to identify leadership styles.

At an event today in San Jose, Calif., tech giant Apple launched its widely anticipated iPad Mini.
In terms of other tablets, the iPad Mini's main competitors in the small tablet market are Google's Nexus 7, the smaller Samsung Galaxy Tab models and Amazon's Kindle Fire HD. But the Kindle Fire is primarily a consumer media device, so it might not be ideal for most business users.

Just because larger companies spend thousands of dollars on sales lead services doesn't mean there aren't options available for cash- and time-strapped startups. Here, we look at three tools that can help small teams generate actionable leads. And when used in conjunction with simple research on social networks like LinkedIn or Facebook, they can help entrepreneurs establish sales pipelines quickly.