Techpreneurship, if done well, is all about sacrifice, service above self, and ultimately striving to change the world.

BusinessWeek offers up its Year in Innovation and notes that despite not-so-golden times, 2009 forced entrepreneurs and innovators to cut the fat.

What do we need to make us happy? Live Science has taken up this rhetorical question, and ranked the “happiest” states…Is there a connection between the amount of innovation a state produces and the happiness quotient of its people?

In this season of giving, why not consider the amazing power “free” can bring to a business model?