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How A Colorado Town's Med-Tech Startups Thrive On Shoestring Budgets, Stem...
In most cities, academic researchers have to drive across town, or even through other cities, to reach an industry incubator. In Aurora, they just walk across the street. UNITED STATES OF INNOVATION...
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Jerky Week, Part 2: Is Perky Jerky The Next Red Bull?
For the second installment of our weeklong investigation into the business of jerky, we talk to Brian Levin of Perky Jerky. Though its mascot's presidential campaign is floundering, Perky Jerky posted...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Downplays Threat Of Windows 8 PC-Tablet Convergence
Forget what the competition is planning: Apple does not envision the iPad and MacBook Air converging at any point in the near future. Today, the company released its second-quarter financial results...
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Apple's Sales Impress Again
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Late yesterday Apple revealed its last quarterly sales, and they were again impressive enough to beat Wall Street's expectations. Delivering $39.2...
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Why You Need To Own Your Mistakes
Everyone makes mistakes, says Citrix Systems VP of product design Catherine Courage, but trying to displace blame only hurts your credibility. Instead consider these tactics.[twistage ef19811b7e550]For...
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The One Thing You Need To Consider To Ensure A Productive Day
Everyone has too much to do in too short a space of time, says Jeff Diana, chief people officer at SuccessFactors. Instead of getting overwhelmed, focus on the few key things you need to do to move...
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Occupy Sites Help Cops, Corps Track Occupiers
Occupy Wall Street websites love adding Google, Facebook, and Twitter buttons--which could give law enforcement a handy back door to track users' actions--and identities.Big Data is everywhere. Occupy...
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Jerky Week, Part 3: Would You Buy Beef Jerky In Bulk Online From This Man?
Peter Garbowski of BulkBeefJerky.com is betting you would, as he tells us in the third installment in Fast Company's weeklong investigation into the surprisingly robust business of jerky. A food,...
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The Workplace Challenges Political Candidates Have To Address
It’s not your grandpa’s workplace anymore, but if you listen to the presidential and congressional candidates, it’s easy to wonder if they're aware that it’s 2012, not 1972. This is especially true for...
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How To End Up Richer Than Your Parents--Even In This Economy
There are financial pitfalls aplenty for career-building millennials--be it shoddy planning, outrageous debt, or credit card quandaries. At only 23, Zac Bissonnette has staked his young authoring...
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Mirror Neurons And Their Role In Marketing
Last month I speculated that physical experiences will play an enormous role in the future of marketing and communications. Researchers have discovered that your experiences act as a kind of source...
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Who's Next: Pinterest Designer Sahil Lavingia And His New E-Commerce Site...
At 19, Sahil Lavingia has already designed scores of apps and worked at one of the hottest startups in the world--but he's only getting started.At 18, Sahil Lavingia helped design the massively...
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Why You Should Start A Company In... New Haven
Slate Ballard, cofounder of the coworking space The Grove, and Derek Koce, CEO of the product-development firm Independent Software, share five things you need to know about starting a business in New...
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Something Is Rotten In The State Of E-Book Publishing
The publishing industry has a problem. The old guard haven't innovated. And neither their business models nor their products embrace the digital books revolution. Take the ongoing and complicated spat...
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What Is A Risk Worth Taking?
Making sure you have a team that's comfortable working with uncertainty is just one of the ways to assess a risk worth taking, according to John Raymont, founder and CEO of Kurion, who led the...
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When Goofs And Gaffes Become Learning Opportunities
Don't beat people up if they make a mistake, says Douglas Lebda, CEO of LendingTree; instead, use the misstep as a teaching moment.[twistage 4397811dc5a11]For more bite-sized bits of wisdom on...
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5 Simple Tools That Make Email Suck Less
The very first email was sent in 1971. In the four decades since, these electronic messages have forever changed the way we communicate. Today, we're an email-dependent society, preferring to pound...
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Jerky Week, Part 4: A Jerky Empire Rises
Think a store dedicated solely to beef jerky wouldn't work? Think the idea of franchising it is ridiculous? Think again, says Paul Lyons of The Beef Jerky Outlet, in Fast Company's fourth installment...
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Cell Phone Network O2 Joins The Digital Wallet Game In The U.K.
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.O2, one of the biggest U.K. cell phone networks, has realized that it can seize a place in the digital payment revolution by launching its own...
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The Tao Of "No": 3 Guidelines For Politely Declining
Like many people I know who consider themselves good-natured--or at least are doing their best--I have a tough time saying no. My instinct is always to take on more, to acquiesce, to give the answer...
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