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Medical Innovation Needs Silicon Valley Speed, Stat
I’ve been directing or advising innovation and commercialization efforts in Silicon Valley for most of my career. While the popular stories we tell about innovation usually focus on eureka moments and...
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This Week In Bots: When Dying Alone, A Robot's Cold Comfort Can Be Oddly...
Bot Vid: Jogging With A DroneJoggobot has been in development for a while, but is all over the place this week, in part because it's a clever idea that leverages current breakthroughs in quadrocopter...
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To Thine Own Brand Be True
In order for people to buy into your brand, you have to know who you are. You must convey to them that you truly understand the problem you are trying to solve and that you care about their experience....
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NASCAR And Twitter Team Up For Audience Growth
Twitter and NASCAR are debuting a new augmented television project for Sunday's Pocono 400. The partnership goes way beyond hashtags.NASCAR and Twitter are unveiling a new sports product at the Pocono...
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Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Share this on Facebook before you learn how to dump it with our step-by-step guide.Airbnb was the subject of two stories in this week's lineup. You'll also find out how to disrupt your stagnant...
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Why Did Mark Zuckerberg Just Join High-End Pinterest Competitor The Fancy?
Is he interested in buying the company, or just a gift for Priscilla?Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined The Fancy this morning under the handle "Zuckd," and Fancy'd his first item: the Extendo Library...
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Airbnb Responds To Tenant-Landlord Restraining Order, Battle Over $20,000...
Landlords are becoming more understanding--even baking Airbnb language right into the lease--but you've got to be honest with them.Yesterday, Brooklynite Chris Dannen told the tale of how he made...
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Make A Web Troll Cry: Watch This Video
This musical ode to those nasty web commenters known as trolls is a bit, well, trollish and NSFW in itself. [youtube uz2jbCJXkpA]In "Thank You Hater," comic artist Isabel Fay and troupe Clever Pie dish...
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Lenovo Goes It Alone With Own-Brand Laptop Broadband in EU, U.S.
News updates all day from Fast Company.Lenovo, purveyor of high-end business laptops, has revealed a somewhat unusual move: It's launching its own-branded mobile broadband service in the U.S. and seven...
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How Chegg Found A Textbook Rental Goldmine In A College Classifieds Haystack
Chegg rents a million textbooks a year and employs 150 people. But it was originally Cheggpost.com, a service providing free classified ads to college students. Choosing among categories like...
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A YouTube Studio Borrows The Old Hollywood System To Make Big Hits
Does a billion hits a month sound pretty good to you? Meet Danny Zappin, cofounder of Maker Studios, which is poised to reach that milestone in June.Danny Zappin is one of the cofounders of Maker...
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The Secret To Marketing Success On Facebook? Advertise Like Your Grandfather
A new study of Facebook ads shows that what’s old school is new school again.A new study by Facebook brings some big news that, curiously, at first blush might not seem like much news at all. It's...
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Rapper, Marine, "Weeds," And "Think Like A Man" Star Romany Malco On The Art...
This career chameleon has served his country and sucker MCs, and even been an online purveyor of holistic remedies for men. Here's his advice on making yourself over to succeed.Actor Romany Malco’s...
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Attention Must Be Paid--Or It Will Cost You Business
Does the title of this blog ring a bell?   It might if you were listening in English class; "Attention must be paid," was the plaintive cry of Willy Loman's wife in the classic American play Death of a...
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10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter
Whether you're being interviewed to be an intern or a CEO, you're going to run into a few notoriously tricky questions--here's a road map of what you'll be asked, and how to craft impressive answers to...
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Map Wars: Why Maps Are Apple's New Killer Feature
Maps are everything in a new mobile landscape. The company that controls them controls what can be done with location. When Apple announced it had developed its own homegrown maps system at its World...
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Lessons From The Founding Fathers On Leading A Breakthrough Meeting
Here's how George Washington created consensus among a group of strong-willed men representing states at the most important meeting of all time: The Constitutional Convention of 1787What can you learn...
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Here Are The Services, Businesses, And Markets Apple Just Shook Up
In a mammoth two-hour keynote at its developers conference, Apple just revealed an armload of hardware, software, and services that will have execs at the companies and industries below gripping their...
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Amazon's App Store Coming To Europe This Summer
News updates all day from Fast Company.Amazon's own app store for Android devices is, according to sources speaking to AllThingsD, finally expanding beyond its American cradle and will cross the...
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How To Quiet The Negative Thoughts That Are Killing Your Career
In 30 years of coaching hundreds of top-level executives, Shirzad Chamine has found that matter how smart or successful the individual, each battled insecurities that potentially undermine their true...
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