Are You Ready For Your "Shark Tank" Moment?
The "I Want to Draw a Cat For You" guy talks about what really happens after your company gets the funding it's been seeking (in his case, from "Shark Tank")--after all, that's when the real hustle...
View ArticleCheap, Chic, And Made For All: How Uniqlo Plans To Take Over Casual Fashion
Uniqlo is gaining on Zara, H&M, and Gap as the world's king of casual clothing. But can Tadashi Yanai ride toasty, dry underwear to $50 billion in revenue by 2020?Uniqlo founder Yanai uses design...
View ArticleTop 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Here's what you missed if you missed Fast Company this week. Apple launched a bajillion new features for iOS and Mountain Lion this week--we singled out some of the most noteworthy ones. Also, Laura...
View ArticleBack9Booking Is An Orbitz For Golf (Fore Real!)
It makes sense if you read this article.Brent Robertson is the cofounder and CEO of Back9Booking, a site that lets you book tee times at your local golf course online. Back9Booking launched its website...
View ArticleThe Many Pivots Of Justin.tv: How A Livecam Show Became Home To Video Gaming...
Five years, four complete shifts in business plan: Entrepreneur Justin Kan will try anything to make his business work. And that's just the way they like it in the tech world.Photo by Jason Madara It...
View ArticleSoundExchange Hits $1 Billion In Digital Royalties
We've come a long way since Napster. Today SoundExchange, the Washington D.C.-based non-profit that collects digital royalties from services like Pandora, is announcing that it just hit $1 billion in...
View ArticleFacebook Launches Its Olympics Offensive
News updates all day from Fast Company.As the London 2012 Olympic games approach, Facebook has made a big play to capitalize on the PR opportunities and has launched its official Page for the games as...
View ArticleMercedes-Benz CEO Steve Cannon Steers Luxury To Attainable, Connected New Paths
Steve Cannon, newly minted CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA, got his leadership skills from his time spent in fatigues. Though you won't find him telling staff to drop and give him 20, he is leading a charge...
View ArticleFacebook Launching Location-Based Mobile Ad Product
News updates all day from Fast Company.Facebook wants to watch you while you shop.Poor mobile product have long been Facebook's weak spot. The social media giant has been expected to launch a mobile...
View ArticleFacebook Acquires Face Recognition Company Face.com
News updates all day from Fast Company.The Israeli facial recognition company Face.com has just agreed to be acquired by Facebook. Dedicated to finding "new and exciting ways to make face recognition a...
View ArticleA Struggling Artist's Fall-Back Career: Curing Blindness
Whether working in bronze, paint, or living cells, bioengineer Stephen Redenti takes the search for truth, beauty--and vision--seriously.Stephen Redenti is an assistant professor of molecular, cell,...
View ArticleHow Trip Adler Found His Idea For Scribd After Hanging Up On 1-800-ASKTRIP
Before Scribd became a multi-million-document storehouse, Trip Adler was a Harvard grad casting about for a business idea--here's how he found it. The official history for Scribd, a social publishing...
View ArticleHow To Make A Splash In A Sea Of Startups: Tips From Chicago's Top...
Chicago has transformed into a prime hub for digital business thanks to a host of new ventures seeded by the success of Groupon, Orbitz, and Feedburner. As the tech landscape grows more crowded, here's...
View ArticleFor Microsoft, Being Second-Best Makes A Lot Of Sense
When it comes to tablets, the race for second place is still wide open--and there are lots of reasons for Microsoft to win it.One irrefutable conclusion from the swarm of conflicting rumors about...
View ArticleThe Best Of Microsoft's Surface: Two Tablets, Full-Sized Keyboard, Stylus, No...
Microsoft unveiled an iPad competitor today. Here's the best and rest of the event.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled a suite of new hardware products today, led by a signature Microsoft Surface...
View ArticleGoogle+ API Expanding, Flipboard Integration Coming Soon
News updates all day from Fast Company.Google's Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Management, has just announced at the LeWeb conference that it has partnered with Flipboard and that Google+ streams will...
View ArticleHow To Retrain Your Response To Stress And Mental Fatigue
A toughened individual welcomes novelty as a challenge, sees in it an opportunity for gain; an untoughened individual dreads it as a threat and sees in it nothing but potential harm. What is...
View ArticleThe Top Mistakes Companies Make In Data Breaches
In just the last three weeks, we've been provided several salient reminders that data loss and theft are fast becoming a cost of doing business in the digital age. First, there was The Washington...
View ArticleSquare Gets In-App Loyalty Cards And A Minor Facelift
Square's new loyalty card program for customers and tools for merchants launch today, laying the groundwork for deeper customer-merchant relationships. Today, Square is releasing a few subtle but solid...
View ArticleMy Airbnb Biz Got Me Evicted, Here's What I Learned
It only took five years for the couch-surfing startup Airbnb to rocket past 10 million bookings--and it only took 10 days for my landlord to force me out of my apartment for riding the wave.After court...
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