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5 Contrarian Lessons From Successful Entrepreneurs
There's something special about entrepreneurs whose startups take off and those whose stay small--starting with how they begin. In studying successful entrepreneurs for my new book, Breakthrough...
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The Next Picture Show: Gathr, Like Kickstarter Plus Netflix For The Big Screen
Tired of reading at the end of movie reviews, "This film opens today in New York and Los Angeles"? Small towns now can get first-run films--for a night--with the help of Gathr, a new "theatrical on...
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HTC Profits Fall Nearly 58% On U.S. Customs Ban, Weak Sales
News updates all day from Fast Company.HTC has just reported its second quarter finances, and they're terrible: Profits slipped 57.8% on the same period last year. In fact HTC reported that...
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Greed Is Good, Trust Is Bad, And Other (Not So) Obvious Truths
Shortly after his arrival in early 2002, Nick Wilkinson, as managing director of Dixons Retail, one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe, actively tried to combine an already high...
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How A Gaming Guru Is Powering Up The New Social Philanthropy
Razoo CEO Lesley Mansford is an interactive entertainment and gaming veteran who’s now challenging nonprofits and individuals to raise the bar (and bigger donations) on social fundraising.If Lesley...
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Measuring An Employee's Worth? Consider Influence
The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com's Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers.Today, your performance...
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Google's Nexus Q And The New "Made In U.S.A." [Updated]
While Google's Nexus Q proudly bears a stamp claiming it was manufactured in the U.S.A., many of its innards are from all around the world. Does that make it wrong? The new global marketplace is rife...
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This Week In Bots: On A Gender-Bender With Gynoids, Androids & Androgynoids
Bot Vid: Strolling Like A PersonWalking like a human isn't just a weird narcissistic goal for robot developers--the human gait has evolved to be a very efficient way to move bipedally, and if robots...
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The Thread: Women and Leadership
In the U.S., why isn't the percentage of government seats held by women higher?Canada's National Post has created an excellent infographic illustrating the data in Save the Children's State of the...
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Why Nashville Companies Are Targeting Tweens For High-Tech Jobs
Eager to lure (and keep) a strong high-tech workforce, the capital of country music resorts to some unconventional recruiting strategies. Among them: going after middle school kids. WHY YOU SHOULD...
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Rumor: Samsung Building A Windows RT Tablet
News updates all day from Fast Company.Samsung is rumored to have another tablet in the works, this time running ARM-based Microsoft Windows RT, Bloomberg has heard. ARM, the low-power tech used in...
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Get Paid For Pinning Products--But Not On Pinterest
News updates all day from Fast Company.Why doesn't Pinterest have an affiliate program that pays out whenever someone buys a product that you pin on the site? The idea is so obvious that two...
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Why Investors Are Gambling On Betable Even Though It's Illegal In The U.S.
The U.K. startup says it's figured out a secure way for any developer to make social gambling a reality.This morning a U.K. startup called Betable announced that it has figured out how to attach real...
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3 IPO Lessons From Facebook For Kayak
The reverberations of Facebook's flawed IPO are still echoing in the tech and financial worlds--and now travel aggregator Kayak has announced its $100 million public offering. There are lessons to be...
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Transition Lessons From Chicago's Transit Upheaval
A few weeks ago, the City of Chicago announced that the southern half of its most heavily trafficked subway route will close for five months in the spring of 2013 for renovations. The aptly named Red...
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Google, FTC Approach $22.5 Million Settlement For Safari Privacy Violation
News updates all day from Fast Company.Google and the FTC are converging on a settlement over Google’s user tracking and privacy violation via Apple’s Safari browser. Earlier this year, Google was...
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From HHS To The USA: CTO Todd Park Brings Tech Innovation To D.C. Data
United States CTO Todd Park brings Silicon Valley wisdom to D.C.Park gets to put government data to work in a filibuster-free environment. | Photo by Brian Finke Todd Park, the cofounder of health-care...
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3 Ways To Fix Google Play
It's not the lack of app that hurts Google's Play Store. It's the finding, rating, and fixing of them. Here's what developers and analysts see as Play's must-fix items.The week of June 18-22 was not a...
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GroupMe Launches Experiences, Makes Partying And Planning With Friends That...
Booking reservations and buying tickets with friends can be a pain: finding the right events, exchanging myriad links and emails, coordinating schedules. "And then one person always gets stuck footing...
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How To Find The People Who Are The Right Fit For Your Startup
Socrates' admonition to "know thyself " is relevant to all leaders, but perhaps especially so to entrepreneurs. Founders are wise to reflect inward before building outward: What are your purpose and...
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