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Instead of a traditional business plan, Holstee cofounders and brothers Dave and Mike Radparvar, along with friend Fabian, created a manifesto, a typographical “reminder of what a successful life could...
View ArticleThis Week In Bots: Telepresence Is Coming Home
Bot Vid: Robot RayUniversity of Virginia scientists have made a robotic clone of a cow-nosed ray, using biomimicry techniques to copy the ray's firm body, flexible silicone wings that have rod and...
View ArticleBlimey, An Olympic Turnaround! The Leadership Principles Behind Britain's...
British soccer--or football, whatever you call it--hasn't won Olympic gold in a century. To turn the team around, head coach Stuart Pearce has stuck to four guiding leadership principles that any...
View ArticleThe Thread: Work-Family Policy
What kinds of policy changes would make your work-family life more manageable?Last weekend former governor of Massachusetts Jane Swift wrote a thought-provoking essay for Fast Company about motherhood,...
View Article10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Here are the most read stories this week from Fast Company, Co.Create, Co.Design, Co.Lead and Co.Exist.Someone somewhere once wrote that celebrities, they're just like us. Artist Danny Evans took the...
View ArticleMap Wars: Nook Gets Maps, Navigation, Location-Based Services, As Barnes &...
While Google and Apple fight for map dominance, Barnes & Noble has quietly launched OpenStreetMap-based maps and navigation for the Nook--and laid the ground for a host of location-based apps.The...
View ArticleAfter South Korea Telecom Hack, 8.7 Million Customers' Details Sold To...
News updates all day from Fast Company.South Korea's KT Telecom has suffered a protracted months-long hack attack that has seen hackers gain access to 8.7 million of its customers--about half its...
View ArticleOlympics Attendees Asked To Cool It With The Tweets
News updates all day from Fast Company. Social media, and Twitter in particular, is playing a big role in Olympics activity and coverage this year. Twitter had its designated page set up for curated...
View ArticleThe Job Interview From Hell
When an interview with a prospective hire ends, “Good luck with your shitty app,” you know there was a wrong turn somewhere. Yesware CEO Matthew Bellows deconstructs a disaster.Matthew Bellows is the...
View ArticleThe Business Turnaround Tactics Of Restaurant: Impossible's Robert Irvine
From coast to coast, there are plenty of amazing restaurants for America's foodies to salivate over; a more amusing pastime, however, may be marveling at the truly bad ones on The Food Network's...
View ArticleWhy No One Will Watch Your Crappy Corporate "Viral" Video, And How To Fix It
Those "Will It Blend?" videos of some guy throwing an iPhone in a blender and the instantly viral Shakeweight ads have millions and millions of views. Your company's new "viral" spot has 500. Here's...
View Article"Like Sonny And Cher--With More Google Analytics"
What's it like to cofound a startup with your significant other? To find out, we talk to the creators of UnsubscribeDeals, a repellent for all that unwanted daily deal email in your inbox.Edwin...
View ArticleBig Data On Campus Is Like A Keg Stand For Your Brain
Take a crash course in digital humanities with McGill professor Stefan Sinclair. In the burgeoning academic discipline of digital humanities, creating software tools is as important as getting...
View ArticleVacation, Unplugged
A vacation with one thumb on the iPhone at all times is no vacation at all--and it can actually hurt your business. Here are practical steps to take to totally unplug and get the most of your time off....
View ArticleWhy Customer Pain Is Your Most Important Resource
If your product is gonna stick, it needs to address your customers' pain points--whether they can articulate them or not. Thankfully, some very smart people have thought about this. How does an...
View ArticleBoomerang Brings Your Friends To Social Gifting Game With A Million Dollars...
We're a little coupon-ed out. But freebies from friends? That could work. Boomerang gives your friends benefits. The new social gifting service lets your send vouchers, not just coupons or mere Happy...
View ArticleOutlook Is Microsoft's Answer To Everything You've Ever Hated About Hotmail
After 15 years, Microsoft's follow-up to the cluttered Hotmail is stripped down, styled after Windows 8, and easy to use. Wait, Hotmail?Namedropping "Microsoft Hotmail" is enough to evoke shudders from...
View ArticleGoogle Acquires Social Ad Manager Wildfire
News updates all day from Fast Company.Companies may now manage their advertising campaigns on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter using a service owned by Google.The search giant announced it had agreed...
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