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This Branding Vigilante Is Saving His Town With A Rogue Website
Last year was not a good one for Rockford, Illinois. First the New York Times Magazine published a photo and audio tour featuring two-dozen of the city’s residents under the beleaguered banner...
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An Intimate Portrait Of Innovation, Risk, And Failure Through Hipstamatic's Lens
If Lucas Buick's company Hipstamatic is on the verge of bankruptcy, you couldn't tell by the dinner spread. It's mid-September and we're at the Isola restaurant in the Mondrian Soho, an expensive...
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An Entrepreneur And A Neuroscientist Walk Into A Bar
Thomas Copeman and Dr. Nathan Wilson are something of an odd couple. As I sit down to join them in a Brooklyn restaurant, the two business partners do nothing to play against type. Copeman, CEO, in a...
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10x10 Initiates A Global Action Campaign Promoting The Education Of Girls
A new film and a global marketing campaign launch with the message, “Educate Girls. Change the World.”
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Infographic: We've Become The United States Of Starbucks
A map of 8,000 U.S. Starbucks locations uses spatial analytics to plot the chain’s staggering reach.
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11 Tricks For Battling Creative Blocks, From Leading Creatives
A new book collects the wisdom of designers, artists, and writers on how to court the muse.
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Voice Recognition? Pshaw. Samsung Brings Handwriting Recognition To...
Samsung's Galaxy Note products will support a nifty new handwriting recognition technology provided by the firm Vision Objects. In doing so, it's reaching out to an unlikely adopter: the paper-loving...
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Jeff Bezos Reveals Amazon Makes No Dough On Its Hardware
Jeff Bezos, in the U.K. to launch the Kindle Paperwhite and Amazon's Lending Library service, has told the BBC that his firm makes no money on its Kindles. "We make money from when people use our...
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Why Your Company Needs A Full-Time, Idea-Killing Chief Dissent Officer
Big companies get a bad rap. We think of them as creativity-killing machines that constantly crush the world-changing ideas of their hardworking employees. As if such internal mechanisms don’t also...
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What If A Legendary Harvard Professor Mentored You?
"'Starting at the end' means investing time up front to develop an aspirational picture of your future as a guide for the decisions you make throughout your career and your life," Howard said. "And...
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Reinvent The Guitar Pick
Years ago when I left San Jose State, I didn't have a degree, relevant job experience, or savings. I genuinely doubted that anyone would hire me. It was obvious to me that I would have to create my own...
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The Career Value Of A "Pointless" Sabbatical
It may seem paradoxical, but taking longer periods away from the workforce can actually help you work smarter or develop a new career direction. Sabbaticals mean that you’re not simply on vacation, but...
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Samsung Wins Latest Round In Its Patent Spat With Apple
The U.S. Court of Appeals has overturned an existing ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone. It is the second ruling this month to find in favor of the Korean technology nabob in its ongoing war with...
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Innovation Is Finding What Your Customers "Don't Yet Know They Need"
What are the guiding principles of innovation? Stylesight founder Frank Bober follows two dynamics.
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Revamped Ritani Marries Online And In-Store Jewelry Shopping
You’ve heard it before: Love don’t cost a thing. But unless it’s a hand-me-down from grandma, the ring sure does. To make a transaction that’s traditionally as weighty on the wallet as it is on the...
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Pheed Launches A Social Network That Feels Like A Mash-Up Of Every Social...
If you're a smartphone user, you probably like to send texts, take photos, and perhaps shoot a few videos. And you probably have a different app for each of those things, which you might then share to...
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U.S. Defense Secretary Goes In Hard On Cyber-Attacks
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has hinted at U.S. willingness to fight fire with fire regarding cyber-attacks. In a speech to the business community in New York, he claimed that American infrastructure...
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Handmade Desks, "Breathing Rooms" And Gross Happiness: Take A Look Inside...
Beyond just quirk, crafty marketplace Etsy offers employes a green (B Corp certified) place to work where happiness is measured and learning is encouraged.
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Your Next Doctor Might Be Your Car
Your automobile is filled with tons of highly sensitive sensors that monitor the car. What if we turned those sensors on the passenger?
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With Lifestyle Deals, eBay Takes On Groupon, Google, Amazon, And Others
On the heels of the new site redesign it launched earlier this week, Reuters reports eBay has also been quietly testing out a new service called eBay Lifestyle Deals that puts it squarely in...
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