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David Friend, chairman and CEO of Carbonite, an Inc. 500 company, discusses how he got ready and squeezed into the IPO window in August. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/abram-brown/david-friend-carbonite-ceo-talks-about-going-public.html Advertisement: Are your customers tuning you out?

Take it from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. People with body art are generally not only creative, but also bold and decisive

Take it from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. People with body art are generally not only creative, but also bold and decisive. They could be among your best hires

A new report finds that immigrants are key to startup formation and job creation.

A new report finds that immigrants are key to startup formation and job creation. So why does America make it so difficult for immigrant entrepreneurs to stay? Just in case you need more proof that America's immigration policies are damaging to innovation, a new report shows that immigrant entrepreneurs have founded nearly half of America's top venture-backed companies.

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In the next year, The Black List will venture beyond films--aiming to be the go-to site for the industry's favorite unproduced TV pilots and stage shows. Are TV specials and conventions in its future? "We're open to anything," says founder Franklin Leonard.

In the next year, The Black List will venture beyond films--aiming to be the go-to site for the industry's favorite unproduced TV pilots and stage shows. Are TV specials and conventions in its future?

This time of year, goal-setting becomes a bit of a cliche. That's because we're doing it wrong. How our goals can help us learn who we are, and what we're capable of.

This time of year, goal-setting becomes a bit of a cliche.

Implants contain cheaper industrial silicone typically used to make electronic and computer parts

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Twitter's TextSecure Goes Open Source .

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Twitter's TextSecure Goes Open Source . In a surprise move, Twitter announced that the code from Whisper Systems' TextSecure SMS anonymizer is being released to the open source community

Negotiating is not about sealing the deal, but framing the optimal relationship. Sometimes that's impossible. When you start negotiating—to hire someone, to put a partnership together—it's human nature to want to seal the deal