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At a recent Startup Weekend event, an impromptu gathering with young women in tech brought up some interesting questions. My e-mail marketing company, VerticalResponse, recently partnered with Startup Weekend , an amazing event where entrepreneurs get a little over two days to come up with an idea, pitch it to a crowd and work on one of about 20 ideas selected by their peers. Participants choose whether or not they want to participate on any of the 20 teams and they start to solidify the idea of a product

Autism isn't always easy to spot, but this simple checklist can help

Signature hue of common cancer showing up in some surprising places

Thanks to the innovative cuisine of Ferran Adria, few people can remember a time before molecular gastronomy.

Daily Deals site LivingSocial is growing fast in a brand-new industry.

The Atelier Tenjinyama designed by Ikimono Architects, is both a study in minimalism and an experiment in exposing a workplace to a dose of the outdoors. What is the boundary between indoors and out

The Vakko Fashion Center in Istambul, Turkey, was transformed by REX from an abandoned hotel into a fashion-and-media headquarters. The Vakko Fashion Center in Istambul, Turkey, was transformed from an abandoned hotel into a fashion-and-media headquarters in roughly six weeks by carving out all but an exterior ring of the building.

When creating Tribal DDB's offices, Amsterdam-based i29 started by damping noise, and ended with a very powerful monochromatic design. No one likes to work in a noisy office

Through a meticulous restoration process, Elding Oscarson converted two 19th Century buildings into No Picnic's headquarters by installing reflecting glass walls.

Missing Link describes its office, which includes a tattoo parlor, fire pole, and shooting range, as "a riot of color and carefully orchestrated chaos." Here's one way to explain Missing Link's office: "A riot of color and carefully orchestrated chaos." The Johannesburg-based company, which designs corporate presentations, had just six weeks to take the space from design concept to reality, but used the limited timeframe to dig up salvaged finds to create a truly eclectic look. And if Tribal DDB focused on minimalism, Missing Link went the opposite route entirely: a mashup of bathtubs, graffiti, and even a tree house to achieve an overwhelming—yet cohesive—design experiment.

At the Los Angeles offices of Thornton Tomessti, a bright design celebrates no only solid structural engineering, but also organization and work-flow. When you walk into the Los Angeles offices of Thornton Tomessti , an international engineering company, it's hard not to notice the floating reception desk situated in front of a bright green mural bearing the company's name.

IwamotoScott transformed a standard warehouse in San Francisco's Dogpatch to a geometric-minded tri-level matrix of workspaces and a glorious showroom.

Before beginning the renovation of the theater, Milan-based studiometrico observed the habits, tastes, and styles of Comvert employees in order to create a workspace, complete with skating bowl, that would mesh seamlessly with their offbeat corporate culture. This retail and office space was carved into a 1940s theater in Milan for the brand Comvert, which designs and distributes clothing for skateboarders and snowboarders under the brand Bastard .

The former railway station in Madrid's city center was left largely raw in its reconstruction as an outlet of The Hub, an office-share network for social entrepreneurs. Once a garden, then a railway station, then a garage, this concrete structure today houses the Madrid outlet of The Hub, an office-share network for social entrepreneurs