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America's trucks burn an enormous percentage of our total fuel, but their efficiency hasn't improved in years. But new, simple additions to a truck's body can have impressive effects on fuel economy
Read More »5 Ways to Grow Your Business
Here are a few strategies to jump-start your company's growth, increase revenues, and find new customers.
Read More »Tips for Getting the Growth You Want
Feel like your company needs a boost?
Read More »Cocaine: A brief history of blow
From ancient Incas to Freud and beyond, cocaine use has had many faces
Read More »Feds urge wider use of heart test on newborns
Panel wants more hospitals to use pulse oximetry, a simple, non-invasive, inexpensive screening for congenital woes
Read More »Top 10 Black Entrepreneurs
These 10 Black entrepreneurs from around the country bootstrapped their firms and built fast-growing enterprises, earning them a spot on the Inc. 500.
Read More »Top 10 South Asian Entrepreneurs
From IT services to industrial supply, these are the top small businesses run by CEOs of South Asian heritage. I.T. Source Los Angeles No
Read More »Top 10 Companies by Growth Rate
From selling designer apparel to designing the hottest nightclubs, the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 500 share their secrets to rapid growth.
Read More »Top 10 Internet Companies
From online deal sites and gamification to digital marketing and online payments, these Internet companies are reaping all of the benefits with none of the brick and mortar overhead. Paul Hurley, CEO New York City No. 1 2010 Revenue: $77.7 million Three-Year Growth: 40,882% Founded in 2006 and based in New York City, ideeli has pioneered the idea of the flash deals site and is the Inc.
Read More »Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored San Francisco: November 2
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Read More »"Bulletproof skin" created with help of artist, goats, spiders
Goats genetically engineered with spider genes produce silk-like protein in milk, capable of stopping bullets at reduced speeds when woven with skin
Read More »Sequencing The Marijuana Genome To Cure Disease, Get You Less High
Medicinal Genomics has just finished sequencing the cannabis genome.
Read More »Toxic tap water? 14 drugs, personal care products in NYC drinking water
Environmental officials say trace levels of contaminants pose no health threat - but not everyone is so sure
Read More »The Best Type of Leader
Author John Warrillow explains the difference between the "dissociative architect" and "sleeves-rolled-up" types of leaders. Which leadership style is best? A friend of mine described the experience of slipping into a "K-hole" after partying on too much ketamine, a medical anaesthetic that can be snorted as a drug.
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