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Less than 24 hours after launching a campaign to produce a new magazine, the Good staffers exceed fundraising goal. For a group of Southern California editors, Tomorrow is looking a little bit better. At the beginning of the month, a team of staffers simultaneously laid off at Good announced a Kickstarter campaign to produce a one-off magazine they were calling Tomorrow .

Startups can be amazing places to work, and the euphoria surrounding them has a high degree of contagion. But future leaders have unique lessons to learn by working for larger, more established companies as well

Encyclopaedia Britannica , the 244-year-old company, recently announced it would stop printing encyclopedias. Of course this triggered a flurry of talk about the end of printed books, magazines, and newspapers and a once-great company humbled by shifts in technology

Offline learning is the latest tool for the unorthodox education organization. Here's how that and other new features will power Khan Academy's new app. Khan Academy , the wildly popular YouTube lecture series, is slated to launch its iPad app any minute now in Apple's store

Thiel Fellow Dale Stephens explains how "Does it scale?" applies to education. In Silicon Valley, one often hears the question, "Does it scale?" What a technologist means by this is: How can a specific technological innovation be applied in a broad manner to affect a wide range of people? If Google only searched two websites it wouldn't be terribly useful

I've learned so much from my own wanderlust that I decided to pass it on to my employees: Everyone gets a free one-month trip every five years. Here's why

Tech companies can't find enough engineers. So why not train them yourself

Whether you’re digging your way out of a negative PR avalanche or simply need to scrub a less-than-squeaky-clean outburst, here are tips from branding experts on how to handle public outrage with grace and style. So you torpedoed your brand

Any entrepreneur or community-building connector worth their salt should know when to crowdsource, and when to listen to their inner voice. Tara Hunt is having a bit of a disconnect. Which is odd considering Hunt’s networked her rising star into the connected constellation of the social web for the greater part of the past 15 years.

Gary Marcus suffers from what a friend jokingly describes as congenital arrhythmia--the inability, despite many hours of his youth spent practicing and taking lessons, to learn to play a musical instrument. A few years ago Marcus, a cognitive psychologist at New York University, decided at 38 to make one last try when he took up guitar. No surprise: He did not succeed in becoming the next Jimi Hendrix, but managed to acquire a modicum of skill--and went on to describe his experience in Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning

How host dinners and white knuckles add up to big business wins, just like a football game. As the NFL playoffs gear up and college football winds down, I'm constantly amazed at how much very small things can have an impact over the course of the game

The business plan is the easy part. Managing and leading a team? That's where the learning curve gets very steep.

Meet the thermostat directly inspired by the iPod. Courtesy of Nest Labs Tony Fadell developed the first iPod (and 17 subsequent versions) and departed Apple in 2009. Now he's selling a thermostat--but not, of course, just any thermostat.

Meet the thermostat directly inspired by the iPod. Courtesy of Nest Labs Tony Fadell developed the first iPod (and 17 subsequent versions) and departed Apple in 2009. Now he's selling a thermostat--but not, of course, just any thermostat.

Believe it or not, the most intuitive coaching methods are usually the worst.