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Karmaloop CEO Greg Selkoe tells Fast Company about the frightening early days of his now hugely successful retail company.

They're painful.

In business, the consequences of failing to properly frame or assess an issue can be dire. Often such a misdiagnosis is the result of not having the right information. Though the necessary information is often available, businesspeople sometimes don't know how to find it or don't see it in front of them.

We can't all be morning people, but we can crib from the caffeine-stained playbooks of successful early risers. Here's how

Working from home requires a new mindset and a good system, not just a nicer pair of pants (but put those on, too).

"I took this on the way back to the hotel on my last day of a weekend trip to Hamburg, Germany. I was waiting for the train at Landungsbrücken train station when I suddenly see this well-dressed guy walking down the track," said photographer Thomas Leuthard.

Writing things down, with your actual hands, is just plain better at getting you to remember and execute good ideas. Here's why. There’s all kinds of advice across the web about when to use which app for each small thing that needs doing.

An inside look at how YCharts scored $4.75 million in funding. YCharts CEO Shawn Carpenter had a great idea when he was still at Google.

Three months ago, I received an email informing me that a high school friend, Pat, had died.

Google+ has everything you'd expect from a fully featured social network -- except the right kind of users. And that's a big problem

Several start-ups are cashing in on the trend of mothers handing their tablets to kids by making it safer and easier. Parents are increasingly handing Web-connected tablets to their kids. Flowing with that trend, several companies are working to create online havens for children and to make money while doing so

A Q&A with the director of Microsoft's Envisioning Lab, where they're working 10 years ahead, growing plants on the walls, and thinking about how your data will do your bidding in the future. The most unbelievable part of Microsoft's eye-catching Productivity Future Vision video , released earlier this week, isn't the see-through refrigerator, the software app that discovers a product design breakthrough on its own, or the plants growing on the wall of the ethereally white office. (That last one, actually, is a real office on the Microsoft campus.) No, the most unbelievable part is how clean every surface is--in the car, in the office, and even in a kitchen where a bake sale project is underway.

People need to move around, but we can do it in a less impactful way with these five innovations. Some are new and some are old, but together they could remake transportation.

Director Stu Thomson breaks down the latest bit of insanity from Danny MacAskill. When it comes to must-see virtuosity in Internet video, pornographers, VFX wizards, and even box-loving cats have nothing versus a man and his bike. At least when it's the street trials rider Danny MacAskill, who has appeared in a series of videos literally bouncing off walls, hopping across rooftops, and generally doing things that human bodies and bikes just weren’t meant to do.

The green-and-gold carriages of the Eastern & Oriental Express lumbered out of Bangkok’s Hua Lamphong station, picking up speed only gradually, allowing passengers in the open-air observation car time to watch the sun set in the distance. From Bangkok, the train always used to head straight to Singapore, but in ...