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Pravina Raghavan, New York District Director of the Small Business Administration, recommends you take advantage of free resources.
Read More »This Week In Bots: Roboplayers, Robodancers, Robowarriors, And The Delicate Ethics Of Robosex
Would you love your Roomba more if it had rat-like whiskers?
Read More »10 Candidates for the Feds’ Best Job
Aneesh Chopra, the first-ever CTO for the United States, is stepping down. Here are a few good people who could replace him
Read More »True Crime: Founders Gone Astray
News flash: Entrepreneurs are people too. And as with any group of people, it includes a few bad eggs--and some downright rotten ones
Read More »Inside the Entrepreneur’s Brain With the Start-up Doctor
What do hyper-creatives, emergency room nurses, and CEOs have in common? Dr. Aaron Blackledge has identified a particular neuro-chemical pattern.
Read More »Spotify Growing By 8,000 Subscribers Per Day, More Than Netflix, Sirius XM
Spotify just hit 3 million paying subscribers, the Financial Times reports . That may sound like an impressive milestone for the popular on-demand music service, but how impressive is it really? Only about 64 days have elapsed since Spotify announced it reached 2.5 million subscribers in November
Read More »Survive the Brink of Disaster
How Colleen Molter, founder of QED National, an IT staffing firm, survived the dot-com bubble and Sept. 11th, and other lessons.
Read More »Rubinstein Leaves HP, Twitter Can Block Tweets By Country, Cook Defends Apple On Worker Standards
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP . Rubinstein , formerly of Apple and then lead at Palm during its efforts to rival the iPhone, is leaving HP
Read More »Gravitational Pol: What President Gingrich And His Moon Base Would Mean For U.S. Innovation
Newt Gingrich's bold plans for a moon base dominated last night's GOP debate.
Read More »Why It’s Hard To Fill Sales Jobs
The best and brightest stigmatize sales jobs. But they're fundamental to the success or failure of small business.
Read More »5 Tricks for Twitter Power Users
Leo Widrich, co-founder of the social media management tool Buffer, on how to get more out of your Tweets. If you love Twitter —and you also have a life—you probably use Buffer to schedule your tweets: To make announcements at a specific time, to send time-sensitive tweets like for limited-time offers, to communicate when your followers are most likely to notice, and to avoid membership in the tweet-a-minute club
Read More »Make Room At The Meeting Table–For Your Customer
Do your customers really trust your company? Ask yourself: If you were the customer, would you trust your company?
Read More »Andrew Mason on the Future of Groupon
The Groupon CEO talks about competing with Google, selling his stock, and his designs on mobile coupons.
Read More »Ta-da! Timing the Perfect Product Release
We're living in a world of beta tests and products that are released and then improved.
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