Adrian Grenier doesn't mind if you call him Vince. But he'd also like you to call him a community builder who has some big ideas about turning media culture into a positive way to engage teens. Oh, and he thinks you should try a little of his retro-inspired beer
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Feed SubscriptionTEDx Plans To Occupy Wall Street
Jonathan Ende is bringing the TED brand of futurism to the heart of high finance: the New York Stock Exchange, for TEDx Wall Street.
Read More »This Week In Bots: The Making Robots Touchy-Feely Edition
Robots in movies may be evil more often than good, but they're becoming part of our lives. And their tech is evolving so that they "feel" more like we do. This happened recently, and we had to show it to you
Read More »How To Get From A Great Idea To Actual Innovation
There's a tendency for all of us to glorify the ideation process when in fact it's the reduction to practice that's perhaps more important, says Stephen Hoover, CEO of PARC, a Xerox company. What's the formula for moving from a great idea to actual implementation?
Read More »Fast Company Is Hiring A Digital Project Manager – Is It You?
Digital Project Manager, Fast Company Fast Company's growing Marketing team is looking for an experienced Digital Project Manager to oversee strategic planning as well as day-to-day implementations of custom advertising opportunities with the site. The ideal candidate will be a creative digital thinker with experience in online ad operations and ad sales, along with a deep familiarity with the breadth of technologies and processes used in online advertising.
Read More »Don’t Wish for Obedient Employees
Instead, like the military, nurture an environment of moral courage, one in which team members break stupid rules, and suggest smarter solutions. When Fred Krawchuk was a lieutenant colonel, the U.S. Army sent him to business school
Read More »Google’s Online Tablet Store, RIM’s Cofounder Leaves As Company Misses Financial Results, Living Social Founder Exits
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google's Drive Leaks Continue . It now looks that when Google's cloud storage app Google drive arrives it'll come with a capacity bigger than an earlier rumored 2GB storage capacity, instead offering 5GB for your documents
Read More »Apple’s Chinese Democracy: Foxconn Gets The iTreatment
In a small but very significant way Apple is trying to change China. It's a step perhaps no one else could make, and it's rather complicated.
Read More »50 Cent Remixes Beats By Dre With SMS Headphones
Emerging headphones purveyor 50 Cent studied a predecessor closely before pressing play on his own venture. When Beats by Dre headphones debuted in 2008, the size of the $100-plus headphone market was a faint $92 million. Four years later, the good doctor's b-emblazoned earpieces have achieved near ubiquity, and the $100-plus segment has been cranked up to $512 million.
Read More »Your Best Employees Always Ask ‘Why’
Conventional wisdom says they're a pain. In reality, they are doing you a huge favor.
Read More »Of a Kind Founders Decide Fast, Iterate Later
Soon after Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo launched Of a Kind, a fashion website, in 2010, they realized their initial web site ideas would always be wrong, and require changes.
Read More »17 Game-Changing Health Start-ups
Unfit citizens. Underinformed doctors
Read More »Prepare Your Exit Strategy Now
Here are four things you can do now to increase the value of your business-and give you a smoother transition out when the time is right. As entrepreneurs we are constantly putting out fires, prioritizing and re-prioritizing our most urgent tasks, and changing our schedules so rapidly that committing to lunch with an old friend next week brings a certain sense of anxiety. We run our businesses to achieve our mission and earn a profit.
Read More »Recruiting: Why Timing Is Everything
Like the Broncos signing Peyton Manning, getting the right person in the right role at the right time is key to the success of any organization. For football fans everywhere, but especially in Denver, the last two weeks have been a suspenseful ones. With Peyton Manning jetting around the country to be courted by general managers, coaches and potential teammates, all those in Broncos Country were keeping up with every article, post and tweet about what the future might hold for their team.
Read More »Why Nice People Will Sabotage You
How to keep quiet politeness from killing your sales, marketing and probably your business. I’ll admit it. I'm not a particularly nice person.
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