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Four years ago, investors gingerly handed over seed money to Lumosity, a startup creating brain games. Today they're happily tossing the same company $32 million

Virgin America isn't waiting for major innovation in the biodiesel sector; they want to pay less for fuel now.

How Tony Hsieh built Zappos, hi-tech tools that can help your business, a start-up with serious brain power, the Pandora IPO, and more. The Zappos legacy. OPEN Forum asks the entrepreneur, author, and company culture obsessor Tony Hsieh nine questions about how he thinks, what mistakes he's made, and what advice he'd give to his 18-year-old self.

Walmart might move in down the street and underprice you, but they can't take away your story. The stories of three small businesses might help you outfox your biggest competitors.

Restaurants are notoriously difficult businesses, and less than half make it past their third birthday. The handful of chefs who not only stay afloat but rise to the very top rely as much on business savvy as knife skills

Adrian Slywotzky has written noteworthy business books, such as Value Migration , The Profit Zone and The Art of Profitability . His books have been featured in major publications, including BusinessWeek

With new requirements to be honest about how well they protect and how easily they come off, new sunscreen regulations are a step forward, but could still result in you not getting the protection you paid for. Skin cancer is a major problem in the U.S; between 1992 and 2004, melanoma rates grew by nearly half.

Mark Peter Davis, co-founder of Kohort, a social media start-up in New York, discusses the best way an entrepreneur can face the moment he asks this question. We entrepreneurs are told to listen to feedback, but ignore the naysayers.

Whether you're interested in selling your business or buying one, odds are you'll want to engage a business broker to help you through the process. Not unlike what you see in the real estate sector, business brokers tend to be paid by sellers: something you need to keep in mind if you're a buyer.

At the Venture Capital in Education Summit yesterday, Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton , announced the first big partnerships that will have tens of thousands of students trying the adaptive learning platform he's been building for the past five years. What he calls a "data interoperability engine" promises to take any kind of educational content, break it down and present it to students at exactly the sequence and pace they need, while giving detailed feedback on performance to both students and professors. "We can classify students by ability level down to the concept,"

Where else but at a Fast Company event can White House assistant chef and food policy advisor Sam Kass trade beer tips with Sam Calagione , the founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery? [video_twistage 1] The two Sams, Nos. 11 and 46 on our Most Creative People in Business list, respectively, put their heads together last week at Fast Company's Most Creative People conference, where Calagione praised the White House's home brewing and cooking initiatives

Researchers at the University of California and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea have been looking at the technology for two years now, and have come up with a proof-of-concept design that really could result in smell-o-vision, TV that pumps out odors to heighten to your immersive-TV experience. Nasal nostalgia is made possible by your brain's hippocampus --where long-term memories get sorted out--and it seems it's a very primal instinct, which may explain its power. You know what I mean: The way an unexpected whiff of scent will spark off memories of a long-forgotten partner

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Launching a maps product in China requires jumping formidable bureaucratic hurdles and navigating thorny ethical issues. Google's still determined to make it work, but at what cost?

What are the major milestones in productivity throughout history? Here's a timeline of key events that helped increase human efficiency, including the commercial diary, Henry Ford's Model T car, and the invention of the world wide web. 1791 Benjamin Franklin’s posthumous autobiography described the founding father’s system for the pursuit of “Order”.