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Get out of your garage: A shared office for your start-up company can improve your productivity and help keep costs low. In my recent outreach to keep costs low for entrepreneurs, "solopreneurs" and startups, a recurring suggestion from many of my "start-up warriors" was the idea of working in community. Here's why: Community work spaces bring together people with different backgrounds, thoughts and approaches

The other day I sat with three senior leaders from three different industries. One was the CEO of an international PR and communications firm

How do you create an app that helps users discover new foods? In this extended version of the conversation from our latest issue , we chat with Alexa Andrzejewski, the CEO of Foodspotting.

The best leaders recognize their weaknesses--and struggle through them. I am known as a pretty quick study on most issues I face in my professional career

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Yahoo Board Shakeup. Four long-standing Yahoo board members have decided not to stand for re-election, including chairman Roy Bostock

If 2008 was the year that Facebook and YouTube cracked the mainstream in politics, then 2012 will be the year that most every other digital tool breaks the dam wide open on the campaign scene. It's no longer enough for politicians to just be on Twitter--now almost all serious candidates aiming for a seat in Washington must be on Tumblr, Google+, Foursquare, and more

Five tips to make casual encounters into new business opportunities. Plus, an upfront approach from Arel Moodie, co-owner of Extreme Entrepreneurship Education.

Researchers offer strong medicine for those who are too scared to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, finding evidence that, in the long-term, we regret actions not taken far more than failed attempts. So you have dreams of starting a business. You also have a long list of potential downsides of following that passion, including perhaps significant financial and personal costs and a lizard-brain terror of failure and rejection

There’s a vast expanse between the transactional moment when a consumer likes, friends, or follows a site and the instant that same consumer becomes a brand evangelist, entering into a state of emotional commitment. The former isn’t difficult to achieve; observe how many sites have hundreds of thousands of friends, very few of whom feel any real passion for the brand, or would go out of their way to recommend it to somehow (least of all defend it in a the social-media equivalent of a barroom brawl.) The latter is the bell-ringing marketing challenge of today. It’s not surprising that there isn’t more deep-down devotion among the millions of superficial friends and followers.

What do you do when the product you conceived, nurtured and loved, fails to thrive? Aside from firing an employee , firing a product is the worst part of my job.

The formula for a great company is not a business model, or financial projection. I used to think that company culture happened naturally. After starting and building five companies, I've learned that great culture doesn't just happen—you need to make it happen

How setting an objective and influencing people will define your leadership success.

How one company re-incentivized its sale force to pursue high-value customers. All customers are not equal

Believe it or not, the founder of Reddit also has to avoid spending all day killing time on Reddit. Here's his advice for staying productive. Reddit is arguably the most successful social news site on the Internet

This summer, you can be recognized by New York City for your small business achievements. Every year, the annual Neighborhood Achievement Awards celebrates great entrepreneurial talent in New York City.