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Meet Doug Ludlow, CEO of the postcard site Hipster, whose viral marketing campaigns have almost overshadowed the product itself.

Feeling like you're stuck fighting to the death for big procurement contracts? Use these tips to develop a winning strategy. The Hunger Games, the bestselling novel by Suzanne Collins, introduces audiences to a horrific, post-apocalyptic world

You may regard your VC as a partner. Good! Just be aware that the VC may think of you as cannon fodder. To hear them tell it, venture capitalists aren't too different from entrepreneurs.

You should strategically market your book for Amazon. Tips from Scott Gerber, author of Never Get a "Real" Job, and Jack Covert, founder of 800-CEO-READ.

Frustrated that your office fussball table or employee wellness program doesn't seem to be motivating your team? Here's why your perks are ineffective. Maybe you bought your employees a ping pong table or let them telecommute one day a week.

If you ever wondered whether starting a business is worth the hell you put yourself through, read this. Every time a new founder/billionaire is minted—and there have been plenty lately—people who aren't entrepreneurs tend to lose sight of what this calling is really about. One social entrepreneur we interviewed for our book Breakthrough Entrepreneurship, an Episcopal bishop named Rev.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Inkling Tackles Apple's iBooks Author App. Inkling, a startup centered on e-publishing, has just launched Inkling Habitat as a direct rival to Apple's own free (and slightly controversial ) e-book publishing app for the iPad.

You can't stop really bad things--like Sept. 11th--from happening, but you can be prepared for them. Here are 7 ways.

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The online dating industry is a $4 billion business. And everyone from popular author Dr. Pepper Schwartz to mathletic OkCupid cofounder Sam Yagan is trying to crack the code for success.

To prove they know their customers, all my salespeople must answer 66 questions about them. None are about which products they buy.

I just read and enjoyed Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science , a new book by Michael Nielsen, recently reviewed by Bora Zivkovic . The book tells how science is undergoing a revolution where new global online collaborations face off against secretive old-school researchers and profit-hungry journal publishers. It urges scientists to fight for open access and open science a call to action made more poignant by recent events

Dont goose near-term results at the expense of long-term value creation.

Believe it or not, at one point we actually fed our pets real food. That was, until people-food companies realized they could maximize their resources by mashing together all of their scrap meat, leftover grains, eggshells, and bones, injecting some vitamins, and cooking it up into “kibble.”

It's all too easy to spend long stretches simmering at your desk instead of having a straight-ahead talk with your boss.