Cloud start-ups have thrived because no major Big Tech company beat down their doors. That just changed. It's official: Google announced its new Google Drive service Tuesday—just one day after I wrote about how the Mountain View tech giant was moving into a territory wholly dominated by Box and Dropbox
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The three types of people that are necessary for any team tasked with innovation. Bloomberg recently profiled an entrepreneurial luminary, Steve Blank, who teamed up with the National Science Foundation to teach classes for the newly formed NSF Innovation Corps. The NSF I-Corps, as it's called, seeks to commercialize new products out of U.S
Read More »6 Things You Don’t Know About Google+
The search giant's social network isn't about to disappear. And if you use it wisely, you can supersize your online presence
Read More »Nail Your First Impression
It's not just people who make first impressions. Offices do, too. Make sure yours is working for you, not against you.
Read More »Great Start-ups Succeed on Products, not Patents
Your No. 1 job is to get to market and start making money. Here's why protecting your IP should stay off your to-do list.
Read More »Don’t Discount: Here’s Why
Emphasize the virtues of your product or service, rather than the price. It will keep your competitors at bay, and your customers close. As business owners, we are often tempted to discount our product or service, thinking it will somehow win us customers and drive growth.
Read More »Great Entrepreneurs Pick the Companies They Love
It takes one to know one. So we asked a range of successful entrepreneurs to name the companies they admire most and why. If it takes one to know one, who better to know great companies than entrepreneurs who have started great companies?
Read More »Is Your Business Going Through Puberty?
You know those awkward growing pains? They happen to companies, too.
Read More »YouTube Launches AdWords For Video
Video production is getting cheaper, so Google is creating a self-service option for pre-roll advertisements aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses. Google 's AdWords program has long been an easy way for businesses of all shapes and sizes to post their ads on Google Search results
Read More »Jerky Week, Part 1: How SlantShack Scales Artisanal Jerky
For the first installment of an important Fast Company investigation into the business of jerky, we talk with David Koretz of New York-based SlantShack. Watch him try to sell us a $12,000 beef jerky eye patch.
Read More »How to Be a Visionary Thinker
Are you bringing home the paycheck of your dreams? You can get paid well for doing what you love when you tap into the visionary within. When we entrepreneurs talk about "the dream," we are not talking about a fantasy, like winning the lottery.
Read More »Reddit Cofounder, The Band’s Ex-Tour Manager Debate SOPA, Antipiracy, And Levon Helm’s Legacy [Video]
At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference, things got heated between Reddit and Y Combinator's Alexis Ohanian and USC professor Jonathan Taplin, director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab, former tour manager of The Band, and friend of its drummer Levon Helm, who died the day after this debate. On Wednesday,
Read More »Go Ahead, Have a Beer at the Office
New psychological research shows that mild intoxication can actually boost creative problem solving. So, go ahead
Read More »PayPal, You’ve Met Your Match: Erotica Writers
Mark Coker of Smashwords became the leader of indie e-book writers--including some with dirty minds--in a fight against censorship and PayPal. He also has strong feelings about the DOJ's e-book pricing lawsuit.
Read More »When DIY is Just Wrong
When cash is tight, our tendency is to try to do everything ourselves. Even when we have no idea what we're doing
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