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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Iran Blocks U.S. "Virtual" Embassy

Lisa Price, CEO of Carol's Daughter, talks frankly about how she transitioned from mixing beauty products in her kitchen to helming a team of experts who do it for her. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201112/carols-daughter-ceo-founder-lisa-price-lets-go-of-the-reins.html Advertisement: Strengthen Customer Relationships

Five tips to help you create and proliferate your most important brand asset--you--and gain notoriety for your business. Dan Schawbel, founder of Millennial Branding, on how social networks are part of the mix

Here are the steps to take to prevent yourself from getting burned by your clients.

Today's top story from France's Le Monde

Digital agency AKQA created a mock ad campaign to support baby girls in China.

This year's honorees celebrated their accomplishments and shared their experiences of making it onto the list. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201112/30-under-30-party.html

What should you look at before you pick your business credit card? Plus, Timothy Sykes, founder of Millionaire Media, talks about how to analyze your spending.

On Black Friday, Patagonia ran a full-page ad in The New York Times telling consumers not to buy one of their jackets because it takes so much water and energy to make. This was one element of the company's Common Threads initiative, a brilliant brand-within-a-brand that offers a roadmap for companies trying to promote themselves as environmentally friendly

Remember the last time you visited a new office building, airport, or university campus and were lost the moment you stepped away from the main doors? That's a problem that buildings like large hospitals try to fix with color-coded lines painted on the floor, complex signage systems, and other tweaks--usually very low-tech

Jane Bryant Quinn and Carll Tucker, the married founders of Main Street Connect, operate 52 community news sites in three states, and are looking to roll out a scaleable, profitable hyper-local model across the country. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201111/success-stories-main-street-connect.html

Four-time entrepreneur Joe Apprendi talks about exiting three companies and how his latest--Collective, a New York online advertising firm--could be his home run, an IPO. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201111/how-i-did-it-joe-apprendi-collective-whats-your-exit-strategy.html

Tips to create a business card that helps you build relationships, and win business. Also get advice from Shama Kabani, CEO of the Marketing Zen Group.

CollegeHumor co-founder Josh Abramson gets serious about his next venture: funny t-shirts. In 1999, when Josh Abramson was a sophomore in college, he co-founded the website CollegeHumor, a central portal where he and his friends could post funny pictures and videos they were circulating anyway. Five years later, looking to diversify revenue streams, Abramson started BustedTees, which sells t-shirts and other knickknacks that carry many of the funny slogans from CollegeHumor

Pecknold walks us through his latest video, "The Shrine/An Argument," which draws on an animation technique from the 1970s.