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50 Best Cities for Entrepreneurs

And how 50 business owners made their cities work for them.

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First Comes Love, Then Comes Launching A Business

Three coping techniques for when your cofounder is your better half

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A Pivot, a Therapist, and a Revival

A prodigy, Jessica Mah, 25, was poised for Silicon Valley success. Then she discovered that her San Francisco-based company, inDinero, had a flawed product, an unsustainable business model, and a soap-opera-worthy org chart.

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How to do Business at the Bar

There’s a right way to do a business meeting at a bar. Read a host of tips from a range of experts to ensure you’ll look in the know and fun to know at your next meeting.

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Restaurants Smarten Up on Mobile Apps

From service management to food delivery, tech-savvy restaurant managers are using apps to drive the front and back of the house. Have your fingers at the ready to check out these worthy finds.

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The Gift of Giving

This holiday season, there’s no better way to spread the joy than to give to charity in someone’s honor. Here are 14 ideas, from $3 to $39,000.

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Hiring Hackers

Want to strengthen your digital security? Pay someone to break into your software-and your systems.

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Beyond Fitting In

Is the obsession with potential employee compatibility focused on the right things?

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Most Innovative Companies: GE

Cynics might scoff at GE’s unwieldy “-magination” suffix, but it seems to have some kind of hidden mojo. We dig deeper into this innovative company.

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Fast Talk: Light Revolution

Advances in LED and OLED technologies transform light into an inspiring ingredient that refashions everything from home décor to electronics.

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Fast Talk: Gay Marketing

Marketing to gays and lesbians is rich with potential-approximately $70O billion in annual buying power-but still fraught with peril.

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Thinking Outside the Big Box

As Costco marks its 25th year, straight-talking CEO Jim Sinegal shares his two cents on sustainability, the economy, universal health care, and what our next president should do.

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Truly Intelligent Design

Companies as diverse as Boeing, Ford, General Electric, Herman Miller, HP, IBM, Kraft, Nike, and Patagonia are welcoming biologists to the design lab. Here’s a sampling of Mother Nature at work.

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Candy Land

Philadelphia-based John & Kira’s crafts lustworthy treats using ingredients from local farms and gardens.

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Disney’s Own Superheroes

We’ve given a full Marvel treatment to some of the people that have helped put Disney on our Most Innovative Companies list this year.

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Separate and Equal

Forget “Shrink It and Pink It”: the Femme Den unleashed – talk about smart designs that women really want.

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First, Do No Harm

The hospital of the future is designed not just to heal the sick but also to help sustain the environment.

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DIY Movie Popcorn

Until now, bagged popcorn has been strictly divided into microwavable kernels and bags of the prepopped stuff. But the innovation team at Popcorn, Indiana has found a way to merge the two.

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International Hospitality Week

A look at the numbers behind International Hospitality Week.

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Why Does Darwin Still Matter?

Two hundred years after Darwin’s birth, l5O years after the publication of his landmark treatise On the Origin of Speciesnine scientists, thinkers, and leaders talk about how the evolutionary theorist changed our lives and their work.

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Ear Candy

At FastCompany.com, we cover everything from music-inspired design to technology-boosted beats to brand campaigns built on rock stars.

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Songs of Autumn

Think of MTV’s Video Music Awards (September 7) as the kickoff for the jam-packed fall-release season. Can any of these noteworthy albums help the music biz buck its recent blues?

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The Federal Open Market Committee

Do you know who to blame for those crazy-low CD returns? The 10 men and women of the FOMC — five regional Fed presidents and five Fed governors — will gather October 28 — 29 in Washington, D.C., to set monetary policy and consider interest rates.

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The U.S. Oil Industry Turns 150

August 28 marks the 150th anniversary of its first commercial well. Today, the U.S. is the world’s third-biggest oil producer and largest consumer. Join us for a tour of this gas-guzzling nation.

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Calendar: 2011

Event calendar for Fast Company magazine, 2011.

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Bizwords

Self-proclaimed “social-media guru” and “jargon techspert” Alex Blagg from Bajillionhits.biz insists these bizwords are creating tons of buzz in the biggest meetings and boardrooms.

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The Gift of Giving

This holiday season, there’s no better way to spread joy than to give to charity in someone’s honor.

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How to Get a Book Deal

Here’s a start-up guide on how to become a poor, starving, published writer.

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Leaders of the Pack

The vice presidents of hip-hop’s leading management firm mean business.

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What’s the Big Deal?

With Lulu.com you’re in charge of getting your book published.

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Focus On Tea Leaves

With a focus on tea leaves, Argo has high growth potential.

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Rising Dough

How Panera is thriving by selling real food — and a gathering space — in suburbia.

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Bounty Hunters

These next-gen job sites seek to replace executive-search firms and spirit-crushing job boards with cash incentives, matching algorithms, and social networks.

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Rare Earth

How a handful of countries control the Earth’s most precious metals.

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Strategic Delays Plan to Sell Area Marriott

Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc. is tabling the idea of selling its Marriott Lincolnshire Resort until the end of the 3rd quarter.

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Bar 12-21

Concept bar successfully draws new crowd to Morton’s.

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Businesses Owned by Minorities Recognized

Schaumburg, Des Plaines, and Chicago businesses were awarded Minority Supplier of the Year awards.

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Hotel Room Upgrades Aid Guests with Asthma

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Kraft Unveils New Line of Digestive-Friendly Dairy Items

Kraft foods new line of nutritionally enhanced foods to roll out at the Food Marketing Institute show in Chicago.

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Time Travel

Rachel Sussman’s favorite tools for photographing the world’s oldest living things.

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