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Innovation Wednesday: Al Gore's Excellent Venture Adventure

BY Ellen McGirtWed Nov 14, 2007 at 12:06 PM

Former Vice President Al Gore has added another gig to his already jam-packed resume: venture capitalist. Gore announced an alliance between his firm, Generation Investment Management and the legendary Silicon Valley venture firm, ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: This Post Will Eventually Be About Facebook

BY Ellen McGirtWed Oct 31, 2007 at 1:02 PM

I just returned from one of the least innovative places I’ve been in a long time – Vernazza, Italy. Trust me, you should go. I was there for a wedding of a dear friend. About 52 people traipsed in from around the world. The ...READ»

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Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize; I Yammer About Him On Fox Business News.

BY Ellen McGirtWed Oct 17, 2007 at 6:20 PM

The brand, spanking new Fox Business News network is doing an hour-long segment on “Al Gore, Inc.” -- the many facets and accomplishments of the former Vice President, tomorrow, October 18th, during the 7:00a hour. I’ll be on ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Facebook Settles New York Attorney General Investigation, Reaches for Checkbook.

BY Ellen McGirtWed Oct 17, 2007 at 4:27 PM

Facebook settled an investigation by the New York State Attorney General's office in what must be record time yesterday, by announcing an agreement that will create and enforce new safeguards protecting young Facebookers from sexual ...READ»

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Innovation: Not Just a New York Cab -- A Canvas for a Cause

BY Saabira ChaudhuriWed Oct 17, 2007 at 1:06 PM

A few weeks ago, as I reluctantly trudged my way to the office after an unduly aggravating morning commute, I noticed a brilliant splash of color whiz by me. I spun around, but without my usual dose of caffeine and in the midst of a ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Good Reads on Google's Phone, Robobugs, Toyota's advergame, Microsoft innovating in India

BY Chuck SalterWed Oct 10, 2007 at 1:31 PM

Here's what caught Team InnoWed's eye today: G-Phone? Hello? The official Google Blog announces the company's acquisition of Jaiku, a Finnish startup (just seven employees, according to Helsingin Sanomat) that has developed ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Wal-Mart Surpasses Goal to Sell 100 Million Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs Three Months Early; CEO H. Lee

BY Ellen McGirtWed Oct 3, 2007 at 2:00 AM

Wal-Mart, take your victory lap. Wal-Mart announced yesterday that the company has blown past an ambitious goal of selling 100 million compact fluorescent light bulbs by the end of 2007 -- three months early. This is no small deal ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Meet the 2007 MacArthur Fellows

BY Chuck SalterWed Sep 26, 2007 at 6:13 PM

Over the years we've featured our share of MacArthur Fellows in Fast Company. Choreographer Twyla Tharp. Jim Fruchterman, the founder of Benetech, which creates technology for the disadvantaged. The late Samuel Mockbee, an ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Ripped from the headlines

BY Chuck SalterWed Sep 26, 2007 at 1:11 PM

The crack team of researchers here at InnoWed have scoured today's papers and news sites so you don't have to. Happy reading. "If it's so good, why aren't you doing it?" - That, reports Thomas Friedman in The New York Times, is ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Unique Social Networking Site helps Iraq War Veterans Find Work

BY Ellen McGirtWed Sep 19, 2007 at 3:10 PM

Some returning Iraq war veterans are facing another battle at home: The fight to find a job. In fact, unemployment among young veterans is significantly higher than non-veterans in the same age group, mostly 22-24, and dramatically ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Al Gore's Current Tv Gets An Emmy Nod

BY Ellen McGirtWed Sep 5, 2007 at 12:26 PM

One of my favorite innovators, Current TV, has been nominated for their first Emmy Award. This is no small accomplishment. Current, the cable network started jointly by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, is barely two years old, and had a ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: The Blogosphere's Take on Ashley Qualls and Whateverlife

BY Chuck SalterThu Aug 30, 2007 at 12:34 AM

When you write a story about a 17-year-old who has created a Web site with monthly ad revenue of as much as $70,000, dropped out of high school, and turned down a $1.5 million offer to sell her business -- all this before she's even ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: When Nabbr met Whateverlife

BY Chuck SalterWed Aug 29, 2007 at 11:35 AM

Yes, that's Lily Allen pictured on the right giving a sassy shout-out to Ashley Qualls and Whateverlife.com. The visa-challenged British pop star is personally thanking the little-known 17-year-old entrepreneur from Detroit because ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Whateverlife and the Accidental Business

BY Chuck SalterWed Aug 22, 2007 at 1:35 PM

What kind of job did you have at 17? I posed that question to the grown-ups I encountered recently while exploring Whateverlife.com. The teen-girl site and company was started by Ashley Qualls, an entrepreneur from a working-class ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Corel's Virtual Garage

BY Ellen McGirtWed Aug 22, 2007 at 12:33 PM

What happens to an idea deferred? Corel, the software maker who brought us WordPerfect and a whole host of design tools, didn’t want to risk finding out. Or, more accurately, one small band of engineering innovationistas decided ...READ»

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TechMonday: The Open-Source Consultancy

Mon Aug 20, 2007 at 2:22 PM

In the September issue of Fast Company, we look at five consumer electronics products whose design was inspired, or could be modified, by a larger community. Now, a young entrepreneur is hoping to harness that power to go beyond ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Henry Selick and the Artistry of Stop-Motion Animation

BY Chuck SalterWed Aug 15, 2007 at 11:19 AM

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it to San Diego last month for Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book and sci-fi fan-fest and THE place to generate buzz about TV shows and movies aimed at these influencers. I would have ...READ»

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InnoWed Deux: Al Gore On Innovation - Build It And They Will Come

BY Ellen McGirtWed Aug 8, 2007 at 5:01 PM

A bit more on Current TV. One of the most intriguing elements of the Current TV trajectory thus far, is how clear Gore and Hyatt were from the start that they wanted to do something completely different. In part, it was to address ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Al Gore Transforms Television With A Little Help From His Friends

BY Ellen McGirtWed Aug 8, 2007 at 12:40 PM

Now that the Al Gore story is in print, I can no longer pretend that the hours I spend watching Current TV, the network he started with partner Joel Hyatt, is for reporting purposes. I’ve morphed into a bona fide fan, and I’m ...READ»

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Innovation: Kalamazoo (cont'd)

BY Chuck SalterWed Aug 1, 2007 at 3:45 PM

In the original Fast 50 list, we didn't mention how Ron Kitchens got into economic development in the first place. But at the lunch event in Chicago he shared how personal this work is for him. "I grew up poor," he said. "I was in ...READ»

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Innovation: What You Can Learn from Kalamazoo

BY Chuck SalterWed Aug 1, 2007 at 1:54 PM

Welcome again to Innovation Wednesday here at FC, the day we focus on the inventive, the original, the daring, the super creative - even more than usual. Sure, we'd all like to be innovative 24-7 (yes, even in our dreams), but ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Advertising In User Generated Nation-Must We Do Everything?

BY Ellen McGirtWed Jul 25, 2007 at 12:47 PM

As if programming debates and blogging endlessly about the minutiae of our collective lives wasn’t enough, we the people are now taking matters into our own cams to show the Madison Avenue ad geniuses how it’s done. The latest ...READ»

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Innovation: Phil Knight's "Not Exactly Textbook" Moves

BY Chuck SalterWed Jul 18, 2007 at 1:20 PM

How Laika Entertainment came to be is an intensely personal story. I was fascinated by how Nike founder Phil Knight and his son Travis, who didn't share his father's passion for sports growing up, wound up working together - in ...READ»

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For Nonprofits, Google Marks the Spot

Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 5:34 PM

Google rolled out a new program Tuesday to help nonprofits use its Google Earth tool to tell their stories through interactive maps. Along with some technical expertise, Google is offering up free versions of its $400 software to ...READ»

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Is Your Company a Cezanne or a Picasso?

Thu Jun 7, 2007 at 4:32 PM

As the final speaker at the HSM World Innovation Forum yesterday, Malcolm Gladwell, the New Yorker writer, author, and Fast Company profilee, gave an interesting talk on two types of creativity, inspired by a book by David Galenson ...READ»

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