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Cec Ortiz

Principal of ALMA Resources, Denver, ColoradoREAD»

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Melissa Bradley

President and CEO of Bradley Holding Company, New YorkREAD»

Go Get It

Behold the mayhem, revelry, and potential of a "first project" designed by twentysomethings with no experience and plenty vision. Behold the story of "go" -- a startup magazine that asks, "What do you really want?"READ»

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Athena, CEO

Meet nine of the more than eight million women entrepreneurs who are beginning to reshape American business.READ»

Easy Money: Mint.com CEO Aaron Patzer is Merging Personal Finance with Web 2.0

Aaron Patzer is taking on Quicken by merging personal finance with Web 2.0. Can he get twentysomethings to be smart with their cash? READ»

Clifford Kurz and Susan West Kurz

Can't Buy Me Love

How luxury organic skin-care company Dr. Hauschka has infused sustainability into its financial structure.READ»

Do You Want to Play?

Richard Garriott set out to design an online game that would shake up a genre he helped create. It has taken six years-with time off to train as a cosmonaut, hunt shrunken heads, and study magic.READ»

Hacker. Dropout. CEO.

When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?READ»

Hacker. Dropout. CEO.

When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?READ»

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Facebook by the Numbers

Active Users in Millions (Registered users who have visited the site in a given month) Zuckerberg's creation … consists of 47,000 college, high school, employee, and regional networks. … handles 600 million ...READ»

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A Cautionary Tale

Rumors of Facebook's refusal to sell to Yahoo set off a chorus of predictions that it would repeat Friendster's fall from grace.READ»

Adventures in Polymerland

A little-known unit inside General Electric, the world's best-known big company, is setting the standard for digital transformation -- and helping Jack Welch teach the rest of his company how to get with the Web program.READ»

The (New) Spirit of Enterprise

The Enterprise Center's mission is to help create successful businesses that will help transform West PhiladelphiaREAD»

Case Studies

You asked us for real examples of how people keep the business side of Me, Inc., running smoothly. So here's some sound advice (and nitty gritty details) from other free agents.READ»

Tax Tips and Tricks

Don't let accounting prevent you from taking the plunge.READ»

Fly by Night (or Day, or...)

The irony is anything but sweet: Just as the experience of air travel continues to deteriorate, the proliferation of travel-related Web sites has made it easier to get to your destination more efficiently. Now a new group of Robin ...READ»

Fast Talk: The Brand Called Me

What's in a name? Everything, it seems. Building a brand is always a challenge, especially when your own name is attached. We spoke with five owners of eponymous brands about retaining control, finding aligned partners, and the importance of staying true to oneself.READ»

Business As War

Business in the New Economy is a civilized version of war. Companies, not countries, are battlefield rivals.READ»

Gunther Pauli Cleans Up

He built the world's first biodegradable factory. Now, armed with laptops and attitude, Gunter Pauli and his green team plan to outmaneuver Procter Gamble and the detergent giants.READ»

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Slow Is the New Fast

With our November issue, Fast Company will celebrate 10 years of publication. Each month until then, we'll review one of our favorite editions from the first decade.READ»

How Lush Cleans Up

For CEO Mark Constantine, keeping his company fresh isn't just cosmetic.READ»

Valley of the Jobs

Gary Megennis explains why confidence and fearlessness top blue-chip credentials and process in Silicon Valley.READ»

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Flipped to Last

With our November issue, Fast Company will celebrate 10 years of publication. Each month until then, we'll review one of our favorite editions from the first decade.READ»

60 Seconds with Evan Williams

Evan Williams's Pyra Labs helped kick-start the personal publishing revolution with Blogger, the first user-friendly software for running a Web log. In 2003, Pyra was snapped up by Google, and Williams became the search giant's blogger-in-chief. Now Williams has founded Odeo, aiming to do for podcasting -- think of downloadable radio programming for your iPod -- what Pyra did for blogs. His bet: Your neighbor might be the next Howard Stern.READ»

Rinse and Repeat

Lush Cosmetics is a fast-growing $100 million brand, thanks to founder Mark Constantine's contrary product-development philosophy: Innovate like mad, then start over again.READ»

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