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Idealab Needs Ideas

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 100

Speaking of CEOs That Should Lose Their Jobs, how about Bill Gross of Idealab. Once considered the wunderkind of the "New Economy," (we featured Gross in a 1996 article) Gross is running out of ideas and money, and running into more ...READ»

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Search For Speed

BY Fast Company
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CitySearch competes on speed.READ»

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He Turns Ideas into Companies - at Net Speed

BY Eric Matson
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Bill Gross, CEO of Idealab, has started 18 companies in nine months. On the Net, he says, "time is more important than money."READ»

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PIMCO's Bill Gross: Assets Are $15 Trillion Overvalued...Keep The Fantasy Alive

BY Michael E. Douroux
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"PIMCO's Bill Gross with a great monthly letter. Here are the key points:- Over the past 30 years, paper asset prices rose 2X as much as they should have based on economic fundamentals- This was the result of leverage-The asset price ...READ»

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Entrepreneurship: Bill Gross on Atoms and Bits

BY Chris Dannen
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CNN Money has an interesting Q&A with Bill Gross, the serial entrepreneur whose brain birthed startups like NetZero, CitySearch, eToys, and GoTo.com. While the interview questions aren't particularly hard-hitting, they do encourage ...READ»

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Innovation Scorecard

BY Michael A. Prospero
Relevancy Score: 67

When it comes to alternative and renewable energy, it's not enough to have the coolest non-oil-using eco-friendly widget.READ»

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Fourth Quarter Outlook: Become a gold bug, now

BY Marvin Clark
Relevancy Score: 50

So, why become a gold bug, now, (GLD, GDX) you ask. The simple answer is the respite from Armageddon we purchased with poorly planned deficit spending during 2008’s financial implosion has an expiration date. Vigorish charged by the world for our initial greed and incompetent rescue will soon come due.READ»

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U.S. Markets: A Week of Inexplicable Events

BY Marvin Clark
Relevancy Score: 47

This snapshot of the market and the economy shows that things are far from normal, or what we once considered normal. The calculus that propelled investing over the last 30 years has dissolved. The new formula is being being created and tested in real time. The stock market and investing is currently unreal - it’s devolved awhile ago into, or, if you prefer, transformed itself into a momentum investing affair in an unraveling world.READ»

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Chairmen of the Fret Board

BY Fast Company Staff
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A deal Warren Buffet, George Soros, and Peter Lynch have signed off on together? It's true. But as you might expect from such financial luminaries, there are a few strings attached -- six to be exact. Earlier this year, ...READ»

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Let the Sun Shine

BY Walecia Konrad
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Solar stocks are the feel-good investments of the hour. That's why you need to be careful.READ»

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GE (Re) Does The Numbers

BY Keith H. Hammonds
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One of the most valuable (and most complicated) companies on earth is making big changes in how it interacts with investors. GE's man on Wall Street explains the importance of being earnest.READ»

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How Third-Party App Makers Plan to Survive Twitter's New Ad Blitz

BY Dan Nosowitz
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Twitter's new ad platform has been read as trouble for other Twitter-related companies, including startups and those making mobile apps. But they say something different.READ»

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Unit of One Anniversary Handbook

BY Fast Company
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We invited 30 leading figures from our first 6 issues to offer one new idea or one innovative practice that can make a difference to you.READ»

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FAST TALK: Your Money

BY Lucy McCauley
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So you don't feel as rich as you did two years ago. And you're not retiring anytime soon. It's time to take stock of the role of money in your life, the road to financial security, and the price of success.READ»

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Arizona Real Estate Entrepreneur Talks History

BY Francine Hardaway
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t's lunch in a Scottsdale restaurant. The attendees are mainly retired scions of industry, professionals, and business. I came because the group is having a presentation by one of the largest real estate developers in Arizona, and ...READ»

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Fast.Gov

BY Daniel H. Pink
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What better way to answer the call of your country than to offer the next president some management advice?READ»

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How to Speed Up Your Startup

BY Katharine Mieszkowski
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When it comes to launching Internet companies, you can't be fast enough. Here are lessons in speed from a leading VC, the founder of an e-business incubator, and a team of anthropologists studying work and life in Silicon Valley.READ»

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Why Can't We Get Anything Done?

BY Alan M. Webber
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Stanford B-school professor Jeffrey Pfeffer has a question: If we're so smart, why can't we get anything done? Here are 16 rules to help you make things happen in your organization.READ»