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Surf And Destroy (Old Business Models)

What do a countertop company and a surfboard company have in common? Both are run by Ken Trinder, whose novel anti-microbial countertop may soon be seen in hospitals.READ MORE

Good Eats: Meals With A Mission Makes Charity Intimate, Tasty

Gala dinners are too big. How about a smaller donation pool over a home-cooked meal?READ MORE

Harvard Business School For The Facebook Age

Innovation and real startup companies are front and center at the newly re-engineered HBS. The venerable institution hopes to prepare budding entrepreneurs--with inspiration from the one that got away. READ MORE

How To Make The Most Of Your Too-Short Work Break

If you’re not the type who can sit on a park bench and contemplate nothing, and the conversation around the Keurig machine bores you, what can you do with 15 minutes that isn’t really work but pays off in productivity?READ MORE

5 Ways To Smarter Ideas From Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell

At the celebration of Mindshare 50th networking event in Los Angeles, Nolan Bushnell said improving intelligence doesn't require state-of-the-art gadgets or mind-altering medication--just a pair of skis and some yoga pants.READ MORE

A Job-Hopper Settles Down On The Farm, With Twitter

Alison Kosakowski, a 33-year-old former New York City brand planner turned dairy farm blogger, now helps farmers use social media to market themselves and share their unglamorous but rewarding reality.READ MORE

How To Pick One Good Android Phone

Buying a decent Android phone today isn’t too hard and costs about $200. Buying an Android phone that you’ll still want to own and use on a daily basis for two years? That’s much harder, and hundreds of dollars more, depending on your strategy.READ MORE

When It Comes To Smart Career Advice, CafeMom Knows Best

As a working mom who also happens to be the EVP of CafeMom, a multimedia site that caters to a community of 9 million visitors monthly, Tracy Odell offers some advice on entrepreneurship and work/life balance.READ MORE

Trunk Club Would Like You To Dress Better, Increase Your "Style Aptitude," Have More Sex

The Bonobos cofounder Brian Spaly has a new business that will manage your wardrobe for you. And he's serious about that sex thing, too. READ MORE

Why You Should Swap Your Corporate Boardroom For A Company Kitchen

Turns out, preparing and breaking bread with clients can nurture both the people at a company, as well as nourish its bottom lines. This is the story of what happened when the principals at Universal Value Advisors traded their Brooks Brothers for butcher's knives. READ MORE

How To Get Middle Managers To Support Flexible Work

Middle-manager support can be the difference between success and failure of a work flexibility strategy and, yet, it remains elusive. Here are the 5 ways to get middle managers to support flexible work. READ MORE

How Hunting, Fishing, And Shooting Skills Can Help You Build A Company

Forget about executive training or leadership coaching--David Smith, COO of Rising Roll Gourmet, gets his insights into personal excellence from the manliest-sounding of endeavors, the Total Outdoorsman Challenge.READ MORE

How To Choose The Best Cloud For Your Data

We compared the leading cloud storage services--including Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive--on per-gigabyte pricing, sure. But there are a few tricks and tools for each service you probably don't know about.READ MORE

How Great Family Businesses Skirt The Feuds, And Other Pitfalls

Even in an age of juggernaut enterprises such as Amazon, Apple, and Google, about 80 percent of the world’s businesses are family owned. But only a third will survive to the next generation. Here's how to navigate the trials of working with relatives and pass the torch successfully.READ MORE

Jerky Week, Part 5: Big Jerky Speaks

Can David topple Goliath? Join us as we talk with Slim Jim's brand manager in this shocking conclusion to Fast Company's weeklong investigation into the hotly contested, high-stakes, often spicy business of beef jerky.READ MORE

You're Hired. Now Figure Things Out (With The Help Of This Whimsical Handbook)

This week, Valve's hipper-than-thou employee handbook was unleashed on the Internet, to much envy and amusement. Companies like Valve, Zappos, and Facebook spill on how they maintain continuity and culture using clever onboarding practices and simple reassurance.READ MORE

Why You Should Start A Company In... New Haven

Slate Ballard, cofounder of the coworking space The Grove, and Derek Koch, CEO of the product-development firm Independent Software, share five things you need to know about starting a business in New Haven, Connecticut.READ MORE

Jerky Week, Part 2: Is Perky Jerky The Next Red Bull?

For the second installment of our weeklong investigation into the business of jerky, we talk to Brian Levin of Perky Jerky. Though its mascot's presidential campaign is floundering, Perky Jerky posted its first profits last month. READ MORE

"On Being" Host Krista Tippett's Tools For Dealing With Difficult Colleagues

“Forget about earthquakes and fires; everybody has a story about how bad people can be in the workplace," says Krista Tippett, host of the nationally syndicated radio show On Being. Here are some ways to work through opposing views and heated discussions so you can still be productive.READ MORE