Huddle CEO Alastair Mitchell's Secret Weapon: Naivete "I wanted to make something bigger than myself," says Mitchell.
Updated Tue Dec 13, 2011
How Michael Acton Smith Got Out Of Perplex City And Found Moshi Monster Success Michael Acton Smith grew his company from an online store, to a perplexing online game, to a monster multimedia franchise by trusting his creative vision.
Updated Tue Dec 13, 2011
The Vision Thing: Warby Parker's David Gilboa Disrupted An Industry And Improved The World's Sight "A huge driving force for our entire founding team has been this concept of really being a force for good in the world," says Gilboa.
Updated Sat Dec 3, 2011
Getting Schooled On Starting A Business By DonorsChoose.org's Charles Best "It's about being shameless and relentless and hustling for the first users and for the first partners," says Best. "That takes both sort of an energy and a humility."
Updated Tue Nov 22, 2011
Readmill's Henrik Berggren Is Making Your Social Graph An E-Bookstore The Berlin-based startup is introducing an app that lets you highlight a passage, add a note, and share it with friends online.
Updated Mon Nov 14, 2011
Phil Pinnell Is Putting Food From Scratch Onto Your Busy Table "There's nothing better than receiving an email or phone call from someone saying their evening was better because of our meals," says the 26-year-old cofounder of Scratch.
Updated Thu Nov 10, 2011
Fabian Stelzer Uses Neuroscience To Make Your Website Stickier 5 seconds. That's about how long website creators have to capture a visitor's attention and convince them to stick around. Fabian Stelzer used his training in neuroscience to help create a tool for web designers that analyzes just how sticky their page is likely to be.
Updated Thu Nov 3, 2011
Holstee's Mike And Dave Radparvar Are Doing What They Love, And You Can Too "Don't try and figure out what the world needs. Figure out what makes you alive, and do that--because that's exactly what the world needs," says Dave Radparvar.
Updated Tue Oct 25, 2011
Two Laptops And A Mobile Phone: Startup Music From SoundCloud's Alex Ljung Ljung put his life on hold to build his own cloud focused on sound creators instead of consumers--a Flickr for music.
Updated Wed Oct 19, 2011
Apple's Official Announcement On The Death Of Steve Jobs
Oct. 5, 2011 23:55 UTC
Apple Media Advisory
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Apple CEO Tim Cook today sent the following email to all Apple employees:
Team,
I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today.
Updated Thu Oct 6, 2011
Apple's Official Announcement On The Passing Of Steve Jobs Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.
Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.
His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.
Posted Thu Oct 6, 2011
For The Energy Impoverished, Hugh Whalan Is A Ray Of LED You probably can't remember how many different ways you use energy during an average day, but billions of people can't take energy use for granted because they don't have access to any. Hugh Whalan is out to change that.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
With She's The First, Tammy Tibbetts Uses Social Media For Social Change Can social media drive social change? 25-year-old Tammy Tibbetts is trying to figure that out through She's The First, a non-profit dedicated to helping girls around the world to become the first in their family to graduate.
Updated Wed Sep 28, 2011
Change Generation: Music Unites's Michelle Edgar Makes Soul Music Music Unites founder Michelle Edgar describes her journey from music-loving magazine intern to Director of Branding for Warner Bros. Music and creator of a charity that gets kids off the streets and into a real studio to record their first songs.
Updated Mon Sep 26, 2011
Fab.com Presents The Fast Company U.S. Design Pop-Up Shop Like the products in our U.S. Design iPad app and the October issue? You can buy them on Fab.com.
Updated Wed Sep 14, 2011
Why You Should Go to Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored Conference
What, another conference? Yes, and you'll want to reserve your spot for this one early, because it will take you inside the innovative companies that you read about in Fast Company and FastCompany.com every day. Here's a sample of who will be there:
Updated Tue Aug 16, 2011
Cannes POV: Digital Ascends, But Paid Media Is Its Sherpa Is the industry finally opening up? Are the borders and boundaries merging? Witness the agenda that has Grey following Victors & Spoils, and Ogilvy sandwiched between Mofilm and Google.
Updated Mon Jun 20, 2011
Fast Company Is Hiring A Web Production Coordinator We are looking for a web production coordinator to join the Fast Company development team.
Updated Tue May 31, 2011
Now In The iTunes App Store: Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People In Business Get behind the creative processes of Conan O'Brien, and geniuses from Google, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, in our new iPad app.
Updated Thu May 26, 2011
