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Tim Armstrong To Startups: Here's A Sure-Fire Way To Not Get Acquired By AOL
This morning, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong spoke at the Ingenuity Conference at New York City's New World Stages.He told the crowd one thing founders shouldn't do if they want AOL to acquire them: sell shares...
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The Worst Sins For A Psychology Researcher
We've written before about how scientists working in psychology may have incentives that lead them to change data to improve results. A new and humorous paper from Neuroskeptic, a neuroscientist and...
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The Best Possible Time To Send An Email
Almost everybody's had the experience of sending off an important, timely email, then hearing nothing back for days at a time, or nothing at all. It can be an incredibly frustrating experience.Ramon...
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The Standard Wall Street Career Path Is Shifting Under Everyone's Feet
So you want to become a Wall Street master of the universe? Forget almost everything you know about how the ride to the top is supposed to go.The basics are still the same. Go to a target school, take...
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Why I Wear Something Orange To Every Business Event
A lot of things need to come together for a new business to be successful.Great product, brilliant team, the right meetings—the list goes on. But there’s one way to fast-track your success that’s...
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How To Stay Productive When Everything Around You Is Going Badly
Hate and fear make for bad business strategies.Sadly, most of us figure that out too late.Our lives are easily distracted by another people’s nonsense.Our families are dysfunctional from time to time....
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Why Executives Are So Bad At The Behavioral Side Of Management
For too long, we’ve thought of “hard skills” and “soft skills” as mutually exclusive. Hard skills are supposed to provide the value, and soft skills supposed to be subordinate, inferior, and all about...
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TED Thinks These 21 Young Innovators Are Going To Change The World
TED, a global nonprofit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading" will focus its February 2013 conference on "The Young, The Wise, And The Undiscovered." Out of more than a thousand applicants, they've...
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How Dick Costolo Deals With Challenge Of Leading Twitter Without Being Its...
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is not a company founder, and that presents a challenge.People at tech companies naturally look to founders for direction, he observed at Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored...
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Here's How To Get Star Investor Fred Wilson To Back Your Startup
Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilsonshed some light on his investment strategy and his thoughts on how startups can succeed at Advertising Week New York Wednesday.Wilson said that he and his firm...
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Twitter Chief: Being A CEO Is 'Psychologically Damaging'
It's great to be the boss, right?Wrong. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says the job is "psychologically damaging."Costolo made the comment in an on-stage interview at Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored...
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The Most Common Way Americans Injure Themselves On The Job
A new report from the BLS takes a look at the most common workplace injuries that resulted in people missing days. By a long shot, the most common injuries requiring days off were sprains, strains, and...
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Steve Case's Next Act: Get The Scoop At IGNITION
What's the best second act to leading what was arguably the world's most valuable Internet company?Let's look at what Steve Case is doing.The AOL co-founder oversaw the company's 1992 IPO and led AOL...
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Justin Bieber Fits In Perfectly With Victoria's Secret's Master Plan (LTD)
Victoria's Secret spends an estimated $12 million on its annual fashion show. With that kind of investment, you can bet that Victoria's Secret is going to be maximizing returns by marketing to the...
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Mark Pincus Does Not Care If You Think Zynga Copied Scrabble And Other Games...
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus defended his company's creativity today.In an interview with Fast Company editor Bob Safian at the Innovation Uncensored conference in San Francisco, Pincus said Zynga didn't...
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Flats Are 'Making A Play For Power' In The Boardroom
The Wall Street Journal’s fashion expert Christina Brinkley recently announced that the power suit for women was on its way out and now she says the heel is following in its footsteps (no pun...
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Japanese Gadget Makers Need To Pull Off A Miracle
Ailing gadget-makers may find it hard to copy Toyota’s turnaround.JUST over three years ago, Akio Toyoda, then the new boss of Toyota, said that the carmaker founded by his grandfather was on the verge...
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Canada's Highest Court Says Pfizer's Viagra Patent Is No Good
Canada's top court on Thursday stripped Pfizer of its patent for Viagra, saying the pharmaceutical giant failed in the patent to identify the active compound in the drug."Patent 2,163,446 is void," the...
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When He Was 13, Spotify's Founder Daniel Ek Started Raking In $50,000 Per Month
Daniel Ek has always been an entrepreneur. When he was 13, he started making big bucks out of his parents' house.In an interview with PandoDaily's Sarah Lacy, Ek said he started a web development...
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Before Daniel Ek Founded $4 Billion Spotify, Google Rejected Him For A Job
A lot of people have tried and failed to land jobs at Google.One particularly smart individual slipped through the cracks.Daniel Ek, CEO and founder of $4 billion music company, Spotify, was denied a...
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