Meet Infor's Charles Phillips, CEO Of The World's Largest Startup
Even with 13,000 employees and 70,000 customers, Infor's CEO Charles Phillips is running a huge corporation like a startup. Here's how he aligns staff and stays agile.The way Infor’s CEO Charles...
View ArticleWant A Personal Doctor On Call 24/7? Scanadu Will Turn Your Smartphone Into A...
As his son recovered from a traumatic brain injury, Walter De Brouwer was prototyping a device that could upend the broken health care system. Here the serial entrepreneur describes how he ushered the...
View ArticleDip Into Innovation: How Sabra's CEO Is Going To Put Hummus In Every U.S. Fridge
Sabra hummus may not be a regular in your fridge (yet), but its CEO is betting that the addictive chickpea dip is poised to be a billion-dollar hit.An American refrigerator may not be the first place...
View ArticleThe CEO Who Plays With Dolls: ParaNorman Producer Travis Knight
How do you take the old way of making a product and fuse it with new technology to move your business forward? Here are some tips from the head of Laika animation studios.Travis Knight makes his living...
View ArticleHow The Walmart Foundation Innovates Corporate Giving For A Bigger Impact
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Walmart Foundation, talks about making an impact both globally and locally, and how any company can be a better corporate citizen.Sylvia Mathews Burwell,...
View ArticleHow Rebecca Van Bergen Built A Nest For Artisans All Over The World
Rebecca van Bergen had a burning passion to do something good for the world, and she wanted to do it in a different way, so she established Nest, a not-for-profit that would strive to create...
View ArticleKleiner Perkins On The Keys To Unlocking Venture Capital
Getting backed by a choice firm can boost a startup’s profile as well as provide its board with a savvy advisor. KPCB on what separates the winners from the losers.Consider this: Venture capital...
View ArticleSocial Influencers Who Are Changing The World Through Twitter
Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of the Paley Center for Media, has made it a big part of her business to recognize and celebrate the transformative muscle of social media to connect activists on every...
View ArticleHow Upworthy Makes Social Change Pop Online Like Cat Videos
Upworthy, a web platform designed to spread content that matters, has a unique approach: Curate compelling content that already exists, and package it in a way that makes people instantly want to...
View ArticleThe Extreme Filmmaking Behind "Chasing Ice"
The crew risked their lives traversing the frozen reaches of the planet to capture melting icebergs in real time.Walking barefoot through a frozen sea and repelling down an ice cliff to snap a...
View ArticleThey're Happily Married. They Created The Smash-Hit Game "Temple Run." How...
For Imangi Studios' Keith Shepherd and his wife/business partner Natalia Luckyanova, love is talking mobile-gaming apps. "Temple Run 2" comes out today. They say none of it would have happened without...
View ArticleHow LinkedIn’s “Hacker-In-Residence” Transformed An Ordinary Job Into A...
At LinkedIn, an innovative spirit goes a long way. Wearing flip-flops doesn't hurt, either. Just ask Matthew Shoup.In 2010, when Matthew Shoup first started at LinkedIn’s Mountain View office, he had a...
View ArticleSolving Problems The Square Way
An inside look at Square's design and engineering teams, revealing insight into the company's creative process and Jack Dorsey's leadership style.Not long ago, Square CEO Jack Dorsey challenged his...
View ArticleWork Like A Spy: An Ex-CIA Officer's Tips For Business Success
The former spy who stumbled upon a covert career with the CIA in, of all places, a classified ad, shares how a life undercover informed her more conspicuous role in the corporate world.“When I went to...
View ArticleHow Farm-To-Table Restaurant Chain Tender Greens Sprouts Entrepreneurs
The restaurant business is notoriously brutal, but SoCal farm-to-table chain Tender Greens has found a new way to build profitable careers for chefs."I realized there was nobody in the food chain above...
View ArticleMeet The Former Military Intelligence Officer Who Keeps Airbnb Safe
Phillip Cardenas is Airbnb's Trust and Safety Manager. #RansackGate is his worst nightmare, and he goes to amazing lengths to avoid another one.You probably remember that dark day. In the summer of...
View Article7 Key Questions To Ask When Taking Your App From iOS To Android
HowAboutWe expected to take its beautiful iPhone app, make a few tweaks for Android, and call it ready for development. Then they read Google's Design Guidelines.HowAboutWe.com was boot-strapped into...
View ArticleHow BluePrint Designed A Better Way To Sell Juice
Zoe Sakoutis and Erica Huss founded the BluePrint Cleanse on a simple premise: Juice fasting should be easier.My friends began talking about a lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup detox program...
View ArticleHow Facebook Survived 34 Intense Days Of "Lockdown" To Build Graph Search
Product manager Loren Cheng of Facebook's Graph Search team opens up about the sleep-deprived run-up to launch.It’s been merely two weeks since Facebook launched its Graph Search tool in limited beta,...
View ArticleHow An Earthquake's Tweets Helped Shape Twitter's Trajectory
One day, a 15-year-old in Chile plugged seismograph readings into a Twitter account--and that changed everything. Glenn Brown tells Fast Company how user innovations are driving marketing and...
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