The Sweet Science Behind How Chocolate Makes You More Productive

fastcompany.com 12 hours ago

New research suggests that the components of cocoa make you more content. And that leads to creativity. Open up and say: Yeah

 
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The Way I Work: John Paul DeJoria, John Paul Mitchell Systems

inc.com 9 hours ago

John Paul DeJoria manages multiple companies--all without using email.

 
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Is NYC the Next Silicon Valley?

inc.com 6 hours ago

Four entrepreneurs say the Big Apple is becoming America's next start-up hub. Is this true or just wishful thinking?

 
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Lost In A Tornado, Found On Facebook

fastcompany.com 6 hours ago

Facebook groups help reunite Oklahoma tornado victims with their precious possessions and pets.

 
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JustDial IPO Subscribed 11.3x; Proof that Market Likes the Internet

nextbigwhat.com 2 hours ago

Shares of JustDial, priced at a multiple of 66x its earnings per share in FY12, was considered an expensive buy by many analysts. However, the markets seem to have gone the other way on this.

 
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Newsweek 2.0: A New Model For Online Magazines

fastcodesign.com 14 hours ago

When it was announced last fall that Newsweek, after nearly 80 years as a weekly news magazine, would ditch print and go all digital, it seemed to many like an ill omen--the first step toward an...

 
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The Case for the 'Entrepreneur Generation'

inc.com 9 hours ago

Let's call the 'Millennials' the Entrepreneur Generation' and learn to manage the valuable characteristics that set them apart.

 
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Randi Zuckerberg on Her Next Act

inc.com 5 hours ago

The ex-Facebook executive and TV producer explains her plan to shake up the content business--and make her own mark on the Web.

 
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A Skyscraper-Style Treehouse With Soaring Mountain Views

fastcodesign.com 11 hours ago

Architects like wordplay. It’s a fun and effective way to condense the main thesis behind a project without resorting to archi-speak. It’s also a good bit of marketing...

 
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Why You Should Ban Email (Sometimes)

inc.com 5 hours ago

Email can leave people feeling overwhelmed, even harassed. Do you know when to stop?

 
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A Design Collective Creates Its Own Economy In El Salvador

fastcodesign.com 5 hours ago

The short list of global design destinations includes obvious places, such as Sweden and Italy...

 
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How Two College Pals Are Growing A Solution To Our Reliance On Plastic

fastcoexist.com 14 hours ago

Editor’s NoteThis piece is part of Change Generation, our series on inspiring young entrepreneurs...

 
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How Pac-Man Changed Games And Culture

fastcocreate.com 15 hours ago

Sure, Pac-Man, which turns 33 on May 22, looks awfully basic when you compare it to, say, Call of Duty: Ghosts.But the arcade game created by Japanese designer Toru Iwatani was something to see when...

 
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Infographic: The Signature Cocktails Of Your Favorite Fictional Boozehounds

fastcodesign.com 13 hours ago

Don Draper drinks an Old Fashioned because he’s a man. Rocky Balboa drank his protein shakes--five raw eggs--for strength...

 
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Happiness Secrets From The Staff Of Delivering Happiness At Work

fastcompany.com 16 hours ago

Ebullient corporate culture helped grow Tony Hsieh's Zappos into a multibilliondollar shoeloving enterprise and spawned a consulting firm DHW. Here's...

 
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These Are Some Of The 68 Million People McDonald’s Serves Every Day

fastcodesign.com 8 hours ago

Americans on average consume nearly 30 pounds of French fries a year...

 
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How Twitter Is Reshaping The Future Of Storytelling

fastcoexist.com 14 hours ago

Editor’s NoteThis post is part of Co.Exist’s Futurist Forum, a series of articles by some of the world’s leading futurists about what the world will look like in the near and distant future, and how...

 
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Exhuming JC Penney’s Failed Marketing Makeover For Leadership Lessons We Can All Use

fastcompany.com 9 hours ago

The iconic 111yearold retailer ditched nearly everything former CEO Ron Johnson attempted during his short stint in charge. Good call

 
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How to Raise Funding Without Selling Out

inc.com 9 hours ago

Change.org just raised $15 million, despite the fact that founder Ben Rattray vows never to sell the company or go public.

 
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A Real-Life Tricorder Is Now Available For You To Buy And Scan Yourself

fastcoexist.com 15 hours ago

Get excited, Star Trek fans and self-tracking enthusiasts: your real-life tricorder is now available for pre-order.Scanadu, a startup based at the NASA Ames Research Center, has been working on a...

 
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A Web Series For Kids Aims To Be The “Elmo for Engineering”

fastcodesign.com 11 hours ago

It’s hard to beat classic episodes of Sesame Street for timeless, near-universal educational appeal, but engineer and Adafruit Industries founder Limor Fried still saw an unmet need in the...

 
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“Peniccism”—Penitent Narcissism—and Other New Names For Those Weird Feelings You Have

fastcocreate.com 15 hours ago

Some words from languages around the world frustratingly have no equivalent in English. Other words for complicated and difficult-to-convey ideas simply haven’t been invented yet...

 
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This Robot Will Be Your Perfectly Precise Bartender

fastcoexist.com 6 hours ago

At the Milan Design Week, furniture usually take center stage...

 
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Top 3 Shrewdest Business Moves

inc.com 6 hours ago

Members of the question-and-answer site Quora submitted their picks for the smartest moves in business. Here are three to study.

 
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Cost Per Whatever: Has Ad Tech Crippled Advertising?

fastcompany.com 10 hours ago

Effectiveness and efficiency are the two sides of advertising. Always have been always will be. Weve measured efficiency up the wazoo of late but we...

 
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Honeyfund: Don’t Want To Climb The Corporate Ladder? – with Sara Margulis

mixergy.com 15 hours ago

How did a woman who didn't want to climb the corporate ladder bootstrap a profitable company?

 
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How to Prospect for New Customers

inc.com 14 hours ago

A step-by-step approach for building up your sales pipeline.

 
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Is “I wish my son had cancer…” Appropriate Ad Copy?

fastcocreate.com 10 hours ago

"I wish my son had cancer" declares a print ad which as well as raising awareness for the organization behind it has sparked debate about what is and what is not suitable tone and sentiment in charity...

 
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This Charming Map: The Smiths Discography As a Transit Map

fastcocreate.com 13 hours ago

Anyone who has ever experienced unrequited love and/or the 1980s has a special, lonely, disappointed place in his heart for The Smiths...

 
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Ryan Ferrier: Everything Comes Down to Customer Feedback

inc.com 5 hours ago

Follow the three Ts to launch better products, says Ryan Ferrier, co-founder of the 60 Day MBA program.

 
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What It Takes to Start a Company: Sleeping in a Van?

boss.blogs.nytimes.com 10 hours ago

A Priceline for movie tickets goes looking for partners.

 
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Busted : India’s Fake Mark Zuckerberg and DUMB Media

nextbigwhat.com 16 hours ago

It is sad to see that all the leading news portals – TOI, The Hindu, ET & NDTV have covered this story, and they’ve cooked it up good enough to fetch them 80K users.

 
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This Pouch Ensures You Pay Attention To Your Date, Not Your Phone

fastcodesign.com 21 May

Forget body language--the most effective, ultra-modern way to show someone that you’re into them, you respect them, or you genuinely enjoy their company is to keep your darn hands off your darn phone...

 
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Build Trust and Authority in Google Search

inc.com 11 hours ago

Here's what you need to know about Google's Hilltop algorithm and how to use it to your advantage.

 
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Take A Breathtaking Trip Around The World In 15 Minutes

fastcoexist.com 8 hours ago

NASA’s Landsat satellites have provided incomparable views of Earthen landscapes since the 1970s...

 
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