The high-tech productivity secrets of Box, Indiegogo, Birchbox, and more

And how 50 business owners made their cities work for them.

Want your company to be more innovative? Hire talent who have never set foot in your industry.

Need to boost your sales? This surprising new research will help.

Understanding one simple truth helped this founder raise $23 Million

She built an app without knowing how to code – and is now a millionaire

This Founder Finally Made It To The NBA – With An Analytics Tool

Ahmad Ishaq’s ByteCubed was recently hired by the U.S. Department of Defense to create a platform that tracks small-business government contractors.

Loot Crate tops the list by overcoming shipping strikes, product scarcity, and the uncertain subscription-box economy to succeed in the business of fandom.

Could reimagining the 40-hour-week grind make your company more productive?

Hype has been running high for companies to embrace these chatty automatons

Identifying the best places to launch and operate a business

Everyone talks about companies playing nice, but what does partnership actually mean?

Three coping techniques for when your cofounder is your better half

It isn’t easy, but it’s necessary

How this company bounced back after a toxic hire

repeat after us: it’ll be ok

Can’t Afford the Location You Want? Consider Bunking Up With a Fellow Entrepreneur

The difference between crushing it and getting crushed abroad is knowing when you’re ready to make the leap

This is how the newest crop of entrepreneurs balances full-time parenting with running a business

How a new wave of real-time, data-driven tech tools can turn a disengaged staff into a passionate one.

Chicago-based human resources company LaSalle Network encourages its 150 employees to do what they love to do.

This year’s list spotlights another ever-increasing trend in business: women-owned companies.

A prodigy, Jessica Mah, 25, was poised for Silicon Valley success. Then she discovered that her San Francisco-based company, inDinero, had a flawed product, an unsustainable business model, and a soap-opera-worthy org chart.

There’s a right way to do a business meeting at a bar. Read a host of tips from a range of experts to ensure you’ll look in the know and fun to know at your next meeting.

Succeeding in your childhood dream is the best revenge.

Disruptive technology is changing how companies make things. Don’t get left behind.

Recruiting in Silicon Valley or New York City? Easy. Finding all-stars in rural Wisconsin or Tennessee? Flex those seduction skills.

Want to strengthen your digital security? Pay someone to break into your software-and your systems.

Is the obsession with potential employee compatibility focused on the right things?

How couples therapy brought this company back from the dead.

Femme Den is a firm that’s devoted to thinking about the bodies and brains of women and how to design — smartly — for them.

An interview with Kimberly Davis, President, JP Morgan Chase Foundation.

Gilt grew almost sixfold last year and is on track to hit $500 million in revenues in 2010. CEO Susan Lyne explains why Gilt is golden.

Cynics might scoff at GE’s unwieldy “-magination” suffix, but it seems to have some kind of hidden mojo. We dig deeper into this innovative company.

Since focusing its R&D on rare diseases and biotech, including vaccines for the likes of H1N1, the Swiss pharma giant has been in a fever of invention.

A photo journal of Madecasse.

Advances in LED and OLED technologies transform light into an inspiring ingredient that refashions everything from home décor to electronics.

Biomedicine and wireless technology are converging to create a booming remote-health-monitoring market.

Marketing to gays and lesbians is rich with potential-approximately $70O billion in annual buying power-but still fraught with peril.

How big brands are venturing into unexpected turf.

The Kindle is not the only way technology is changing – and saving? – book publishing.

A look at how innovators are changing the gaming industry.

Three innovators who have changed the future of iPhone gaming.

E-readers don’t have anything on these books.

Here, how a car company that began as a thumb of the nose at rival General Motors became one of GM’s post-bankruptcy bright spots.

How Spinmaster mixes tech and toys, and keeps Mattel looking over its shoulder.

As Costco marks its 25th year, straight-talking CEO Jim Sinegal shares his two cents on sustainability, the economy, universal health care, and what our next president should do.

Companies as diverse as Boeing, Ford, General Electric, Herman Miller, HP, IBM, Kraft, Nike, and Patagonia are welcoming biologists to the design lab. Here’s a sampling of Mother Nature at work.

We’ve given a full Marvel treatment to some of the people that have helped put Disney on our Most Innovative Companies list this year.

New additions and expansions have surpassed $3 billion for the first time in the company’s history. Here’s where the dollars are going.

Forget “Shrink It and Pink It”: the Femme Den unleashed – talk about smart designs that women really want.

The biggest retailer and its suppliers confront how to rate the sustainability of all consumer goods.

The hospital of the future is designed not just to heal the sick but also to help sustain the environment.

Until now, bagged popcorn has been strictly divided into microwavable kernels and bags of the prepopped stuff. But the innovation team at Popcorn, Indiana has found a way to merge the two.

A look at the numbers behind International Hospitality Week.

Meet the faces at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting.

Review of two books on consumerism.

Two hundred years after Darwin’s birth, l5O years after the publication of his landmark treatise On the Origin of Speciesnine scientists, thinkers, and leaders talk about how the evolutionary theorist changed our lives and their work.

At FastCompany.com, we cover everything from music-inspired design to technology-boosted beats to brand campaigns built on rock stars.

A look at several honorees — and how they earned their doctorates.

Think of MTV’s Video Music Awards (September 7) as the kickoff for the jam-packed fall-release season. Can any of these noteworthy albums help the music biz buck its recent blues?

Do you know who to blame for those crazy-low CD returns? The 10 men and women of the FOMC — five regional Fed presidents and five Fed governors — will gather October 28 — 29 in Washington, D.C., to set monetary policy and consider interest rates.

Political pundits say that by today, the latest race for the White House will have cost a total of $1 billion between the two presidential campaigns.

August 28 marks the 150th anniversary of its first commercial well. Today, the U.S. is the world’s third-biggest oil producer and largest consumer. Join us for a tour of this gas-guzzling nation.

An illustrated look at the numbers for Fast Company magazine in 2009.

Event calendar for Fast Company magazine, 2011.

Self-proclaimed “social-media guru” and “jargon techspert” Alex Blagg from Bajillionhits.biz insists these bizwords are creating tons of buzz in the biggest meetings and boardrooms.

This holiday season, there’s no better way to spread joy than to give to charity in someone’s honor.

Christina Norman set to infuse OWN with Oprah’s essence.

Here’s a start-up guide on how to become a poor, starving, published writer.

The vice presidents of hip-hop’s leading management firm mean business.

With Lulu.com you’re in charge of getting your book published.

With a focus on tea leaves, Argo has high growth potential.

The cookbook author and Food Network star shows off the gadgets in his kitchen that make for some good eats.

Paving a new path to entice urbanites out of using their cars.

How Panera is thriving by selling real food — and a gathering space — in suburbia.

These next-gen job sites seek to replace executive-search firms and spirit-crushing job boards with cash incentives, matching algorithms, and social networks.

How a handful of countries control the Earth’s most precious metals.

The new CEO may be dealing with an impossible mission.

Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc. is tabling the idea of selling its Marriott Lincolnshire Resort until the end of the 3rd quarter.

Concept bar successfully draws new crowd to Morton’s.

Schaumburg, Des Plaines, and Chicago businesses were awarded Minority Supplier of the Year awards.

Kraft foods new line of nutritionally enhanced foods to roll out at the Food Marketing Institute show in Chicago.

Rachel Sussman’s favorite tools for photographing the world’s oldest living things.