Tiffany Bozic was perfectly happy applying acrylic paint to maple panels. Then Apple called.
For years, San Francisco-based artist Tiffany Bozic wasn’t the least bit tempted to try her hand at creating imagery on an iPad.
Tiffany Bozic was perfectly happy applying acrylic paint to maple panels. Then Apple called.
For years, San Francisco-based artist Tiffany Bozic wasn’t the least bit tempted to try her hand at creating imagery on an iPad.
Why everything from Amazon and eBay to Windows 95 and the PalmPilot came along in one memorable, wildly innovative 12-month period.
On November 6, 1995, the first issue of Fast Company debuted. Its founders, Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, were former Harvard Business Review editors who had been working on the idea for a while: in fact, they’d produced a prototype version in 1993. With funding from media tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman, they began regular publication with a cover that famously declared that business is personal, computing is social, and knowledge is power. The mantra was so prescient that it still captures our perspective two decades later.
The Hive, an initiative of the U.N. Refugee Agency, has bold ambitions: Solve the refugee crisis, and use data to transform nonprofits.
When I meet Brian Reich at a restaurant in Manhattan, I ask him what’s new. “Just trying to solve the refugee crisis,” he says casually.
It’s time to take control of your calendar.
Feeling overwhelmed? It’s time to take control of your calendar. Find out what you should consider before you say “yes” to an opportunity, when you should squeeze something into your schedule, and what kind of calendar you should be using. Do you use any of these tips? Tell us at #WorkSmart.
After tripling in size this year, Instacart is putting the brakes on recruiting in 2016.
Instacart is putting the brakes on hiring. After tripling in size in 2015, the on-demand grocery delivery company has laid off 12 full-time recruiters as it rethinks its priorities for next year, Re/code reports.
Twitter banned a would-be London bomber’s account after he asked followers for target suggestions.
The evidence against would-be London bomber and his ex-wife wasn’t particularly difficult to find. The pair stockpiled explosives in their London home, and set up a Twitter account to ask for advice on which targets to bomb, The Guardian reports.
Mark Bittman has always thought of Purple Carrot as a food startup—but now he wonders if he needs to think of it as technology company, too.
From late spring to early summer, during the first days of my involvement with meal kit startup Purple Carrot, we fielded many questions about our “tech side.” These came primarily from a few influential Silicon Valley VCs who would directly ask questions like, “How are you using technology to make your startup more defensible?”
Sidecar ends its mobile delivery and ride-hailing service after a four-year fight.
Ride-hailing startup Sidecar has long been overshadowed by its rivals Uber and Lyft, both in number of customers and in institutional investment. After nearly four years of trying to differentiate itself, it has given up the fight.
2015 was a transformative year for online music. So what’s next?
In 2015, the streaming music market became a full-contact spectator sport.
KaloBios Pharmaceuticals had previously taken strategic investment from Shkreli.
The bad news keeps on coming for business associates of Martin Shrekli, the “bad boy” of pharmaceuticals who made a name for himself earlier this year when he hiked up the price of an AIDS drug from $13.50 to $750. Less than two weeks after it fired Shkreli as CEO, South San Francisco-based cancer drug research company KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc. filed for bankruptcy.