Cross Border
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Glamsquad: Beauty on demand
Glamsquad is the latest startup to apply the Uber model to a traditional industry. With a dozen beauty copycats jumping in, a shakeout is coming
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Crocs: It's gotta be the shoes
Like all fads, Crocs soared—and crashed—based on hype. A new CEO is focusing on (gasp!) the product
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Vivek Ramaswamy: Boy in the bubble
As the biotech market boils over, prodigy Vivek Ramaswamy is engineering a flurry of deals that rescue drugs forgotten by the big firms. It might make him a billionaire at 30
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Beautiful ideas of the world’s most innovative firms
Great ideas can arrive in a moment of inspiration, plucked out of the ether fully formed. More often, though, the muses don’t pick up the phone. Innovation is mess and toil, and often found outside your four walls. “No matter who you are,” said tech pioneer Bill Joy, “most of the smartest people work for someone else.” The world’s most innovative firms, whose ideas are featured here, will always admit brilliance is harder than it looks
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Confluent's whiz kids: Rulers of the stream
Three data whizzes from inside LinkedIn have spun out into one of the hottest little companies in tech
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Tesla's secret formula
Elon Musk has inherited Steve Jobs's mantle as the cult favourite CEO. And his electric car company has grabbed Apple's creative crown. An inside look at the world's most innovative company
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Revenge of the philosophy majors
In Silicon Valley, brilliant coding and engineering is a given. The real value added, increasingly, comes from the people who can sell and humanise. Which is why tech startups suddenly crave liberal arts majors
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An Instagram for music lovers
As app development explodes on campuses, three Tufts undergrads may have just created an Instagram for music lovers
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Liberal arts colleges: Incubators for poets
Small liberal arts colleges in US are reinventing themselves as entrepreneur hatcheries—both for billion-dollar startups and social change makers
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Debt and deceit: Preying on those sinking under student loans
The hucksters who once preyed on underwater mortgage holders have a new set of victims—those sinking under student loans