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Fast Company (1-year)

Fast Company (1-year)


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Publisher: Mansueto Ventures LLC

List Price: $49.90
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 44 reviews
Sales Rank: 59

Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 10
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 10
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks

ASIN: B00007AXA2

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Who Reads Fast Company?
Fast Company is written for the innovative pioneers who are transcending the boundaries of normal business conventions and shaping the business world. Fast Company showcases the individuals and companies who impact the world through creative ingenuity. With a unique focus on innovation, design and sustainability, Fast Company continues to advise and inform its readers in a way unlike any magazine.

Fast Company is printed on 100% recycled paper, and is dedicated to the preservation of the environment and makes sustainability part of its core mission.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

  • Fast Talk: A brief glimpse that focuses on a specific subject and highlights the players and innovators who are shaking things up.
  • Now: A summary of the major events and occurences that are happening during the current month
  • Next: A look at what is on the horizon in the future of design, innovation and sustainability
  • Columns: "Scobleizer," the tech guru's take on the emergence of new technology; "Made To Stick" a look on what is going on in the world of marketing; "Not So Fast," Elizabeth Spiers' column which explores the Pros and Cons of a business dilemma.
  • Features: Fast Company's feature articles cover everything ranging from the innovators in business who are currently shaping the world to the pioneers who will do so in the future. Recent features have covered the brand that is Barack Obama, a look at the competition for Steve Jobs and Apple, and Jonathan Goodwin's ability to turn a Lincoln Continental into a 100mpg gas saver. Fast Company also has annual features such as its Masters of Design and Fast 50 issues which showcase the leaders in the world of design and the top 50 innovators and companies who will soon change the world.
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Magazine Layout:
Fast Company approaches its visual imagery with style, attitude and verve. Fast Company's visual presence is edgy and elegant and truly breathes life into the story. Every issue of Fast Company is printed on high-quality, 85% post-consumer waste recycled paper giving it a textured feel unlike any other magazine.

Comparisons to Other Magazines:
Fast Company is the most creative business magazine in the industry today. Through its innovative focus on design and the movers and shakers in the business world, Fast Company offers its readers solutions and strategies unlike any other magazine. Fast Company separates itself from its competitors by striving to practice and promote sustainability. Fast Company is printed on 100% recycled paper and its staff works in a LEED certified green building.

Advertising:
Fast Company's advertisers are as affluent and diverse as its readers. The majority of advertisers are in the technology, financial, media and automotive industries.

Awards:
Fast Company has won numerous awards including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Recently, Fast Company was recognized as the Best Publication in the Delaney Report's quarterly issue. It was also recently named to the prestigious Adweek hot list.


Product Description
Fast Company has been dedicated to covering the latest cutting-edge developments in the business world. With a unique focus on the emergence of design and the ever growing culture of sustainability Fast Company continues to advise and inform its readers in a way unlike any other magazine. It transcends the boundaries of normal business conventions by showcasing organizations and individuals who impact the world through creative ingenuity.


Customer Reviews:   Read 39 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars Let's hope John Byrne can put this back on track   September 30, 2003
Andy Orrock (Dallas, TX)
61 out of 70 found this review helpful

Fast Company started out strong in 1995 as the first magazine that struck at the heart and soul of the frustrated cubicle dweller. Founding editors (and Harvard Business School professors) Allan Webber and William Taylor hit upon a unique niche at that time. Fortune, Forbes and BusinessWeek were solely dedicated (so it seemed at the time) to senior management; Inc. had the pure entrepreneurship angle covered. Fast Company appeared to speak for the rest of us.

Great stuff.

Unfortunately, Fast Company was also the leader in the pack of magazines that lost its way during the whole internet craze. The Industry Standard, of course, was chartered to follow the bubble and famously imploded. But Fast Company essentially chased the same carrot. Each issue arrived extra-chunky with ads and breathless covers that screamed "Dot Com Yourself!"...even well after the bubble had obviously irretrievably broken.

What happened in the interim is that Time-Life got a hold of Business 2.0 and whipped it into fighting trim - it now seriously outclasses Fast Company. Forbes started adding great sections dedicated to entrepreneurship and small businesses. Fortune has done the same. Meanwhile, a punch drunk Fast Company was reduced earlier this year to simply slapping Po Bronson on the cover and re-printing 10 pages from his latest book, "What Should I Do With My Life?" You call that journalism?

Thank goodness someone at owner Gruner+Jahr realized that this wasn't a survivable model. When supermodel-thin 100-page issues start showing up in your mailbox, something's gotta change.

The great news is that G+J hired John Byrne to come on board as Editor in Chief. For more than 15 years, he'd been one of BusinessWeek's finest journalists, with a couple of great books under his belt as well. The impact can be felt already. Now, we're seeing some real journalism. Take the cover story of this month's (Oct. 2003) issue: "CEOs Who Should Lose Their Job," "Can Microsoft Kill All the Bugs?" and "The Brains Behind Howard Dean."

Yes. Now we're talking. Three hot button issues. Let's hear what Fast Company has to say. How can I make these ideas work for me? That's what FC started out like. Looks like Byrne has got the train headed back in the right direction. I added an extra star for that potential.


5 out of 5 stars You can feel the human touch   December 1, 2002
Hafid Saba (Scottsdale, AZ United States)
21 out of 24 found this review helpful

The very first time I picked this up, it was in the height of the dot-com era and I was a travelling IT consultant at the time flying in a sea of other consultants around the country. I really liked what I did, I brought change to new environments. One day, at an airport, I happened to see this with the headline "Your job is change!"...it looked interesting and I've been hooked on it since.

This magazine has a beautiful perspective on life. Not your job, not the new economy, it's about life. It's about how to take your life and filter out what's good about it and build on that quality. Every month, they talk to several individuals in vary varied roles and truly emphasize their subjects personalities as the cause of why they are good at whatever job they do. This is missing from virtually any other business magazine out there. Wired certainly comes close sometimes, but they do their own thing and are very good at it. Fast Company focuses on people's lives in the working world and tries to make you apply the lessons learned to your own life.

This may not make much sense and probably isn't consistent with the other reviews about this magazine but look, go to their website and read some articles (they have every one ever written for free online) and decide for yourself. This magazine can make a NY to LA flight "fly" by. It's layout and design may be progressive for some but try to look past that and focus on what this magazine really is about.

Your life and how to get more out of it.


5 out of 5 stars Much More Than Meets The Eye   May 1, 2002
lasher (Space and the Great Beyond)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful

Fast Company is an amazing magazine. I first stumbled upon its greatness while working out at my local gym. They had it available for reading and I chose it to keep my from going stir crazy on a lifecycle. Well halfway through my routine that day I found myself throughly compelled by this zine, so much so when my 45 minute ride finished up I had to put on another 15 minutes just so I could finish the article I was reading.

One of the greatest things about Fast Company is they really look at the forward edge of business as well as examining the tried and true concepts. Often teaching you that the real truth to success lies somewhere in the middle.

Each article is very interesting and inspiring. Showing us all that we can change no matter what stage of life we are in, or if we feel trapped in our current career. It really is a magaizine for everyman, because its not written for the business elite, but for someone who speaks everyday english. To me, there is nothing worse than an article written with a smattering of ...words thrown in just to make the author seem smart, no worries about that here. Several of their articles have made permanent residence in my memory, that's how good they were.

Fast Company is a definate jewel in this day an age where most magazines go for fluff or tragedy. Here all you get it inspirational people who can motivate anyone to becoming all they knew they could be. If you are looking to change your life, here is a good place to get an idea on how to do it.


5 out of 5 stars A Turnaround In The Making   April 1, 2004
15 out of 16 found this review helpful

Fast Company is back! If you're already a leader or entrepreneur, or if you're aspiring to be one, this is a remarkably intelligent business magazine filled with great ideas and great people. The edge is back!
I subscribed in the early days and gave up on it after the bust. I've recently picked it up again and am happy to report that the magazine is more vital than ever. A recent issue had a wonderfully inspirational story on an entrepreneur who leads a medical device company called Cyberonics that helps people live with epilepsy. And then there's the recent cover on offshoring. Almost every magazine and newspaper has written on this topic, but no one has captured the pain of the white collar people who are losing their jobs--no one, until Fast Company. The magazine put the faces of 32 people who recently lost their jobs on the cover. That gets the point across. Thanks for bringing back a magazine I love!



5 out of 5 stars The best new business magazine   September 5, 2003
R. C. Kopf (Seattle, WA United States)
12 out of 16 found this review helpful

While Fortune is still my all-time favorite, Fast Company is a close number two. It's transcended the .com era that gave it birth and has succeeded by focusing on passion and people. The magazine is well-written and has managed to capture the excitement that many people feel about business and striving to be the best.


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