How venture capital can harm your startup The venture capital world is often at odds with the goals of young startups — and in some cases, it can lead to destruction.
Life in the Silicon Prairie: Tech’s great migration to the Midwest Startups and investors are increasingly foregoing Silicon Valley for the Silicon Prairie — and with good reason.
The failed quest to bring smells to the internet At the height of the dot-com bubble, Joel Bellenson raised $20m to bring smell to the internet. But he forgot to ask an important question: Did anyone actually want that?
The Beanie Baby Bubble of ’99 Two decades ago, we fought, trampled, and even killed each other over little sacks of beans. Today, we realize how stupid it all was — but our behavior hasn’t changed.
How the Million Dollar Homepage kid became the $250m app man Alex Tew struck gold at the age of 21, on his first try. Now, he's done it again — but not before learning some hard lessons along the way.
The 30-year-old retirees A growing number of young tech workers are expediting the path to financial independence by living frugally and following the "4% rule."
The botched Coca-Cola heist of 2006 Twelve years ago, a disgruntled Coca-Cola employee tried to sell top-secret Coke documents to Pepsi. The rest reads like something out of a bad spy novel.
Sears screwed over a small-time wrench inventor — but he fought back Dan Brown invented an award-winning tool that sold millions of units. Then he got in bed with the wrong hardware store.
How the sharing economy makes us trust complete strangers The sharing economy relies on the moral righteousness of strangers. And we deeply trust it — even when everything goes to hell.
The rise and demise of the AAirpass, American Airlines’ $250k lifetime ticket In the 1980s, American Airlines sold an unlimited, first-class ticket for life. But they didn't account for super-travelers like Jacques Vroom and Steve Rothstein.
A US city just banned crypto mining for the first time The ban will place an 18-month moratorium on all new crypto mining operations in Plattsburgh, NY.
Japan and South Korea are embroiled in a heated dispute over… strawberries How an Olympic curler reignited a decades-old fight between Japan and South Korea over fruit copyrights.
