The next generation of entrepreneurs literally have the world at their fingertips. Here’s why you want to employ them. After years of launching companies, I’ve often wondered how today’s entrepreneurs create, structure, and grow a small business. Finally, I took a 16-month tour to find out. Last week I attended the G20 entrepreneurship summit in […]

From going out too much to having too many founders, here’s what you’ve been doing wrong. When you write and read about start-ups all day long, you see founders make a lot of mistakes. As an observer of and dabbler in start-ups, I’ve kept track of all the things I’d try to avoid as an […]

Experts weigh in on everything from when should you try to get away to how to keep the heat from ruining your gadgets. This Friday summer officially got underway but you’ve probably been daydreaming about vacation season from long before that. And, as a business owner, also probably fretting about it. Like everyone else, entrepreneurs […]

From Sky Sapience’s Hovercraft to the Scanadu Scout, here’s a rundown of the coolest gadgets turning our sci-fi fantasies into reality. Sci-fi authors and filmmakers are visionaries, creating gadgets for a whole new world. There’s the flying DeLorean from Back to the Future and the stealth helicopter that tracked Katniss Everdeen’s every move in Hunger […]

A Baltimore start-up tackles blindness with new innovative treatments. Warby Parker isn’t the only start-up disrupting the vision space. GrayBug, a company that recently won the Invest Maryland Challenge in Baltimore, Maryland, is revolutionizing drug delivery and treatments for the eye. GrayBug started after three professors at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University–Justin […]

Rather than rely on someone else’s software, the eyeglass maker created its own. In Warby Parker’s world, style isn’t the only thing that shouldn’t be imitated. Software shouldn’t be either. When the venture-backed start-up realized none of the 30 existing point-of-sale vendors would serve its purposes, it set out to develop its own, reports Jason […]

Two start-ups attempt to change the relationship between government and entrepreneurs. On June 24, the Knight Foundation announced the winners to its Knight News Challenge on Open Gov. Launched in February, the challenge aimed to encourage innovators to come up with solutions that would enable journalists to do their jobs better and empower citizens to […]

His company was thriving. Then he joined a startup accelerator. Now he’s going bust. Is start-up culture to blame? Entrepreneurs love to talk about success. Failure, not so much. Indeed, when the dreaded f-word is mentioned, it’s almost always invoked as something to be proud of, a badge of honor. Perhaps that’s the appeal of […]

After one year with Google Fiber, Kansas City is learning that it may take more than just superfast Internet to spur start-up creation. Kansas City is famous for its barbecue, not its start-up scene. That’s why it came as quite a surprise when Google selected it to become the pilot city for its Google Fiber […]

The founder of Justin’s explains how his company shook up the nut butter category. In 2003, Justin Gold began peddling his homemade organic nut butters at a farmers’ market in Boulder, Colorado. With just $25,000 in seed money raised from family members, Gold planned to build a strong local following for his company, Justin’s, and […]