As casual reading, the Presidential Memorandum “Accelerating Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Federal Research in …
start-ups
What’s the Best Place in the World to Start a Company?
A professor at Yale School of Management offers a new argument about geography and the success of a start-up venture
A New Sports Drink Scores By Winning Over Soccer Fans (And Soccer Moms)
Among soccer-crazed Seattleites, the hottest ticket in town isn’t at a Sounders game when LA Galaxy comes to town. It’s a “Copa Golazo” in a converted BMW dealership with a 75-foot by 25-foot indoor soccer field …
Can a Small Start-Up Still Make a Splash at SXSW? Not If Jay-Z Is In Town
I’ll never know what Jay-Z has against me or my new Internet venture. All I know is that after months (okay, weeks) of planning a SxSW launch party for our triple-awesome new journal of food, war and travel called Roads & …
Tebowing.com Founder Begins His Off-Season
With praying quarterback Tim Tebow and his Denver Broncos eliminated from the NFL playoffs this past weekend, Jared Kleinstein, 24, the founder of the Web site Tebowing.com and its parent company Tebowing LLC, finally has a …
2012: The Year Of The Entrepreneur?
While the year of the protester has just passed, 2012 looks to be the year of the entrepreneur.
Online Eyeglass Company Offers Much-Needed Alternative
Consumers spend a lot of time worrying — or at least complaining — about those prices that seem to keep climbing ever-higher: gasoline, health insurance, college tuition. So it’s a pleasure to stumble, every once in a …
I’m Unemployed and I Want to Start My Own Business
Dear TIME Moneyland,
I’ve always had a passion for animals. My first job was working at a local holistic pet food center, and I loved it. In college, I studied equine science because I thought I wanted to be a trainer. But I …
A Day Late and a Dollar Short? IPOs On Ice Until Market Improves
With Wall Street in chaos, IPO candidates are forced to play a waiting game.
New Business Creates Most Jobs
Small businesses are the economy’s great job creators. Or are they? Last year a group of economists digging through new Census data, including a relatively rare measure of firm age, concluded that it’s actually young companies, especially start-ups, that drive the effect normally attributed to small firms. At least that was the …
