Fantasy Game Uses Real-Life Mind Control

05-27-2013 • technewsdaily.com

What does an indie video game developer have to do to get noticed on Kickstarter?

Lyft, A Year-Old Startup That Helps Strangers Share Car Rides

05-23-2013 • Business Insider

Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it lead $60 million investment round in a startup called Lyft.

Back to the Roots – Mushrooms and Aquaponics

05-22-2013 • communities.washingtontimes.com

Some of the most unusual products at Natural Products Expo West were at the Back to the Roots booth. On display were living oyster mushrooms, thriving in a specially designed recycled cardboard box filled with used coffee grounds.

Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be Easier Than Hailing a Taxi

05-14-2013 • Wired.com

Imagine you’re walking down a city street and you realize you need a ride.

BeerSci: A Pint That Fits In Your Pocket

05-11-2013 • http://www.popsci.com, By Berne Broudy

Anywhere beer

The 10-Year-Old Inventor and the World’s Cutest Patent Drawing

05-08-2013 • Wired.com

As a lawyer who works in Silicon Valley and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Len Nannarone has helped his fair share of tech companies.

22 Facts That Prove That The Bottom 90 Percent Of America Is Systematically Getting Poorer

05-04-2013 • theeconomiccollapseblog.com

The mainstream media is not telling you this, but the truth is that most Americans are steadily getting poorer.

They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percentage Of Self-Employed Americans Is At A Record Low

05-04-2013 • theeconomiccollapseblog.com

The percentage of Americans that are working for themselves has never been lower in the history of the United States.

Grow Your Greens From Recycled Coffee Grounds

05-03-2013 • industryedge.nationalhardwareshow.com

Back to the Roots takes the farm inside your home. With the company’s prepackaged materials, you can grow food, from oregano to mushrooms, using recycled coffee grounds.

13 Money Secrets From The Amish

05-01-2013 • Business Insider

The number of Amish in the U.S. has doubled since the 1990s.

Meet Justin Hartfield, The Entrepreneur Who Wants To Be America's First Marijuana Industrialist

04-21-2013 • Business Insider

The accelerating legalization of marijuana has brought about an entirely new, legal industry around the drug.

Google Is Close To Acquiring Personalized News Startup Wavii

04-19-2013 • Business Insider

Google is close to acquiring news reading startup Wavii, according to a source.

Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money

04-04-2013 • Wired.com

The idea seems so obvious once it occurs to you:

Sanjay Dastoor: A skateboard, with a boost

04-02-2013 • ted.com

Imagine an electric vehicle that can get you to work -- or anywhere in a six-mile radius -- quickly, without traffic frustrations or gasoline. Now imagine you can pick it up and carry it with you.

The Man Who 'Owns' The Moon Has Made Serious Bank

03-26-2013 • Business Insider

Dennis Hope has made millions of dollars selling acres of real estate on the moon. As far as he's concerned, it's his to sell.

Yahoo Buys A Mobile News Startup Founded By A 15-Year-Old For $30 Million

03-25-2013 • Business Insider

Yahoo announced today that it has acquired Summly, a mobile news aggregation app from British entrepreneur Nick D'Aloisio.

What 19 Extremely Successful People Were Doing At Age 25

03-23-2013 • Business Insider

Some people know what they want to do from an early age and focus on it relentlessly.

Five Opportunities for Mobile Computing

03-22-2013 • Technologyreview.com

Thousands of startup companies see mobile computing as their chance to strike it big. We picked five.

ENTREPRENEUR: Soon Everyone Will Be Able To Afford A 'LifeEdited' Apartment

03-22-2013 • Business Insider

Graham Hill, founder of minimalist design firm LifeEdited, recieved a lot of attention for his recent Op-Ed in The New York Times encouraging readers to pare down their lives and rid themselves of the chains of consumerism.

10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter

03-18-2013 • Wired.com

PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments

A New Business Could Change The Way Men Shave

03-15-2013 • Business Insider

It was an ill-fated trip to the drug store that convinced Jeff Raider that there had to be better alternatives for shaving.

Years in the Making, Promising Rechargeable Metal-Air Batteries Head to Market

03-14-2013 • Technologyreview.com

A Scottsdale, Arizona-based startup is now selling batteries that promise to be a cheaper alternative for grid backup.

I Learned Every Secret Of Leadership By Playing In A Rock Band

03-12-2013 • Business Insider

Back in my mid-20s, I moved to California to enroll in business school at The Leland Stanford Junior University.

A Photo Service That Understands the Contents of Your Images

03-08-2013 • Technologyreview.com

Everpix organizes photos after analyzing them with software that can detect things such as animals, outdoor scenes, and people.

A Startup That Scores Job Seekers, Whether They Know It or Not

03-08-2013 • Technologyreview.com

To help recruiters, a startup called Gild has created a database of four million software developers and rated their work. Could other fields be next?