What's the best way to deal with uncertainty? Well, you can do a lot worse than study successful entrepreneurs. There is nothing more uncertain that starting a new business. When people write about entrepreneurs, they invariably focus on their behavior: what Howard Schultz or Michael Dell did in building their companies. If you take that ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 14:53

Bill Maher makes an important point in today?s Times: outrage has become increasingly ubiquitous in America?s media culture, and thus increasingly devalued: When did we get it in our heads that we have the right to never hear anything we don't like? In the last year, we've been shocked and appalled by the unbelievable insensitivity ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 16:56

? Of all the championship-winning high school basketball coaches this season, Jim Justice, at 6-feet-7 and 350 pounds, may be the biggest. He?s certainly the wealthiest. Justice, in the same week he was ranked 1,015th on the Forbes World Billionaires list, with a net worth of $1.2 billion, coached Greenbrier East (Lewisburg, W.Va.) to its ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 17:55

In a scathing letter, released in a regulatory filing Wednesday, Loeb trashed current leadership and detailed a high-stakes confrontation he had with Yahoo chairman Ray Bostock and then-board member Yang on the phone in September.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 16:26

co-founder is donating $300 million of his $14 billion fortune in his eponymous Allen Institute for Brain Science to fund new projects to map and observe the human brain and, in Allen?s words, "to one day understand the essence of what makes us human." That brings the total amount Allen has invested in the Institute ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:25

Forbes began the authoritative pursuit of the world's billionaires 25 years ago. Our first cut yielded 140 names. This year we've counted an all-time high: 1,226 billionaires worth a record $4.6 trillion.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 23:25

Science and entrepreneurship are both acts of experimentation. Both involve taking risks to reach a positive end, changing course when needed, and attempting the never-been-done.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 17:26

I?m not sure what to make of BioWare co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka?s apology to Mass Effect fans for the mass disappointment surrounding the finale of the third game. The angry fan response was ?painful? to hear, Muzyka writes. ?Our first instinct is to defend our work and point to the high ratings offered by critics ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 18:26

? It appears that Bioware and Electronic Arts are continuing the damage control over the protest and flood internet hate that has erupted surrounding??players? deep dissatisfaction with the ending to Mass Effect 3. First there was a message from Bioware employee Chris Priestly, then one from Mass Effect director Casey Hudson. Now, Bioware co-founder Dr. ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 17:55

Electronic Arts and BioWare continue to come under attack from some fans and journalists for Mass Effect 3. Controversy has surrounded everything from (at first) the game's inclusion of same-sex male relationships to the game's Day One DLC to its ending. Casey Hudson, executive producer of the Mass Effect franchise, addressed some of those concerns ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 21:24