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Human Capital Contracts Could Revolutionize the Way We Borrow Money
According to their adherents, these contracts represent an end run around the entrenched and often predatory lending structures that had flimflammed so many young people into bankruptcy.
This Giant Vending Machine Gives Cupcakes to Indians Who 'Like' the Government
It might only benefit the company that made it. But hey, cupcakes.
Peter Thiel Thinks There's Too Many People Like Him, Not Enough Like Elon Musk
When's the last time Thiel had a truly "big idea," anyway?
Rich Millennials on Trains Won't Save America
The Millennial Trains Project puts young entrepreneurs on a train and asks them to develop projects in each community they pass through. It's a dumb idea.
The Internet Turned Porn Star Jelena Jensen into an Entrepreneur
The 21st century is a grim time to screw on camera for money. To stay profitable, porn star Jelena Jensen has taken control of her professional digital presence.
Can a Smartphone App Fix America’s Gun-Control Problem?
Unlike most entrepreneurs who make millions of dollars inventing pointless apps like Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur named Mark B. Barron wants to use smartphones to solve America's gun violence problem.
Jon Taffer Is America’s Greatest Poet of Drunkenness and Failure
One balmy Wednesday last December, Jon Taffer stood in the dining room of Scoreboard 2, a dive in Norwalk, California. “I want to start by telling you I don’t give a shit about these cameras!” he said. “Saving bars is my life.”
What I Learned from Hearing Pitbull Speak About Innovation at a Tech Conference
In which we strive to be the person who doesn’t understand the word lose, only the word learn.
Welcome to MeetAtTheAirport.Com, the Worst Idea on the Internet
When you're at the airport, don't you want to meet the other stressed-out travelers around you? No. But if you did, MeetAtTheAirport.com would surely provide you with a useful service, right? Wrong again.
Cowboy Capitalists
In 2012, entrepreneur Ian Cox nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless...
Cowboy Capitalists
In 2012, entrepreneur Ian Cox nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless...
Cowboy Capitalists
In 2012, entrepreneur Ian Cox nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless...