How pirate tactics built an entrepreneurial ecosystem

By Reneé Rock “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.” When Steve Jobs uttered this phrase, he was speaking to the Mac team, which had become a kind of splinter group with its own identity within Apple. Jobs knew what he was up against at fast-growing Apple and intuitively understood that Read More →
Dubroff: Can corporate giants ever be held accountable for misdeeds

The biggest economic question of our time might not be how to deal with inequality, after all. It may be how to deal with corporate giants — and their top execs — when they misbehave. The latest company to come under fire is Wells Fargo, the banking company that is ranked No. 1 or No. Read More →

iFixit’s Wiens wants to help the world repair itself

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Settlement reasonable amid political pressure

Maybe there’s not a major Supreme Court decision lurking in every case that’s in the headlines. That’s our takeaway from the court’s order to litigants in Zubick vs. Burwell, a case involving nonprofits seeking an exemption from the Affordable Care Act’s mandate to provide coverage for contraception. Among those seeking relief was Thomas Aquinas College Read More →

Cal Poly hackathon trains entrepreneurs

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