A native son of western Michigan, Rick DeVos believes if business can let go of some control and give people big opportunities to test their ideas, they’ll achieve astonishing results. Rick DeVos is a 29-year-old entrepreneur who wants to jump-start the economy in his home state of Michigan. But don’t file him away between developers of lakeside casinos , film production facilitators ,
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Feed SubscriptionVenture For America Wants To Create 100,000 New Jobs By Matching College Grads With Startups
Andrew Yang founded Venture for America to tackle unemployment, one aspiring entrepreneur at a time. Andrew Yang wants to create jobs. Specifically, 100,000 U.S
Read More »Tough Cookies: Why Corporate America Needs Girl Scouts
In 2011, only 20% of leaders in private companies worldwide are women. Meanwhile, heavily male-dominated industries like banking and utilities face the toughest challenges in a generation
Read More »Tough Cookies: Why Corporate America Needs Girl Scouts
In 2011, only 20% of leaders in private companies worldwide are women. Meanwhile, heavily male-dominated industries like banking and utilities face the toughest challenges in a generation
Read More »California’s Government 2.0: How Local Governments Are Using Technology To Become More Accessible
Enough with long lines at the DMV and other horrors of local government. It's time for cities to drag themselves into the 21st century. Here are the steps some are taking
Read More »Austin’s Power: The Texas Capital Is A Model For Clean Power Adoption
How do you get people to pay more for clean power?
Read More »Brutal Winter Predicted for U.S.
The AccuWeather.com Long-Range Forecasting Team is predicting another brutally cold and snowy winter for a large part of the country, thanks in large part to La Ni
Read More »Free Sneakers And Gym Memberships: Just Perks Or Smart Policy?
The Republic of Tea invests heavily in its employees well being. CEO Ron Rubin says it's not just about lowering health care costs, but about the company living its own values
Read More »The Trillion-Dollar Storm: Will Hurricanes Drive Us Off The Coasts?
As storms become more powerful and more damaging, will living on the coasts become simply impossible? Insurance companies might try to price you out before we find out.
Read More »An Accelerator Grows Up
Two years ago, when I first wrote about accelerator funds, they were something of a curiosity. Give a team of smart engineers enough money—usually between $15,000 and $50,000—to keep them in ramen and air mattresses, mentor them, and then put them in front of investors.
Read More »Typhoon Nears Japan, 1.3 million Told to Evacuate
TOKYO (Reuters) - More than 1.3 million people were advised to evacuate on Tuesday as typhoon Roke approached Japan, threatening the industrial city of Nagoya with heavy rain and landslides.
Read More »A Web-Fomented Protest On Wall Street Is Louder Online Than Off
A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical
Read More »A Web-Fomented Protest On Wall Street Is Louder Online Than Off
A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical?
Read More »Tokiwa T. Smith: Exposing an encouraging urban youth in science and math
This month’s issue of Scientific American Magazine is a special edition about Cities:
Read More »The Worst Commutes Around The World
IBM's Commuter Pain study calculates the places where getting to work causes the most mental anguish. Traffic is down because of high gas prices, but the pain is still there.
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