As the founder and CEO of a West Michigan plastics manufacturer employing a thousand people, Fred Keller lives by rules. There are those he must follow, passed down by big-letter entities such as OSHA, the DOL, and the EPA. There are others—like ISO, the voluntary international certification of quality management—that he and other manufacturers follow.
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Guy Kawasaki became an inspiration to a generation of young entrepreneurs when he wrote the book The Art of the Start, which has become practically required reading for young Silicon Valley types. Recently released was Kawasaki's latest book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions
Read More »With Microsoft’s Patent Battle, Innovation Goes On Trial
Many of our Most Innovative Companies appear to want to weaken an element of patent law. But don't patents protect innovation?
Read More »Defending the Body Corporate: Appeals Court Puts Gene Patents on the Stand
The latest chapter in the legal battle over gene patenting unfolded this week during oral arguments (MP3) made in a Washington, D.C., courtroom. A year after a somewhat surprising victory in a New York federal district court, a group of plaintiffs led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) now hopes the U.S.
Read More »How My Alma Mater Is Killing My Start-up
Two years ago , I had a million-dollar idea. Or at least, a couple-hundred-thousand-dollar idea
Read More »Case Study: Battling a Media (and Legal) Firestorm
Greg Tseng, CEO of the social networking website Tagged, had just landed in Manila, on Saturday, June 6, 2009, to kick off a long-awaited vacation. As soon as he dragged his jet-lagged body up to his hotel room, though, an onslaught of phone calls, e-mails, and text messages from his co-founder, Johann Schleier-Smith, and other Tagged employees began: Something was seriously wrong with the site. In the 24 hours since Tseng had left his office in San Francisco, thousands of complaints had been filed by users—who claimed that Tagged's new registration process had somehow tricked them into spamming all of the contacts in their e-mail address books
Read More »London’s Black Cabs Go Green
A fleet should be ready by the London Olympics in 2012. Zero-emission cabs are officially on their way to London.
Read More »Video: Brain damaged mom can see her triplets, judge rules
Paraplegic mother Abbie Dorn has been in the middle of a visitation battle with ex-husband Dan Dorn after he has refused to let her see their triplets after brain damage sustained during delivery of the triplets. Terry McCarthy reports with more and Russ Mitchell spoke with Legal Analyst Lisa Bloom and Psychologist Dr
Read More »Unknown Geniuses Behind 10 Of The Most Useful Inventions
When we hear the word "inventor," we think of people like Thomas Edison or the Wright Brothers. Some of the coolest inventors, though, are people you probably don't know. They didn't invent planes or light bulbs; these people created products used so often, you probably didn't even realize they were inventions
Read More »Video: The legality of health care reform
Katie Couric and CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford discuss the legal battles surrounding health care reform one year after it was first signed into law.
Read More »Marijuana Business Potential Unearthed in Groundbreaking Study [Infographic]
The first ever study of its kind by See Change Strategy takes a deep dive into medical pot, a growth industry. Here's a free sample of the data.
Read More »Video: Teen overdoses on legal designer drug
Erica Hill speaks with Dr. Jennifer Ashton about the dangers of the legal hallucinogenic designer drug "2-C-E."
Read More »Should Your Business Be an LLC or an S Corp?
You've finally decided to start a business of your own. Or maybe you have been running one as a sole proprietor, even moonlighting on the side, and have decided you need to protect your personal assets from those involved with your growing business. You might even decide there could be a tax break in it for you
Read More »Does Use of Google Apps Discriminate Against the Blind?
Google's tools don't easily translate into synthesized speech or Braille. Now the National Federation of the Blind has issued a federal complaint with the Justice Department, alleging that university use of Google Apps for Education amounts to discrimination.
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