If Israel were a U.S. state, it would rank as the third largest for venture capital, having raised $1.5 billion in 2004. Our columnist shares some of his experiences from a recent Illinois trade mission he took to Israel....
Wal-Mart is America's largest company with $280 billion in annual sales and 1.3 million employees. It is also highly controversial. Economists love it. Labor advocates and environmentalists hate it. In this e-zine, we examine the challenge of providing health care benefits for workers through the...
With the help of technology, it's never been easier or less expensive to start an international company. Within 30 days, it’s possible for anyone with a good idea and a modest savings account to start their own business. ...
We pull the plugs, cut the cords, and can the cables as we move deeper into our highly mobile, always-connected, convenience-centered lives. But for all the freedom and mobility, we are nowhere without energy to power the laptops, mobile phones, PDAs, BlackBerries and the like....
For most entrepreneurs, failure is a milestone on the road to success. They actually celebrated their failures for what those mistakes taught them – and used the experience to move to the next idea....
A good IT system is rarely just that if it wants to be of value to the organization. Like the furniture design objects from the Arts and Crafts period of the late 1800s, which an art critic called "philosophy in physical form," IT systems are...
After Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed a bill that would have banned cloning of human embryonic stem cells for research purposes, the legislative director of Wisconsin’s Right to Life movement made a remark that seemed straight out of a science fiction movie. ...
Google is disrupting business as usual with its clever innovations. While the consumer may enjoy the new free tools that are simple and easy to use, businesses are being affected and need to plan accordingly. It's time to think about how you are going to...
The smell of armpits, dirty laundry, and soiled diapers are all now highly sought-after scents, as companies, pursuing smelly-branding have all lined up, excited for having exclusive rights to aromas which they can use to bring odor to their lifeless products, peachy-smelling-bras or chocolate-smelling-underpants and...
In the golden haze surrounding the mystic city of Tunisia, a small group of elite merchants of the information age will once again try to figure out the future of the Internet. The entire argument is over who will control the "naming system," the basic...