Peter Thiel is many things, but what he is not is an adherent of the status quo. To most people, his fame is either associated with his wealth (he’s a venture capitalist) or with his politics (he is a libertarian who leans conservative) but for anyone who has taken a moment to look deeper, it’s pretty clear that those are arguably the two least interesting things about him.

Growth Study about Canadian Longboard company Landyachtz. Read how even you can grow a business with a passion product with the help of the community, product innovation, and right marketing channel.

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Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.

How a group of ex-Apple employees went from insanely great to greatly insane, accidentally inspiring a generation in the process

We preview 10 e-commerce fulfillment services that can do much more than simply help e-retailers pack and ship their products, offering features like inventory control, merchandise insurance, and even customer support.

Better books than you or I will ever write, were written without the aid of a laptop. In fact, they were written without the aid of a computer at all. Pens and paper ruled the day. Humanity landed on the moon without Retina screens, believe me. Governments were toppled without Tom Cruise and satellites, albums were produced without Pro Tools and the best artists in the world didn’t need an iPad Pro.

Jeff Bezos is now the richest person of all time. That should put an Amazon smile on his face. The Amazon CEO's net worth reached $105.1 billion Monday, according to Bloomberg's billionaire tracker. That eclipses the record previously held by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Forbes, the other major tracker of the net worth of the world's richest, put Bezos' net worth at a mere $104.4 billion.

Creativity is often defined as the ability to come up with new and useful ideas. Like intelligence, it can be considered a trait that everyone—not just creative “geniuses” like Picasso and Steve Jobs—possesses in some capacity. It’s not just your ability to draw a picture or design a product. We all need to think creatively in our daily lives, whether it’s figuring out how to make dinner using leftovers or fashioning a Halloween costume out of clothes in your closet.

From crush to courtship to ghosting, an NZ Herald investigation tracks New Zealand’s relationship with a Facebook billionaire.

Some small and local vendors who work with Whole Foods say new fees are damaging their business and they're considering cutting ties.

If you asked me why I gravitated to startups rather than work in a large company I would have answered at various times: “I want to be my own boss.” “I love risk.” “I want flexible work hours.” “I want to work on tough problems that matter.” “I have a vision and want to see it through.” “I saw a better opportunity and grabbed it. …” It never crossed my mind that I gravitated to startups because I thought more of my abilities than the value a large company would put on them. At least not consciously. But that’s the conclusion of a provocative research paper, Asymmetric Information and Entrepreneurship, that explains a new theory...

The most desirable career of the 21st century, with numerous advantages over other fast-growing occupations such as hospice carer and rickshaw driver, is being a billionaire. Prior to the incorporation of US Steel in 1901, the world didn’t have a single billion-dollar company, much less a billion-dollar individual. Today, more people than ever are becoming billionaires – 2,000 and counting have made the great leap upward, according to the “global wealth team” at Forbes. And the US’s hottest billionaire factory is located in the most hyped yet least understood swath of suburban sprawl in the world: Silicon Valley.

Listen, If there is anything I could wish on you, more than my work ethic, or my energy, or my charisma, it would be the mindset and perspective of how good life really is. I for one, was born in the former Soviet Union, with no internet and no capitalism to save me.

Most people think of entrepreneurship as a young person's game. But the highest-growth firms in the US come from entrepreneurs who are 45 years old.

How one seemingly benign concept has been used as cover for all kinds of self-serving proposals.

Being an artist, being a creative, being an entrepreneur, it’s about fighting with yourself to keep playing the game when it all feels hopeless.It’s about making one more gamble, and every time, setting your sights on a win, instead of leaving the table.

— and What Happens to the Ones Who Listen.

Samuel Beckett’s famous words have a nice ring to them. And for a long time, they’ve permeated the wider circles of entrepreneurship as a kind of Silicon Valley mantra. Failure is necessary. Failure is humbling. Failure is, almost — trendy? At least on the outside. Backstage, we scramble hysterically to avoid it at all costs. After all, businesses rely on consistency, predictability and success — the opposite of failure. And let’s be clear. Taking a glib, cavalier attitude toward failure is dangerous.

One of the most hotly talked about topics in tech right now is starting an indie business. What is an indie business? It's one where you, and maybe a co-founder, attempt to start a business with no investor funding or large external influence. It goes by many names: boot-strapped, solo-founded, self-funded, indie-hackers...etc... and it's pretty hot right now!

Who is paying $12 million for an abandoned town? We found out. By Michael Waters.

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This would be great for my Tea Shop, but I believe everyone else has ideas what they would do with a beautiful place like that :)

Tony Hsieh describes exactly how he set up Zappos.com's hiring process to avoid bad hiring decisions.

Jon Bon Jovi has opened a new "pay-what-you-can" restaurant in Red Bank, New Jersey intended to encourage volunteer work in the area.

Do you ever wish you were just a number on a social network, and didn’t have to reveal your true identity to the people you chat with online? Meet Social Number, where all your social interactions can take place among numbers.

In an in-depth interview, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom discusses the investigation against his now-defunct file-storage site, his possible extradition to the US, the future of Internet freedoms and his latest project Mega with RT’s Andrew Blake.

The digital pinboard site raised $200 million in a new round of funding.

Harvard leads all universities with some 52 billionaire alumni with a collective fortune of $205 billion.

A monthly subscription for a monthly affliction — and a multi-billion dollar market.

I am alone in my apartment with a man I’ve only recently met, and I realize: if I were a woman, I’d probably have my clothes off by now. “Well, I hope so,” Logan says, making himself comfortable. I hand my guest a glass of bourbon, join him on the sofa.

Last spring and summer, Kathryn Minshew, co-founder of The Muse and one of Inc's "15 Women to Watch in Tech", was trying to raise money for the female-focused job site that was growing 30...

Attention, dumpster-divers with the benefit of Wi-Fi access: There's a website out there that might just help you thrive.

For two months last fall, Eric Simons secretly took up residence inside the Internet giant's Palo Alto, Calif., campus, eating free food, enjoying gym access, and building a startup in the process.

On January 26, 2008, a 30-year-old part-time entrepreneur named Mike Merrill decided to sell himself on the open market. He divided himself into 100,000 shares and set an initial public offering price of $1 a share. Over the next 10 days, 12 of his friends and acquaintances bought 929 shares, and Merrill ended up with a handful of extra cash