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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

Spring of my junior year, I effectively dropped out of college. I’d started working on a startup, raised some money, wanted to be able to pursue it full time, but college was in the way. I knew the heroic myths of other college dropouts pursuing starting their own companies and figured that seemed like the “thing to do” in the situation. College had never “fit” for me. I hated lectures, realized grades were meaningless, was already getting good at learning things on my own, and wanted to have the freedom to teach myself marketing among other skills.

So you turn 50 this year, right? Or you just turned 50. It’s so interesting to me that people can’t project or understand where the market’s moving, aka, in this scenario that “we,” as 40–50–60 year-olds are going to live dramatically longer and healthier than your parents’ and grandparents’ generation.

It doesn’t matter how good your strategy is, if you’re not skilled at what you do, that strategy won’t take you very far.

“Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” I’m not sure who said that. Like all quotes that we don’t know the origin of, it’s attributed to Confucius — but that’s probably inaccurate. In any case it’s truly one of the worst cliches I’ve ever come across, and one that causes people no end of grief. It’s pretty popular, and quoting it when discussing life choices has been in vogue for a while.

Is blogging still a business strategy worth investing in? This survey reveals how blogging performed as a marketing tactic in 2017.

Estonia is expected to get a 100-to-one-euro return on investment for its e-Residency program, which lets anybody start a business from afar. It is even planning to launch ‘estcoins,’ its own cryptocurrency.

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.

The world we live in today is heavily dictated by the attention economy. There are far more stimuli in our average environment than there has ever been at any point in history. Our senses are constantly bombarded with noise. This is particularly prominent on the internet, where the amount of information and data produced continues to grow exponentially, but the digital reality is far from the only place where this is true.

Robert Farrigton started his blog in 2009 as a side hustle and worked on it during nights and weekends. Thanks to the blog, he was able to get out of his student loan debt in 3 years, buy a house, and eventually quit his day job at 33.

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.

Maybe it’s time to let the reader decide their truth.

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.

The Ultimate Guide To Managing Your Energy

Fewer people are taking the entrepreneurial plunge. That’s not a good sign.

Struggling on Instagram? You're probably missing these simple tips...

Everyone wants to become successful but nobody wants to fail. If someone was to ask me to list some of the most important keys to success on how to become successful in life, in that list would be ‘Be ready to fail’ and that point would be pretty high up in the list too.

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.