What will the top eight political battles be that tech companies will fight in 2019? This question is answered in a recent Fortune article written by Bradley Tusk of Tusk…
The Center for American Entrepreneurship recently released an interactive online report called, “The Rise of the Startup City.” Aaron Renn provides a summary at Urbanophile.com: The main message of the report…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has one of the best podcasts around, Masters of Scale. He recently interviewed Peter Thiel (transcript) about their shared experiences at PayPal and how an organization…
When I read my colleague Kari Travis‘s article “Government Regulations Rude Wake-Up Call for Startup” in Carolina Journal this week, I thought of this ad. I guess no Wright Brothers,…
The Wall Street Journal reports that: A new non-partisan study on entrepreneurship gives some credence to the tech industry’s stance that American innovation benefits from robust immigration. The study from the…
Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller discovers an interesting addition among the chorus singing the song of regulatory overreach. A month after leaving his post as President Obama’s Ebola czar,…
As North Carolina lawmakers consider bills to permit crowdfunding, the latest issue of Fortune magazine features Jennifer Alsever’s article on crowdfunding successes. Just 30 days after launching a Kickstarter campaign…
When it comes to encouraging job growth, government might want to avoid the type of overregulation that drives new businesses out of business. It’s a lesson Raleigh city officials could…
North Carolina’s economic development policy has focused on the former (Dell, Google, etc.) at the expense of the latter (high tax rates, overregulation, etc.). Kevin D. Williamson‘s latest National Review…
In this provocative essay Paul Graham argues convincingly that it does not. Graham runs an investment company that puts money behind startup firms. His company has a lot of experience,…
The CIA invests in start-ups.