Commonly, when we think of the word startup, we think of those "two guys in a garage" tinkering, inventing, and changing the world. Big companies, by contrast, are supposedly sclerotic, bureaucratic, and doomed to fail at innovation. I believe this narrative is false, and that companies -- even large, established...

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down. We're in summer. One easy way to tell: notice all the startup experts and prophets that have sprung up in the last two years...

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and -- most importantly -- creating jobs.