John F. Ince

Many environmentalists subscribe to a view known as "peak oil" -- a term used to describe an inflection point in history in which half of the oil that exists in the world has been used. From the moment peak oil has been reached a fossil fuel-based economy will enter a...

Yesterday Arianna Huffington published an important article for HuffPost. It's an article that I have been hoping somebody would write for a long, long time. In her post entitled GPS for the Soul: A Killer App for Better Living, she wrote: "I was asked to 'gaze into the crystal ball'...

In 2009, when Kevin Gao left the consulting firm, McKinsey, he decided to share some of his knowledge about the world of consulting in the form of an eBook. Soon he was a self-published author ... a very special kind of published author -- one who was actually making money,...

When I started writing for Upside magazine in late 1999, my first assignment was a story about an obscure search startup with a weird name based in Mountain View, Calif. At that time, few people beyond the Stanford campus or Silicon Valley had ever heard of Google. With frugal founders...

While an undergraduate at Harvard in the late sixties, I lived in an student house that achieved a reputation as a hotbed of radical activity during the campus protests. One of those activists was a senator's son by the name of Al Gore. Gore had to keep a low profile...

VCs and angel investors are inundated with business plans. Most plans just go onto the heap. Let's assume that the entrepreneur has done a little homework to find the VCs and angel investors who are interested in their space. From that pool, how can an investor recognize the startups and...

Washington DC -- The political theatre surrounding debt talks took a strange twist this weekend at the White House when Republicans stormed out of the meeting, accusing President Obama of having the cooties.

With both the broad outlines and specifics of the debt ceiling negotiations having been...

Over a career as a financial journalist that spans decades, I've interviewed a hundreds of investors and entrepreneurs in high tech. I frequently ask them what's the most important factor in their investment decisions. The answer is so predictable, I've become skeptical about it, something to the effect, "We bet...