Some strange and fantastic things are happening in the world of retail entrepreneurship. Granted, I'm the last person who should be testifying to what's new and interesting in any part of retail, what with generally treating store visits as guerilla expeditions -- in, get something, out -- but this is...

My first cell phone was a Motorola StarTAC. An early flip-phone (and now geek chic on Ebay), the StarTAC is long gone, and so, suddenly, is Motorola, with more companies to follow.

What happened? What happened is Apple's DeathStar.

To understand why, it helps to take a quick look at...

Government has discovered the wonders of entrepreneurship. The good part is that we can hardly have a conversation about job creation or economic growth in this country without repeated governmental paeans to entrepreneurs and their importance; the bad part is that government often forgets how fragile the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem...

Soon-to-be college and university graduates know that the economy has improved immensely from a year ago, but the job market is still a mess. Some who don't get orthodox jobs this spring are going to opt out by traveling the world, some will opt out by going to grad school,...

Co-authored by Brad Feld

The U.S. Supreme Court just blinked. In the landmark Bilski v. Kappos decision announced yesterday, the Court had a chance to right a patent wrong. It didn't. Instead, in a cautious and internally contradictory decision, it further fuzzified the mess that is the U.S. patent system...