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Nolan Bushnell


Nolan Bushnell is Back in the Game

Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, employed Steve Jobs, built a bunch of robots, and pretty much invented the whole cocky-young-entrepreneurial-genius pose. He's also taken some knocks. But the question you always want to ask Nolan Bushnell is, What's next?

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Recent Articles about Nolan Bushnell

The Real Father Of Video Games

Your story on Nolan Bushnell ("When the Magic Goes," October 1984) was great, and it has me looking forward to the next exciting episode. But it left me w...  Read more

Pizza Time Theatre Files To Reorganize

Pizza Time Theatre Inc., one of the most visible creations of video game wizard Nolan Bushnell, has filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Feder...  Read more

When The Magic Goes

The adoring crowd of 300 engineers executives, and reporters fell silent. They had gathered this Friday night in the bright new site of Sente Technologies...  Read more

Product Fallout

"Shake the tree and something is bound to fall out" was the inspiration, such as it is, behind Nolan Bushnell's 1980 funding of Axlon Inc. The tree happen...  Read more

The Pied Piper Of Sunnyvale

Two bearded tinkerers with electronic gadgets getting together to discuss the future is not, by Silicon Valley standards, extraordinary. So when entrepren...  Read more

Another Launch

Richard Henry Dana Jr. couldn't have asked for a better setup: an innocent from Utah hanging around the Golden Gate Bridge and gazing out to sea, wondenng...  Read more

The Ticker

Ross Perot and his charts are back. Sixteen years after his failed presidential bid, the founder of EDS has launched a w...  Read more

A Rogues' Gallery Of California Swashbucklers

They were the high fliers of high tech: aggressive, creative, and supremely egotistical. The companies they founded made them rich and famous. But today, tho...  Read more

E-Mail in the Pines

New product allows portable computers to exchange E-mail with virtually any other U.S. computer site.  Read more

Those Were The Days

Remember when bankruptcy meant you were broke? When John De Lorean was just a GM exec with a dream? When you thought a silicon chip was a new kind of snack f...  Read more

Mail

Great Expectations Thanks for the incredibly insightful interview with Jim Collins ["Read more

Will The Robot Be Father To The Industry?

The first born-at-Catalyst company that will be nudged over the side of the nest on the assumption that it will fly is Androbot Inc., scheduled for evicti...  Read more

Credit Cards Forced to Play Nice and the Facebook IPO

The government has your back (unless you're a credit card company). Serious talks are underway within the Obama administration to set up a Read more

The Best Business Advisors? Your Family

Entrepreneurs have an astonishing capacity to absorb information. But where they get that information often makes the difference between success and failure....  View slideshow

What Business Would You Start?

Nearly 50 business luminaries, ranging from H. Ross Perot to Ed McMahon, are asked what businesses to start.  Read more

Getting Perspective

A recent news item on Inc.com asked the question, "Are your employees afraid t...  Read more

When Venture Capital Was an Adventure

A new documentary film takes a look at the lives of the original rat pack of venture capitalists including Tom Perkins, Arthur Rock, and Don Valentine.  Read more

Silicon Valley's Silver Lining

Today Silicon Valley represents a microcosm of the American Dream. In the Valley, we can become what we desire to be: a millionaire or the best circuit de...  Read more

Computer TV

Aapps Corp. will soon market an add-on device that will turn a portion of a Macintosh computer into a TV screen.  Read more

Chuck E. Cheese's 1982 Annual Report for Kids is out. Published by Nolan Bushnell's Pizza Time Theatre Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., it has the essentials of...  Read more

Five Traits that VCs Love

101 motivational quotes to keep spirits high . With much of the country enveloped in messy winter storms, not to mention the ever-present flurry of ...  Read more

Accounting For Growth

Accounting firms, large and small, are battling for the business of small business. What do these firms really have to offer?  Read more

Inc. Online Exclusives: September 2009

What's Online: September 2009 1.Check Out the Inc. 5000 Trophy Case ...  Read more

Hot, Hotter, Hottest

It would be too bad if Donald Kingsborough isn't a leading candidate for "hottest entrepreneur in America," because we're pretty sure he could handle the ...  Read more

The Power Lunch

* Lee Iacocca ate two dozen raw clams on the half shell at his first interview for the top spot at Chrysler Corp. * John C. D. Bruno, owner of The P...  Read more

How Would You Sell Custom Stuffed Animals?

Four entrepreneurs offer marketing strategies to a start-up that sells custom toys.  Read more

States Report: Turning The Tables

We were halfway through a breakfast interview in Baton Rouge, La., when Kevin Couhig the assistant secretary of industry and commerce for Louisiana, solem...  Read more

The Ultimate Status Symbol

If you have ever known the thrill of trading Marvelous Marv Throneberry, Mudcat Grant, and Chico Carrasquel for Harmon Killebrew and the 1959 Washington S...  Read more

The Grub-and-games Strategy Still Thrives

The food-and-fun strategy that Pizza Time Theatre Inc. pioneered still has a following in the restaurant business, even though Pizza Time itself filed for...  Read more

Name-calling

What the name of your company and products says about you and your business.  Read more

Good Move, Monty

Experts said computer Scrabble couldn't be done, but programmers from the Iowa cornfields have packaged a fast-thinking, tough-minded, hand-held little playe...  Read more

Wall Street Goes 'hollywood"

Last year, we told you investors were looking for proven management and a history of solid performance. Well, they changed their minds.  Read more

Desperately Seeking Leadership

Are you a real leader or (shudder) only a manager?  Read more

How to Create a Company Philosophy

As head of a small business, your values bleed into the company culture whether you intend them to or not. Here's how to mindfully craft a company philosophy.  Read more

The Apple Tree

How Apple Computer contributed to the founding of more than 100 companies by its employees.  Read more

Is It Easier Than Ever To Start A Business?

It may look easier, what with all the advice and money and services available. But it may be harder than ever to succeed.  Read more

The Ricardo Montalban Of High Tech

Few entrepreneurs launch their businesses dressed in a leotard and a crown, but that is exactly what Ron Gordon was wearing when his latest venture, Club ...  Read more

A $30-million Company That Never Got Off The Ground

Everybody wanted to see Advent Corp. lead us into the video revolution. But each of the company's leaders pushed it in a new direction.  Read more

The Greening Of The Guard

The Red Guard generation enlisted by Mao to eradicate all vestiges of capitalism is now in the vanguard of China's entrepreneurial class.  Read more

Steven Jobs Of Apple Computer: The Missionary Of Micros

The lights dim in John Hancock Hall. As a slide tape synchs in, the music begins to swell: loud, taunchy, pulse-pumping rock dressed in the rhythms of the...  Read more

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