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 ... Read story
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 ... Read story
"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 story
Two bearded tinkerers with electronic gadgets getting together to discuss the future is not, by Silicon Valley standards, extraordinary. So when entrepren... Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
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 story
Ross Perot and his charts are back. Sixteen years after his failed presidential bid, the founder of EDS has launched a w... Read story
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 story
New product allows portable computers to exchange E-mail with virtually any other U.S. computer site. Read story
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 story
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 story
Great Expectations Thanks for the incredibly insightful interview with Jim Collins ["Read story
Nearly 50 business luminaries, ranging from H. Ross Perot to Ed McMahon, are asked what businesses to start. Read story
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 story
Aapps Corp. will soon market an add-on device that will turn a portion of a Macintosh computer into a TV screen. Read story
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 story
Accounting firms, large and small, are battling for the business of small business. What do these firms really have to offer? Read story
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What's Online: September 2009 1.Check Out the Inc. 5000 ... Read story
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 story
* 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 story
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 story
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 story
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 story
What the name of your company and products says about you and your business. Read story
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 story
Last year, we told you investors were looking for proven management and a history of solid performance. Well, they changed their minds. Read story
Are you a real leader or (shudder) only a manager? Read story
It may look easier, what with all the advice and money and services available. But it may be harder than ever to succeed. Read story
How Apple Computer contributed to the founding of more than 100 companies by its employees. Read story
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 story
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 story
Most people who mash in the front of their cars expect them to be in the garage for a month. James Mullen gets his fixed in 28 minutes. It's not that as f... Read story
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 story
Maybe it's how well you grow that matters, not how fast. Read story
The Red Guard generation enlisted by Mao to eradicate all vestiges of capitalism is now in the vanguard of China's entrepreneurial class. Read story
Reviews of six new business books. Subjects include the early days at Apple Computer, ways to avoid a crisis, and Mom's business advice. Plus: a Xerox scient... Read story
"The man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds." -- Mark Twain Read story
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