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 ...  Read story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

E-Mail in the Pines

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

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 story

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 story

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

What Business Would You Start?

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

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 story

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 story

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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 For Growth

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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Inc. Online Exclusives: September 2009

What's Online: September 2009 1.Check Out the Inc. 5000 ...  Read story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

Name-calling

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

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 story

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 story

Desperately Seeking Leadership

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

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 story

The Apple Tree

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

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 story

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 story

Oh The Right Track

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

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 story

Growing Steady

Maybe it's how well you grow that matters, not how fast.  Read story

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 story

Silicon Valley Confidential

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 Spirit Of Independence; The Valley

"The man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds." -- Mark Twain  Read story

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