Puerto Rico: A Case Study in Tax Incentives and Acceleration to Create a Startup Ecosystem

Puerto Rico is known to most as either a sun-strewn island or a bankrupt paradise but it would like to be known in the future as a startup hub. Like other US territories and municipalities, such as Miami, Puerto Rico has mixed tax incentives and direct investment to...

Discovery CEO Zaslav: We need to disrupt ourselves to be ‘relevant on all platforms’

Media companies need to “disrupt” themselves to be rewarded by shareholders and become relevant on all platforms, Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav said Tuesday. Zaslav, a former executive at CNBC parent NBCUniversal, spoke with CNBC in a...

Hit by Lightning: Tales From Survivors

Hit by Lightning: Tales From Survivors By LIZETTE ALVAREZ July 18, 2017 By LIZETTE ALVAREZ July 18, 2017 PONCE INLET, Fla. — It was a drizzly, dark January morning but James Church grabbed his fishing pole and tackle box anyway, hopped in his...