Guy in Viral Facebook Post Threatens Kid’s Lemonade Stand. Is That Just ‘Sad and Pathetic’–or Much Worse?

Last year, I surveyed more than 100 successful entrepreneurs about their childhoods. The single experience most had in common? They worked as kids, and ran little businesses–like lemonade stands. (Just ask my Inc.com colleague, Gary Vaynerchuk, who says he did...

It’s not bitcoin or ethereum: This digital currency rose 3,977% in the first half of 2017

Ripple, a San Francisco-based digital currency start-up, recorded $30 million worth of transactions in the second quarter of 2017 as 25 new exchanges listed its token, XRP. XRP finished the quarter priced at $0.263, up by 1,159 percent from the previous quarter and...

North Korea’s 2016 economic growth climbs to 17-year high despite sanctions targeting nuclear program

North Korea’s economy grew at its fastest pace in 17 years in 2016, South Korea’s central bank said on Friday, despite the isolated country facing international sanctions aimed at curbing its defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons.Gross domestic product (GDP)...