Global Game
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Acton School, In Texas, Turns Graduates into Entrepreneurs
Austin’s tiny Acton School features business-hardened teachers, real-world challenges and a murderous study schedule, all aligned to turning battle-ready graduates into startup successes
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How America's Web 1.0 Companies Survived
Some dinosaurs from Web 1.0 that you probably thought were long dead have surged back onto our annual list of America's Best Small Companies. Here's how they survived-and thrived
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Shutterstock: Becoming The World's Largest Image Broker
Jon Oringer turned a side project into a $2.5 billion photo phenomenon. Shutterstock is out to become the world's biggest image broker
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Walmart Heir Alice Walton Is America's Richest Art Collector
The black sheep of the four Walmart heirs, Alice Walton has finally found her purpose: Bringing art to the Ozarks—and ticking off the East Coast elite
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How Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri Got Back at Oracle
Larry Ellison booted Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri from their company. They returned the favour by creating the biggest threat to Oracle in years—and the fastest-growing fortune on the entire Forbes 400
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Shodan: A Google for Hackers
Shodan is a new tool used by the good and bad guys to find all the devices now connected to the internet: Traffic lights, power plants and even your baby monitor
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The Dealmakers at Warburg Pincus
Warburg Pincus hasn’t morphed into a financial supermarket like the giants of private equity. Perhaps that’s why its dealmakers top our ranking of private equity’s biggest hitters
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The Dread Pirate Roberts: Internet's Multimillionaire Druglord
Increasingly sophisticated anonymity tools have created a bustling online narcotics market and everything that goes with it: Turf wars, illegal guns, attacks on competitors—and one philosophy-spewing, multimillionaire drug lord: The Dread Pirate Roberts
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US Opinion Poll Firm Gallup Battles Cut-Rate Rivals
Jim Clifton built Gallup into the classiest of surveyors. But there was one question he forgot to ask: How do you fight the innovator’s dilemma?
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Social Network Path is Attracting Investors and Users
Left for dead, Dave Morin’s private social network is getting a second life