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Star Citizen: The most expensive video game ever made
Chris Roberts has spent seven years and raised nearly $300 million—most of it from average gamers—building Star Citizen. It's on pace to be the costliest video game ever made and—outside of cryptocurrency—the world's largest crowdfunded project. It's still not ready. It may never be
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Why this former JP Morgan exec is chasing old money
While the braying pack of fintech startups chase millennial money, Rhian Horgan has her eyes on her parents' cash
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David Stickler: The 'Steve Jobs of steel'
After his partner dropped dead in his hotel room, globe-trotting financier David Stickler found himself at the helm of a steel mill startup in rural Arkansas. Now he runs the best little high-tech, highly leveraged steelmaker in the nation
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The unlikeliest power couple
Overcoming a slew of life's liabilities, Mark and Robyn Jones built a $1.8 billion insurance empire on territory dominated by mom-and-pop shops
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Making REITs work
Real estate investors Thomas Bohjalian and Jason Yablon find bargains in luxury shopping centres and other unappreciated properties across America
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Personalising cancer
Eric Lefkofsky made it big with five startups—most famously Groupon—by harnessing data. Will it work for diseases?
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The building blocks for a bio-engineered future
Customised organisms will transform the way we manufacture everything from car seats to cellphones. A group of MIT-trained scientists at $1.4 billion synthetic biology startup Ginkgo Bioworks is brewing a revolution
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How the 3D knitted Rothy's shoe became the 'it' thing in women's fashion
In three years, Rothy's saw sales of more than $140 million; now, they must balance expansion with fending off copycats
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Duolingo: Game of tongues
Duolingo has built a $700 million business with an addictive app that claims to teach Spanish, French, Chinese and even High Valyrian
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Forbes Best Under a Billion 2019: The full list of companies
Our annual Best Under A Billion list spotlights 200 small and midsized publicly listed enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region with sales under $1 billion and a track record of strong earnings growth
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Murders, muggings and mayhem: A live stream of 911 data
While social media usually shows us a filtered and sanitised reality, Andrew Frame, the founder of Citizen, is harnessing 911 data to deliver a raw, live feed of crime and chaos directly to you. Is it the future of public safety or just a 21st-century police scanner?