October 28, 2012

  • Superpowering the Silicon Prairie

    (Guest post by Philip Rosedale.) I recently posted on the Coffee & Power blog about Silicon Valley’s amazing lead in startups, and our analysis of why it is both so strong and growing. The summary is that Silicon Valley has more tech people per capita (and per square mile) than anywhere else in the world,…

  • An excerpt from RAYGUN’s “The Midwest: God’s Gift to Planet Earth”

    Reports of our economic demise have been greatly exaggerated | History can be a crafty fox. It’s misleading because it likes phases and doesn’t often spend time looking back at how silly its old hairstyles once were. In the 1970s, history was wearing bell-bottoms and snorting coke at Studio 54. It opted for hammer pants…