June 14, 2014 | Boston Globe

It’s been 10 years since a Harvard dropout founded a little website for college students. But Mark Zuckerberg’s most lasting achievement probably won’t be Facebook. It makes sense that Greater Boston would be at the center of it all, with more than 250,000 college students and a burgeoning tech scene.

June 17, 2014 | Boston Globe

In high schools around the country, more departing seniors are electing to study computer science, mathematics, engineering, and science in college than graduates of just a few years ago. That trend is especially pronounced in Medfield, where 27 percent of seniors who declared college majors have chosen a high-tech track, up from 19 percent for the class of 2007.

June 11, 2014 | Entrepreneur

As with any fledgling industry moving towards maturity, more and more data has started to appear that makes answering these questions a bit easier. One recent mountain of data on the crowdfunding world that just arrived contains a plethora of information

June 12, 2014 | Wall Street Journal

Everyone's heard the call to "buy local." Now a growing movement is urging people to take grass-roots support even further—and invest local. The idea: Instead of putting their investment dollars in big, distant companies, people should bet on the shop around the corner, by giving it a loan or buying a stake in it through a special stock offering. Small businesses, for their part, should lobby their neighbors and customers for support if banks don't come through with financing.