By Yogita Patel Startups are famous for setting big, hairy goals. Carmine “Tom” Biscardi wants to catch Sasquatch—and is planning an initial public offering to fund the hunt.Mr. Biscardi and his partners hope to raise as much as $3 million by selling stock in Bigfoot Project Investments. They plan to spend the money making movies and selling DVDs, but are also budgeting $113,805 a year for expeditions to find the beast…
By John Revill ZURICH—A German brewer established in the 1790s has found a 21st-century answer to increasing profitability: robots. Nine years ago, Badische Staatsbrauerei Rothaus AG was struggling with production bottlenecks that weighed on its profits. Workers couldn’t package and crate the company’s beer quickly enough to stock bars and supermarkets, prompting customers to buy other brands…
The World Economic Forum regards growing scarcity of blue gold as the world’s biggest risk. Giulio Boccaletti, managing director at The Nature Conservancy, discusses why with Antony Currie.
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The Harvard Economics Professor says ensuring a smooth slowdown of the Chinese economy is extremely difficult to achieve, and poses the biggest threat to global growth right now.
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Netflix and IBM reported better-than-expected results. Stocks recovered from early losses. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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By Kristi Essick After a 30-year career in sales and marketing at 3M Co., Jim Milligan was laid off at age 55. It was, he says today, the “best thing that could have happened.”“Ten years into my career at 3M, I started making plans to open my own business so I could be my own boss, but it took me another 20 years to actually do it,” says Mr…
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