What happens when a successfully funded Kickstarter product fails to launch?

The family feud Steve Aoki left behind.

Prospecting for gold is still a live trade in America, if you’re willing to walk deep into the desert with a hand-drawn map.

The man behind the craze for fermented alcoholic tea likes to tell the story of his own conception.

In Florida, sinker cypress harvesters have to dodge the law while working their trade.

Even the dumpster divers of America are becoming tech-savvy, well-earning entrepreneurs.

On the coming age of domestic drones.

The theme-park chain where kids learn to pilot a plane, pay taxes, and pretend to be adults.

Cheryl Shuman has been a coupon queen, an optician to the stars and the plaintiff in a lawsuit against Steven Segal. Now she’s the face of the high-end weed market.

What does it take for heroin to grab hold in the small, remote towns of America? Like any business, it starts with one man and an entrepreneurial dream.

What do we give up when we become freedom-seeking, self-determining, autonomous entrepreneurs? A lot, actually.

The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.

Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?

The scientists at Beyond Meat have concocted a plant-protein-based performance burger that delivers the juicy flavor and texture of beef with none of the dietary and environmental downsides.

On a 16-year-old Silicon Valley wunderkind.

Is Vemma an energy drink, the new Amway or a pyramid scheme taking advantage of college kids? Maybe all three.

A profile of the highest-paid female executive in America, who was born male.

On Stewart Butterfield, the founder of Flickr and now Slack, a wildly popular, difficult-to-describe messaging service that has 38,000 paying subscribers just a few months after launching.

On a $40 million raise and a fired co-founder.

Dov Charney’s struggle to keep control of American Apparel.

The 50,000-word story of Microsoft’s antitrust case.

Tom Monaghan started Domino’s. Mike Ilitch started Little Caesers. Both became billionaires, both live in Detroit, both are now over 75. They’ve made very different decisions about how to spend their fortunes.

The “subtly radical” open-source plant movement.

Inside the collapse of TelexFree, an alleged $1 billion pyramid scheme that duped investors worldwide.