San Francisco native Jason Yu spent $200,000 trying to open an ice cream shop, but the city's bureaucracy beat him

Jason Yu wanted to open a green tea ice cream shop on 20th and Valencia in San Francisco. He spent over $200,000 to realize his project. But his passion and hard work were no match for San Francisco's incomprehensibly bloated bureaucracy, a thorny snarl of red tape that devours human dreams (unless you are very rich and well-connected, of course). — Read the rest