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entrepreneur.com - Aytekin Tank - Read This Before You Publish Another Useless Startup Blog Post
Read This Before You Publish Another Useless Startup Blog Post
Entrepreneur

Understanding your audience and being genuine are crucial for creating content that resonates and establishes trust. High-quality content with consistent delivery paves the way for brand loyalty, especially among millennial and Gen Z consumers.

wsj.com - Belle Lin - How Staying Small Became AI Startups' Biggest Flex
How Staying Small Became AI Startups' Biggest Flex
Wall Street Journal

Boosted by powerful new artificial-intelligence tools, Silicon Valley startups are running leaner than ever, spawning new benchmarks like revenue-per-employee and even talk of the billion-dollar, one-person company. AI coding products like…

koreatimes.co.kr - Yonhap - Korea eyes creation of 100 defense-focused startups by 2030
Korea eyes creation of 100 defense-focused startups by 2030
The Korea Times

Korea will provide support to nurture 100 defense-focused startups by 2030 in an effort to strengthen the defense industry's growth potential and better adopt cutting-edge technologies, government officials said Monday. As part of the blueprint to…

wsj.com - Angel Au-Yeung - Exclusive | The Fundraising Tactic AI Startups Are Using to Juice Valuations
Exclusive | The Fundraising Tactic AI Startups Are Using to Juice Valuations
Wall Street Journal

AI startup Serval closed a private deal with venture-capital giant Sequoia in December that valued it at less than $400 million. Days later, Serval announced a new milestone from another funding round. This time, its valuation had topped $1…

crunchbase.com - Marlize van Romburgh - 5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: Plant-Based Clothing Dyes, A Shoebox-Picking Robot, And Power Generated On The Moon
5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: Plant-Based Clothing Dyes, A Shoebox-Picking Robot, And Power Generated On The Moon
Crunchbase

This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out our December entry here. A host of interesting, under-the-radar recently funded startups caught our attention…

thehindu.com - Maritime Security importance highlighted at Defence Startups' summit
Maritime Security importance highlighted at Defence Startups' summit
The Hindu

Keeping in mind global maritime security, Vice Admiral Sanjay Bhalla, Flag-Officer-Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command (ENC), stressed the need for more sophisticated startups in the defence sector. Participating as a chief guest at the ICC…

ciol.com - Manisha Sharma - NXP Opens Season 6 Challenge To Back Deep-Tech Startups
NXP Opens Season 6 Challenge To Back Deep-Tech Startups
CIOL

India's deep-tech ecosystem is entering a more practical phase, where access to infrastructure matters as much as ideas. NXP India has opened applications for Season 6 of its Tech Startup Challenge, expanding its effort to support startups working…

refreshmiami.com - Nancy Dahlberg - After the exit: High-tech hustle meets Main Street for this former startup CTO
After the exit: High-tech hustle meets Main Street for this former startup CTO
Refresh Miami

When Career Karma was acquired last year, co-founder Artur Meyster had already determined his next adventure would be all about applying a tech founder's skills to the “real world.” After leaving Silicon Valley for Miami, he found a…

pymnts.com - PYMNTS - Google Exec Warns AI Wrapper Startups Could Be in Trouble
Google Exec Warns AI Wrapper Startups Could Be in Trouble
PYMNTS.com | Breaking News, Trends and Analysis

Darren Mowry, who heads Google's global startup organization, told TechCrunch in an interview published Saturday (Feb. 21) that companies built around LLM wrappers and AI aggregators have their “check engine light” on. Wrappers, the…

indianexpress.com - Trends Desk - Delhi sneaker startup hires a CS graduate. Within a week, he uses 100% discount codes to scam Rs 2 lakh
Delhi sneaker startup hires a CS graduate. Within a week, he uses 100% discount codes to scam Rs 2 lakh
The Indian Express

3 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google A Delhi-based sneaker start-up allegedly suffered a loss of Rs 2 lakh after an employee, within his first week, created multiple full-discount coupons that were allegedly used to order…

iafrica.com - Sean Whitehead - Sygnia CEO Launches Venture Capital Fund to Keep South African AI Startups at Home
Sygnia CEO Launches Venture Capital Fund to Keep South African AI Startups at Home
iAfrica.com

Sygnia founder and CEO Magda Wierzycka is launching a venture capital fund to invest in South African startups developing artificial intelligence tools, as she warns the country risks losing its best engineering talent and intellectual property to…

pilotonline.com - Sandra J. Pennecke - 5 startups chosen for next cohort in downtown Norfolk accelerator
5 startups chosen for next cohort in downtown Norfolk accelerator
The Virginian-Pilot

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 757 Accelerate, a mentor-driven startup acceleration program, announced five companies selected for its next cohort. The nine-week program, which launched on Monday, aims to move businesses from the…

dev.to - Philip McClarence - Best PostgreSQL Monitoring Tools for Startups and Growing Teams in 2026
Best PostgreSQL Monitoring Tools for Startups and Growing Teams in 2026
DEV Community

You shipped your MVP on PostgreSQL. Users are signing up. Queries that ran in 2ms now take 200ms. Your indexes are a mess, vacuum is falling behind, and you have no idea which query is eating your CPU budget. Sound familiar? For startups and small…

arkansasbusiness.com - Chloe McGehee - Law Firms Have a Referral Problem. This Arkansas Startup May Have Solved It
Law Firms Have a Referral Problem. This Arkansas Startup May Have Solved It
Arkansas Business - Business News, Real Estate, Law, Construction

A startup out of Little Rock has attracted more than 800 clients for its software that streamlines the lucrative but often unorganized process of legal referrals between law firms. Typically when firms refer cases to other attorneys, they receive a…

scmp.com - Advertising partner - World's first micro laser-jet pioneer boosts AI-powered manufacturing platforms globally
World's first micro laser-jet pioneer boosts AI-powered manufacturing platforms globally
South China Morning Post

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] The global manufacturing landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. Artificial intelligence-driven production has moved beyond the experimental phase into full-scale…

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