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fastcompany.com - Ainsley Harris - The hardest startup in America
The hardest startup in America
Fast Company

Augustus Doricko, founder and CEO of cloud-seeding startup Rainmaker, surveys the sky from a sunbaked hillside 5 miles from Utah's Great Salt Lake. On this balmy Sunday afternoon in late September, the lake is calm, but its serenity belies a…

entrepreneur.com - Bidhan Baruah - The 5 Mistakes That Kill Startups
The 5 Mistakes That Kill Startups
Entrepreneur

The startup landscape is full of great ideas that never make it past the first few customers, often because they are imbalanced. Scaling is a systematic game. The startups able to withstand are the ones that align products, people, and processes…

forbes.com - Shimite Obialo - How This Founder Sold Startup For $35 Million In Just 4 Years
How This Founder Sold Startup For $35 Million In Just 4 Years
Forbes

Selling a startup feels elusive to many. For Aaron Spivak, the answer blends relentless execution with an unconventional mindset. Raised in a working-class immigrant family in Toronto, Spivak built his entrepreneurial instincts early—long…

techcrunch.com - Connie Loizos - Stanford's star reporter takes on Silicon Valley's 'money-soaked' startup culture
Stanford's star reporter takes on Silicon Valley's 'money-soaked' startup culture
TechCrunch

Theo Baker is truly an outlier. While journalism as a major has seen shrinking enrollment for years and is even being dropped by some schools entirely, Baker, a senior at Stanford University, has doubled down on old-school investigative reporting…

gizmodo.com - AJ Dellinger - Elon Musk Abandoned the Name 'Twitter,' This Startup Wants to Claim it
Elon Musk Abandoned the Name 'Twitter,' This Startup Wants to Claim it
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

Everyone might still refer to X as Twitter, but for all legal purposes, that name is dead and gone. But if X owner Elon Musk doesn't see the value in the name, a startup called Operation Bluebird apparently does. The company filed a petition this…

businessinsider.com - Sydney Bradley - This AI matchmaking startup says it can find your 'soulmate' - but be prepared to spend $50K
This AI matchmaking startup says it can find your 'soulmate' - but be prepared to spend $50K
Business Insider

Keeper, an AI matchmaking startup, thinks it can help deliver your 'soulmate' to you. And if it can't, it'll let you know. 'We're saying we actually know who could be your soulmate or not,' Jake Kozloski, Keeper's CEO, told Business Insider. 'We're…

businessinsider.com - Alistair Barr - Startups love to boast about 'ARR.' AI could bring this to an abrupt end.
Startups love to boast about 'ARR.' AI could bring this to an abrupt end.
Business Insider

Startups and other tech companies love to boast about ' annual recurring revenue.' AI could make this metric obsolete, though. According to a new report by consultant AlixPartners, investors are on the cusp of abandoning the traditional…

9to5mac.com - Ben Lovejoy - Startup wants to relaunch Twitter, as Reddit launches verification
Startup wants to relaunch Twitter, as Reddit launches verification
9to5Mac

Deciding to abandon one of the world's best-known brands was one of a number of imaginative decisions made by Elon Musk when he purchased Twitter and renamed it X. Now a startup wants to revive the name, arguing that X corporation no longer has any…

businessinsider.com - Geoff Weiss - These 16 AI startup founders have collectively raised over $100M - and they're all under 27
These 16 AI startup founders have collectively raised over $100M - and they're all under 27
Business Insider

Zach Yadegari, 18, sold his first video gaming app at age 16 for almost $100,000 and used the proceeds to fund Cal AI, an AI-powered nutrition app he co-founded. He first discovered an interest in coding at a coding camp his parents sent him to…

thestar.com.my - Exclusive-AI software startup Harness valued at $5.5 billion in latest financing round
Exclusive-AI software startup Harness valued at $5.5 billion in latest financing round
The Star Online

Dec 11 (Reuters) - Harness, an AI software development startup, has raised $200 million in a Goldman Sachs-led fundraising round that values it at $5.5 billion, the company said on Thursday. The financing marks a 49% jump in the firm's valuation…

businessinsider.com - Rebecca Torrence - This startup is launching an AI personal health assistant that'll face off with Big Tech from Verily to OpenAI
This startup is launching an AI personal health assistant that'll face off with Big Tech from Verily to OpenAI
Business Insider

Included Health is rolling out a new AI tool that could pit it against Big Tech's latest health bets. The healthcare startup has launched an AI-powered personal health assistant, Business Insider has learned exclusively. The tech draws on patients'…

cnbc.com - Jordan Novet - Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
CNBC

Harness is raising $200 million in a round led by Goldman Sachs, and is planning a $40 million tender offer to cash out longtime employees. The software delivery startup co-founded by Jyoti Bansal now brings in more revenue than AppDynamics at the…

fortune.com - Carlos Garcia - Exclusive: Crypto startup LI.FI raises $29 million for cross-blockchain price discovery tool
Exclusive: Crypto startup LI.FI raises $29 million for cross-blockchain price discovery tool
Fortune

When businesses decide to engage with crypto, they quickly discover the landscape is fragmented across numerous blockchains. If they want to move assets between different chains, they must often rely on a technology called bridging that can prove…

masslive.com - Scott Kirsner | SKirsner@masslive.com - The most promising startups from Techstars Boston's latest batch
The most promising startups from Techstars Boston's latest batch
masslive

The demo day put on by Techstars Boston used to be a good way to get a glimpse of Boston's most promising startups. The program launched in 2009, and originally, nearly every startup was based in the Boston area — or at least had moved here…

thehindu.com - The Hindu Bureau - Startup ideas must meet global standards: SVU RUSA CEO
Startup ideas must meet global standards: SVU RUSA CEO
The Hindu

Sri Venkateswara University Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (SVU RUSA) CEO Vamsi Krishna Rayala advised students to shape startup ideas to meet international standards at the ‘Capacity Building Programme on Entrepreneurship & Startup…

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