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forbes.com - Dmitrii Khasanov - Investor Strategies For Dealing With Startup Failure
Investor Strategies For Dealing With Startup Failure
Forbes

Dmitrii Khasanov is an angel investor, digital marketing expert and founder of Arrow Stars. ​On average, there are more than 5 million businesses started every year in the U.S. alone—clearly, the startup environment is very active.

forbes.com - Expert Panel - How New Founders Can Manage Startup Stress
How New Founders Can Manage Startup Stress
Forbes

Starting and running a business isn't for the faint of heart. New founders have to manage money, win customers, build teams, make decisions with limited information, and keep moving even when the next step isn't obvious. That pressure can be…

forbes.com - Expert Panel - Tech Startup Leaders: Key Signs It's Time To Consider An Exit
Tech Startup Leaders: Key Signs It's Time To Consider An Exit
Forbes

For many tech startup leaders, the decision to pursue an exit isn't about reaching a single milestone. It's about recognizing when market conditions, growth patterns and competitive dynamics have shifted in ways that could affect the company's…

forbes.com - Krish Ramineni - AI Made Building Startups Easy: Winning Customers Is The New Challenge
AI Made Building Startups Easy: Winning Customers Is The New Challenge
Forbes

Krish Ramineni is CEO & Co-founder at Fireflies.ai, an AI teammate for meetings used by people at 75% of Fortune 500 companies. A decade ago, starting a software company was expensive. You needed engineers, cloud hosting, infrastructure, design and…

techcrunch.com - Marina Temkin - FTC gives Musk the OK to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh
FTC gives Musk the OK to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh
TechCrunch

Elon Musk is eyeing an acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers last year developing hardware for fast data center communications. The potential acquisition, which was revealed in a Federal Trade…

bloomberg.com - Gabrielle Coppola - Startups and VCs Come to Detroit to Pitch a Robot Future
Startups and VCs Come to Detroit to Pitch a Robot Future
Bloomberg

Gabrielle Coppola, who covers autos for Bloomberg News in Detroit, recently attended a conference with more of a Silicon Valley influence. Will the focus on “hard tech” change US manufacturing? Plus: Icebreakers are meant to…

forbes.com - Tanya Benedicto Klich - Route Is Addressing The Unglam Side Of Running A DTC Lifestyle Startup: Returns
Route Is Addressing The Unglam Side Of Running A DTC Lifestyle Startup: Returns
Forbes

Route returns is a platform that focuses on post-purchase experience for e-commerce brands. For years, direct-to-consumer brands poured their energy into the moment before checkout. Beautiful websites, premium packaging, and influencer campaigns…

bloomberg.com - Allegra Stratton - Can Burnham Succeed In Scaling UK Startups?
Can Burnham Succeed In Scaling UK Startups?
Bloomberg

This article is for subscribers only. It says something about how frequently prime ministers change that after a week that began with Keir Starmer's resignation, other stories already dominate the headlines — from the stock market selloff to…

techcrunch.com - Kirsten Korosec - Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that
Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that
TechCrunch

Take a stroll around San Francisco and it won't take long to spot an empty autonomous vehicle cruising the city's streets, waiting to be hailed by a rider or heading off to a distant depot to be charged and cleaned. These deadhead miles — an…

businessinsider.com - Erin Greenawald - I left Big Law, danced on TikTok, and built a $1.3 million startup law firm
I left Big Law, danced on TikTok, and built a $1.3 million startup law firm
Business Insider

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kristina Subbotina, the founder and CEO of Lexsy, an AI-powered law firm for startups. It has been edited for length and clarity. I never planned to start a law firm. I'd been a corporate…

techcrunch.com - Julie Bort - Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn't steal an open source product
Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn't steal an open source product
TechCrunch

Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark, maker of open source data room software, accused Corgi of stealing its software and passing it off as its own. Corgi…

crunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo - 6 Startup Investors On What It Will Take To Fund More Black Founders
6 Startup Investors On What It Will Take To Fund More Black Founders
Crunchbase

Crunchbase data tells us Black startup founders still receive only a tiny sliver of venture funding. What the numbers don't tell us is why investors continue to overlook those entrepreneurs, and more importantly, how the industry can improve the…

spacenews.com - Jason Rainbow - Starlink veterans launch startup to broaden megaconstellation ownership
Starlink veterans launch startup to broaden megaconstellation ownership
SpaceNews: The space industry's source

TAMPA, Fla. — Former SpaceX engineers who helped build and scale Starlink have launched a startup aiming to deliver megaconstellations for governments and companies seeking more control over space-based infrastructure. Led by former SpaceX…

crn.com - Kyle Alspach - The 10 Hottest Cybersecurity Startups Of 2026 (So Far)
The 10 Hottest Cybersecurity Startups Of 2026 (So Far)
CRN

With LLM-powered technologies continuing to shake up the business world, demand from customers is surging for new tools in key emerging categories from agentic-driven security operations and AI security to non-human identity protection and advanced…

cyprus-mail.com - Space startups seek insurance for orbital AI data centers
Space startups seek insurance for orbital AI data centers
Cyprus Mail

Space companies have spoken with insurers about coverage for orbital AI data centers, a sign ‌of early progress for an experimental industry backed by Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX.O) and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. The concept of data center…

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