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entrepreneur.com - Anshuman Yadav - Waiting to Hire This Position Can Save Startups Time and Money
Waiting to Hire This Position Can Save Startups Time and Money
Entrepreneur

Hiring a fractional CFO too early often results in misaligned expectations and a high cost with minimal impact on the startup's trajectory. Seed-stage startups usually face issues with financial clarity rather than requiring high-level judgment…

wsj.com - Yusuf Khan - Exclusive | Carbon Removal Startup Terradot Acquires Eion as Market Consolidates
Exclusive | Carbon Removal Startup Terradot Acquires Eion as Market Consolidates
Wall Street Journal

Google-backed carbon-removal startup Terradot is acquiring Eion, a similar but smaller venture, in a sign the market for companies that focus on technical solutions to decarbonization is consolidating. Both companies are developers of what is known…

bloomberg.com - Anuchit Nguyen - GIC-Backed Thai Startup Weighs IPO in Hong Kong or New York
GIC-Backed Thai Startup Weighs IPO in Hong Kong or New York
Bloomberg

Line Man Wongnai, a Thai technology startup backed by Singapore's GIC Pte, is considering an initial public offering abroad to tap stronger investor demand and secure a higher valuation, a move that would signal a lack of confidence in the local…

fastcompany.com - Sarah Bregel - Why Novo Nordisk stock fell 7% after a telehealth startup's announcement
Why Novo Nordisk stock fell 7% after a telehealth startup's announcement
Fast Company

Novo Nordisk's stock dove 7% on Thursday just after an announcement from a key competitor. The drop came just after telehealth company Hims & Hers announced it will offer a new version of the treatment, made from the same active ingredient…

pcmag.com - Rob Pegoraro - Space Startups to NASA: Hurry Up and Pick Someone to Build ISS Replacement
Space Startups to NASA: Hurry Up and Pick Someone to Build ISS Replacement
PCMag

DOHA, Qatar–Two American space startups came to a stage almost 7,000 miles from Washington with an unusual message for policymakers there: Please pick a company soon to build a replacement for the International Space Station, even if it's…

entrepreneur.com - Mital Makadia - How to Protect Your Startup and Close Bigger Deals
How to Protect Your Startup and Close Bigger Deals
Entrepreneur

Pilot contracts enable startups to demonstrate their platforms at a reduced cost and risk, proving reliability and performance to potential enterprise clients. Through pilot programs, enterprises can test new technologies with minimal commitment…

thehindu.com - Centre outlines definition for 'deep tech' startup
Centre outlines definition for 'deep tech' startup
The Hindu

The Centre has given an official definition for what constitutes a ‘deep tech' startup in India. A buzzword until now, the ‘deep tech' startup, according to a gazette notification by the Department for Promotion of Industry and…

lesswrong.com - Biotech Startup Stats - LessWrong
Biotech Startup Stats - LessWrong
Transformative AI

One thing Claude Code has really made too cheap to meter is data analysis. If you have a question that statistics could shed light on, and there's relevant public data online, you can now get your answer frictionlessly. One thing I'd been wondering…

pcmag.com - Michael Kan - Data Center Space Race Heats Up As Startup Requests 88,000 Satellites
Data Center Space Race Heats Up As Startup Requests 88,000 Satellites
PCMag

A race to secure regulatory approval for data centers in space is emerging, with a US startup called Starcloud submitting a proposal to the FCC for a constellation of up to 88,000 satellites—shortly after SpaceX filed plans to launch up to…

cyprus-mail.com - Cyprus startups gain ground in Europe's tech landscape, EU-Startups says
Cyprus startups gain ground in Europe's tech landscape, EU-Startups says
Cyprus Mail

Cyprus' startup ecosystem continues to develop its own place within Europe's innovation landscape, according to EU-Startups' Olga Codina, who highlighted ten companies founded since 2021 as a reflection of the island's emerging tech maturity.

uploadvr.com - David Heaney - Apple Acquired 'Silent Speech' Startup Q.ai
Apple Acquired 'Silent Speech' Startup Q.ai
UploadVR

Apple acquired Q.ai, reportedly for $1.6 billion, a startup working on converting 'silent speech' into text. The technology could be crucial for AR glasses. If the $1.6 billion value widely reported by mainstream news outlets such as Reuters is…

makeuseof.com - Gavin Phillips - 5 things you should never disable at Windows startup (unless you want a broken PC)
5 things you should never disable at Windows startup (unless you want a broken PC)
MakeUseOf

Apps adding themselves to Startup on Windows never fail to irritate me. Like, yes, I've installed the program, but that doesn't mean I want you to launch each and every time I turn my PC on. There are some exceptions to that rule, of course. Apps…

cityam.com - Saskia Koopman - China ties force co-founder exit at UK AI startup Fractile
China ties force co-founder exit at UK AI startup Fractile
City AM

Co-founder of British AI chip startup Fractile left the company after concerns were raised internally about his links to China amid growing scrutiny of national security risks across the UK's strategic tech sector. Yuhang Song, Fractile's former…

wsj.com - Dow Jones Newswires Staff - U.S. Futures Fall, Bitcoin Stays Low as Riskoff Sentiment Continues
U.S. Futures Fall, Bitcoin Stays Low as Riskoff Sentiment Continues
Wall Street Journal

U.S. futures pointed to another day of losses for stocks as fears over the scale of artificial-intelligence spending, as well as disruption from AI startups, weighed on sentiment. Amazon followed Alphabet in announcing capital-spending plans well…

wsj.com - Bradley Olson - The Week Anthropic Tanked the Market and Pulled Ahead of Its Rivals
The Week Anthropic Tanked the Market and Pulled Ahead of Its Rivals
Wall Street Journal

Anthropic once appeared as an also-ran in the chaotic race for AI supremacy. This week, the sophistication of the startup's products upended the stock market. A simple set of industry-specific add-ons to its Claude product, including one that…

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