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Investor Strategies For Dealing With Startup Failure
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.
How New Founders Can Manage Startup Stress
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…
Tech Startup Leaders: Key Signs It's Time To Consider An Exit
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…
AI Made Building Startups Easy: Winning Customers Is The New Challenge
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…
FTC gives Musk the OK to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh
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…
Startups and VCs Come to Detroit to Pitch a Robot Future
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…
Route Is Addressing The Unglam Side Of Running A DTC Lifestyle Startup: Returns
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…
Can Burnham Succeed In Scaling UK Startups?
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…
Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that
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…
I left Big Law, danced on TikTok, and built a $1.3 million startup law firm
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…
Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn't steal an open source product
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…
6 Startup Investors On What It Will Take To Fund More Black Founders
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…
Starlink veterans launch startup to broaden megaconstellation ownership
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…
The 10 Hottest Cybersecurity Startups Of 2026 (So Far)
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…
Space startups seek insurance for orbital AI data centers
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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