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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…
Startup founders and recruiters share what gets candidates hired - and what gets them ignored
For many job seekers, startups hold a special allure. There's the chance to help build something from the ground up, gain experience that might take years to acquire at a larger company, and, if things go well, share in the upside through an IPO or…
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…
RTIH proving to be a game-changer for startups, says NTR District Collector
The State government aims to encourage aspiring entrepreneurs, build a robust startup ecosystem and help innovators transform their ideas into successful enterprises, NTR District Collector G. Lakshmisha said. Inaugurating the MSME Utsav at the…
Big Tech companies turn investors as startup partnerships trump acquisitions
Meta's investment in fintech unicorn Cred has reinforced a growing trend among global technology companies that are increasingly choosing strategic investments over outright acquisitions to strengthen their presence in India's fast-growing startup…
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…
Business Insider surveyed dozens of startup founders to understand how coding has changed with AI.
At Alma, a Menlo Ventures-backed AI nutrition coaching app, nearly every line of code is now written by AI. “I'm not exaggerating,” said Rami Alhamad, Alma's cofounder and CEO. “Nearly everything we ship now is…
Ola Kolade is challenging how the insurance industry thinks about automation
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. The Underflow CEO and former investment banker says the industry has spent two decades automating the wrong thing. His AI-powered alternative is turning heads. The commercial…
South Korea plans $6.5B fund for security tech firms
June 26 (Asia Today) -- South Korea plans to create an investment and procurement system aimed at producing homegrown security technology companies comparable to U.S. data analytics company Palantir Technologies, the government said Friday. The…
Chinese AI, chip firms are driving an onshore IPO rebound
China's onshore technology IPOs are on track for their strongest year since 2023 as Beijing seeks to bolster listings of chip and artificial intelligence companies in a push for tech self-reliance amid the country's rivalry with the US. SCROLL TO…
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