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Cash Flow Management Tightens as Buyers Push Back
A Mercury survey of 1,500 founders found 90% saw customer behavior change this year, with longer payment cycles and more pricing pushback. The post Cash Flow…
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Godot Engine Business Grows as W4 Raises $18M
W4 Games raised $18 million led by Tencent to build enterprise tooling around the open-source Godot Engine and expand across Asia. The post Godot Engine…
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Tech IPO Market Gets Its First Real Test
Oura began its roadshow targeting a $15.62 billion fully diluted valuation, and bankers are treating the deal as a read on fall listing demand. The post Tech…
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Small Business Health Insurance Gets an AI Broker
Corridor launched with $25 million led by Bain Capital Ventures, pairing licensed advisors with AI agents to serve employers with 1 to 500 people. The post…
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Series A Funding: 5 Lessons From a Profitable Raise
Sprive closed a $10 million round while already cash flow positive. Five series A funding lessons founders can use before their own raise. The post Series A…
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ChatGPT Ads Open a New Front for Small Brands
Quartile became a technology partner supporting advertising in ChatGPT, opening conversational placements to brands through workflows they already use. The…
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Agentic Commerce Fight: Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse
Amazon cut Meta's Muse assistant off from shopping on Amazon.com twelve days after launch, citing undisclosed access and credential handling. The post Agentic…
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Customer Acquisition Tracking Separates Growing Firms
A PYMNTS Intelligence survey of 526 small businesses found firms with formal customer acquisition tracking were more than twice as likely to report revenue…
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Humanoid Robot Market Reality: 5 Lessons for Founders
The International Federation of Robotics counted about 7,000 humanoid robots sold worldwide in 2025. Five lessons founders should take from the gap between…
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Teofimo Lopez’s Rise: From A Brooklyn Kid to a Florida-Based Amateur Boxer to World Titles and Takeover Promotions
From Brooklyn to South Florida Teofimo Lopez was born in Brooklyn, New York, but his boxing foundation was built after his family moved to South Florida. As a…
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M&A Trends Point to a Recovery Only at the Top
BCG's M&A Report 2026 shows deal value up 15% year over year, with the gains concentrated in megadeals while smaller transactions stay below normal levels…
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Happy Lemon Celebrates 20 Years of Tea Innovation and Global Growth
From pioneering Salted Cheese Tea to expanding around the world, Happy Lemon celebrates two decades of innovation while looking toward its next chapter of…
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Flexible Warehouse Space: 5 Moves for Product Founders
WareSpace just spent $36.5 million converting two buildings into small-bay units. Five moves for founders who have outgrown the garage but cannot sign a 50,000…
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Alternative Business Lending Now Reads Your Whole Footprint
Byzfunder launched an AI underwriting platform that scores court records, UCC filings and your website alongside bank statements. Here is what to clean up…
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Median Household Income Record Resets Your Pricing Math
Real median household income reached $87,460 in 2025, the highest the Census Bureau has recorded since 1967. Here is how founders should read it before raising…
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What $350M in Growth Taught Mayur Nagarsheth About Startup Success
How do you take a company from $8 million to over $350 million in revenue and then use that same playbook to help startups chart their own million-dollar…
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Business Succession Planning Lessons From Buffett’s Exit
Warren Buffett handed the Berkshire Hathaway chairmanship to his son Howard on Friday. The split between operator and steward is the part founders should copy…
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Small Business Trends Point to a Record Filing Wave
Business applications hit 578,926 in July, up 8.1% in a single month. Here is what the filing wave changes for founders starting something now. The post Small…
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SBA Size Standards Overhaul Closes for Comment Sept 21
The SBA wants to collapse 995 size standards into 338 and raise many thresholds sharply. The comment window closes September 21, 2026. The post SBA Size…
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Customer Research Gets an AI Stand-In for Your Buyers
Gather launched company-specific customer simulations built on AI-moderated interviews with real people, delivered through Slack. The post Customer Research…
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Interest Rate Hike Pushes the Fed Range to 4 Percent
The FOMC voted 12-0 to raise the federal funds target range to 3.75%-4.00%, its first increase in more than three years. The post Interest Rate Hike Pushes the…
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Talent Acquisition Software Meets a 244-Applicant Flood
Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor launched Boomband across New England, aimed at the application flood his first company helped create. The post Talent…
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How Founders Lose Control of AI Spend When Every Team Picks Its Own Model
Working with artificial intelligence is empowering until the cloud bill arrives. As startups and scaling businesses scramble to implement generative…
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AI Startup Funding: 5 Lessons From $81M in Seeds
Two AI startups raised about $40 million each at seed this week. Here is what the new entry price means for founders planning their own raise. The post AI…
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The Voice Behind Rabbit: How Ashley Bao Shaped the Rabbit R1’s Public Story
In January of 2024 Rabbit was preparing to debut their inaugural product, the R1device at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Despite their confidence in…
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20 Companies and Over 1 Billion Dollars Later
Brent Freeman was 23, fresh out of USC and carrying a quarter million dollars in student debt, when he closed a $10 million deal in Dubai. He celebrated that…
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Small Business Cybersecurity Lags Your Team’s AI Habit
A Nationwide survey found six in 10 owners say staff use public AI tools while only 36% have a written policy. Here is the cheap fix. The post Small Business…
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AI Regulation Fight Splits the Industry in Two Camps
Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg pushed back on calls to pace frontier AI. Here is what the split means for founders building on these models. The post AI…
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ICHRA Growth Pushes Thatch to a $1 Billion Valuation
Thatch raised $108 million at a $1 billion valuation as employers move off group health plans. Here is how the ICHRA model works for a small team. The post…
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OpenAI Valuation Talks Reach $1.2 Trillion Before IPO
Investors approached OpenAI about a round valuing it near $1.2 trillion. Here is what that number should and should not change about your own raise. The post…
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Treasury Yields Hit 5% and Reset Your Cost of Capital
Treasury yields touched 5.04% on Tuesday, the highest reading since 2007. Here is what the move does to founder borrowing costs and growth plans. The post…
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Daniil Goldman Builds Bars That Tell Stories
How the hospitality entrepreneur has honed the craft of immersing guests in ambiance, mood, and originality in a bar-going experience. Bars are a dime a dozen…
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From Enterprise AI to Real-World Impact: How Technology Leaders Can Transform Both Business and Society
When Prashant Srivastav talks about grassroots sports, he often describes it the way a seasoned technology architect might describe a broken enterprise system…
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EB1A Experts Reach 300+ Approvals: Why Tech’s Best Are Leaving Employer-Sponsored Immigration Behind?
The San Francisco-based immigration firm has proven through its tireless work that merit beats waiting. Indian tech professionals are leading an exodus from…
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Shalisa Sloan James’s Memoir Three Years Left Wins International Impact Book Award for Nonfiction
An Orlando performer’s account of living with a terminal diagnosis has been named a nonfiction honoree, adding a book award to a career that already…
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Pricing Strategy Gets Harder as Input Costs Climb
Energy, freight and raw material costs are pushing apparel prices up this fall. Here is how small brands should decide what to charge. The post Pricing…
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AI Agents for Business Keep Stalling at Your Books
Chift raised 10.5 million euros to connect software with the accounting and payment systems AI agents cannot reach on their own. Here is the owner takeaway…
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Google AI Overviews Will Start Paying for Your Content
Google is piloting direct payments to publishers whose work feeds its AI answers. Here is why founders who publish should care about the price tag. The post…
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Working Capital Loan Demand Pulls In a $300M Package
Qupital secured $300 million in combined commitments to lend against live marketplace sales data. Here is what the structure teaches founders about funding…
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AI Search Optimization Now Shapes Your First Impression
New Semrush data shows 41% of US B2B professionals start research inside an AI tool, then verify the answer on Google. Here is what that does to your funnel…
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How Weighted Vests Are Changing How People Approach Daily Movement
Adding resistance to walks, workouts, and daily activities can support a more consistent fitness approach. Walking is an easy way to stay active every day…
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Business Valuation Tools Reach the 30-Person HVAC Shop
Reins launched an AI valuation product for contractors on Monday. Here is why knowing your number matters long before you plan to sell anything. The post…
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Self-Help Books That You Have to Read Today
The best self-help books do more than offer advice. They change the way you look at your life.  Some teach us how to build better habits. Others challenge…
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Business Succession Planning: 5 Openings for Young Buyers
JPMorganChase says 12 million businesses will change hands this decade while only 8% of owners have an advanced plan. Five openings that creates for young…
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Fortune 500 Companies Have CFOs. Main Street Gets a Spreadsheet. One Founder Wants to Close the Gap
A large corporation navigating a cash crunch has a finance department to see it coming, model the scenarios and recommend a response. A ten person business…
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VivoSim Wants to Fix the Worst Odds in Medicine: An 8 Percent Success Rate
Most new drugs never make it to a pharmacy shelf. According to industry-wide data tracked by pharmaceutical trade groups, roughly 92 percent of drugs that…
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Diesel Prices Set a Record and Squeeze Small Budgets
The national average diesel price reached $6.23 a gallon on Monday after Saudi Arabia shut a critical pipeline. Here is how owners should protect margin. The…
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International Expansion: Japan Opens a Door for Founders
Japan's trade ministry will host Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka from October 5 to 7, with a16z, NEA and Atomico confirmed. Here is the founder read. The…
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Building Responsibly: How AI Data Centers Are Navigating the Power and Water Crunch
As AI development accelerates, attention is increasingly turning to the physical infrastructure needed to support it. The past few years have been marked by…
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AI Regulation Gets a Push From Anthropic and OpenAI
Anthropic and OpenAI backed slower frontier model development over the weekend, and AI chip stocks sold off worldwide. Here is what founders should do about…
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Buying the Dislocation: Inside RD Dubai’s Shift to Distressed Deals and Proven Locations with Co-Founder Lukas Kerrebijn
Every time there is doubt, something is repriced. This year, it is repricing conviction in the UAE, separating purchasers who are eager to take over from…
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No Script, No Character: Risa Hayase, the Japanese Actress Who Performs as Herself
Theater-trained and based in Los Angeles, Japanese actress Risa Hayase spends hours in front of a camera with no text to hold her up. Something she was not…
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Cinematographer Hagen Sluyterman van Langeweyde and the technical challenge behind TALKSHIT
A German filmmaker and director of photography based in Los Angeles, Hagen Sluyterman van Langeweyde won Best Cinematography at the Los Angeles Film Awards in…
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From Nasdaq Risk Systems to AI Governance: Lev Yatsemyrskyi’s Work on the Infrastructure Behind Modern Finance
After years working on institutional trading, market connectivity and real-time risk technology, Lev Yatsemyrskyi has increasingly focused on another…
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Mary Louve, Delaware’s 2026 Senate Candidate, Has Lived the Policies She’s Running On
Mary Louve does not need a briefing book to explain the issues driving her 2026 campaign for the U.S. Senate seat in Delaware. She has lived them, in her own…
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AI Content Creation Drives Pocket FM Past $500M ARR
Pocket Entertainment crossed $500 million in annual run rate with 550,000 creators. Here is the growth playbook small brands can borrow. The post AI Content…
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AI Job Displacement Fears Miss What Main Street Did
Gusto tracked payroll at 2,262 small businesses and found AI adopters grew headcount about 7% faster than comparable firms that skipped it. The post AI Job…
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Startup Funding Reaches Founders Who Left Silicon Valley
Three 28-year-old founders moved home to Germany and still raised $4 million from mostly US investors. Here is what their path teaches. The post Startup…
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Vendor Risk Management: 5 Moves After the IDScan Breach
IDScan confirmed hackers stole driver's license data from its cloud. Five practical moves founders should make on supplier risk this week. The post Vendor Risk…
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Startup Valuation Reset: Miro Sells at 92% Discount
Miro agreed to sell to Bending Spoons for $1.36 billion, roughly 92% under its 2021 peak. Here is how founders should read the comparable. The post Startup…