New startups secure early customer traction, and watch their sales curves climb aggressively, but on book, the business may look like an unmitigated triumph.
Startup briefs
RSS →Ian Rogers shares his biggest lesson from building Apple Music.
Zac Choi went from a McKinsey consultant watching his startup clients create extraordinary value to building and selling his own AI startup. Now he's creating a fix for business’s biggest AI hurdle.
Younger alcohol drinkers complain that bubbles make them feel bloated, so a new wave of brands is betting that flat is the future.
After investing in nearly 20 startups, I've learned the idea matters — but the founder decides how far it goes.
Good Good spent years building a family-friendly brand. One commercial undid a chunk of goodwill in a matter of days.
AI and remote work just killed the case for building in a legacy startup hub — and the data on where founders are actually launching proves it.
In a crowded AI fundraising market, the thing standing between your startup and a term sheet might not be your product. It may be the financial infrastructure behind it.
As a software developer and founder, I am thrilled by the possibilities of vibe coding, especially in the early stages of building a startup.
The next generation of breakout companies may not resemble the software startups that dominated the last decade.
This startup launched a mere eight months ago and has seen considerable growth since.
A new study analyzed 9,700 resumes and found one type of skill correlated with a higher rate of hire.
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JSON →You can’t control how others see you, but you can stop building an identity that depends on their approval. This mindset shifts your focus.
The things that made you successful domestically can actively work against you if you don't adapt how you lead when you scale globally.
Savvy side-hustlers use the technology to their advantage.
Financial performance matters, but lenders are also weighing something the numbers don't capture.
United CEO Scott Kirby’s anti-meeting strategy includes a ban on reading PowerPoint slides aloud.
A process that solves a serious problem becomes a source of delay when leaders mistake proof that it worked for proof that it's still needed.
Here's a four-bucket audit founders should run before approving a new hire.
A fix that works exactly where it’s aimed gives leaders evidence the problem is closed, even while the same unresolved tradeoff remains elsewhere.
Most leaders follow it without question. This CEO says it's the exact habit keeping their business small.
One factor stands out as a predictor of a wage increase; researchers call it “the broccoli of work.”
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