By Clint Rainey October 19, 2023 Ask business experts what qualities they believe successful startup founders possess, and there’s a number and metric for everybody: It’s three personality traits and four types of founders, or it’s the Big Five traits, or maybe six successful traits, or it’s seven, with seven personality types—on up to … Continue reading Computer scientists have predicted whether your startup will fail based on your personality
Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi Deanna Ritchie / Oct 12, 2023 Jack Dorsey, the founder of Block — which used to be Square — has now acquired Hifi, a music-focused fintech startup. HiFi was launched in the US in 2020. Matt Pincus joined the HiFi board and became an investor in the … Continue reading Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi
By Clint Rainey September 26, 2023 On the whole, startup founders seem to have been busy this year enjoying the spoils of their hard labor: Their median salary, according to a new report by the startup-focused accounting firm Pilot, has increased by 15%. But then another pattern jumps out: The biggest change in the … Continue reading How much should startup founders pay themselves in salary? Increasingly, the answer is $0
Hudson Hawks: How A Promising Agency Tech Startup Struck Out With Holding Cos., Stiffed Lots Of People by Joe Mandese @mp_joemandese, August 24, 2023 This story begins with a string board, because that’s how it was pieced together and it’s the best way to illustrate it for you. I’d been covering promising agency tech startup … Continue reading Hudson Hawks: How A Promising Agency Tech Startup Struck Out With Holding Cos., Stiffed Lots Of People
Self-funded for 8 years, accounting startup Dougs raises $27 million. John Boitnott / Jul 5, 2023 Managing finances in the fast-paced and always-changing world of business can be a challenging endeavor, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Dougs, a French startup company in the accounting industry, is changing the game. Dougs has been … Continue reading Self-funded for 8 years, accounting startup Dougs raises $27 million.
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s Start-Up Adopts OpenAI’s GPT-4 by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, May 15, 2023 Marissa Mayer, former Yahoo CEO and Google’s first female engineer working on search, has her own startup, Sunshine, that focuses on contact lists. It prioritizes humans, but says the company has recently adopted OpenAI’s GPT-4 for internal model development … Continue reading Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s Start-Up Adopts OpenAI’s GPT-4
By Laya Neelakandan April 24, 2023 Imagine a world in which every detail in your office, down to the assortment of items on your desk, is available from the comfort of your home. Now, that possibility is not just imaginable, but entirely possible through Katmai, a virtual communications platform launching today that creates … Continue reading This startup is turning the RTO debate on its head by creating a digital twin of the office
Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 Jacob Wolinsky / 05 Apr 2023 The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. Tightening of monetary policies has led to skyrocketing interest rates as central banks try to manage rampant running inflation, supply chain … Continue reading Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023
By Chris Stokel-Walker March 31, 2023 The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria in early February killed tens of thousands of people and left a trail of destruction in its wake. A massive cleanup operation is still underway in both countries. Meanwhile, one Turkish-based tech business has offered its support to … Continue reading Here’s how the Turkish startup Jotform used its web form tools to help in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake
How to Recognize and Manage Burnout Symptoms as a Startup Entrepreneur Deanna Ritchie / 17 Mar 2023 Startup entrepreneurs get to live independently, set their own hours, and work to achieve their own goals. But that freedom also comes with an overwhelming amount of responsibility. Experiencing burnout as an entrepreneur has become relatively common, … Continue reading How to Recognize and Manage Burnout Symptoms as a Startup Entrepreneur
