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How These Founder Communities Offer Support — and a Competitive Edge

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 2, 2026

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AI Psychosis Is Real, Rare and Rising — and Your Life as a Founder Fits Every Risk Factor

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 26, 2026

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Every Founder Plans for Growth, But Almost None Plan for the Exit. Here’s What I Wish I’d Understood Sooner.

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 13, 2026

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What Every Founder Needs to Know About the Dark Side of a Successful Exit

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 12, 2026

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I Watched My Startup’s Hidden Weaknesses Surface Overnight — Here’s the 4-Part Stress Test Every Founder Should Run Before a Downturn Hits

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 11, 2026

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Here Are the Tell-Tale Signs a Startup Founder Used AI to Apply to Y Combinator: ‘It Feels Like Being Lied to’

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 7, 2026

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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Their Weight and Energy, According to This Health Founder

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 5, 2026

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What Every Founder Gets Wrong About Scaling — And the 4 Principles That Fix It

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 22, 2026

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The Personnel Decision Every Founder Dreads — “I Knew For Almost a Year Before I Acted”

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 21, 2026

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Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky says his 30-day warranty is all about trust

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 18, 2026

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The 6-Point Checklist Every Founder Needs Before Raising Their First Dollar

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 17, 2026

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This AI Founder Admits He Was a ‘Terrible Leader’ — But a Simple Mindset Shift Solved His Biggest Problem

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Post date July 7, 2026

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This 56-Year-Old Had ‘Zero Experience’ as a Founder. Here’s How She Grew a $100 Million Brand With a Cult Following.

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Post date July 1, 2026

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This Unexpected Tech Founder Is Now Richer Than Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and Jensen Huang

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 30, 2026

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Vision Gets All the Glory in Founder Narratives — But That’s Not What Actually Drives Success. Here’s What Does.

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 27, 2026

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The 6-Month Cash Rule Every Founder Needs to Survive Growth

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 22, 2026

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The founder of the video game maker behind ‘Assassin’s Creed’ has died in a plane crash

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Post date June 20, 2026

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Perplexity’s CEO shares 2 founder lessons he learned from Jensen Huang and Elon Musk

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Post date June 16, 2026

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I Left an Industry I Loved to Disrupt It as a Founder — Here’s Why I Have No Regrets

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 14, 2026

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Why Your Business Will Lose More Than Its Founder If You’re Suddenly Incapacitated

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 9, 2026

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Why Your Business Could Lose More Than Its Founder If You’re Suddenly Incapacitated

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 4, 2026

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This startup founder says he works 7 days a week, keeps a mattress in the office, and sleeps 3 hours a night

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 1, 2026

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Why This Veteran Founder Put Out a Music Video, Not a Discount Code, This Memorial Day

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 23, 2026

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Lululemon Speaks Out Against Its Founder, Calling Him ‘Misguided’ and His Ideas ‘Outdated’

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Post date May 19, 2026

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An AI founder shares the leadership lesson Jensen Huang gave him on a midnight call

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Post date May 17, 2026

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My Merger Didn’t Go the Way I Expected. Here’s What I Learned — and What Every Founder Must Prepare for.

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 14, 2026

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After Addiction and Ironman Failure, This Founder Adopted a Rule That Changed Everything

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 7, 2026

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Cloning Himself With AI. Here’s What Every Founder Can Learn From That (and What to Avoid).

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 28, 2026

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An Instacart founder shares his sneaker test for entrepreneurs

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 22, 2026

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What the Landmark Meta-YouTube Ruling Means for the Next Era of Founder Responsibility

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 7, 2026

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A startup founder explains why she built 9 AI employees: ‘I am a breathless OpenClaw bro’

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 1, 2026

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Your Startup Is Growing Faster Than Its Founder — Here’s the Playbook to Fix It

Post author By crystalg
Post date March 29, 2026

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The Shift Every Founder Must Make to Achieve Exponential Growth

Post author By crystalg
Post date March 27, 2026

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Why Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable rejects candidates who want rigid structure — and hires for ‘founder DNA’

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Post date March 27, 2026

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This Is the Mindset Shift You Need to Switch From Founder to CEO — and Scale Faster

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 27, 2026

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This 60-Minute Founder Ritual Prevented Me From Burning Out

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 19, 2026

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The Mindset Every Founder Needs to Make Smarter Business Purchases

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 17, 2026

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OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 15, 2026

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This Founder Is Taking a Bite Out of the $50 Billion GLP-1 Market By Going Natural

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 10, 2026

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How This Founder Turned ‘Dry January’ Into a Year-Round Movement — And Built America’s #1 Non-Alcoholic Beer Brand

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 4, 2026

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What Every Founder Needs to Know About Protecting Company Data in 2026

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 28, 2026

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Shopify’s CEO says companies that hire founders often make a big mistake: Don’t ‘put them in like founder day care’

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 18, 2026

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I’ve Raised 8 Figures of Funding as a Black Founder — Here’s How to Overcome the Bias and Prejudice in VC

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 17, 2026

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How This Founder Turned Hustle and Live Events Into a Celebrity Matchmaking Engine

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 14, 2026

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WeatherTech founder might be the newest US consumer protection official

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 13, 2026

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WeatherTech founder might be the newest US consumer protection official

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 13, 2026

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Skipping Background Checks Is a Risk No Founder Can Afford. Here’s the Threat You Might Not See Coming.

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 9, 2026

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In a new deal, Nvidia hires Groq’s top engineering talent, including its founder, who built AI chips at Google

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 24, 2025

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What Transitioning From Founder to CEO Taught Me About Leadership at Any Scale

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 17, 2025

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‘My Rock’: Billionaire Virgin Founder Richard Branson Announces Death of Wife — After Nearly 50 Years Together

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 25, 2025

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Vibe coding startups face a big copycat risk, says a founder who sold his company for $80 million

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 24, 2025

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Read the 8-page pitch deck a founder backed by Slow Ventures is using to try to solve retail’s $25 billion a year return problem

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 16, 2025

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You Should Learn How to Vibe Code, Says Google Brain Founder

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 11, 2025

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Don’t Let AI Fool You — Here’s Why Every Founder Still Needs to Learn to Code

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 10, 2025

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Why Samuel Adams Founder Jim Koch Is Proud to Have His Product Banned in 15 States

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 1, 2025

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This 29-Year-Old Founder Took a $150,000 Pay Cut to Become CEO of His Own Startup. Here’s Why He Says It Was Worth It.

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 31, 2025

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The founder of the world’s top LiDAR maker says there’s one problem with Elon Musk’s approach to self-driving

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Post date October 19, 2025

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5 Things Formula One Rookies Already Know That Could Fast-Track Your Growth as a Founder

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 16, 2025

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This Founder Lost Control of Her Cult-Favorite Brand — Here’s How She’s Making a Bold Comeback

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 14, 2025

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A Fintech Startup Founder Was Just Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Defrauding JPMorgan Out of $175 Million

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 29, 2025

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The founder of $2 billion AI website builder Framer says this is what designers should focus on to thrive in the age of AI

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Post date September 16, 2025

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You’re Sabotaging Your Startup By Doing Everything Alone — Here’s Why You Need Founder Friends

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 3, 2025

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How One Man Conquered the World’s Toughest Peaks — and Built a Brand Every Founder Should Study

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 28, 2025

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8 Powerful Lessons from Robert Herjavec at Entrepreneur Level Up That Every Founder Needs to Hear

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 27, 2025

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I left my job at BCG to found an AI startup. Here’s how consulting prepared me to be a founder — and how it didn’t.

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 25, 2025

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The New Face of Batteries: How One Founder Extracts 3X More Lithium Than Conventional Methods

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 20, 2025

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What’s Really Inside Your Supplements? This Founder Is Uncovering the Truth Behind a $180 Billion Industry

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 13, 2025

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Blackwater’s founder would like to sell you a privacy phone made in the USA

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 12, 2025

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Valve founder Gabe Newell just purchased a superyacht company

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Post date August 4, 2025

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My Uncle Lost $14M by Treating His Business Like His ‘Baby’ — Here’s the Lesson Every Founder Needs to Learn

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 19, 2025

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Reebok’s founder says moving production from Asia is hard when no one wants to sit at a sewing machine

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 17, 2025

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The Fyre Festival’s IP Just Sold on eBay, and Founder Billy McFarland Isn’t Pleased: ‘Damn’

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 16, 2025

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