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This Is the $8 Trillion Investment Opportunity VCs and Founders Can’t Ignore

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 28, 2026

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Why Pushback Matters More Than Validation and How the Best Founders Use It

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 28, 2026

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7 AI Tools to Build a One-Person Business (One Is So Powerful, Founders Keep It on a Separate Computer)

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 27, 2026

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Think You Missed Your Window to Start a Business? Here’s Why the Most Successful Founders Are Often Late Bloomers.

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 27, 2026

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Why Your Best Angel Investors Are Founders Who Just Raised Their Series C

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Post date February 23, 2026

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Why Founders Keep Repeating the Same Limiting Patterns, No Matter How Smart They Are

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 23, 2026

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Why the Best Founders Approach Business Like an Engineer

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Post date February 21, 2026

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Most Founders Don’t Realize They’re Giving Away Their Influence — Here’s How to Take It Back

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 20, 2026

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2 little-known tech founders are both $14 billion richer this year as AI demand fuels a memory supercycle

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Post date February 20, 2026

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Why Founders Can’t Ignore Commodity Tokenization Anymore

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 12, 2026

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You Don’t Need Silicon Valley Funding to Start a Business — and These Founders Are Proving It

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Post date February 11, 2026

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The Passive Income Illusion That Derails Businesses — and the Reality Most Founders Ignore

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 29, 2026

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Why Founders Who Underestimate PR Pay the Price — and How Strategic PR Wins Investors, Partners and Market Confidence

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 29, 2026

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Why Most AI Breaks in the Real World — and What Founders Get Wrong

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 28, 2026

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Free Webinar | February 24: How Founders Can Use AI to Work Less & Make More Money

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 26, 2026

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All Founders Use the Same 5-Step AI Privacy Playbook — But Most Haven’t Discovered This Crucial 6th Step

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Post date January 23, 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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Why Are Google’s Founders Cutting Their Connection to California? One Reason.

Post author By crystalg
Post date January 10, 2026

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What Latina Founders Know About Building Influence That Silicon Valley Doesn’t

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 30, 2025

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The HR Shortcut That Saves Founders Early — But Can Cost Them Later

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 23, 2025

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Why the Best Founders Build for the Sale They’re Not Yet Ready to Make

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Post date December 13, 2025

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August’s founders are back with a smart front door

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Post date December 10, 2025

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These Two Founders Built the ‘Dyson of Water Filters’ — and Hit Eight-Figures in Under a Year

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Post date December 2, 2025

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How AI Is Making Founders Think Like Marketers (and Why That’s Good News)

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 22, 2025

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How Smart Founders Know When to Pivot or Shut Down Their Startup

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Post date November 21, 2025

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Founders Obsess Over Cash Flow — But There’s a Threat That’s Even More Dangerous

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Post date November 20, 2025

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Founders Are Fleeing to Florida. Here’s When You Actually Need to Go.

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 18, 2025

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Most Founders Obsess Over Their Pitch — and Overlook What Actually Gets a ‘Yes’

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Post date November 13, 2025

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How Founders Can Build Lasting Trust with Investors

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Post date November 12, 2025

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5 Daily Habits Investors Look For in Founders — and How to Build Them

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 11, 2025

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The One Trait That Separates Successful Fintech Founders From the Rest

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 6, 2025

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Private Debt Can Be a Powerful Growth Tool — If You Use It Wisely. Here’s What Founders Need to Know.

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 5, 2025

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Here’s How Founders Can Navigate the Current Interest Rate Landscape

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 30, 2025

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Founder’s Syndrome Is the New Burnout — and It’s Killing Creativity

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 17, 2025

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Reid Hoffman asks founders to seek out his negative references before letting him invest

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 17, 2025

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The Silent Barrier to Innovation and Growth That Most Founders Overlook

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 13, 2025

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How I Avoided the 7 Most Common Money Traps for Founders

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 10, 2025

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Most Founders Think They Know AI — But They’re Using It Wrong. Here’s How to Drive Real Growth

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 29, 2025

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Live-in offices, air mattresses, and stacks of ramen: Inside the apartments of 6 young tech founders

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 21, 2025

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These Are the 3 Most Common Mistakes I See First-Time Founders Make as an Investor

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 10, 2025

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Before You Build an AI Product, Ask These 3 Questions (Most Founders Don’t)

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 28, 2025

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What I Learned About Business Growth From 5 Successful Founders Who Started Small

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 27, 2025

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Here’s how Figma’s founders inspired an early investor

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 17, 2025

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‘Pain Is Temporary’: How Mental and Physical Toughness — and Fun! — Define the Multimillionaire Runningman Founders’ Success

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 15, 2025

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YC founders are getting younger and feeling the pressure

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 7, 2025

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VCs Are Focusing More on Purpose and Less on Profits — Here Are the 5 Things They’re Looking For in Founders

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 6, 2025

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10 Habits That Separate Rich and Successful Founders From Wannabe Entrepreneurs

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 3, 2025

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What Top Founders Know About Domains That Most Entrepreneurs Miss

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 1, 2025

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‘Beyond Our Wildest Dreams’: This Founder’s Scrappy Startup Has Raised More Than $39 Million — and Counting — for Small Businesses ‘Facing an Extinction Event’

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 14, 2025

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The Best Domains Are Gone — But Here’s How Savvy Founders Still Snag Them

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 11, 2025

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Startup founders and others in tech call on Sequoia Capital to act after a partner called Zohran Mamdani an ‘Islamist’

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Post date July 7, 2025

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America’s Founders Valued Higher Education

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Post date July 1, 2025

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The Costly Email Mistake Too Many Founders Make — and How to Avoid It

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 26, 2025

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‘Consumers Are Frustrated, and So Are We’: How These Founders Built a Platform to Fight Fake AI-Generated Product Reviews

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 24, 2025

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Why Hustle Culture Is the Most Dangerous Lie Founders Still Believe

Post author By crystalg
Post date June 20, 2025

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These Founders Started Making Pickle-Infused Vodka With a Hand Pump. Now Their Products Are Sold in 10 States — and Growing.

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Post date June 5, 2025

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YC partners say AI founders are closing huge deals fast by taking a page out of Palantir’s early playbook

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Post date June 2, 2025

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Top Colleges Now Value What Founders Have Always Hired For

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 30, 2025

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Only 48% of Founders Feel Confident About Their Taxes — Here’s How to Join Them

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Post date May 30, 2025

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Is Horse Racing the Next Big League? Meet the Founders Betting on It

Post author By crystalg
Post date May 2, 2025

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Today’s Biggest Companies Are Acting Like VCs. Here’s Why Startup Founders Need to Pay Attention.

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 30, 2025

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This Quiet Shift Is Helping Founders Build Fierce Customer Loyalty

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 25, 2025

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Founders Keep Getting This One Piece of Advice — But It’s Setting Them Up for Failure. Here’s What They Really Need to Hear.

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 24, 2025

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Founders Are Missing This One Investment — But It Could Be the Most Profitable One You Make

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 19, 2025

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Vibe coding is changing the way investors think about founders

Post author By crystalg
Post date April 14, 2025

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What Ancient Roman Entrepreneurs Can Teach Today’s Founders About Survival and Long-Term Success

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Post date April 9, 2025

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Too Many Founders Are Making This Critical Mistake — And It’s Costing Them

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Post date March 19, 2025

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Founders Build, Managers Maintain — Which One Are You Becoming?

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Post date March 10, 2025

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The Startup World Glamorizes Young Founders, But These 4 Women Started Businesses After Age 40 — Leading to Hundreds of Millions of Dollars. Here’s How.

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Post date March 8, 2025

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Founders Experience Time Differently Than Everyone Else. Here’s Why — and How They Can Manage It Successfully.

Post author By crystalg
Post date February 21, 2025

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Don’t wait around for Pebble founder’s Small Android Phone

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Post date February 11, 2025

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