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I Spent $160,000 of My Family’s Savings to Bootstrap a Startup — Here’s What No One Tells You About Funding

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Post date December 20, 2025

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Erebor Bank, Palmer Luckey’s crypto-oriented finance startup, just got one step closer to launching

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Post date December 18, 2025

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Every Startup Reaches This Fork in the Road — Here’s How to Choose Your Path

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 16, 2025

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Why the CEO of a $1 Billion Startup Rejects Silicon Valley’s Hustle Culture: ‘People Are Rushing Too Much’

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Post date December 11, 2025

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I’m building my AI startup in high school. I don’t buy the dropout myth — I’m still going to college.

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 7, 2025

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Skip the Startup Struggle — Here’s How Buying a Business Lets You Profit Sooner

Post author By crystalg
Post date December 4, 2025

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Inside the Dorm-Room Startup Fueling the $1.6 Billion NIL Gold Rush

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Post date December 3, 2025

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This startup uses an AI copilot to help you make deeper professional connections. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $4M.

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 29, 2025

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I Failed My First Startup — Here’s How I Pivoted Without Losing Momentum

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 28, 2025

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This startup bucked mainstream robotics training methods to teach a robot how to load the dishes

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 21, 2025

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

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 21, 2025

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This AI Startup Just Made Its 4 Co-Founders Billionaires — And They’re All Under 30

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Post date November 15, 2025

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Turn Your Startup Into a Scalable, Sustainable Business — Wherever You Are

Post author By crystalg
Post date November 11, 2025

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Your Startup Might Be Operating in the Wrong Ecosystem. The ‘Relevance Map’ Can Help You Find the Right One.

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Post date November 5, 2025

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You Can Build a $100 Million Startup and Still Walk Away With Nothing. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.

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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.

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Post date October 31, 2025

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Universal partners with AI startup Udio after settling copyright suit

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Post date October 30, 2025

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Is Your Startup Lacking Real Substance? Here’s How to Spot the Red Flags Before They Destroy Your Venture.

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 27, 2025

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Here’s the pitch deck that Pacaso, a luxury vacation home startup, used to crowdfund $72 million from 17,500 investors

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Post date October 26, 2025

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NFL star Saquon Barkley jumps in alongside Nvidia to back AI data center startup Crusoe

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Post date October 25, 2025

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Hustle Gets Your Startup Off the Ground, But It Won’t Unlock Real Growth. Here’s What Will.

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Post date October 25, 2025

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Sam Altman’s next startup eyes using sound waves to read your brain

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Post date October 24, 2025

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Nothing CEO says his smartphone startup is targeting Gen Z to break into a market dominated by Apple and Samsung

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Post date October 18, 2025

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Struggling to Raise VC? These 7 Startup Funding Tactics Actually Work in 2025

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 17, 2025

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This startup uses AI agents to place people in jobs. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $20 million.

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Post date October 15, 2025

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How This Overlooked Security Risk Can Bring Your Startup Crashing Down Overnight

Post author By crystalg
Post date October 11, 2025

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How a little-known AI startup found itself in the middle of a Google privacy firestorm

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Post date October 9, 2025

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Harvey’s CEO tells BI the 2 habits helping him scale his $5 billion legal AI startup

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Post date October 5, 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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This AI startup helps developers safely and cheaply build on top of LLMs from OpenAI and Anthropic. Read its pitch deck.

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 26, 2025

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I left my job at the world’s biggest beer company for startup life. I knew Asia was the right place to do it.

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 21, 2025

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The CEO of a $183 Billion AI Startup Says There’s a ‘Need to Warn the World’ About AI Taking Jobs

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 19, 2025

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This AI Startup Just Received $900 Million From Nvidia to Hire Its CEO and License Its Technology

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Post date September 19, 2025

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Amazon’s CEO Wants His 1.5 Million Person Company to ‘Operate Like the World’s Largest Startup.’ Here’s How He Plans to Do It.

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 17, 2025

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Elon Musk’s Startup xAI Is Laying Off 500 Employees Who Worked on Training Its Grok Chatbot: ‘Strategic Pivot’

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Post date September 15, 2025

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I Founded a $1.5 Billion Startup for Small Businesses — Here’s the Secret Every Entrepreneur Should Know

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 11, 2025

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Inside nuclear startup Terra Innovatum’s plan to cash in on the SPAC comeback

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Post date September 11, 2025

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This startup wants to help Gen X and baby boomers make friends and hang out IRL. Read its pitch deck.

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 10, 2025

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ElevenLabs’ CEO says his startup runs on 20 micro teams — and he still interviews every hire

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 9, 2025

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Why Paul Graham advises against founding a startup in high school

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 8, 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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Your Startup Seems On Track — But An Invisible Growth Blocker Says Otherwise

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 2, 2025

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I interned at Google, but chose to start my career at an AI startup. You can do a lot more things here than in Big Tech.

Post author By crystalg
Post date September 1, 2025

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5 Benefits of Scaling Your Startup With Offshore Employees

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 25, 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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Restaurants Are Throwing Away Billions of Gallons of Water — This Startup Said Enough

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 24, 2025

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Lovable’s CEO tells us he’s looking for 4 traits when hiring for the vibe coding startup

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Post date August 20, 2025

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AI startup Cursor has a no-shoes office policy. They’re not the sole company doing it.

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Post date August 12, 2025

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An AI Startup Just Made an Unsolicited $34.5 Billion Bid for Chrome. Here’s Why a Sale Could Happen, Whether Google Wants It or Not.

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 12, 2025

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‘My Startup Roots Have Begun Tugging on Me’: A Big Tech CEO Just Quit to Be an Entrepreneur Again

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 11, 2025

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How to Build a Startup That Actually Attracts a Venture Capitalist

Post author By crystalg
Post date August 9, 2025

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OpenAI led a funding round for a startup that will put an AI agent inside Microsoft Excel

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Post date August 6, 2025

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‘We Don’t Believe in Work-Life Balance’: A Newly Acquired Startup Just Offered Its 200-Person Team a Choice — Work Weekends or Take a Buyout

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Post date August 6, 2025

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How I Built a Profitable AI Startup Solo — And the 6 Mistakes I’d Never Make Again

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Post date August 4, 2025

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The One Real Problem You Must Solve to Make Your Startup Succeed

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Post date July 28, 2025

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I was accepted into my dream Ph.D. program, but chose to join a startup instead. The company folded in a year.

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Post date July 20, 2025

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New Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang recounts a frantic weekend of dealmaking to save the startup: ‘I was on the verge of tears’

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Post date July 19, 2025

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Got a Startup Idea? Here’s What It Really Takes to Make It Work

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 18, 2025

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She Was CEO of OpenAI for 2 Days. Now Her Secretive AI Startup Has Raised $12 Billion.

Post author By crystalg
Post date July 16, 2025

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Google Swoops in to Make a $2.4 Billion Deal With a Startup Previously Promised to OpenAI

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Post date July 14, 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’

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Post date July 14, 2025

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The executives behind Palmer Luckey’s new digital banking startup Erebor include banking, politics, and Big Law vets

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Post date July 11, 2025

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What My First Failed Startup Taught Me — and How I Finally Got It Right 20 Years Later

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Post date July 10, 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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This New AI Startup Led By a Former OpenAI Exec Is Offering $500,000 Salaries

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Post date July 1, 2025

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This Startup Built the Future of Fast Food – Now It’s Scaling Nationwide

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Post date June 25, 2025

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Viral AI ‘cheating’ startup Cluely lands $15 million led by Andreessen Horowitz

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Post date June 20, 2025

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Meta Poaches the CEO of a $32 Billion AI Startup — After Trying to Buy the Company and Being Told No

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Post date June 20, 2025

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Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s

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Post date June 16, 2025

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‘Bottomless Pit of Plagiarism’: Disney, Universal File the First Major Hollywood Lawsuit Against an AI Startup

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Post date June 11, 2025

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This startup raised $24M to help Hollywood use AI to save time and money. Read its pitch deck.

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Post date June 11, 2025

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The Fastest-Growing Startup Ever Just Surpassed $500 Million in Annual Revenue. Here’s Why It Keeps Growing, According to Its CEO.

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Post date June 6, 2025

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