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Funding, founders, and the ideas reshaping entire industries.
Founders obsess over slick decks. Investors? They're hunting for substance. Here’s what actually matters in an early-stage pitch: deep founder-market fit, a massive market, and undeniable signals of traction.
A startup pivot is a calculated, strategic shift, not an admission of failure. By embracing data-driven course corrections, smart founders build resilient companies that adapt to what the market actually wants.
Sharing it all—from revenue to crushing failures—has become the go-to growth strategy for a new breed of startup. But is the vulnerability worth it when your competitors have a front-row seat?
Don't quit your job on a hunch. This framework shows you how to use cheap, fast experiments to test if your startup idea has real demand *before* you risk a paycheck.
Should you go it alone or find a partner? It's one of the most critical choices a founder makes. This guide dives into the trade-offs of the solo founder vs co-founder debate.
The open-source AI infrastructure provider just landed a massive $800 million Series C led by Aramco Ventures. The deal values the company at a stunning $8.3 billion.
Startups rarely die from bad luck. They die from three predictable, self-inflicted wounds: they run out of money, they build something nobody wants, or the founders turn on each other.
The biggest choice a founder makes: bootstrap or raise VC? We cut through the noise to show you the real, brutal trade-offs in control, speed, and risk so you can decide which path truly fits your company.
That weekend hobby is getting serious. Here's a founder's guide on how to spot real market demand, prove your idea on the cheap, and finally make the leap—without going broke.
A stealth hardware startup called Etched just launched with an $800 million war chest and over $1 billion in orders. Its audacious goal? To unseat Nvidia with a specialized chip built to do one thing only: run AI transformer models.
In a stunning $60 billion all-stock deal, SpaceX has swallowed up Anysphere, the startup behind the AI coding tool Cursor, marking one of the largest startup acquisitions in history.
Chamath Palihapitiya's AI startup 8090 just raised $135M in a Series A led by Salesforce, and Palihapitiya is stepping back in the ring as CEO for the first time since Facebook.