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Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Is Convicted on 4 Counts
For three years, Elizabeth Holmes has faced the court of public opinion, as countless books, articles, documentaries, and TV shows…
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Advice to Startup Founders: Prepare to Fail
Still, overcoming the cold start problem is deceptively difficult. Chen offers the example of Tiny Speck, the gaming company that…
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VCs Lavished Startups With Cash in 2021. Now Comes the Hard Part
In June 2021, Ralf Wenzel founded the grocery delivery startup JOKR to meet the demand of millions of people who…
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How Y Combinator Changed the World
This month a successful entertainment-business newsletter written by an influential reporter joined forces with publishing legend Janice Min to form…
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‘We Got Memed Into Moving’: Inside Miami’s Tech Boom
Early in the first pandemic summer, around the time California started requiring people to wear masks indoors, Jack Abraham booked…
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More Black and Hispanic Entrepreneurs Are Open for Business
These programs are particularly widespread at community and technical colleges like Hillsborough. Community colleges serve the majority of students from…
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Upside Foods Sues an Ex-Employee Over Secret Lab-Grown Meat Tech
At a glance, 2021 was a good year for Upside Foods—one of the best-funded cultured-meat firms among the dozens of…
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This Digital Bank Is Designed for the LGBTQ+ Community
When Rob Curtis was running Gaydar back in 2018, he’d sit in chat rooms and watch the amorous hopefuls talk.…
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E-Scooters Are Everywhere in Europe. So Are Grisly Accidents
The summer of 2020 was something of a heyday—and a Wild West—for e-scooters in Scandinavia. Rental companies had been swarming…
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These Startups Deliver Groceries Fast—Without Gig Workers
The gig economy is one of Silicon Valley’s greatest tricks of the last decade. Armed with a smartphone, a car,…
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