‘Taught Me How to Hustle’: 8 Business Leaders Reveal Big Lessons From Their First Jobs
Here’s how business leaders across industries picked up new skills and learned from their mistakes.
The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and…
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If Your Sales Are Falling Flat, Steal This Strategy From Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec
It’s Herjavec’s best sales advice. Case in point, he used it at his own company.
Why Founders Outside Silicon Valley Have an Advantage
As an investor in emerging markets, George Rzepecki looks for opportunities — and founders — that don’t fit the Silicon Valley mold.
How to Know If Venture Capital Is Right For Your Business
Kevin Carter has invested in over a thousand companies, dozens of which have gone on to billion-dollar valuations. He says venture capital is not right for every business.
You Only Have a Few More Hours to Score Microsoft Office for Less Than $40
Save time this holiday season with Microsoft’s best productivity tools.
How to Raise Money In an AI-Obsessed World
The founder of AngelList says that the competition has changed dramatically. But the opportunity lies inidentifying new frontiers.
Here’s Exactly How to Score an Investment From Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec
To impress an investor, you need to know what they’re looking for. For Robert Herjavec, it’s not what you’d expect.
Agentio secures $40 million from Forerunner as it scales its creator marketplace beyond YouTube
Agentio, which matches creators with brands, is expanding beyond YouTube and testing Meta platforms to facilitate sponsored content.
Zoox to begin offering robotaxi rides to public in San Francisco
This is not a large-scale public launch, nor a commercial one. But it brings the Amazon-owned company one step closer to competing with Waymo.
Cloudflare outage takes down X one month after Musk mocked AWS customers
The infrastructure service Cloudflare faced massive outages on Tuesday morning, cutting off access to ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, X, and other platforms.