Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII, per Bloomberg
New details have emerged about Valor’s latest fund, which last year announced it was raising an unspecified amount of capital.
Addressing a sticking point in sustainable adhesives
Petroleum-based adhesives are everywhere: bonding the wood and drywall in a construction project, holding together the joints of furniture, and even sticking labels to otherwise recyclable containers. “The labels on a container are held up with petroleum-based glue. And because of that, even though you’re putting the container in the recycle bin, it will not…
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Profit Is Good — Predictability Is Better. Here’s the Mindset Shift That Changed How I Run My Company.
The real measure of a healthy business isn’t today’s profit; it’s tomorrow’s confidence.
How to Build Sustainable Trust and Sustainable Valuations for Your Company Post-IPO
For CEOs preparing to take a company public or already past the bell, here are the four pillars that determine whether your valuation holds or quietly collapses in the first year.
Think Managing Payroll on Your Own Is Saving Your Business Money? Here Are the Costs You’re Not Seeing.
The decision to manage payroll on your own often starts as a practical, cost-saving one. But as small businesses grow, here are the hidden costs business owners should keep in mind.
How To Find Your Ecommerce Niche Before The Market Finds It For You
Stop chasing viral trends. Instead, choose a durable, validated sub-niche where you understand the customer’s pain, the economics work and reliable suppliers exist.
How AI Is Making the Old Go-to-Market Playbook Obsolete — and How to Adapt
Why the traditional 90-day GTM plan no longer works and three ways AI is helping leaders replace it with a real-time approach.
He Bet His Family’s Savings on a ‘Better for You’ Business. With ‘No Plan B,’ He Grew It to 9-Figure Revenue
He created the business to solve a personal problem.
Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950
The Jeff Bezos-backed startup finally revealed more pricing details for its debut EV, including a $29,950 starting price for the SUV variant, and boosted the base range to 205 miles.
The Download: introducing the Engineering issue
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. Introducing: the Engineering issue We can’t fix everything, but we can be ambitious. We can take on the challenge of making the world better through human ingenuity. That’s what the new…
Stripe, Anthropic and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections
The common cold comes for us all—often more than once a year. And there is no way to prevent it. The best you can do is take vitamin C and stay away from people with the sniffles. Now, the payment company Stripe, founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison, says it will fund a new…