The small and affordable EVs we lost in 2023
From the ElectraMeccanica Solo to the Honda e, let’s remember all the small and low(er)-priced electric vehicles that didn’t make it in 2023.
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The Costly Email Mistake Too Many Founders Make — and How to Avoid It
Founders often assume email will “just work,” until their open rates tank or they land in spam. Here’s the biggest mistake I see entrepreneurs make – and what to do instead.
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Startup Shutdowns and AI Showdowns: the 2023 chronicles
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is the first of a two-part series that we built for you going back over critical themes from 2023. It was a very, very busy […]
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Softbank sells Open Opportunity Fund to Black and Latino executives
The Japanese conglomerate is selling the Open Opportunity Fund to its chairman Paul Judge, and Marcelo Claure, who’s being appointed as vice chairman and general partner.
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Why videos of $500 beauty advent calendars are flooding TikTok
Are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you? Dior sells an advent calendar for $4,200. It comes with white glove delivery. And there’s more where that came from. Especially on TikTok. Luxury advent calendars are becoming more popular each year, with offerings from Vogue ($456), Jo Malone ($495), Neiman […]
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Space tech forecast for 2024: Rising investments, lunar exploration, and pivotal SpaceX moments
Huge technological developments have continued, with new sectors developing space solutions to help tackle some of humanity’s greatest problems on Earth.
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Ditch Monthly Cloud Storage Fees with This Service That Offers 10TB for $100 for Life
It’s available at this price now through December 25.
Your Hamburgers Are About to Get More Expensive. You Can Blame Washington
A new rule called “joint employer” is about to change franchising. You’ll be feeling it in your pocket.
Y Combinator-backed Guac trains algorithms to predict grocery demand
Poor grocery demand forecasting is responsible for more waste than you might expect. According to one source, grocery stores in the U.S. toss 10% of the roughly 44 billion pounds of food that the country produces annually. It’s not only bad for the environment — food waste is a major source of carbon emissions — […]
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Anti-ransomware startup Halcyon lands fresh $40M tranche
2023 proved to be a be a challenging year on the ransomware front after a brief lull in 2022. According to data from cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis, victims had paid ransomware groups well over $400 million combined as of July 2023. Statista, meanwhile, reports that a whopping over two-thirds — 72% — of businesses have […]
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SimSpace raises $45M to simulate tech stacks for cyber training
SimSpace, a startup that creates digital replicas of organizations’ tech and networking stacks for cybersecurity training, has raised $45 million in a funding round led by L2 Point Management. Bringing the company’s total raised to $70 million, the investment comes at an auspicious time for SimSpace, which had been entirely bootstrapped until about two years […]
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