How This North Carolina Lawn Care Company Earns Customer Loyalty
By prioritizing responsiveness, transparency and efficiency, Sam Speno has cultivated a lawn care business that builds lasting customer relationships.
Stripe’s former growth lead helps African diaspora invest in startups, real estate
When Joe Kinvi joined Touchtech Payments in 2017 as head of finance, the Irish startup couldn’t afford his full salary. So he negotiated for stock to make up the difference. Eighteen months later, Stripe acquired the company, and that equity converted into Stripe shares, enough to let Kinvi leave his job, bootstrap a side project, […]
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Want to Own a Business? These Franchises Cost Less Than $10,000 to Get Started.
These Franchise 500-ranked brands offer strong franchisor support, work-life balance and low startup costs.
Amazon updates Q Business to let companies build public-facing chatbots
Amazon wants companies to build public-facing chatbots using its Q Business assistant. On Wednesday, the company announced that Q Business, its AWS-hosted AI assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, and complete tasks, now supports anonymous user access. This effectively means that AWS users can now create Q Business chatbots for websites, support portals, and […]
No One Talks About This Skill, But It’s Quietly Powering the Most Effective Leaders. Here’s How to Develop It.
We often focus on public speaking and interpersonal skills, but what about the power of the written word in leadership? Here’s why mastering this overlooked skill is a strong differentiator for effective leaders.
Rivian’s reportedly sitting on a stockpile of tariff-free batteries
Rivian built up a stockpile of batteries for its trucks, SUVs, and commercial vans before and after the election of Donald Trump, a strategy used to soften the blow of the president’s tariffs, according to Bloomberg News. The company apparently bought an undisclosed number of lithium iron phosphate batteries from Chinese firm Gotion before the […]
If you own Ray-Ban Meta glasses, you should double-check your privacy settings
Meta has updated the privacy policy for its AI glasses, Ray-Ban Meta, giving the tech giant more power over what data it can store and use to train its AI models. The company emailed Ray-Ban Meta owners on Tuesday with a notice that AI features will now be enabled on the glasses by default, according […]
My Company Went Unnoticed for Years — But Everything Changed Once I Stopped Doing This One Thing
It’s not personal, it’s business? No way. Business is personal.
Apple notifies new victims of spyware attacks across the world
Two alleged victims came forward claiming they received a spyware notification from Apple.
I’ve Spent My Career in One of the World’s Most Volatile Industries. Here’s What It’s Taught Me About Agility, Risk and Resilience.
Key lessons from the energy front lines
JetBrains releases Mellum, an ‘open’ AI coding model
JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app development tools, has released its first “open” AI model for coding. On Wednesday, JetBrains made Mellum, a code-generating model the company released for its various software development suites last year, openly available on the AI dev platform Hugging Face. Mellum, trained on more than 4 trillion […]