10 Mistakes I Made While Selling My First Startup (and How You Can Avoid Them)
When I was selling my business, I learned that at any moment, the right shove from the wrong direction might kill my deal. Here’s how I made the sale happen.
Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks
AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty cases too, and the technology is moving faster than the safeguards.
Get Pearly Whites in Time for Labor Day With This $29.97 Electric Toothbrush
Snag an electric toothbrush, travel case, and replacement heads with this deal.
3 Top Rated China Stocks Investors Are After This Week
Despite several obstacles, the Chinese economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience over the past several years. Given the consistent measures undertaken by the nation to keep its economy afloat this year,…
Most Friends Don’t Make Good Business Partners. But Here Are 3 Things You Can Do to Change That.
If you and your friends are thinking of starting a business, there are some ground rules you’ll need to discuss first.
Accel-backed Agave lets construction software talk to one another
A lot of the most popular construction software was developed 20 to 40 years ago and many systems don’t talk to each other. As a result, the information stored in them is fragmented, adding extra work for building teams. Agave, a member of Y Combinator’s latest batch, is helping with a unified API that connects […]
QuantHealth brings its AI-informed clinical drug trials to the US with $15M round
Biotech, pharmaceutical, and life sciences companies all hope AI will streamline drug development and make it more efficient, and 38% have already adopted the technology, according to Deloitte. QuantHealth aims to take part with a model that predicts risks and outcomes for clinical trials. The company’s AI-powered platform for drug discovery claims to reduce potential […]
The Download: how to test AI, and the hidden victims of pig-butchering scams
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. Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they are. In the past few years, multiple researchers claim to have shown that large language models can pass cognitive tests designed…
Marathon Oil (MRO) vs. Marathon Petroleum (MPC): Which Energy Stock Has the Potential for Great Momentum in September
A pickup in demand for oil and gas and constrained supplies amid production cuts will likely push crude prices higher, driving strong investor interest in the energy sector. Thus, energy…
FIRE Movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early) Method Doesn’t Work
As people are increasingly looking to retire early and live off their investments, the FIRE movement has gained popularity in recent years. In spite of this, the FIRE method is…
Why PE firm Alitheia is banking on women in Africa
African women-founders find it incredibly hard to raise capital from private markets, and even banks, a gap that “gender-lens” funds like Alitheia IDF exist to bridge. Alitheia IDF was co-founded by Tokunboh Ishmael and Polo Leteka in 2015 as a private equity fund to back the often marginalized founders. Through the $100 million Alitheia IDF, […]