A California Beach Town Just Banned Balloons. ‘I Hope This Will Change the Way People Think.’
The Laguna Beach ordinance is the latest in a growing trend of coastal communities enacting bans on balloons, a danger to wildlife.
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008
The Uber deck has been floating around the internet for a while. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and see what Uber got right — and where it made some spectacularly silly mistakes.
Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
Dad Pisses Off Thousands With TikTok Explaining How to Hack Disney Ride Height Restrictions for Kids
TikTokers The Kelly Fam made platform shoes out of flip-flops and Gorilla glue so their 3-year-old could sneak onto big rides.
Want to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business? This Entrepreneur’s Debut Book Will Show You How
After quitting her 9-5 job, Amy Porterfield went on to create an $85 million dollar business. She sat down with Jessica Abo to talk about her new book Two Weeks Notice and how you can go from employee to entrepreneur.
A Billionaire Stiffed Me $30K — Here’s What I Learned from the Experience
Here are three key lessons I learned after a billionaire stiffed me out of $30,000.
‘Financial Death Sentence’: Supreme Court Unanimously Says Your Partner’s Fraud Debt Is Yours, Too
You can’t discharge your partner’s debt in the bankruptcy process — even if you didn’t know about the fraud.
Plane Makes Emergency Landing After ‘Unruly Passenger’ Triggers Level 4 Threat
American Airlines flight 3444 was headed towards Washington, D.C., but made an emergency stop in Raleigh, North Carolina.
‘Sick and Twisted Irony’: Students Call Out Vanderbilt University for Using ChatGPT to Address the Michigan State Shooting in an Email to Students
The university has since apologized for missing the “crucial need for personal connection.”
Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in
For an ecosystem that covers a majority of the planet, the oceans have basically been ignored by startups and investors alike.
Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch
Plane Makes Emergency Landing After ‘Unruly Passenger’ Triggers Level 4 Threat
American Airlines flight 3444 was headed towards Washington, D.C., but made an emergency stop in Raleigh, North Carolina.