She Started a Creative Side Hustle That Made $100,000 in 10 Months — Now It Earns Up to $10 Million a Year: ‘Find Your Niche’
Maura Duggan, founder and CEO of Fancypants Baking Co., transformed a long-time passion into a lucrative business.
Puzzle Corner
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Avoid the Siren Song of Rapid Growth — Why Scaling Too Fast Can Sink Your Startup
By focusing on user experience, staying lean and dominating one market before expanding, you can avoid common pitfalls and build a strong foundation for long-term success.
Minority Entrepreneurs Face More Economic Disparities — and More Money Trauma. Here’s How to Stop the Silent Struggle With Financial PTSD.
Also called “financial PTSD,” it affects many entrepreneurs, especially in Black and brown communities where we have added layers of economic disparity. The good news is that here is the exact way you can overcome it.
Disney Is Ditching Slack After 44 Million Messages Were Leaked, Spilling Company Secrets
Disney has decided to stop Slacking while employees weigh a possible move to Microsoft Teams.
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How I Redefined My Success as an Entrepreneur With These 3 Questions
Success is such an arbitrary concept. It looks different for everyone. For me, these 3 questions helped redefine what I wanted from my business, and what it would take for me to feel truly successful.
He Founded a Company That Was Acquired By Angie and Now He Is Disrupting CPG. Here Are This CEO’s Strategies for Innovating and Scaling.
From building the home services platform company Handy to revolutionizing the consumer goods industry with Keychain, Oisin Hanrahan has mastered the art of scaling companies.
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The Download: training robots for unfamiliar environments, and all-new bird flu
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. AI models let robots carry out tasks in unfamiliar environments What’s new: It’s tricky to get robots to do things in environments they’ve never seen before. Typically, researchers need to train them on…
A Bad VC Deal Destroyed My Multimillion-Dollar Company. Here’s What I Wish I Knew Before I Signed.
These are the lessons I learned from working with — and getting screwed by — the wrong VC.