Electric Wings Over the Fields — System QA
Marco Bellandi · Oct 12, 2026Gene Avakyan is the CEO of Edison Aerospace, a Miami aerospace research and development company. Under his leadership, the company has developed the Heavy
Founders
Endeavor Catalyst Closes $320 Million Fund — but the Track Record Stays Partly Hidden
Kenji Watanabe · Oct 9, 2026The nonprofit-backed venture arm says 83 of its 437 portfolio …
Founders
Walmart, Target and Amazon Open the Retail Holiday Season Early
Kenji Watanabe · Oct 5, 2026Three fall sales events land in the same week, and …
Startups
How to Hire Your First 10 Employees at a Startup
William Elliott · Oct 2, 2026A sequencing guide to which startup first hires matter most, …
Founders
What Actually Happens in a Startup Acquisition, Step by Step
William Elliott · Oct 1, 2026From the first quiet conversation to escrow and integration, here …
How Startup Accelerators Actually Decide Who Gets In
Owen Blackwood · Sep 29, 2026A shortlist, a ten-minute interview, and a bet on the …
What a SAFE Actually Is, and How It Converts to Equity
Owen Blackwood · Aug 22, 2026The Simple Agreement for Future Equity became the default pre-seed …
Reviews
The Best Video Doorbell Is the One Whose Alerts You Trust
Marco Bellandi · Sep 27, 2026Image quality sells the demo. Notification reliability and subscription costs decide whether the thing stays on your door.
Product-Market Fit: How Startups Know When They've Found It
Ray Kowalski · Sep 12, 2026Retention, repeat usage and word-of-mouth separate real demand from the sign-up counts that flatter a pitch deck.
Funding
Venture Capital vs. Revenue-Based Financing: Which Fits Your Business
Ray Kowalski · Sep 24, 2026One trades equity for a shot at a huge outcome. The other trades a slice of revenue for control. The right answer depends on your growth math, not on hype.
The Anatomy of a Pre-Seed Round, Step by Step
Owen Blackwood · Sep 22, 2026Who writes the first checks, which instruments they use, and what has to be true for the money to turn into a company.
Mercantile Co. Shows How Founders Formalise a Group of Agencies — Four Moves Worth Copying
G Squared's founders turned 14 years of loose acquisitions into a structured parent company. Here is what the record shows about how they did it.
Klarna's IPO Filing Shows a Smaller Company Than the $45 Billion Peak: What the Document Says
Klarna's November 2024 US IPO filing reports roughly $1 billion in revenue for 2023, against a last private valuation of $45.6 billion set in 2021 — the gap is the whole story.
How IPO Pricing and Lock-Up Periods Actually Work
Before a stock trades publicly, its price is negotiated by underwriters and institutional buyers, and most insiders are barred from selling for roughly 180 days — here's how each piece of the…
The Serial Founder Advantage, Myth-Tested Against What the Record Shows
Repeat founders raise money more easily and hire faster — but the same experience imports habits that sink second companies.
How a SAFE Actually Converts at Your Priced Round, With the Math That Surprises Founders
A SAFE is a deferred conversion instrument that turns into equity at your next priced round — and the conversion discount or cap, not the check size, decides how much of the company the investor ends…
How Rule 506 Lets Startups Raise Money Without SEC Registration
Under the SEC's Rule 506(b), a startup can raise an unlimited amount from an unlimited number of accredited investors plus up to 35 non-accredited ones, according to the agency — but only by skipping…
How to Build a Tech News Diet That Isn't Just Noise
A layered system of aggregators, niche newsletters and primary sources that takes minutes a day, not hours.
How a Small City Becomes an Unlikely Cybersecurity Powerhouse
Talent pipelines, government anchors and the cluster effect — the machinery behind cybersecurity hubs, explained without the mythology.
SIM Swap Attacks Explained: The Heist That Steals Your Number
Attackers convince a carrier to hand over your phone number, then reset every account tied to it.