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Startup companies
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoResearch suggests the average founder of the fastest-growing startups isn't 25 - it's 45, and a 50-year-old is more than twice as likely to build a breakout company as a 30-year-old - Silicon Canals
The average age of successful startup founders is 41.9 years, challenging the stereotype of young entrepreneurs.
Graphic design
fromInc
1 month agoThey Quit an Influencer Marketing Startup and Built Their Own. Now They're Projecting to Make $3M
Two former Lefty employees launched Storytime to automate influencer marketing for local and brick-and-mortar businesses, addressing inefficiencies in the existing market that served only large luxury brands.
fromMiguel Carranza
4 months agoMy role as a founder CTO: Year Eight
The concept of vibe coding is not even a year old. Apple was forced, for the first time, to allow external payment links in the US. Apps became easier to build than ever. Kids now want to become developers to drive lambos. There are courses promising millions if you learn to build apps, turning app development into what drop shipping was a few years ago.
Venture
fromBusiness Insider
5 months agoTwo Gen Z founders who raised $1.25 million for their AI startup share their pro tips for landing funding
Windeck and Aidan Guo, 19, launched Attention Engineering earlier this year to build a next-generation desktop assistant powered by AI. "It's not exactly a desktop assistant, but kind of becomes one: ambient, proactive, and personally understands you," Guo said. "It can surface a lot of insights like how you use your time," he said. In the coming months, the tool will be able to automate everything you do on your computer, like a "cursor for everything," he said.
Startup companies
fromBusiness Insider
6 months agoPerplexity's CEO turns to AI for investor pitches instead of building decks
Pitch decks are slide shows that give investors and customers key details about a company's founders, its product, and its financial performance. "I just write a memo and I tell them you can do a Q&A and ask whatever you want," Srinivas said, referring to potential investors. "And anything else that is not internal data, you can ask Perplexity. Like, it already knows everything."
Fundraising
London startup
fromBusiness Insider
1 year agoVibe coding is changing the way investors think about founders
Investors prioritize domain knowledge and AI skills over traditional coding expertise due to 'vibe coding.'
Shift in focus from purely technical founders to those with strong business acumen is emerging.
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