349 stories
Many great consumer and marketplace companies began with one person writing most of the code. A founder with technical skills…
Going public is supposed to be the finish line for a successful startup. Founders ring a bell, early investors cash…
Headlines about a startup being “in talks” at a huge valuation are catnip for readers and a source of confusion…
When a senior executive leaves a prominent technology company, the news gets plenty of attention and very little explanation. The…
Skilled trades staffing has stayed stubbornly old-fashioned. A contractor needs a crew, so someone phones a trusted foreman, calls a…
Here is a business idea that sounds almost too plain: buy a handful of ordinary companies, such as accounting firms,…
Most things are made in a factory and then shipped to wherever they are needed. That works well in peacetime,…
There is a particular kind of article that begins with a company being worth a large sum and ends without…
Every so often a headline announces that a young company reached a huge valuation in record time, and the follow-up…
Open a parcel from an online shop and you often meet a small mountain of material: a box too big…
A round of tech layoffs is usually reported as a story about headcount. When the company also sponsors a widely…
A young founder builds something, raises money, and soon a headline announces an enormous founder net worth. The number is…
