#startup

#startup

The duo, both 31, met in 2018 and became inseparable while working at GuavaPass, a fitness app. Yiong was laid off when Guavapass was acquired by ClassPass in 2019. Two years later, during the pandemic, Chng was laid off from her marketing job. The duo reunited to launch an athleisure brand,then called Butter, despite having no experience in fashion or entrepreneurship.

When I was younger, I started an e-commerce grip socks brand called Alpha Grips. It failed, but that's what got me interested in business. I was 12. A lot of kids' first businesses is always something to do with e-commerce, like drop-shipping or clothing brands. Social media does saturate you with that "get rich quick" idea with drop-shipping or crypto. Although 90% of the time it's a scam, it still ignites an interest.

"His Vespa had gotten stolen and we just kinda had this crazy idea ... if we were to design one for the future that was all-electric, had the best technology, what would it look like? What would it feel like?" Cohen explained. As I stood beside P1, a $10,000 electric seated scooter, and Olto, a $3,495 bike-lane legal class 2 e-bike, that question had been answered. The brothers' company started shipping the P1 to customers in October and expects to deliver Olto in early 2026.

The Helsingborg-based platform connects students with internships. Designed to streamline recruitment, the platform helps businesses quickly find qualified interns who match their needs, thanks to detailed student profiles that provide clear insights into each candidate's skills. For students, it's an easy way to discover opportunities and connect with potential employers.

For the last year and a half, two hacked white Tesla Model 3 sedans each loaded with five extra cameras and one palm-sized supercomputer have quietly cruised around San Francisco. In a city and era swarming with questions about the capabilities and limits of artificial intelligence, the startup behind the modified Teslas is trying to answer what amounts to a simple question: How quickly can a company build autonomous vehicle software today?

The TWITTER and TWEET brands have been eradicated from X Corp.'s products, services, and marketing, effectively abandoning the storied brand, with no intention to resume use of the mark,

"I started to get emails from all kinds of people asking if I could glaze pieces of pottery with their loved ones' remains," he told the WSJ. Unfortunately, dealing with the flood of requests helped Crowe realize that pottery wasn't a great avenue for scaling a business, as it only uses a fraction of a person's dusty leftovers. He ended up revamping his enterprise, coming up with Parting Stones' "solidification service," which begins at $1,195 for pets and $2,495 for humans.

"We stopped Yara because we realized we were building in an impossible space. AI can be wonderful for everyday stress, sleep troubles, or processing a difficult conversation," he wrote on LinkedIn. "But the moment someone truly vulnerable reaches out-someone in crisis, someone with deep trauma, someone contemplating ending their life-AI becomes dangerous. Not just inadequate. Dangerous." In a reply to one commenter, he added, "the risks kept me up all night."

I've always wanted to live in San Francisco. It's the beating pulse of AI, and there are so many insanely ambitious and talented people to be surrounded by. You can literally walk into a coffee shop and end up in a two-hour deep dive conversation about AI agents or someone's YC application. Everyone's dreaming big, and you can feel that optimism in the air. It's a nice place to build a startup.

We're a team of problem solvers,

"Our users are very young," Pei said on Alex Heath's Access podcast this week. "It's pretty much impossible to be popular among everybody in the world at the very beginning, so we got to pick a lane." Pei said the company has found that its products resonate best with younger consumers who are motivated by a desire to "be different" and find their "own identity" in the devices they choose.

Andrew Lissimore has been running the audio apparel site Headphones.com for nearly a decade now. While audiophiles have a high affinity towards their gear and want to try out new gadgets, Lissimore wasn't satisfied with continuously spending money on platforms like Meta and Google to acquire new customers; he wanted to find a way to better retain the customers he already had.

A startup called Orion is ready to take on America's sleep loss epidemic with a new, AI-enabled mattress cover that can adjust its temperature throughout the night to maximize comfort and rest. Cofounder and CEO Harry Gestetner previously cofounded the startup Fanfix, which helped Gen Z content creators build paid subscription programs. After the company sold to SuperOrdinary for a reported $65 million, Gestetner says he became interested in sleep and its well-documented links to health and longevity.

The whole thing works like this: exhausted job seekers upload their résumé and format their personal info. Once up and running, they're presented with various gigs one by one, which they can swipe left to reject, or right to apply - just like a dating app. When a user swipes right, Sorce's "AI agent" navigates to the company's website and applies on their behalf.

We're building NexDash into Europe's first Neo-Carrier: electrified, AI-orchestrated, and soon autonomous. 🚛⚡ To keep pace with our growth, we're looking for a strong Operations & Finance Associate who acts as the founder's right hand and makes sure everything runs smoothly. Your responsibilities: Admin: build organization & structure across the company Finance: basic controlling, payments, investor reporting HR: contracts, onboarding, culture building Office management: keep the daily machine running

With Supercal's group scheduling feature, you can email a group of people and CC the service's AI, which reads everyone's calendars, finds a time that works for all, books the meeting, and replies to the email thread with the details. Supercal lets you sync up to six calendars, so you can keep work, personal, and other schedules in one place.

In the summer of 2016, I was 21, living in New York City, and working as an intern for a private-capital research firm. One weekend, I went to the Jersey shore with a group of friends. I'm from Seattle, so I'm not used to seeing airplanes flying banners every couple of minutes. They looked like they were from the 1940s. They were noisy and emitting a lot of smoke.

Starting a business from scratch may feel overwhelming, but the journey becomes easier with clear steps. Begin by finding a problem to solve and making sure there's real demand for your idea. Create a simple plan that covers your goals, budget, and strategy. Secure the right funding, complete the legal formalities, and focus on building a strong brand presence. Start small, test your product or service, and improve based on feedback. Use marketing to reach your audience and grow steadily.

Within 28 hours, AI startup Aurasell raised $30 million in seed funding to take on Salesforce and other legacy sales software companies. Aurasell, which is coming out of stealth and announced the seed funding on Tuesday, aims to automate sales and streamline the disparate tools - and more recently, the AI agents - built on top of customer relationship management (CRM) software like Salesforce. It includes sales tools for forecasting, prospecting, account population, and more.

Fourteen years ago, Silicon Valley startup August rethought the front door with its internet-connected smart locks. Its growth led to an acquisition in 2017 by lock manufacturer Yale-and it's still the top-selling smart lock brand in the U.S. But despite the relative ubiquity of connected-home products like August 's locks, Ring doorbells, and Nest thermostats, the true ideal of the smart home-a dwelling with built-in tech that seems to magically cater to your needs-seems no closer than it was when August launched.

Kyte shut down after financial strain and contraction, ceasing operations after laying off staff and focusing on only two core markets last fall.

Loveable, a coding startup, aims to achieve $1 billion in annual recurring revenue within the next year, fueled by rapid growth of $8 million in ARR each month.

The 'aha' moment? I realised I'm not the only dev who sucks at marketing. We build cool apps. Then they just sit there. No launch. No reach. No traction.

Habitacion.com allows young individuals to purchase individual rooms, helping them to save money and invest in property, ultimately leading to homeownership.

"Data scientists are great when you want to optimize your product by 2% or 5%, but that's definitely not what you want to be doing when you start a company."

"At some point, you become a manager, and you spend a lot of time in communication. We realized a lot of our communication wasn't fun."

Lovable has achieved unicorn status and now a centaur status by surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue within just eight months of its launch.

Upwind Security was founded at the end of 2022 and is reportedly in talks with Datadog for a $1 billion acquisition. This marks a potential quick exit for its founders.

Cluely's current product is described as an invisible desktop assistant that listens through microphones, transcribes speech, identifies speakers, and provides real-time summaries.

The mood was very bleak. Some people were upset about financial outcomes or colleagues leaving, while others were worried about the future. A few were in tears, and the Q&A had been understandably hostile.

Subscription-based revenue models, exemplified by Netflix, provide predictable revenue streams and enhance customer lifetime value, which can be applied even in traditional industries.