Startups

ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon

Last week, as ICE raids ramped up in New York, city residents set about resisting in the ways they had available: confronting agents directly...

Authors & Innovators 2025 – Feld Thoughts

I love to read. I love everything about books. LLMs will not replace good writing anytime soon, although they have mastered the art of...

MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)

Watch out, DeepSeek and Qwen! There's a new king of open source large language models (LLMs), especially when it comes to something enterprises are...

The Startup Junkies Podcast | 431: Inside Peanut Pupper: Turning Customer Needs Into a Growing Pet Startup

SummaryIn this week’s episode of Startup Junkies, hosts Daniel Koonce and Caleb...

Steve Blank How to Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory – Now with 500 more names

Posted on October 15, 2025 by steve blank The October 2025 PEO Directory – Update 2. The Department of War (DoW) is one of the world’s...

How to Get Rapid YouTube Subscriber Growth for Creators

Hundreds of hours of research and 73 pages of notes—that’s what it took for Aprilynne Alter to multiply her YouTube subscriber count by 12...

Consumers Plan 25% More Holiday Spending, Boosting Small Business Revenue

As the holiday season approaches, small business owners find themselves on the cusp of significant revenue opportunities. According to the recently released Intuit QuickBooks...

Hunter.io Review – Pros and Cons in 2025

Hunter is an all-in-one outreach platform built around its Email Finder and Email Verifier. It helps sales, marketing, and recruiting teams quickly surface...

Write Simply

March 2021I try to write using ordinary words and simple sentences.That kind of writing is easier to read, and the easier something is to read,...

Preparing for the Customer Agent future

At Pioneer 2025, our CEO Eoghan McCabe shared our most ambitious goal since we first set out to build Fin.  Fin will not be just...

How to sequence your DNA for

“It really hurts”My finger drips with blood.“God… do you want me to do it for you?”“Sure, I guess”Before I can say anything more, she...

Leveling Up in the Vibe Coding Video Game

While “vibe coding” was a catchy phrase when I first heard it, something about it felt like a head fake to me. And, now...

Anthropic is giving away its powerful Claude Haiku 4.5 AI for free to take on OpenAI

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 on Wednesday, a smaller and significantly cheaper artificial intelligence model that matches the coding capabilities of systems that were...

Hacking for Defense and Lean LaunchPad Final Presentations

Join us for the final presentations of our two Stanford classes this Tuesday June 4th and Wednesday June 5th. Tuesday = Hacking for Defense Wednesday =...

7 Best Websites for Logo Design

If you’re looking to create a logo, several websites can help you achieve a professional look, regardless of your design skills. Platforms like Canva...