This is an installment of Startup Year One, a special series of interviews with founders about the major lessons they have learned in the immediate aftermath of their businesses’ first year of operation. Nydia Shipman and Sarah Renahan started the Worthy Company in 2018. As new moms, they were seeking a better eating experience that […]
This is an installment of Startup Year One, a special series of interviews with founders about the major lessons they have learned in the immediate aftermath of their businesses’ first year of operation. While pregnant with her first son and working full-time at the United Nations as a strategist for partnerships, business development, and stakeholder […]
This is an installment of Startup Year One, a special series of interviews with founders about the major lessons they have learned in the immediate aftermath of their businesses’ first year of operation. Many founders fall into the trap of believing that fundraising is a rite of passage in the startup world. But it can […]
This is an installment of Startup Year One, a special series of interviews with founders about the major lessons they have learned in the immediate aftermath of their businesses’ first year of operation. The pandemic has fueled a cottage industry of different products that never seemed necessary in everyday life, but nothing has come close (or perhaps, become […]
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Thomas Enders, a former chief executive of aviation giant Airbus, is joining the board of a fledgling flying taxi company. Enders’s appointment is a coup for Lilium, a Munich-based company that has pioneered the use […]
On Jan. 11, 2018—on the cusp of her 30th birthday—Liya Shuster was diagnosed with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Over the past three years, Shuster taken the knowledge gained from her experience and channeled it into Alula, a new online hub of resources intended to support both patients as well as family and friends […]
This is an installment of Startup Year One, a special series of interviews with founders about the major lessons they have learned in the immediate aftermath of their businesses’ first year of operation. Striving both to promote sustainability but also a more honest and open conversation around menstrual care, Nixit is a one-size-fits-all menstrual disc […]
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Star chip designer Jim Keller has joined Tenstorrent, a Toronto startup that makes specialized computer processors for artificial intelligence. Keller previously designed breakthrough chips at AMD, Apple, and Tesla. He left his most recent role […]
On a June afternoon in 2019, two inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration visited a warehouse in San Francisco. The uniformed women pulled out of a briefcase a printout of a Fortune story headlined: “Startups disrupted breast pumps. Is infant formula next?” On that piece of paper, they had highlighted every place the words […]
On a June afternoon in 2019, two inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration visited a warehouse in San Francisco. The uniformed women pulled out of a briefcase a printout of a Fortune story headlined: “Startups disrupted breast pumps. Is infant formula next?” On that piece of paper, they had highlighted every place the words […]