Startups

WhatsApp Boosts Privacy with Passkey Encryption for Chat Backups

In an era where data privacy is paramount, small business owners are constantly seeking ways to secure their communications and sensitive information. WhatsApp’s latest...

Guaranteed Removals Review – Pros and Cons in 2025

Negative publicity works against your company around the clock. Embarrassing articles, one-star reviews, and complaints on Facebook—bad news travels fast and leaves a mark...

Earnestness

December 2020Jessica and I have certain words that have special significance when we're talking about startups. The highest compliment we can pay to founders is to...

How to build a Content Design Agent

It’s Monday morning. Slack and email are overflowing with content requests. “Can you review this flow?”; “Can you rewrite this screen?”; “Can you name...

Debug like a boss: 10 debugging hacks for developers, quality

Solve stubborn bugs faster by breaking things on purpose, questioning your assumptions, and thinking your way to clarity. Bugs show up, eat all your time,...

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...

Intuit learned to build AI agents for finance the hard way: Trust lost in buckets, earned back in spoonfuls

Building AI for financial software requires a different playbook than consumer AI, and Intuit's latest QuickBooks release provides an example.The company has announced Intuit...

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...

Intuit Unveils New Mailchimp Tools to Boost Holiday Retail Success

As the holiday season approaches, small businesses are gearing up for one of the busiest periods of the year. Recognizing this, Intuit has unveiled...

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...

What I Worked On

February 2021Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school, were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what beginning writers...

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...

The Spherical Cows of Programming

The technique of using custom notations—often referred to as ‘spherical cow‘ modeling—is a deliberate simplification strategy where practitioners intentionally suppress or abstract away major...

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...