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Times of Entrepreneurship Stories The Backlash to the Profits-First, Profits-Only Model of Silicon Valley is Growing. Here’s a Midwestern Example. Read the Story » How To Serve 40 Million Meals, From The Alaskan Seas To The Grand Canyon’s Bottom Read the Story » Delivery Apps Prey on Small Businesses and Restaurant Owners I’ve been working […]

Times of Entrepreneurship Stories  Gordon Caplan’s Comeback Is it possible for America to forgive a wealthy man? Read the Story » The Scion of a Banking Family Crafts a FinTech Future Luvleen Sidhu was the youngest woman to take a company to public with BM Technologies – the owner of the BankMobile technology. This interview […]

Times of Entrepreneurship Stories of the Week IRR Is A Vanity Metric New Builders co-author and leading venture capitalist Seth Levine takes a straightforward look at VCs’ use of the internal rate of return as a measure of early fund performance. Take it with a grain of salt, he says. Read the Story » What You […]

Times of Entrepreneurship Stories of the Week A Surprising Tech Center Emerges In Upstate NY It’s being shaped by the presence of dedicated business people with a sense of the region’s long manufacturing history. Read the Story » The Pandemic Showed Us What Works Three ideas for investments in infrastructure to make us healthier. Read […]

Times of Entrepreneurship Stories of the Week Big Social Media Doesn’t Work That Well For Small Business. But The Market Is Shifting. A revelatory story by Lori Ioannou about the realities of dealing with big social media companies: For small businesses, they’re often expensive, with little result. Read the Story » A Palestinian VC Fund, Going Strong, Seeks […]

Times of Entrepreneurship Stories of the Week When Life Inside A Hedge Fund Left Her Wanting, She Started A $2M Company In Kenya The company co-founded by Rocío Pérez Ochoa, Bidhaa Sasa, is at once a throwback to the days when capitalism actually seemed to be doing good, and on the frontlines of the future, […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: Starting a business is somewhat out-of-style right now, as a vehicle for making the world a better place. Liberal policymakers are focused on labor. The right-wing, which used to be at least a nominal champion of small businesses, has disintegrated. Some big foundations have moved on. In part, […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride Why Fund Strategic Journalism In March of 2020, as the pandemic was bearing down on us, Elaine Pofeldt (one of the top freelancers who works with Times of E) and I were covering the effect on small businesses across the country. We were among the few. Most of our peers […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: The Biden administration announced recently that the United States would accept as many as 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. That’s a sharp contrast to the policies of recent years. Democrats tend to be a bit more welcoming compared with the Trump Administration, which cut off most refugees entirely, but not really: […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: Bad news for the journalism world this week as BuzzFeed announced layoffs at its Pulitzer Prize-winning newsroom. Overall, the media company was profitable – in fact, profits are up – but producing high-quality news is expensive. The market was demanding higher returns, so BuzzFeed’s management acted. But who […]