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Starting Your Business

A visa nightmare sparked this founder’s immigration-focused startup

After bad legal advice nearly cost her a job, Aizada Marat built Alma to rethink how professionals and companies navigate the US immigration system.


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Starting Your Business

Early-stage founders share the ups and downs of building a company

At New York Tech Week, small founders discussed lessons learned about tech stacks, co-founders, and AI.


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Starting Your Business

Inside Angel Gregorio’s model of free space and Black business incubation

The Spice Suite in Washington, DC, operates as more than a spice shop—it’s a layered ecosystem of retail, real estate, and programming designed to give Black entrepreneurs free access to space, community, and opportunity through her Black and Forth model.


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Starting Your Business

How this startup helps retailers navigate supply chain chaos

Altana uses AI to help companies adapt to the new norms of global trade.


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Starting Your Business

Why Vidovo founder Elijah Khasabo turned down VC money

The hardest part wasn’t saying no to the investment. It was surviving the stretch before it was clear he’d made the right call.


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Starting Your Business

Anthropic wants to help small businesses get started with AI

The company just rolled out a new SMB-focused product along with a nationwide workshop tour.


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Starting Your Business

How a pandemic walk and a Talking Heads song sparked the idea for It’s Electric

Before officially founding the Brooklyn-based curbside EV charging company, co-founder Tiya Gordon liked to think of it as a project, not a startup.

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