Entrepreneurship
LTL Freight: 5 Ways Merchants Cut Heavy Shipping Costs
ShipStation has pulled less-than-truckload shipping into its main platform, so small and mid-sized sellers can quote, book and track LTL freight in the same place they already handle boxes....
Why Startups Fail: Record Funding, Record Shutdowns
SimpleClosure, a firm that handles company wind downs, has published its shutdown data for the first half of 2026, and the picture is more useful than the headline suggests....
Fraud Prevention Draws $156M as Socure Buys Fravity
A quiet corner of financial infrastructure just repriced, because Socure raised $156 million at a $5.2 billion valuation and acquired an AI startup on the same day. Summit Partners...
CEO Succession Planning: What Apple’s Handoff Shows
John Ternus becomes chief executive of Apple today, completing a transition the company announced back on April 20. Tim Cook moves to executive chair, and Art Levinson, previously chair...
Employee Background Check Startup Yardstik Raises $30M
A Minneapolis company that screens workers has raised fresh growth capital, and Yardstik closed a $30 million round led by Harbert Growth Partners on August 27. The financing lifts...
August Jobs Report Caps a Heavy Week of Economic Data
The August jobs report arrives Friday, September 4, closing out a week that also delivers ISM manufacturing and services surveys, the JOLTS openings data, the ADP employment reading and...
AI Tools for Small Business Get a Meta Upgrade
Meta rolled out a set of AI features aimed at small businesses that connect to Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace. Owners can hand Meta...
AI Visibility Is Now a Founder Problem, Not an SEO One
ShouldEye launched a business platform this week that tracks how leading AI models describe a company, according to Practical Ecommerce’s August 26 roundup of new merchant tools. The product...
Return to Office Mandate Wave Hits 87% of Postings
Robert Half’s analysis of 2026 job postings found that 87 percent of roles advertised in the second quarter were fully on-site. Hybrid accounted for 10 percent, and fully remote...
A Recovery-Supportive Workplace Still Needs Clear Boundaries
A manager who lets every deadline slide out of sympathy isn’t running a recovery-supportive workplace. They’re running a workplace with no workplace left. Boundaries in a recovery-supportive workplace aren’t...
