This Week in Startups

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff says the right way to build hardware is to raise $30–50M and take three years. His answer to what he’d do differ...

Find out how a startup turned every stranger at a festival into a cell tower, so you never lose your friends again. Carter Fowler of Totem j...

Don’t write code until someone actually asks for it. Why did Vanta create and sell its product by hand three times before building anythin...

Half of the 10,000+ applications LAUNCH gets each year come from companies that aren't even incorporated, says Jason Calacanis. In the age o...

Jason Calacanis says everybody in Japan is a founder, and the proof is a tonkatsu counter. Which is the real startup edge: obsession with de...

This startup pulls rare-earth metals from old electronics using… orange peels? It’s one of 11 startups that pitched Jason and Yuki Shirato o...

Sheel Mohnot says some SaaS companies are "cigar butt" businesses. Seat-based pricing shrinks, and switching costs hit zero when agents hand...

Chris Farmer is a bear on Instinct's $10B valuation. Gmail, Facebook, and Google already own the data, the distribution, and the trust. What...

The first time a prospect logs into your site by themselves, without you there to guide them, it’s very possible they’ll forget where you cl...

Deedy Das's AI agent is fighting an airline for his €600 refund. It chatted with the rep, escalated to a human, then asked for the manager. ...

Sheel Mohnot and Kanu Gulati have both passed on the AI data companies racing to $1B in revenue. Chris Farmer is backing them. Durable bu...

Sheel Mohnot says some SaaS companies are "cigar butt" businesses. Seat-based pricing shrinks, and switching costs hit zero when agents hand...

Chris Farmer is a bear on Instinct's $10B valuation. Gmail, Facebook, and Google already own the data, the distribution, and the trust. What...

More VCs now sit on the boards of startups going head-to-head, and the Factory vs. Cognition fight just showed how messy that can get. On a ...

When growth slows at a startup, the obvious immediate move is more marketing. Spend more money, generate more leads, add features for the sa...

We're LIVE at 12 PM central with @KanuGulati, Partner at @khoslaventures. She went from research scientist at Cadence and Intel to leading ...

We're going LIVE at 12 PM central with @pitdesi, Co-Founder & GP of @BTVvc. He sold FeeFighters to Groupon, ran 500 Startups' fintech fund,...

We're LIVE at 12 PM central with @chriswfarmer, Founder & CEO of @SignalFire. He started SignalFire in 2013 on a simple idea: use data to f...

Co-founder and CEO Shan Reddy tells us why even smarter models fail to improve as tutors, and how his start trains AI to instruct as a human...

Jason Calacanis says $500K is too much money to start a company in 2026. All you need is $10–20K a month and one employee, and anything more...