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• 🇺🇸 ‘Hunting Matthew Nichols’: From Guerrilla Marketing to Directly Pitching Theater Owners, This $275K Indie Turned a Profit Before it Even Was Released — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Markian Tarasiuk and Sean Harris Oliver were two Vancouver-based artists who ran neighboring theater companies. But when the pandemic hit in 2020, they came to a bleak realization. “Theater’s dead — r...

  Related: #Independent Film, #Pandemic Adaptation
• 🇺🇸 How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what every company gets regardless — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Here’s how to get there and why the opportunity starts well before the main stage.

  Related: #Startup Competition, #Tech Ecosystem
• 🇬🇧 'Breaking my ankle led me to fashion career' — 24/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  A Manchester fashion student set up fashion label Recondition combining accessibility and style.

  Related: #Fashion Design, #Accessibility
• 🇺🇸 Jeff Webb, Who Built a Competitive Cheerleading Empire, Dies at 76 — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Through Varsity Spirit, the company he established in 1974, he turned cheerleading into a multibillion-dollar juggernaut and exerted control over almost every aspect of it.

  Related: #Sports Industry
• 🇺🇸 Indian Consumer Goods Giant Marico Founder Harsh Mariwala’s Book ‘Harsh Realities’ to Get Screen Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE) — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  India’s Almighty Motion Picture, the production company behind “Made in India – A Titan Story,” is moving to bring the business bestseller “Harsh Realities: The Making of Marico” to the screen, adapti...

  Related: #Business Adaptation
• 🇺🇸 Pardoned Nikola founder Trevor Milton is trying to raise $1B for AI-powered planes — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  He told the Wall Street Journal he thinks autonomous planes will be "10 times harder than Nikola ever was."

  Related: #Aviation Technology
• 🇺🇸 Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara on the biggest prediction markets risks she has ever taken — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Luana Lopes Lara, co-founder of prediction markets startup Kalshi, tells CNBC about the biggest bets she ever made on the way to billionaire status.

  Related: #Risk Management
• 🇺🇸 Ivan Bosnjak: Entrepreneur, Digital Strategist, and Founder of Beconcept — 13/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Digital Strategy
• 🇺🇸 At the Winter Paralympics, some athletes have found business opportunities — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  At the Winter Paralympics, athletes with prosthetics often modify them to fit their bodies more precisely. That has led to some competitors starting their own businesses to help fellow amputees.

  Related: #Sports Innovation
• 🇺🇸 Ghost Framing Theory: Exploring the role of generative AI in new venture rhetorical legitimation — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.11384v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Responding to the surging but largely invisible use of generative AI in entrepreneurial framing, I advance Ghost Framing Theory (GFT) to explain how ...

  Related: #AI Legitimation
• 🇺🇸 When startups become a family business — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  This season on Build Mode, we’re diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team. This week we’re exploring different kinds of co-founder dynamics and what it takes to build a startup w...

  Related: #Family Business
• 🇺🇸 Poppi founder on TikTok, Super Bowl ads, and her return to Shark Tank — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups, citing thin margins and brutal distribution as reasons most brands never break out. But a new wave of “functional soda” compani...

  Related: #Marketing
• 🇺🇸 Hustlers are cashing in on China’s OpenClaw AI craze — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Feng Qingyang had always hoped to launch his own company, but he never thought this would be how—or that the day would come this fast.  Feng, a 27-year-old software engineer based in Beijing, started ...

  Related: #AI Adoption
• 🇺🇸 Kevin Mandia sold his cybersecurity company to Google in 2022. He has a fresh $190 million for a new venture — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia is staying in cybersecurity after selling his prior company to Google, but now he's focused on AI.

  Related: #Cybersecurity
• 🇺🇸 The Advice 20+ Female Founders Would Give the Next Generation of Leaders — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  Words from the wise.

  Related: #Leadership
• 🇺🇸 PopSockets founder David Barnett talks about building a viral business — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  David Barnett, founder of PopSocket, stops by Equity to talk about scaling the business and what he's learned as a leader.

  Related: #Business Growth
• 🇬🇧 Meghan's lifestyle brand and Netflix end partnership — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The Duchess of Sussex will run As ever independently, after a partnership with Netflix helped to launch the brand last year.

  Related: #Royalty and Business, #Media Partnerships
• 🇺🇸 25 Female Founders on the Beauty Products They Can’t Live Without — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  You'll want to jot these down.

  Related: #Beauty
• 🇺🇸 Immigrant entrepreneurs share journeys to U.S. and building their businesses — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  In the series "USA to Z," "CBS Mornings" spoke to three immigrant entrepreneurs who shared their stories about how their families came to the U.S. and built their businesses.

  Related: #Immigration
• 🇺🇸 Paris Hilton Doubles Down On YouTube With Series About Women Entrepreneurs Rebuilding After LA Wildfires — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Paris Hilton is growing her YouTube empire with a new series spotlighting women entrepreneurs who rebuilt their businesses after the devastating 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. Hilton is launch...

  Related: #Disaster Recovery
• 🇺🇸 With a New Nigeria Refinery, Africa’s Richest Man Wants ‘to Rescue the Country’ — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has an ambitious vision for the continent’s most populous nation, but hurdles stand in his way.

  Related: #Energy independence, #Economic development
• 🇺🇸 After Zomato, Deepinder Goyal returns with a $54M brain-monitoring bet — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  Zomato co-founder Deepinder Goyal's new wearable startup Temple has raised $54 million in a friends-and-family round at a post-money valuation of about $190 million.

  Related: #Health Technology, #Venture Capital
• 🇺🇸 The 'Great Wealth Transfer': A $3 trillion opportunity for Black business owners is on the horizon — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Researchers forecast 6 million small- and medium-sized businesses, or SMBs, will be available for acquisition by 2035.

  Related: #Wealth Transfer, #Economic Inequality, #Business Acquisition
• 🇺🇸 34-year-old spent $16K to start a side hustle, built it 20 minutes at a time—now her business brings in up to $90K a month — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  Julia Holden was in "survival mode" as a new mom when she started her business Sleepy Hat, a baby hat with an eye covering. Now, it brings in $90,000 a month.

  Related: #Work-Life Balance, #Product Innovation, #Financial Growth
• 🇺🇸 How this 29-year-old made landline phones cool again—and brought in $789K last year selling them — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  People are nostalgic for a simpler time without smartphones, social media and AI. Cat Goetze is dialed in.

  Related: #Technology Innovation, #Digital Wellness, #Nostalgia Marketing
• 🇺🇸 Remember HQ? ‘Quiz Daddy’ Scott Rogowsky is back with TextSavvy, a daily mobile game show — 20/02/2026 [USA]

  The former HQ host Scott Rogowsky is back with TextSavvy, a live mobile game show that he's building on his own terms.

  Related: #Comeback, #Mobile Gaming, #Personal Transformation
• 🇺🇸 Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP — 17/02/2026 [USA]

  Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner.

  Related: #Venture Capital, #Tech Leadership, #Investment Strategy
• 🇺🇸 He quit banking to sell bubble tea — now it’s a global empire that makes over $500 million a year — 15/02/2026 [USA]

  Martin Berry turned Gong Cha from a small Taiwanese tea franchise into a global bubble tea brand with more than 2,000 stores.

  Related: #Business Transformation, #Global Expansion, #Food Industry Innovation
• 🇺🇸 How to get into a16z’s super-competitive Speedrun startup accelerator program — 15/02/2026 [USA]

  TechCrunch spoke to a16z partner Joshua Lu for some tips on standing out for the Speedrun program.

  Related: #Startup Acceleration, #Venture Capital
• 🇺🇸 The hottest new LA coffee shop is in this couple's backyard: 'People really want community' — 15/02/2026 [USA]

  Granada is one of the latest small businesses to open through the MEHKO program, which allows residents to make and sell food from their home.

  Related: #Community, #Urban innovation, #Local business