Culture
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...
Pitch Competition Wins: 5 Lessons From Veteran Founders
VetsinTech named the winners of its most recent Startup Pitch Contest (which marks its sixth annual contest) August 26, 2026, after five veteran-founded companies presented at Andreessen Horowitz’s San...
AI Agent Interoperability Gets a Neutral Home at Last
Google handed its Agent2Agent protocol to the Linux Foundation directed Agentic AI Foundation last week, putting it into the same governance as Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol. The transfer was...
US Canada Tariffs Escalate With Retaliation Set for Sept 8
Washington and Ottawa walked away from the table last weekend, and the collapse of those talks triggered 50 percent US tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods. Canada...
Consumer Confidence Report: Now Is Fine, Later Is Not
The Conference Board’s August consumer confidence report, released Tuesday from New York, slipped 0.8 points to 89.4 on the 1985 base, down from 90.2 in July. The headline move...
De Minimis Exemption Is Gone and a New Fee Is Coming
If you import inventory in small batches, the rule that made that work is gone, and a guide updated on August 17, 2026 lays out where things now stand....
Best Startup Accelerators: 5 Ways to Judge an Offer
TIME published its America’s Best Incubators & Accelerators 2026 ranking on August 18, 2026, and Boston-based MassChallenge landed at No. 2 nationally. The list, researched with Statista, evaluated the...
SBA 7a Loan Cap Doubles, But Few Founders Qualify
The Small Business Administration doubled its combined lending ceiling effective July 4, 2026, and the change is smaller than the headline suggests. Qualified borrowers can now take an SBA...
How to Start a Business With AI: What Founders Plan
Most aspiring American founders now assume artificial intelligence will be part of their launch, according to survey results published on August 20, 2026 and commissioned by Intuit QuickBooks. Sixty-five...
Small Warehouse Space Model Expands Across Denver Metro
I used to tell product founders that their first warehouse would be the decision that nearly killed them, and now that advice is aging fast, because WareSpace opened a...
