Posts by Liam Redmond
Median Household Income Record Resets Your Pricing Math
Real median household income reached $87,460 in 2025, the strongest figure in Census Bureau records going back to 1967, the agency reported this week. Poverty on the official measure dropped half a point to 10.2%, and the rate among children set a record low at 13.4%. Every founder selling to consumers just got a new…
Read MoreNewsom signs bills to regulate data center industry, criticizes Trump for inaction
SACRAMENTO — California just took its first concrete steps toward regulating its growing data center industry as public appetite builds to crack down on the massive facilities. Amid widespread concerns about environmental and economic impacts of data centers, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed seven bills Monday morning aimed at protecting consumers from growing electricity costs and tracking the…
Read MoreWhat $350M in Growth Taught Mayur Nagarsheth About Startup Success
Photo of Mayur Nagarsheth speaking at event. How do you take a company from $8 million to over $350 million in revenue and then use that same playbook to help startups chart their own million-dollar journeys? Mayur Nagarsheth has spent nearly 20 years answering that question from inside some of tech’s most iconic enterprises and…
Read MoreBusiness Succession Planning Lessons From Buffett’s Exit
Warren Buffett is leaving the Berkshire Hathaway chairmanship, the company said Friday, with the 96-year-old taking the title of chairman emeritus immediately and his son Howard stepping into the chair. Warren Buffett stays on as a director, a role he has held alongside the chairmanship he took in 1970. The handoff completes a two-stage exit…
Read MoreSmall Business Trends Point to a Record Filing Wave
Americans filed 578,926 business applications in July, a seasonally adjusted count that sat 8.1% above the June total, according to Census Bureau figures compiled by Thimble and distributed Thursday through Stacker. Forbes has already named the run the Great American Small Business Surge. Running a business is hard enough without wondering whether you picked a…
Read MoreYen slips as intervention threat persists, US dollar steady
Published Mon, Sep 21, 2026 · 09:13 PM [SINGAPORE/LONDON] The Japanese yen weakened on Monday (Sep 21) after volatility late last week put traders on alert for possible currency intervention, while a series of rate hikes and hawkish signals from central banks helped to strengthen the US dollar. Traders stayed vigilant for signs of Tokyo…
Read MoreBrock Purdy nearly perfect as 49ers thrash Dolphins in historically dominant start
SANTA CLARA — Now, the San Francisco 49ers can say all is back to normal. Almost 16,000 of the 38,105 miles they’ll travel this season are behind them, and they’re 2-0. A convincing 2-0, at that. They had more than a week to recover from a taxing, transcontinental start to the season, and they left…
Read MoreGermany’s Oktoberfest kicks off rowdy festivities as mayor taps first beer keg
Munich’s Oktoberfest kicked off Saturday with the city’s mayor tapping the first keg of beer and opening the 191st edition of the world’s largest folk festival. Mayor Dominik Krause put the first keg on tap with only two strokes and the traditional cry of “O’zapft is” — or “It’s been tapped.” Thousands of revelers — the women…
Read MoreHow California tech turned thrifted clothes into fashion’s hottest status symbol
Thrifted clothes have become an unlikely fashion flex for Hollywood’s haute couture hoarders and other trend-setters. California companies have propelled this movement, turning what was once an old-fashioned way to save money into a booming industry at the cutting edge of style. The secondhand clothing market grew 20% to more than $240 billion over the…
Read MoreLA animal hoarder faces 25 years in prison after seizure of 300 dogs and cats
The woman at the center of one of the largest animal rescue operations in US history faces nearly 25 years in jail after authorities seized more than 300 dogs and cats from her Lake Hughes home. Christine De Anda, 57, operator of Rock ‘N’ Pawz, was hit Friday with 35 criminal charges, including 12 felony…
Read MoreSBA Size Standards Overhaul Closes for Comment Sept 21
There is a federal comment window closing on Monday that will reshape who you bid against. Two proposed rules published August 20 would rewrite the SBA size standards that decide which companies count as small for federal contracting, and comments close September 21, 2026. If you sell to the government, or plan to, this is…
Read MoreCustomer Research Gets an AI Stand-In for Your Buyers
Knowing what your buyers think has always cost weeks. Gather introduced company-specific customer simulations on Tuesday, built from interviews that an AI moderator conducts with actual human participants, and it is pitching customer research as something you query in minutes rather than commission in quarters. The company says it has grown tenfold in eight months…
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