Posts by Liam Redmond
Inflation Report Day: How Founders Should Plan for CPI
Today is inflation report day. According to Kiplinger’s preview, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will publish September consumer prices at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, and the consensus calls for 3.6% annual inflation. August came in at 3.4%. That gap may look small, yet it flows straight into your costs, your pricing, and your customers’ patience. Marketing…
Read MoreConsumer Sentiment Near Record Low: What Founders Should Do
Shoppers sound gloomier than they have in months. A CFO Brew report on the University of Michigan’s preliminary October survey puts consumer sentiment at 46.3, down from 48.1 in September. That sits just above the record low of 44.8, set in May. If you sell to consumers, this number deserves a spot in your next…
Read MoreRams’ Alaric Jackson wins appeal as Bradley Chubb reveals what pparked fight
Alaric Jackson threw a punch on Monday night against the Buffalo Bills. On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Rams starting left tackle landed a punch of his own by winning an appeal against the NFL. Jackson successfully appealed his two-game suspension for punching Bills linebacker Bradley Chubb following the Rams gut-wrenching 37-34 overtime loss at SoFi…
Read MoreFrom a Six-Year-Old’s Hobby to 10 Million Pounds of Popcorn a Year
Amish Country Popcorn didn’t start with a business plan, a national launch, or a long product list. It began in 1965 with a small plot of popcorn in Berne, Indiana, planted by Roy Lehman for his six-year-old son, Brian. Brian started by growing popcorn for family and friends. By sixth grade, he was carrying popcorn…
Read MoreAI Email Marketing Moves Into Your Chatbot With Movable Ink
Movable Ink, a marketing software company, unveiled a headless approach to campaign work on October 13, 2026. In plain terms, marketers can now build and run campaigns from whichever AI assistant they open each morning, instead of logging into one more dashboard. The company dated the release from London. That shift matters whether you send…
Read MoreMicrosoft Teams Phishing: Fake IT Support Targets Nearly a Third of Firms
Security firm Ontinue says about 30% of the organizations it monitors ran into at least one fake help-desk approach over Teams during the first six months of 2026, according to its 1H 2026 Threat Intelligence Report. The company published the findings on October 13, 2026, from Zürich. The pattern is simple: an outsider poses as…
Read MoreAI Meeting Assistant Ambi Raises $26M: Consent Questions
An AI meeting assistant that can listen to you all day just attracted real money. TechCrunch reported on October 12, 2026 that Ambi, founded by former Plaud executive Peter Mo, has collected $26 million over several rounds. Luminous Ventures led the funding, and manufacturer ODM Huaqin also took part. For anyone selling, pitching, or managing…
Read MorePR Tools for Founders: Honeyjar Brings AI to Comms
Honeyjar, a startup building PR tools for founders, wants to hand senior-level communications know-how to people who have never worked in PR. TechCrunch covered the company on October 12, 2026. The company is part of the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort heading to TechCrunch Disrupt. The pitch is simple, and the skepticism is fair. Most early-stage…
Read MoreAI Blueprint Generator Startup Targets Permit-Ready Plans
Santa Monica startup Blueprints AI says its AI blueprint generator can produce drawings that meet local code and are ready for a permit office, starting from nothing more than a rough sketch or a PDF, and it does so in minutes. TechCrunch reported the news on October 12, 2026. The company was chosen for Startup…
Read MoreRare Nanotyrannus skeleton goes on display at NYC Sotheby’s before heading to historic auction
On quick glance, the fossil unveiled Tuesday at a Manhattan auction house looks like an undersized Tyrannosaurus rex, with its signature gaping jaw filled with razor sharp teeth. But the proportions are off, as its arms and legs are much too long. That’s because the dinosaur skeleton isn’t actually a T. rex but a recently…
Read MoreDiscovery+ now costs up to $11.99 a month as Skydance takes over
Exactly a week after the new Skydance corporation — the product of the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger — was officially formed, Hollywood’s newest media giant is already raising streaming prices. Discovery+, one of Skydance’s new streaming assets, will now cost $6.99 a month for its ad-supported tier, up $1. Its ad-free tier is also up…
Read More‘Human vs. Robot’ cage match was a hit. State says event was illegal, but organizers aren’t concerned
A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco. The humans behind that fight could face a battle of their own — the legal type — if they want to hold another event like “Human Vs. Robot,” the Sept. 18 competition that placed influencer Frankie…
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