Entrepreneurship
Business Loan Rates and Dimon’s Warning: A Founder Plan
When the head of the country’s largest bank talks about borrowing risk, founders with debt should listen. In coverage of JPMorgan’s third-quarter results, Jamie Dimon pointed to large deficits,...
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%...
Consumer 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...
From 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,...
AI 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...
Microsoft 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...
AI 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...
PR 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,...
AI 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...
Median Net Worth Hits $215,900 in the Fed’s New Survey
The Federal Reserve’s latest consumer finance survey, released October 9, puts median family net worth at $215,900. That is a 2% rise from 2022 after adjusting for inflation. First...
