Fresh off the worst season in baseball’s modern era, the White Sox are in desperate need of some changes. That could involve the departure of longtime owner Jerry Reinsdorf. Under Reinsdorf’s stewardship, Chicago reached the highest mounts of MLB success, capturing a World Series title in 2005 and breaking the Curse of the Black Sox. […]
X rival Mastodon has started selling toys
If you like open-source, decentralized social networks that put the power in the hands of the people instead of billionaires, you can now support that cause…by buying toys. On Tuesday, Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, began selling its own merchandise in the form of cute, plushie mastodons – the proto-elephants with long tusks that […]
Electric outboard startup Pure Watercraft is selling itself for parts
A hopeful entrant in the emerging market of electric watercraft is out of action and being sold for parts. Pure Watercraft was founded in 2011 with the intention of replacing gas-based outboard motors with fully electric ones. We covered the company in 2016 when it began taking preorders for its first commercial outboards, and in […]
32-Year-Old Man Makes $281,000 A Month Selling Things You Could Find At A Grocery Store
Sometimes a career change involves risk. Thankfully, that risk paid off for one business-savvy man in China. Unrelated photo | Lycs Architecture/Unsplash After experiencing burnout, a tech employee quit his job to start a fruit e-commerce business. The 32-year-old, surnamed Lin, didn’t strike gold though until he cashed in on a popular wellness trend on […]
Selling a startup in an ‘acqui-hire’ is more lucrative than it seems, founders and VCs say
While the best startups are doing well, even in this tough venture capital market, others are struggling to raise new funding. If they can’t raise and haven’t become self-sustaining businesses, their best bet is to get acquired, even if it’s for a fraction of their last valuation. The alternative would be to run out of […]