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Young Professionals Are Increasingly Turning to Boring Small-Business Niches

Younger would-be chief executives are increasingly seeking profits — and freedom from the 9-to-5 — by pivoting from corporate jobs into often unglamorous small-business niches.
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Eric Schmidt Joins Relativity Space as C.E.O.

The former Google chief executive is taking a controlling interest in Relativity Space, which aims to build low-cost, reusable rockets to compete against Elon Musk’s SpaceX and to reach Mars.
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The Future of News Looks Niche

The media entrepreneur Jessica Lessin chats with DealBook about the news landscape and her latest media bet.
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Trish Costello is Harnessing the Financial Power of Women

Trish Costello is the founder and C.E.O. of Portfolia, a women-focused investment platform that is fueling health care innovations aimed at improving women’s lives.
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The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0

Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
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Where Have All the ‘Third Places’ Gone?

The term, coined by a sociologist in the 1980s, refers to informal public spaces where people can linger — and some say they’re disappearing.
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Elon Musk Is the World’s Richest Man. Why Is He Sleeping on an Office Floor?

For today’s entrepreneurs, work isn’t merely a way to get things done; it’s also a “superpower” that confers the right to impose their vision on the world.
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4 Black Women Who Mixed Fine Dining, Fashion and Art in New York

The dining rooms created by these restaurateurs weren’t just eye-catching; they were stages for their owners’ personal stories.
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Is Xi’s Sudden Embrace of Business for Real? China Is Left Guessing.

The uncertain reaction to Xi Jinping’s display of warmth made sense: Executives are eager for a reset after years in the cold but ever wary of meddling.
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A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups

Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Now artificial intelligence tools are making workers more productive and spurring tales of “tiny team” success.
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Woman Pleads Guilty in Covid Tax Credit Scheme That Netted $33 Million

A Nevada business owner prepared and filed false tax returns to fraudulently obtain Covid relief money for her businesses and others, prosecutors said.
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A New York Restaurant, a Texas Farm and Their Plant-Based Brawl

They shared the same name, Dirt Candy, and a devotion to healthy food. But a trademark dispute turned into an urban-rural standoff.
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C. Richard Kramlich, Early Investor in Silicon Valley, Dies at 89

He was among the first backers of Apple Computer and 3Com, earning windfalls, but it was his humaneness that distinguished him from other venture capitalists.
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As Big Retailers Pull Back on D.E.I., What Happens to Emerging Black Sellers?

Black-owned brands got a foot in the door through accelerator programs at big retailers like Target and Amazon. Now they worry the door might be closing.
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Muere el Aga Khan IV, acaudalado líder de los musulmanes ismailíes

A los 20 años, el príncipe Karim al Hussaini heredó las riendas de un linaje musulmán chií y utilizó su emprendedurismo para convertirse en uno de los gobernantes herederos más ricos del mundo.
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The Aga Khan IV, Wealthy Leader of the Ismaili Muslims, Dies at 88

At the age of 20, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini inherited the reins of a Shia Muslim lineage and used his entrepreneurship to become one of the world’s richest hereditary rulers.
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After DeepSeek, Venture Capital Investors Face Questions About Their A.I. Bets

Venture capitalists plowed money into A.I. start-ups like OpenAI and Anthropic. But the rise of the Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek has called that funding frenzy into question.
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A Youthful Africa Steps Up

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African century.
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Celebrity Moguls

We cover the rise of entrepreneurship in Hollywood.
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Bills and Lions Give NFL Fans in Canada Reason to Cheer

With the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions both Super Bowl contenders, fans north of the border are nervously hopeful a title drought could end.
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