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Why Brooklyn’s Freelancers and Founders Are Choosing Work Heights Over Bigger Names

You have probably walked past a Work Heights location without realizing it. There are seven of them across Brooklyn, in Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Bed-Stuy, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Boerum Hill, and Williamsburg, all operating as storefronts embedded in their neighborhoods rather than office towers set…

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Nobody saw it coming. That’s usually how it goes with the people who build something real — they’re never the ones the room was expecting. They don’t walk in carrying the right last name or the warm handshake of someone who vouched for them. They…

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MUFG Launches $600 Million Growth Fund as Institutional Capital Shifts to India’s Scale-Up Phase

Japanese financial group MUFG is consolidating its India investment operations and preparing to launch a $600 million growth-stage fund, signaling a broader institutional shift toward backing mature startups in India’s digital economy rather than early-stage ventures. The restructuring moves the MUFG Ganesha Fund’s operations under…

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Before You Hand ChatGPT Your Bank Balance, Read This

OpenAI launched a personal finance feature, and it wants access to your bank balances, debts, and transactions. Before you connect your accounts, the team at PocketSmith, an independent personal finance platform, has four things worth thinking through first. PocketSmith isn’t anti-AI. The company recently launched…

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For decades, the nonprofit sector has treated independence as a virtue. The smaller, local and autonomous an organization remained, the closer it was believed to be to its mission. Ryan Dewey Smith has spent much of his career challenging that assumption. As the founder and…

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Superpal Raises €500k to Put an AI Employee Inside Every Company’s Slack

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Decoding Social Media Algorithms: Tips & Resources for Beginners

Social media algorithms can seem mysterious, but understanding how they work is essential for anyone looking to grow their online presence. This guide breaks down the…

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on June 15, 2026

AI-Proof Skills Aren’t Learned on Screens – They’re Built With nLab

Most people learning engineering today are doing it on screens. They watch tutorials. They simulate circuits. They drag components across digital interfaces that behave exactly as intended. And then they’re asked to build something real. That gap—between understanding a concept and physically making it work…

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There is a particular kind of label reading that plant-based eaters develop over time. The scan that starts at the top of the ingredient list and…

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She Left a Safe Career to Start a Firm Nobody Told Her to Build That Now, Makes A Lot of Sense: The Stephanie McClure Story

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For decades, the nonprofit sector has treated independence as a virtue. The smaller, local and autonomous an organization remained, the closer it was believed to be to its…

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on June 19, 2026

The American moving industry generates over $86 billion in annual revenue and employs more than 122,000 people nationwide, yet the independent operators who form the backbone of that…

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on June 18, 2026

Marquis Who’s Who honors Sriram Ramakrishnan, MBA, for his excellence in the fintech and payments industry. As a lead platform product manager at Veem in San Francisco, California,…

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