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Finding Product Market Fit: The Signs Every Founder Should Watch For

Product market fit is the turning point for a young company. Here is how founders can recognize it, measure it, and keep moving toward it.

Customer Discovery Interviews: How Founders Learn What People Really Need

Before you build more, talk to more customers. A practical guide to customer discovery interviews that reveal real problems and real demand.

Building a Pitch Deck Investors Will Actually Read

A strong pitch deck tells a clear story in a few minutes. Here is how founders can structure, write, and design a deck that earns the next meeting.

Michael Douglas Addresses a Brief Split From Catherine Zeta-Jones

The actor's memoir, out Tuesday, includes a separation more than a decade into the marriage.

Warren Buffett Didn't Become a Billionaire Overnight—He Became One Decision at a Time

How Lionel Messi Built a Billion-Dollar Legacy: 7 Principles Every Entrepreneur Should Follow

How Taylor Swift Built a $2 Billion Empire: A Blueprint Every Entrepreneur Can Follow

The Latest In World News

The Shocking Reason Fuel Prices Are up 30%—And Why It’s About to Get Worse

The Scoop: If you’ve noticed your wallet feeling a lot lighter lately, you can thank the prolonged conflict in the Middle East. The global economic buffer has officially worn thin, and consumers are paying the price. The Details: Decades of intense geopolitical and religious tension have erupted into prolonged military operations around critical trade routes like the Strait of Hormuz. Because of the constant danger, oil prices have quietly shot up by roughly 30%. The Global I

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Featured Founders

How Founders Can Keep a Simple Cash Runway Dashboard

How Founders Can Sunset a Feature Without Angering Users

How Founders Can Build a Simple Weekly Operating Rhythm

How Founders Can Write Their First Job Description

How Founders Can Hold a Productive Board Meeting

How Founders Can Write a Clear Company Mission Statement

The One Page Business Plan: A Simple Tool Founders Will Actually Use

Bootstrapping vs Raising Capital: How Founders Choose the Right Path

Choosing a Cofounder: What Every Founder Should Look For Before Saying Yes

How Dr. Rhonda L. Ravenell is Reshaping Youth Mental Health and Rewriting the Narrative of Childhood Trauma

Michael Douglas Addresses a Brief Split From Catherine Zeta-Jones

Finding Product Market Fit: The Signs Every Founder Should Watch For

Customer Discovery Interviews: How Founders Learn What People Really Need

Building a Pitch Deck Investors Will Actually Read

Pricing Your Product: A Founder's Guide to Charging What It Is Worth

Making Your First Hire: A Founder's Guide to Getting It Right

Your First Ten Customers: How Founders Win Early Traction

The Shocking Reason Fuel Prices Are up 30%—And Why It’s About to Get Worse

How Global Wars Are Secretly Killing the Internet as We Know It

The Scoop: Think the internet will always connect everyone, everywhere? Think again. The massive political and religious divides splitting the globe right now are officially building a permanent digital wall. The Details: Because of how countries are lining up in current wars, the world is fracturing into two distinct camps. On one side is the US and its allies; on the other is a tight partnership between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. The Global Impact: To survive Wes

The Three Separate Wars You’ve Been Ignoring Just Merged Into One Massive Global Nightmare

The Scoop: While everyone is watching Europe and the Middle East, a massive, interconnected crisis just boiled over in the Horn of Africa—and the fallout is about to ripple across the entire planet. The Details: According to the latest data, what used to be three separate issues—the brutal civil war in Sudan, intense fighting in Somalia, and ethnic clashes in Ethiopia—have officially merged into one giant conflict system. Refugee crises, illegal arms deals, and gold smuggling

World News

Lauren Bennett, Voice Behind Party Rock Anthem, Dies at 36

Credit: LMFAO / Interscope The music industry is mourning the loss of Lauren Bennett, the British singer best known for her vocals on the global smash hit Party Rock Anthem and as a member of the pop group G.R.L. Bennett has died at the age of 36, according to statements shared by her former bandmates. Bennett first captured international attention in 2011 when she appeared alongside LMFAO on Party Rock Anthem, one of the defining pop anthems of the decade. The song topped ch

Book Reviews

From Surviving Against the Odds to Inspiring Young Hearts: David Koning's Wag and a Prayer Is the Children's Book Families Need Right Now

The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett

Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell

How Founders Can Keep a Simple Cash Runway Dashboard

Runway should not live only in a founder's head. A simple weekly cash dashboard helps Founder Magazine readers stay solvent while they build.

How Founders Can Sunset a Feature Without Angering Users

Killing a feature is hard, but silence and surprise are harder. Here is how founders can retire product work with clarity, respect, and a real migration plan.

How Founders Can Build a Simple Weekly Operating Rhythm

Chaos is normal in a young company. A simple weekly rhythm helps founders stay on top of priorities without drowning in meetings and tools.

How Founders Can Write Their First Job Description

Your first job description shapes who applies and who joins your startup. Here is how founders can write one that attracts the right people.

How Founders Can Hold a Productive Board Meeting

A well run board meeting can give founders sharper advice and stronger support. Here is how to prepare, run and follow up on one.

How Founders Can Write a Clear Company Mission Statement

A strong mission statement guides decisions, attracts the right people and keeps a growing company focused. Here is how founders can write one that works.

The One Page Business Plan: A Simple Tool Founders Will Actually Use

Long business plans often sit unread. A one page plan keeps founders focused. Here is what to include and how to put it to work.

Bootstrapping vs Raising Capital: How Founders Choose the Right Path

Should you fund your startup yourself or raise outside money? Here is a clear look at the tradeoffs every founder should weigh.

Choosing a Cofounder: What Every Founder Should Look For Before Saying Yes

A cofounder is one of the biggest decisions you will make in your company. Here is how to judge fit, align on values and set clear terms from day one.

Finding Product Market Fit: The Signs Every Founder Should Watch For

Product market fit is the turning point for a young company. Here is how founders can recognize it, measure it, and keep moving toward it.

Customer Discovery Interviews: How Founders Learn What People Really Need

Before you build more, talk to more customers. A practical guide to customer discovery interviews that reveal real problems and real demand.

Building a Pitch Deck Investors Will Actually Read

A strong pitch deck tells a clear story in a few minutes. Here is how founders can structure, write, and design a deck that earns the next meeting.

Pricing Your Product: A Founder's Guide to Charging What It Is Worth

Price too low and you starve the business. Price too high without proof and you stall. Here is a practical way for founders to set and test pricing.

Making Your First Hire: A Founder's Guide to Getting It Right

Your first employee shapes your company more than any hire after. How founders can decide when to hire, what role to fill and how to choose well.

Your First Ten Customers: How Founders Win Early Traction

Before scale comes proof. A practical guide for founders on finding, winning and learning from the first ten customers who will shape the business.

Cash Flow Before Growth: How Early-Stage Founders Stay Solvent

Profitable on paper is not the same as cash in the bank. The habits early-stage founders use to manage runway, forecast honestly and grow without running dry.

A 15-year-old lost a hand. France is still tear-gassing high-school students.

High-school blockades that began in a Paris suburb have become a nationwide revolt over crowded classrooms, missing teachers and crumbling buildings.

Stocks Pause at Records as Yields Stay Near 5.25 Percent

A soft September jobs report cooled hike bets, but the 10-year Treasury did not follow.

C.H. Robinson to Buy RXO for $5.8 Billion

A freight broker deal lifted RXO shares about 24 percent before the bell.

Schneider Electric Bids $22.6 Billion for PTC

The all-cash offer sent PTC shares up more than 35 percent before the open.

Michael Douglas Addresses a Brief Split From Catherine Zeta-Jones

The actor's memoir, out Tuesday, includes a separation more than a decade into the marriage.

Constance Zimmer Says She Is in Treatment for Breast Cancer

The Entourage actress told followers the mental toll has been overwhelming.

Dakota Johnson Turns 37, With Jennifer Lawrence at the Table and Taylor Swift on SNL

A birthday dinner in New York followed a Saturday Night Live hosting gig.

Karoline Leavitt Joins Fox News as an On-Air Contributor

Trump's former press secretary is moving from the briefing room to cable.

Search Continues for a Medical Jet Missing Off Massachusetts

A Bermuda-to-Boston air ambulance with six people aboard vanished Saturday.

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dies at 84

The longest-serving Republican speaker died Monday, CBS News reported.

Trump Names Jay Clayton to Lead a Super Intelligence Force

The director of national intelligence will also serve as the White House AI czar.

U.S. Pulls B-1 Bombers Out of RAF Fairford

The Air Force has withdrawn its B-1 Lancer bombers from a British base used in the Iran war.

Selena Gomez Offloads L.A. Home in $5.4 Million Close

Reports say Selena Gomez sold a Los Angeles residence for $5.4 million.

Media Concentration Forces a New Investor Checklist

With state suits settling, investors are rewriting checklists for studio combinations.

AI Hotline Proposal Tries to Put a Floor Under U.S.-China Risk

Washington floated an AI emergency hotline with Beijing while chip controls stay in force.

Simone Biles Home Invasion Report Hits Athlete Security Market

Simone Biles said masked intruders took a Porsche from a Chicago home linked to her and Jonathan Owens.

Ruffalo Keeps Pressure on California Merger Review

Mark Ruffalo asked California not to settle remaining objections to the Paramount-Warner plan.

Hormuz Strike Pushes War-Risk Insurance Back Up

A projectile hit a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, a shipping center said.

Record-Quiet Atlantic Season Does Not Cancel Reinsurance Math

The Atlantic’s hurricane drought is the longest in 112 years, seasonal summaries say.

Press Access Fight Shadows White House Ceremony Coverage

Several U.S. networks declined live video of a White House helipad inauguration as outlets challenge restricted reporter access.

Kelce Touchdown Clip Keeps Swift at Center of Sports Marketing

Taylor Swift’s reaction to a Travis Kelce touchdown against Indianapolis dominated entertainment feeds.

New Arctic Pact Expands U.S. Defense Footprint in Greenland

The United States, Denmark and Greenland signed an Arctic security agreement at the U.N.

Japan Counts Dead and Missing After Typhoon Dujuan

Typhoon Dujuan killed at least four people in Japan, injured 22 and left six missing after landslides.

Category 5 Hurricane Polo Raises Pacific Supply-Chain Alerts

Hurricane Polo reached Category 5 in the eastern Pacific, the National Hurricane Center said.

Paramount-Warner Settlements Unlock an $81 Billion Calendar

State attorneys general and writers settled suits over Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery plan.

NIL Legislation Could Reset Campus Sports Economics

A Senate bill would set federal name-image-likeness rules, transfer limits and roster protections.

U.N. Week Puts Iran Conflict at Center of Leader Meetings

President Trump used his U.N. address to defend Iran policy and lined up talks with Britain, Japan and Venezuela.

Federal Health Marketplace Purge Puts Brokers on Pause

Officials plan to drop about 760,000 ACA exchange enrollments they call fraudulent and freeze new brokers for six months.

Iceland Voters Reject Opening Talks on European Union Membership

Icelandic voters rejected a move to open talks on European Union membership, according to results reported after the ballot.

Small Changes in Sleep, Exercise and Diet Linked to Lower Heart Risk

Researchers tracking sleep, exercise and diet reported that modest changes in those three habits were linked to lower measured heart risk.

Lori Loughlin Files for Divorce, Seeking a Fresh Start

Lori Loughlin filed for divorce and described the step as a fresh start, entertainment-court coverage of the papers said.

Philippines Ferry Fire Leaves Five Dead and Dozens Missing Off Palawan

A passenger ferry fire off Palawan left five people dead and dozens missing, according to Philippine disaster and coast-guard updates circulated after the blaze.