The Number 1 Mistake Smart Founders Make When Hiring Their First Employees (and the 1 Type of Candidate to Avoid at All Costs)

Every early hire helps set the standard for how the team works, communicates, and makes decisions.

Every early hire helps set the standard for how the team works, communicates, and makes decisions.
Lenders advertising same-day business loans often don’t mean the same thing. Some fund within a few hours, others within 24 hours, and weekends, public holidays, or a late afternoon application can shift any of it by a day. For an Australian small business with a payment due today or a same-day opportunity to capture, same-day…
Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of PepsiCo, offered up some great career tips during an interview released July 1 as part of the Hoover Institution’s “Only In America” documentary series. Here are the six best pieces of advice she gave: 1. Seek opportunity Nooyi emigrated from India to the US in 1978 to attend the…
US options activity has been growing consistently as new traders enter the market, existing traders explore new strategies, and products evolve to meet the needs of both groups. Overall options activity hit a new high in the first quarter of 2026, with market-wide average daily volume (ADV) reaching 68.6 million contracts. At Cboe Global Markets,…
Most lenders will require a company to be in business for at least two years before they can get a small business loan as the lender wants to make sure the company will still be around when the loan comes to term, so the lender can recoup their funds. The risk with a company that hasn’t reached two years is that…
A $903.1 million investment in Dreamplug Technologies Pvt Ltd (CRED) emerged as India’s biggest private equity (PE) deal in the first half of 2026, leading a string of large-ticket transactions that helped push overall PE investments up 48.2 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to $8.7 billion, said a report by LSEG Deals Intelligence. …
Prior month revised to -6.6% versus -7.6% previously reported building permits for the month of May -1.7% versus +2.4% estimate. Details of the Report: Overall Total building permits: C$12.4B, -1.7% m/m (-C$215.0M) Decline driven by non-residential weakness, partially offset by residential gains Constant dollar basis (2023=100): Non-Residential Sector Total non-residential permits: C$4.7B, -6.1% (-C$306.1M) Industrial…