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When people choose their cofounder, it’s rarely scientific. They’re guided by trust, and trust is easiest to find in familiar places: former coworkers, college classmates, close friends, people who already sit in your orbit. While starting a company is chaotic enough without bringing strangers into the mix, I wanted to understand whether this instinct toward familiarity actually comes with a cost. Turns out it does. Having worked with hundreds of early-stage startups as founders and investors, including at Coatue, Kleiner Perkins, and NFX, we wanted to test whether the instincts founders use to choose partners actually hold up in the…

Market research can be a slow, fragmented, and difficult process, often involving tedious internet searches, questionable data sources, and time-consuming manual synthesis. This makes it a great candidate for some assistance from AI. What’s more, an update to a popular feature on ChatGPT has made it even better at doing this kind of work. Imagine that you have a potential business idea but still need to validate how viable it actually is, identify primary competitors in your market, and develop an ideal customer persona. Instead of spending hours collating data, explains Dan McCarthy, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Maryland, you can use Deep Research, a ChatGPT…

It’s another bad day for gold and silver. Traders in precious metals are seeing both gold and silver plummet significantly as the week kicks off, with gold down nearly 7% and silver down 8% over the past 24 hours. Worse, gold has now fallen nearly 20% since its all-time high of over $5,586 in January. Silver is down even more, falling more than 44% since its all-time high earlier this year of over $121. Here’s what you need to know.The ‘safe haven’ trade is absentSilver and especially gold are generally considered “safe haven” assets—assets investors turn to when economic uncertainty…

The U.S. economy was supposed to start the year with a bang, fueled by an unusually large jump in tax refunds from President Donald Trump’s tax cut legislation. Yet spiking gas prices are on track to eat up those refunds, leaving most Americans with little extra to spend.“Next spring is projected to be the largest tax refund season of all time,” Trump said in a prime-time speech in December that was intended to address voters’ concerns about the economy and stubbornly high prices.But that was before the Iran war, which began Feb. 28. Oil and gas prices have soared since…

A statue of Christopher Columbus has been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, the latest effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to recognize the controversial explorer.The statue is a replica of one that was tossed into Baltimore’s harbor in 2020 during Trump’s first term at a time of nationwide protests against institutional racism.Trump endorses a traditional view of Columbus as a leader of the 1492 mission seen as the unofficial beginning of European colonization in the Americas and the development of the modern economic and political order. But in recent years,…

Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. If you run your business from your laptop, your operating system isn’t just a tool—it’s your first layer of protection. And for many entrepreneurs and small business owners, that layer isn’t as strong as it should be.From client contracts to financial data and tax information, you likely store some of your most valuable assets right on your devices. Yet security is often pieced…

Air travel is currently in a state of chaos. TSA agents are calling out of their jobs en masse; security lines are piling up; extreme weather is delaying flights; and on March 23, President Trump deployed ICE agents to multiple major airports, causing an outcry from the public and multiple advocacy groups. And, this morning, an Air Canada plane crash at LaGuardia airport, which killed at least 2 people, was also in the headlines.Despite all of these factors, major airlines saw share prices soar this morning. As of this writing, American Airlines stock is up more than 4%, Delta is up…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Multi-location SEO fails when businesses treat it as a checklist. Sustainable visibility comes from a repeatable structure — clear site architecture, consistent GBP management and standardized review processes. Copy-paste location pages with only the city name swapped don’t work. Each location needs distinct content: localized FAQs, location-specific services and local proof elements. Google increasingly weighs how users engage with your listings — review activity and recency, click-through rates, GBP engagement and brand searches. Multi-location businesses used to win local SEO with a simple formula: Create location pages, set up Google…

Elon Musk runs an auto company. He oversees an aerospace company. And he controls a social media outlet. Now he wants to add chipmaker to his resume.The multi-hyphenate billionaire announced plans over the weekend to build a chip manufacturing factory in Austin, Texas, which will produce chips for SpaceX and xAI, which recently merged. Musk, at a presentation Saturday, said the project, dubbed Terafab, will be the “most epic chip building exercise in history by far.”Musk has been talking about Terafab for a while, but the event on Saturday marked the official start to the project. While xAI and other…

Key Takeaways Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a new interview that the company will “go heavy” on hiring new college graduates. According to Huffman, these new grads have the advantage of being “AI native,” meaning they know how to work alongside AI tools. His stance contrasts with wider fears that AI will wipe out entry-level, white-collar jobs. As AI advances, leaders have spoken out about its ability to replace entry-level work in finance, technology and analytics. Now, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is flipping that dominant narrative. He argues that winning companies will be the ones that scoop up early-career…