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Meet Mighty, an online platform where kid CEOs run their own storefronts; a “digital lemonade stand”

Until children reach a certain age, enrichment programs are somewhat limited to school, sports, and camps, while money-making opportunities are largely non-existent.Now, a year-old, L.A.-based startup

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Jill Biden teams up with NFL great to push vaccinations

Jill Biden played offense Tuesday in the fight against COVID-19, teaming up with an NFL Hall of Fame running back and America’s second gentleman to encourage Texans to

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Harness Wealth raises $15 million to democratize the power of family offices

Family offices have existed since the 1800s, but they’ve never been so manifold as in recent years. According to a 2019 Global Family Office Report by UBS and Campden Wealth, 68% of the 360 fami

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Demand Curve: Email marketing tactics that convert subscribers into customers

Email has the highest return on investment of any other marketing channel. On average, email earns you $40 for every $1 spent. And the best part is that email is an owned channel, which means you can

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How Carnegie Mellon is helping build its own startups and keeping them in Pittsburgh

The math is simple: Great research universities beget great startups. Pittsburgh certainly has little want for the former, with two world-class research schools — Carnegie Mellon University and

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Want in on the next $100B in cybersecurity?

As a Battery Ventures associate in 1999, I used to spend my nights highlighting actual magazines called Red Herring, InfoWorld and The Industry Standard, plus my personal favorites StorageWorld and Ma

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Dear Sophie: What options would allow me to start something on my own?

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge t

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Extra Crunch roundup: SaaS founder salaries, break-even neobanks, Google Search tips

Usually, a teacher who grades students on a curve is boosting the efforts of those who didn’t perform well on the test. In the case of cloud companies, however, it’s the other way around.As of Q1 2021

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Daily Crunch: Transmit Security’s $543M Series A is one for the record books

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 22, 2021. We have startup

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10 ways founders can manage their mental health while fundraising

Entrepreneurs’ mental health and stress management started to be more widely discussed amid the pandemic, but for many seasoned entrepreneurs, the topic is still taboo. Now that the world seems to be

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How much to pay yourself as a SaaS founder

“If you’re the founder of a seed-stage [company and] you’re worried about your electricity staying on this month, then your salary is too low. If you’re saving $10,000/mo, then

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Alibaba co-founder: HK's free market great for capital formation

Andrew Ross Sorkin (L) interviews Joe Tsai during CNBC's "Squawk Box" at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., June 15, 2021. /Screenshot of interview videoChina

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Dear Sophie: Is it possible to expand our startup in the US?

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge t

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Novo, a neobank for SMBs, banks $41M

Small businesses have traditionally been underserved when it comes to IT — they are too big and have too many requirements that can’t be met by consumer products, yet are much too small to

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French Open organizers: 'We did it the right way' with Naomi Osaka

Logo of the French Open on the clay court of Roland Garros in Paris, France. /CFP French Open organizers insist that they took the correct measures against Naomi Osaka following her decision t

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What does Uber and birth control have in common?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our morning coffee chat with you that is all abou

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French Open organizers: 'We did it the right way' with Naomi Osaka

Logo of the French Open on the clay court of Roland Garros in Paris, France. /CFP French Open organizers insist that they took the correct measures against Naomi Osaka following her decision t