Market Explainers

Cultural entrepreneur leverages proven investment track record to create comprehensive platform targeting next-generation expectations.  The most successful businesses of the next two decades won't be those that adapt existing models to serve younger audiences—they'll be the ones built from the ground up to match how Gen Alpha and Gen Z...

When most people first download the Flo App, they are looking for a convenient way to track their periods or fertility window. What distinguishes Flo is that it also conducts its own medical research studies and partners with doctors at research institutions to publish new research that is otherwise not...

When people think about roofing, they often picture shingles, ladders, and long hours in the sun. But for Done Right Roofing, the work has always been about something bigger: trust. Founded in Bridgeview, Illinois, the company has grown by keeping promises, staying punctual, and solving real problems for homeowners and...

Global markets adopted a steadier tone on Thursday, with participants increasingly ignoring the political spectacle surrounding the U.S. government shutdown. With September’s employment report postponed, investors leaned on broader macro signals and strategic positioning. Equities continued to grind higher, Treasuries traded flat within recent ranges, the dollar firmed, and gold...

What are you looking for? I mean, not existentially. Or maybe yes.   Unless you have academics, experts, and butlers at your service, like kings, merchant families, and popes in the old days, you may want to open your Chrome browser and Google stuff. This is what most people do, every...

The digital economy is unforgiving. Businesses no longer compete just with local rivals but with national and international players who all want the same thing: customer attention. In this crowded space, visibility isn’t about shouting louder   it’s about being strategic, precise, and intentional. That’s the philosophy that underpins Get-Found, a...

Running a business comes with daily hurdles that can easily pile up if they aren’t handled early. Owners are expected to manage resources, bring in the right team, market their services, and keep everything moving forward at a steady pace. Each area demands attention, and ignoring any of them for...

Too many leaders think they need to constantly present themselves as intellectuals or experts. Don’t fall into that trap. Want to see how lonely that path can be? Do a Google image search and look at the portraits of the twenty-eight greatest philosophers, according to Oxford University Press. They’re some of...

When Joe Kiani stepped away from Masimo one year ago, the company he founded and built into a leader in patient monitoring, many wondered what he would do next. Over the past year, he has answered that question by diving headfirst into a series of ventures that reflect both his...

By the time most students were wrestling with their first coding assignments, Michael Nefedov was already designing algorithms that taught robots how to move. At the Technical University of  Munich (TUM), he persuaded his professors to let him take on a thesis typically reserved for graduate students: applying Reinforcement Learning...