Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Why Women-Led Startups Outperform Yet Lack Funding
If you strip away the noise and follow the numbers, women‑owned startups consistently do more with less. And not just in isolated cases, but across markets, sectors, and funding stages.
Seattle, Tech Boomtown, Grapples With a Future of Fewer Tech Jobs – WSJ
Once known mainly as the birthplace of Starbucks, Boeing and grunge music, the Seattle metro area has undergone an accelerating transformation in recent decades as the growth of first Microsoft, then Amazon made it into one of the premier U.S. tech hubs. Stock-rich tech workers bought nice homes, driving up values and tax revenues. Veterans of the two companies launched their own startups, attracting venture capitalists, and small businesses cropped up to serve the burgeoning tier of upwardly mobile techies. Tech giants including Google and Apple opened Seattle offices to take advantage of the talent pool.
The Death of the Corporate Job: Why Work Feels Pointless and What Comes Next
The anthropologist David Graeber called these “bullshit jobs”, roles that even the people doing them suspect are pointless. But I think it’s evolved beyond that. We’ve built entire ecosystems of mutual nonsense.
Oath Surgical launches AI-powered surgery centers in Portland – Portland Business Journal
Dr. Oliver Keown, who founded and serves as CEO of Oath Surgical, opened his first outpatient surgery center in the Pearl District this spring, followed in August by a second location in Beaverton. Keown touts OathOS as the “first end-to-end operating system for outpatient surgery.” It uses AI to aid physicians in conducting consultations, to summarize referral information and produce summaries and to schedule and track outcomes.
Startup leaders warn new $100K H-1B visa fee will hurt U.S. entrepreneurship and innovation – GeekWire
“The U.S. has built its leadership in technology and innovation by making itself the destination of choice for the world’s top talent,” Wang said in a blog post. “Policies like this, alongside growing scrutiny of student visa applications, make it harder for bright, ambitious people to come here and put the United States’ standing as a global leader in innovation at risk.”
It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.
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