A Turkish startup with an AI-platform that controls the flow of beer from the keg to the tap -- and sets the amount of foam -- plans to expand into the U.K. and Czech Republic trib.al/3FPnLJh

San Francisco’s fall will catalyze the rise of startup cities.

Visa is acquiring startup Plaid for a whopping $5.3 billion. Wondering what Plaid does? I profiled the fintech unicorn in the April 2018 issue of @Forbes: forbes.com/plaid-fintech/#b0…

Everyone from Amazon to Silicon Valley startups are trying to eliminate lines in retail stores. Some tech companies are bringing the AI directly to your shopping cart. cnn.it/356Ob0H

A startup fired its CEO for expensing $76,120 at strip clubs bloom.bg/34kHreY

My latest: San Francisco City Hall is infamous for making it hard to run a business. Here's one more example -- the e-scooter company Skip which tried to be "the nice guy" of the industry but suddenly lost the right to operate in SF for unclear reasons. sfchronicle.com/Bayard's/hea…

Startups are a test of character. Unlike a corporate job there are far fewer places to hide your incompetencies and lack of compounding. Those who survive and ace this game, keep changing the world around us.

Some of the most successful startups were started because the founders couldn’t get jobs.

Binance will launch crypto travel rewards card with TravelByBit cointelegraph.com/news/binan…

Watch: Singaporean PM Lee Hsien Loong helps President Duterte place the Philippines’ star on the panel during the ASEAN-ROK Startup Expo here in Busan South Korea

Heliogen, an energy startup backed by Bill Gates, says it has created a carbon-free solar oven that can be used to produce the extreme heat required to make cement, steel, glass and other industrial processes cnn.it/35jw0VT