Blog•Jan 28, 2026
Gotham Growth
Gotham announced the Gotham Growth Project, a cohort‑based accelerator aimed at Black‑owned cannabis consumer‑product businesses operating in New York. The program provides structured mentorship, peer learning, and strategic guidance to help founders move from early traction to scalable, sustainable operations. While it does not supply direct funding, participants receive industry feedback, a pitch showcase at The Highrise, and a guaranteed launch slot in Gotham’s retail locations. The inaugural cohort targets brands already selling in regulated markets, seeking to broaden product diversity on store shelves.
By Joanne Wilson
Blog•Jan 28, 2026
A Coxswain on Your Shoulder
Tom Tunguz created an AI meeting‑review agent that acts like a coxswain, silently analyzing recordings of pitch meetings, one‑on‑ones and investor calls. The system scores each conversation on a five‑point rubric—active listening, empathy, questioning, clarity and technical depth—providing concrete feedback...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Blog•Jan 26, 2026
Presumptively Final Comments on Elon Musk's Delaware Travails
The episode reviews Elon Musk’s ongoing legal battles in Delaware, focusing on his controversial compensation package and recent shareholder lawsuits tied to Tesla’s sharp stock decline. It references the host’s recent articles analyzing Delaware’s historic dominance in corporate law, emerging...
By ProfessorBainbridge.com
Blog•Jan 26, 2026
The Next FATF Test: Can the West Demand Results From Pakistan?
The Financial Action Task Force will meet in February 2026 to reassess Pakistan after its 2022 removal from the grey list. While Pakistan has introduced anti‑money‑laundering laws and institutional reforms, open‑source evidence shows terrorist groups like Jaish‑e‑Mohammad and Lashkar‑e‑Taiba still...
By The Cipher Brief
Blog•Jan 26, 2026
Some Internal Audit Wisdom
The article highlights a growing call for internal audit to evolve from static, quarterly reviews to continuous, risk‑focused assurance. Leaders at Pinterest and consultancy SIA argue that agile audit roadmaps and real‑time data collection better support fast‑moving businesses. Conversely, the...
By Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
Blog•Jan 26, 2026
Deleveraging Operator Offers Compelling Yield
The episode examines a high‑yield note offering over 8.5% that is backed by a company aggressively reducing its debt, positioning it for a potential rating upgrade within the next two years. It highlights how the current spread reflects genuine compensation...
By Fixed Income Beacon
Blog•Jan 26, 2026
The Model T Comes to Silicon Valley
The early 20th‑century assembly line slashed Model T production time by 90%, triggering a wave of consolidation that left only 44 automakers by 1929. Today, AI‑driven coding assistants are delivering comparable productivity gains—55‑81% faster development—in roughly five years. The auto boom...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Blog•Jan 25, 2026
A Compass Is Not a Map
The article uses a compass‑vs‑map metaphor to argue that startup advice points north but does not dictate the right path. It critiques Lean Startup, survivor bias, and the illusion that any framework guarantees success. By highlighting the variability of outcomes...
By A Smart Bear (Longform)
Blog•Jan 22, 2026
How Overfamiliarity in Internal Audits Creates a Significant Risk to Quality
The episode examines how overfamiliarity—when the same internal audit team repeatedly audits the same operations—undermines audit quality by dulling critical thinking, limiting risk identification, and producing repetitive reports. Host Umer Iftikhar, an internal audit leader in Qatar, explains why rotation...
By Internal Audit 360
Blog•Jan 22, 2026
Failures Often Result From Weak Communication, Not Weak Processes
The episode explores how operational failures that appear to stem from flawed processes are often actually rooted in communication breakdowns. It explains that internal audits uniquely reveal these gaps by comparing documented procedures with real‑world practice, uncovering mismatched understandings, outdated...
By Internal Audit 360
Blog•Jan 22, 2026
Coming Soon: DOL’s Proposed Rules Facilitating Alternative Assets in 401(k) Plans
On January 13, 2026 the U.S. Department of Labor submitted proposed rules to the White House Office of Management and Budget that would allow 401(k) and other defined‑contribution plans to hold alternative assets such as digital currencies, private equity, private credit and...
By Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog
Blog•Jan 22, 2026
When Trust Is Everything: Building AI for Physicians at Healio
Healio, a 125‑year‑old medical publishing firm, launched Healio AI – an assistant that helps physicians prepare for patient encounters. A survey of 300 clinicians revealed doctors wanted support with patient communication more than diagnostic answers. The team built a functional...
By Product Talk
Blog•Jan 22, 2026
High-Quality Real Estate Credit with More than Investment-Grade Spread
The episode examines a senior housing REIT whose current spread over the BBB index undervalues its credit quality, citing a strong net debt-to-adjusted EBITDA ratio, ample liquidity, and improving rent coverage. It argues that the market misreads the issuer as...
By Fixed Income Beacon
Blog•Jan 22, 2026
AI Managing AI
Recent advances have pushed tool‑calling accuracy for large language models past the 90% mark, a dramatic leap from the sub‑50% success rates seen two years ago. This improvement is driven by trillion‑parameter models that excel at context‑rich orchestration, while smaller...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Blog•Jan 21, 2026
Ecommerce Startups and the New Funding Landscape in Europe
The episode explains how European Shopify ecommerce founders must first secure strong unit economics and cross‑border readiness before seeking capital, as investors favor scalable, profitable models. It maps a funding roadmap—from bootstrapping through revenue‑based financing to EU public programs—highlighting the...
By eCommerce Fastlane
Blog•Jan 21, 2026
How the Business of Privateering Contributed to the Evolution of Corporate Law
In this episode, the host discusses a new law review article that traces how early 19th‑century privateering statutes, especially New York’s 1814 Act, served as the United States’ first general incorporation law and a form of industrial policy. The analysis...
By ProfessorBainbridge.com
Blog•Jan 21, 2026
UK Government Abandons Long-Planned Audit Reform Bill
The UK government has scrapped the Audit Reform and Corporate Governance Bill, ending a decade of debate sparked by corporate failures like Carillion and BHS. The proposed legislation would have replaced the Financial Reporting Council with a new statutory regulator...
By Internal Audit 360
Blog•Jan 21, 2026
4 Leadership Goals To Build A Resilient Team This Year
The article urges leaders to set goals that strengthen team resilience rather than merely chasing revenue or market expansion. It highlights four people‑centric leadership objectives designed to empower employees during volatile conditions. By shifting focus from outcomes to how leaders...
By Tanveer Naseer
Blog•Jan 21, 2026
Discovery-Driven Planning: A Better Way to Evaluate Venture Investments
The episode explains how Discovery‑Driven Planning (DDP) transforms venture evaluation by treating every business plan as a set of testable hypotheses rather than a fixed forecast. It outlines the three core tenets of DDP—only validated assumptions receive capital, funding is...
By CFO Impulse
Blog•Jan 20, 2026
Planning for Your Next DOL Investigation Just Got Easier
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) unveiled its FY 2026 national enforcement projects, marking the most extensive overhaul in recent years. Priorities include cybersecurity safeguards, mental‑health and substance‑use benefit access, No Surprises Act compliance, protection of benefit...
By Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog
Blog•Jan 20, 2026
How Your Brain’s “Break-Even” Bias Creates Mispricings
In this episode, Larry Swedroe discusses a new study by Jihoon Goh, Suk‑Joon Byun, and Donghoon Kim that uncovers how the “salience effect”—investors’ attraction to stocks with dramatic past moves—interacts with the “break‑even bias,” a tendency to take riskier bets...
By Larry Swedroe on Substack
Blog•Jan 20, 2026
Product at Heart 2026 - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
Product at Heart 2026, hosted by Teresa Torres and Petra Wille, unveils a single‑track conference format that emphasizes tighter curation amid rapid AI advances. The lineup features keynotes from Christian Idiodi, Elaine Kasket, and Torres herself, alongside deep‑dive workshops from...
By Product Talk
Blog•Jan 20, 2026
Assisted Thinking
The episode “Assisted Thinking” dissects the stark contrast between China’s massive reliance on coal—accounting for 58% of its primary energy in 2024—and the Western media narrative that paints Beijing as a climate leader. By examining data from the Statistical Review...
By Doomberg
Blog•Jan 20, 2026
Discounting the Chaos
The episode “Discounting the Chaos” examines how, despite a torrent of geopolitical turmoil—from Venezuela’s leadership shake‑up to potential conflicts involving Iran and Greenland—the stock market remains a reliable, fundamentals‑driven gauge of future economic conditions. Recent data suggest the U.S. economy...
By The Market Strategist
Blog•Jan 19, 2026
Illegitimi Non Carborundum: Don’t Let Investors Control Your Meeting
Founders, especially women and underrepresented entrepreneurs, are disproportionately asked downside‑focused questions by investors, while their white male peers receive more upside‑oriented inquiries. This bias can steer pitch conversations away from a company’s growth potential. The article advises founders to pre‑write...
By This Is Going To Be BIG
Blog•Jan 19, 2026
TBM 402: The Real-World Journey to Value and Product-Centricity
In this episode the host maps a non‑linear journey that organizations take from focusing solely on delivery predictability to becoming truly product‑centric and value‑driven. The discussion walks through five narrative "acts"—starting with reducing work‑in‑progress and improving flow, then layering early...
By The Beautiful Mess
Blog•Jan 19, 2026
Important Risk Meetings
Norman Marks argues that the most critical risk meetings are the everyday decision‑making gatherings, not formal risk‑officer briefings. He cites procurement, hiring, and national‑security deliberations as examples where risk is implicitly evaluated. The piece urges organizations to embed risk expertise...
By Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
Blog•Jan 19, 2026
CIS News
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of activity in the surgical robotics sector, highlighted by multiple regulatory clearances, sizable funding rounds, and strategic leadership moves. CMR Surgical secured a CE mark for its Versius platform in pediatric procedures, while Distalmotion...
By SurgRob
Blog•Jan 19, 2026
Why Building Talent Requires More than Business Logic
The article argues that businesses alone cannot build sustainable talent ecosystems because they focus on immediate, role‑specific hiring. Foundations, operating on longer time horizons, can fill the gap by creating conditions for professionals to live, work, and integrate into a...
By European CEO
Blog•Jan 17, 2026
NATSEC Roundtable No. 9: Capital, Cloud, and Commerce
The defense ecosystem is evolving into a three‑layer stack of venture capital, cloud infrastructure, and digital commerce. Mandate‑driven VC firms such as In‑QTel, a16z’s American Dynamism and Shield Capital are financing AI, autonomous and cyber startups that resemble Silicon Valley...
By 2PM Newsletter
Blog•Jan 16, 2026
Counterparty Risk in Silver Exposed
The episode examines the recent price dynamics of precious metals, noting gold's steady rise to $4,606 and silver's rapid surge to $90.75, driven by heightened open interest on the COMEX. It highlights the emerging counterparty risk in the silver market,...
By McleodFinance (Alasdair Macleod)
Blog•Jan 16, 2026
Meritech’s Look at 2025 Exits: M&A at $587B Hits a Decade+ High … But IPOs Were a Whimper
Meritech reports that 2025 delivered a muted IPO market, with only six pure‑play software listings, while merger‑and‑acquisition activity surged to $587 billion—the highest in a decade. Leading private firms such as SpaceX, OpenAI and Stripe continued to stay private, limiting public‑market...
By SaaStr
Blog•Jan 16, 2026
Subscriber Update on Block Inc. 2032s
The episode breaks down Block, Inc.'s latest credit outlook, highlighting a dramatic shift from a shaky to a durable balance sheet and a clear path to achieving the Rule of 40 by 2026. Q3 2025 results show 18% YoY gross...
By Fixed Income Beacon
Blog•Jan 15, 2026
Annual FP&A Market Positioning Effectiveness Assessment
Lawson Abinanti’s annual FP&A market positioning assessment reveals that 12 of 21 leading vendors fail to differentiate their messaging, sharing identical positioning statements with competitors. Three vendors also miss the mark on a credible “transform” claim, offering generic capabilities instead...
By The FP&A Guy (blog)
Blog•Jan 15, 2026
California’s New Restrictions on “Stay-or-Pay” Provisions Require Employers to Review Repayment Agreements
California’s Assembly Bill 692, effective Jan 1 2026, broadly prohibits employers from including stay‑or‑pay provisions that require workers to repay bonuses, training, relocation or other retention incentives upon termination. The law permits narrow exceptions for discretionary sign‑on bonuses and tuition repayment, provided...
By Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog
Blog•Jan 15, 2026
Building Tendos AI: How an Agent Swarm Turns Construction Emails Into Quotes
Tendos AI has created an agent‑swarm platform that automates the entire construction bid‑to‑quote workflow, turning lengthy PDF tenders into actionable quotes. The system began with a narrow radiator‑matching prototype and now handles full product catalogs, using specialized agents and a...
By Product Talk
Blog•Jan 14, 2026
Third Circuit Holds No Deference Due Where Administrator Fails to Articulate an Interpretation of an Ambiguous Plan Term
The Third Circuit ruled that ERISA plan administrators lose judicial deference when they fail to explain how they interpret ambiguous plan terms, as demonstrated in Rombach v. Plumbers Local Union No. 27 Pension Fund. The court held that the plan’s...
By Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog
Blog•Jan 14, 2026
Let’s Use AI Effectively in Our Internal Audit Practice
The article argues that internal audit functions should adopt AI not because they risk obsolescence, but because AI can automate low‑value, high‑intensity tasks and free auditors for strategic work. It references AuditBoard and KPMG’s 12 AI use cases, ranging from...
By Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
Blog•Jan 14, 2026
Stop Micromanaging: How to Empower Employees to Make Better Decisions Without You
The article argues that micromanaging stifles employee confidence and slows decision‑making, while clear decision‑making frameworks unlock strategic autonomy. It highlights Amazon’s Type 1 vs Type 2 decision model, which lets staff act quickly on reversible choices. A 2022 Deloitte study is cited, showing...
By Tanveer Naseer
Blog•Jan 14, 2026
The Dollar Consolidates While Japan Steps Up Its Intervention Threats and Decision Day for the SCOTUS
The U.S. dollar is in a consolidating phase, hovering around JPY158.6 after a brief push toward JPY159.5, as Japanese authorities intensify verbal warnings of possible market intervention. In North America, traders await U.S. PPI, retail sales data and comments from...
By Marc to Market
Blog•Jan 14, 2026
Refinancing Into Deterioration
The episode dissects Molson Coors' looming $2.4 billion refinancing challenge amid a sharp operational downturn, highlighted by an 11.9% drop in pretax income, a $3.6 billion goodwill impairment, and rising net leverage to 2.28x. Volume shrinkage—especially in the economy and flavored‑alcohol segments—combined...
By Fixed Income Beacon
Blog•Jan 14, 2026
Accounting Revolution From Below
In this episode, Sebastian challenges the traditional top‑down approach to accounting standardization, arguing that policies alone rarely change frontline behavior. He proposes a bottom‑up model centered on a voluntary Monthly Accounting Excellence Roundtable, where cross‑regional finance teams share real‑world problems,...
By CFO Impulse
Blog•Jan 13, 2026
Switching Venture Firms Is Not a Job Search
Transitioning between venture capital firms differs fundamentally from a typical job search. Because the senior VC talent pool is small, moves depend on existing relationships and how peers rank you, not on open listings. The article outlines a mental ranking...
By This Is Going To Be BIG
Blog•Jan 13, 2026
Upcoming HIPAA Compliance Deadline: HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices Updates Required by February 16
Group health plan sponsors must revise their HIPAA Notices of Privacy Practices by February 16, 2026 to incorporate new Part 2 privacy protections for substance‑abuse treatment records. The update requires clear language on prohibited uses, legal‑process limitations, and an opt‑out option...
By Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog
Blog•Jan 12, 2026
Are Plaintiff Attorneys' Fee Awards in the Delaware Chancery Court Excessive? Part IV
In this episode, the host revisits the ongoing debate about plaintiff attorney fee awards in the Delaware Court of Chancery, focusing on the new empirical study "Is Delaware Different? Stockholder Lawyering in the Court of Chancery" by Stephen J. Choi,...
By ProfessorBainbridge.com
Blog•Jan 12, 2026
Survey Finds Optimism on Growth in 2026 Despite Cyber and Tech Risks
A new Protiviti and NC State ERM survey of over 1,500 global executives reveals strong optimism about revenue growth through 2026, with nearly 70% seeing significant opportunities despite ongoing economic, geopolitical, and technological turbulence. Leaders are shifting from risk avoidance...
By Internal Audit 360
Blog•Jan 12, 2026
Should We Audit Organizational Culture or Behavior?
The IIA’s new Topical Requirement outlines what an organizational‑behavior audit could include, but it does not make such audits mandatory. Norman Marks argues that a standalone audit of culture or behavior is rarely appropriate, recommending instead a risk‑based approach that...
By Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
Blog•Jan 12, 2026
Sleeping Giants
The administration is signaling a willingness to enlist government‑sponsored enterprises (GSEs) such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in its effort to push mortgage rates lower. After the 2008 crisis, the GSEs’ mortgage holdings shrank dramatically, but policymakers see an...
By Fed Guy
Blog•Jan 10, 2026
Open APIs Are Over
After two decades of thriving on open APIs, major software platforms are erecting barriers. Salesforce limited Slack’s API calls, Datadog disabled a rival observability startup, and Epic faces a lawsuit over restricting patient‑record access. The acceleration of AI‑driven development enables...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Blog•Dec 30, 2025
Gross Profit per Token
Meta announced a $2 billion acquisition of Singapore‑based AI agent firm Manus, which reported $100 million annual recurring revenue and 147 trillion tokens processed since its March 2025 launch. The deal underscores the relevance of gross profit per token as a valuation lens,...
By Tomasz Tunguz