[[{“value”:” On March 4, 2026, innovation, creativity, and student voice took center stage at the Statewide Design Challenge Showcase, hosted at Battelle. The event brought together the top 21 highest-scoring student teams from across Ohio, along with the Sticker Design Contest winners from each grade band, for a day dedicated to celebrating problem-solving and the future of STEM in our…
His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets.
Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later, PopSockets has proven that the bootstrapped, low-dilution path more viable than the industry gives it credit for. The global consumer hardware brand was built on less than $500k, no institutional capital, and a philosophy professor’s determination. Watch as founder and former CEO […]
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TikTok won’t add end-to-end encryption to direct messages, report says
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