Friday, July 31, 2026
Startups
The loneliest people at any gathering are almost never the ones standing alone by the wall. They’re the ones laughing in the middle of the group who will drive home afterward in complete silence and not call anyone about it.
Most of our cultural understanding of loneliness is built around the wrong image. We picture the person eating alone, the...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 4/20/26 – AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...
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There’s a specific kind of person who volunteers the embarrassing story about themselves before anyone else can bring it up, and it isn’t self-deprecation. It’s copyright. If they tell it first, they get to decide what it means.
Most people hear someone tell an unflattering story about themselves and assume it’s humility, or at worst, a small bid...
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The people who say they don’t care what others think are almost never telling the whole truth. What they actually did was move the audience inward, and now they perform for a private version of the same judges they claim to have escaped.
The man at the next table is explaining, with a kind of practiced lightness, that he stopped caring what people...
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I’m 66 and I’ve realized that there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that belongs to people who spent four decades being the one who always said yes — it doesn’t show up as burnout, it shows up as a faint feeling that your life belongs to everyone except you
People will tell you burnout is the villain here. It isn’t. Burnout is what happens when the fire goes out....
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The 27 Largest US Funding Rounds of March 2024 – AlleyWatch
March 2026 was a month of conviction-scale capital across the US startup ecosystem. Leveraging data from CrunchBase, I’ve identified the...
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Research suggests people raised in the 1960s and 70s might be the toughest generation yet — and the proof is that they’re reading this right now and their first instinct is to shrug it off, because even accepting a compliment about their own resilience feels like asking for something they were raised to never need
Someone just sent me that title about our generation being the toughest, and you know what I did? Exactly what...
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I’m in my thirties and I finally understand that the friendships I lost weren’t lost because I changed. They were lost because I stopped performing the version of me that made the relationship possible, and nobody told me that was what had been holding it together
I was three sentences into a story I’d told maybe a hundred times — the one about the terrible houseshare...
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The Most Active Non-NYC Venture Capital Firms in Q1 2026 in New York – AlleyWatch
I analyzed recent venture funding data to identify the most active venture capital firms based outside of New York City...
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Research suggests that people who say they prefer being alone aren’t always telling the truth. Many of them preferred connection until it repeatedly disappointed them, and solitude became the story they told to make the disappointment portable.
A growing body of psychological research points to an uncomfortable finding: many people who say they prefer being alone aren’t...
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