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The 7 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of March 2026 – AlleyWatch

Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest NYC Startup funding rounds in New...

Cents Raises 0M to Build the Operating System for the B Laundry Industry – AlleyWatch

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Cents Raises $140M to Build the Operating System for the $60B Laundry Industry – AlleyWatch

Vertical SaaS has reshaped how restaurants, salons, and gyms run their businesses, but one major everyday service sector has remained...

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There’s a specific exhaustion that belongs to people who spent decades being exactly what everyone needed them to be — and then one day realized they couldn’t remember what they needed

Ever look in the mirror and wonder who’s staring back at you? I spent most of my twenties doing exactly...

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There’s a specific kind of loneliness that only hits people who are very good at listening. Everyone trusts them with the heavy stuff, everyone seeks them out when things fall apart, and nobody ever thinks to ask them how they’re doing because the role was assigned so early it became invisible.

A man I mentored years ago, a young apprentice who could strip and terminate cable faster than anyone I’d seen...

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Psychology says the reason walking away from disrespectful people feels like guilt instead of freedom is because you were raised in an environment where your comfort was never a valid reason to make someone else uncomfortable — and unlearning that equation is the hardest boundary work there is

Ever feel like you’re the bad guy for walking away from someone who treats you poorly? Like somehow you’re being...

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Psychology suggests if you still write things down on paper instead of your phone you aren’t resisting progress — you’ve found something that works and are practicing the increasingly rare skill of not replacing it simply because something newer arrived, and that skill, applied consistently, turns out to predict a surprising number of other things about how you make decisions

I keep a physical notebook for first drafts and interview notes. I know it’s inefficient. I know there are apps...

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Nobody prepares you for the hardest lesson of your 50s – that some of the people you sacrificed for genuinely don’t remember what you gave up, and it’s not cruelty, it’s just the way memory works when you were never the main character in their story

My brother Eddie needed money in 2004. Not a little. A lot. His wife had left, he was behind on...

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I’m 37 and I realized last month that I haven’t had a real conversation with anyone other than my spouse in over a year — not because I’m antisocial but because every friendship I had required me to perform a version of myself I don’t have the energy for anymore

Last month I was sitting on our balcony here in Saigon, watching the motorbikes swarm through the intersection below, and...

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My father grew up in the 1960s and he’s the toughest man I know — not because he’s never been broken, but because I have never once seen him stay broken, and the speed with which he gets back up has always looked to me less like strength and more like a man who was simply never taught that staying down was an option

March 30, 2026

There’s a particular sound a man makes when he’s trying to hold it together in front of his kids. It’s...

Airbase Raises M to Modernize the Invisible Wireless Infrastructure Powering Trillions in GDP – AlleyWatch

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Airbase Raises $5M to Modernize the Invisible Wireless Infrastructure Powering Trillions in GDP – AlleyWatch