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Colleen Robertson, founder and creative director of Floraloom, speaks during a Bank on Her panel at nbkc Bank; photo by Nikki Overfelt Chifalu, Startland News In a world that’s so focused on AI, now’s the time for entrepreneurs to lean into the authentic quirks that make their businesses different, said Colleen Robertson, encouraging women to “be OK doing something crazy and turning people’s heads.”

The author and her husband met in 7th grade. According to my childhood diary, I met my husband on our seventh-grade field trip to Canobie Lake Park — a local theme park, an hour north of Boston. From the Ferris wheel overlooking the freshwater lake to the 90-year-old wooden coaster called the Yankee Cannonball, it would be hard to find a more idyllic spot for a middle school meet-cute in New England.

New Delhi [India], October 10 (ANI): Nearly 300 Canadian business delegates will join a trade mission to India next week to explore new business opportunities and attract investment, as Canada aims to more than double bilateral trade with India to USD 70 billion by 2030, Canada's Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu said. In a statement, Sidhu said the Team Canada Trade Mission would focus on connecting Canadian expertise in key sectors with India's growing market demand, with the aim of expanding trade and creating opportunities for businesses and workers in both countries. "Nearly 300 Canadian business delegates are joining the Team Canada Trade Mission I am leading to India next week to secure new opportunities for our businesses and workers in one of the world's fastest-growing markets," Sidhu said. He highlighted aerospace, agri-food and clean technology as key sectors where Canadian capabilities could complement India's expanding demand, creating scope for greater commercial engagement and new investment.

Samuel Sévigny and his friends started a short-term rental property management company and scaled from 10 properties to over 500 in four years. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Samuel Sévigny, 32, the cofounder and marketing director at Chaletô, a short-term rental property management company based in Quebec, Canada. Sévigny started Chaletô in 2022 with four of his friends and has scaled to over 500 cabins and condos. The following has been edited for length and clarity. It started as six friends fresh out of college. We all had other jobs. It was in 2016, and we wanted to invest in real estate, diversify, and get started in life. One of our co-founders had condos in downtown Quebec City already, so he pitched us the idea of investing all together and building our own cabin, and to manage it ourselves. So that's what we did. We launched our first cabin together in 2019, then our second in 2020, right in the middle of COVID. Fast-forward to 2022, and we had four different units that we owned and managed, and we wanted to delegate the process of managing them.

Retail brands are shrinking assortments to get back to healthy growth, while box stores are culling products to better curate offerings and stabilize business.

John Adair was fired after a photo of him in a T-shirt with the words “Show me the evidence” was posted to social media on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. An incident where a Sooke brewing company co-owner was fired after wearing a T-shirt that some associate with residential school denialism shows companies need to be proactive in the age of social media, says a business expert.

Casero Kitchen has been serving up Venezuelan and Latin-fusion flavors in Toledo for nearly two years. The local food truck, owned by Ramiz Parra, ...

Military medical officials said that as US forces entered the war with Iran, they lacked the same level of medical support they saw during the Global War on Terror. The American doctors weren't in the room, or even in the country, when they were informed that the man's crushed limb could be saved. The US service member had been deployed aboard a ship in the Middle East, but an equipment accident in March had left him with severe injuries that exceeded the ship's medical capabilities. He had to go ashore for care, but there wasn't a US-run medical facility available nearby. At a host-nation hospital in the region, local doctors monitored and treated him while reassuring their US counterparts from afar that he was in stable condition. However, when he arrived at the American military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, a week later, doctors saw a limb that had turned almost black and a life in danger. The incident, described publicly to an audience of military medical professionals by US Army Col. Jennifer Gurney during a panel on trauma case studies, speaks to a problem American forces have confronted amid the conflict with Iran.

The author found herself shopping on Amazon again after she had her third child. I bought 72 things from Amazon in 2024. The range of items runs the gamut: A replacement basket for the air fryer, dozens of children's books, an XL cone for my dog's post-surgery care, kids' birthday presents, skincare products I gave up on, pacifiers for my newborn twins before I remembered stashing some extras in the diaper bag, and lots of forgettable items in between. I was feeling uncomfortable about my consumption, my carbon footprint, and how second-nature buying on Amazon had become for me. I relied on the site to instantly cross off items on my to-do list. The lack of friction before purchasing became an issueIt felt like the site's "1-Click checkout " feature evolved into its own kind of mechanism in my brain chemistry: I was ordering things without doing any of the logical thinking that usually happens with in-store shopping, and I knew that was all by design. Making a purchase no longer had friction: Free shipping, a stored credit card and address, infinite stock, and a tantalizing algorithm all make shopping anywhere else feel like a chore.

Venture capitalists Claire Zau, Jake Jolis, and Sarah Catanzaro gave their advice for Gen Alpha. There's a new generation of founders on the rise — and they're not old enough to vote. Generation Alpha was born between 2010 and 2024, making the oldest members 16 years old. That's the age Stripe's John Collison cofounded his first company, and when Mike Kittredge set the stage for Yankee Candle. Let's face it: Gen Alpha founders are coming in hot. Many VCs have already been pitched by them; others will be soon. "What I've noticed about Gen Alpha is they seem to have a ton of hustle," said Sarah Catanzaro, a general partner at Amplify. "They tend to have an advantage in markets where execution may be more important than experience. "Business Insider asked five venture capitalists to share their advice for Gen Alpha entrepreneurs. They spoke about AI, social media — and that pesky college question. The ChatGPT generationWhen ChatGPT premiered in 2022, the oldest of Gen Alpha were 12. Gen Alpha has had AI tools since middle school, if not earlier. They've used AI to write their essays and cheat on tests. They've also used it to build new products.

I find myself channeling my inner Gordon Ramsay when talking to my AI. Anthropic is banning "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" to its AI models. Uh oh. This is bad news for me, a person who is frequently very mean to AI chatbots. Anthropic says the rule is for "extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. " Voicing frustration or pushback is still par for the course, according to the new rules. It's not clear what would constitute these extreme cases (I think I'm afraid to know?), but I hope that my general rudeness to chatbots isn't quite that extreme. Maybe? I hope? I often find myself being really nasty — short-tempered, insulting, dismissive — toward LLMs like ChatGPT or Claude. Whenever they get something wrong (which is often), I berate them for wasting my time and doing poorly. When I've asked ChatGPT for matters of taste, like brainstorming ideas, I generally find the ideas corny and lame — feedback I immediately relay with no compliment sandwich.

Some shoppers are using AI agents like Instinct and Muse to find and order products for them. AI agents like Instinct and Muse are quickly becoming personal shoppers — and some are finding the tools need to be kept on a short leash. From finding cheap airline tickets to ordering groceries, three shoppers told Business Insider that they are using the agents to automate parts of their shopping. Some say the decision has saved them time and found them deals they would not have found on their own. But even those impressed with AI agents as shopping assistants say they're using them carefully. Sometimes, the agents order the wrong thing. In other cases, users say they want to make the purchase themselves, or at least add another layer of security, rather than handing their credit card information directly to AI. The shoppers' experiences also point to a big question as the holiday shopping season approaches: How much can shoppers delegate, if they want to at all, to AI agents?