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3 weeks ago | 
inc.com | Jennifer Alsever
For Dillon Baxter, finding growth capital for his fledgling alternative-plastics company wasn’t nearly as hard as losing it. Three years after launching his Sanford, North Carolina-based startup, PlantSwitch, in 2020, Baxter had lined up customers to use the company’s new bio-based plastic, signed a lease on a manufacturing facility, sent out job offers, and made down payments for commercial production equipment. He even had an $8 million signed term sheet from a venture capital firm.
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2 months ago | 
inc.com | Jennifer Alsever
It’s been nearly two years since Elizabeth Holmes started a prison sentence for one of the decade’s biggest fraud cases, which involved her blood-testing startup, Theranos. At one point, Theranos boasted more than $700 million in funding and the backing of a former U.S. secretary of state and Walmart’s Walton family.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
inc.com | Jennifer Alsever
Over the course of four years, Noosheen Hashemi, co-founder and CEO of January AI, has learned two axioms about human behavior: No one wants to wear a continuous glucose monitor, and most people probably should. About 98 million American adults are , or on the verge of the disease, but don't know it.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
fastcompany.com | Jennifer Alsever
A government study that shows a link between childhood exposure to fluoride and lower intelligence was allegedly blocked from public release by federal officials for two years.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Jennifer Alsever
A government study that shows a link between childhood exposure to fluoride and lower intelligence was allegedly blocked from public release by federal officials for two years, says a pending lawsuit.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
fastcompany.com | Jennifer Alsever
The number of food safety recalls was on the rise this year, but most Gen Z buyers didn’t know about them. A Fast Company-Harris Poll of 1,088 consumers found that older respondents, aged 59 to 77, were far more likely to have heard about a recent recall than younger ones, aged 18 to 27, suggesting that potentially critical information about food-borne illnesses is not reaching segments of consumers who are less likely to get their news through traditional media.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
devicedaily.com | Jennifer Alsever
The FDA finally rules that toxic tara flour once used by Daily Harvest is not safe to eat
The finding, which comes two years after hundreds of people were sickened, could offer hope for a broken system that allows chemicals into our foods.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
inc-aus.com | Jennifer Alsever
When a health crisis struck, Jenny Bristow credits advance planning with saving her company. For about five minutes last January, Jenny Bristow couldn’t speak, and the 39-year-old lost control of her left hand while playing disc golf on a trip to Arizona with her husband. At first, he thought she was joking around, but then the left side of her body went numb, and the left side of her face drooped.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
inc.com | Jennifer Alsever
By For about five minutes last January, Jenny Bristow couldn't speak, and the 39-year-old lost control of her left hand while playing disc golf on a trip to Arizona with her husband. At first, he thought she was joking around, but then the left side of her body went numb, and the left side of her face drooped. "I was so young, a stroke was the last thing we thought of," says Bristow, the now 40-year-old founder and CEO of Hedy & Hopp, a St. Louis health care marketing company.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
devicedaily.com | Jennifer Alsever
Tesla rescinded internships as part of a cost-cutting measure. HR experts say that was a bad move
Internship programs are even more valuable in the era of hybrid work, and companies risk reputational damage when they say one thing and do another.
