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Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations (Niki Kitsantonis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/business/europe-st…

Hoping to Grow in Europe, but Bogged Down by Red Tape
Start-ups are booming in the European Union, but experts say bureaucracy keeps them from expanding across borders.

Trump Administration in Talks to Take Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/trump-administration-in-talks-to-take-equity-stakes-in-quantum-computing-firms-60ee5143
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p172#a251022p172

Sources: quantum computing companies including IonQ, Rigetti, and D-Wave are in talks to give the US Commerce Dept. equity in exchange for $10M each in funding (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepren…

Shopify’s shuttered Indigenous entrepreneurship program will relaunch independently through an Indigenous-owned organization (Centre for Native Nation Builders)
https://betakit.com/shopifys-shuttered-indigenous-entrepreneurship…

VCs and founders warn that the $100K fee will make H-1B sponsorship prohibitively expensive for startups, not Big Tech, and drive talent outside the US (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/startup-leade…

According to sources, today is also:
Equal Opportunity Day (aka Gettysburg Address Day and Dedication Day)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day
National Blow Bagpipes Day
National Camp Day
National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day (this is way too specific)
National Educational Support Professionals Day
National Macchiato Day
National Zinfandel Day
Play Monopoly Day
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day
And last, but not least, “Have …

Some 20-somethings flocking to SF to build trillion-dollar AI startups say no to booze, sleep, and fun as they strive to be, or appear to be, the most obsessed (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurs

Financial viability of social enterprises
Zoltan Bartha, Adam Bereczk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21415 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21415

Financial viability of social enterprises
Our study presents a model of factors influencing the financial viability of Hungarian social enterprises, and tests the model on a sample of 220 Hungarian firms involved in social entrepreneurship. In the model we suggest that the most important factors for financial viability are the Regulatory environment (the transparency of regulations); the Entrepreneurial attributes of the entrepreneur (business orientation, business skills and experience, business planning tendencies); the Financial sup…