North Korea is one of the last places on earth that hasn’t been photographed extensively. With it’s secretive nature and tightly controlled borders, anything that we see out of the country is usually an official address. It’s rare to see more of the people or places in the so-called ‘Hermit Kingdom’ than we’re exposed to when a foreign dignitary visits and meets with its leader, Kim Jong-il. Photographer Eric Lafforgue traveled to North Korea four times between 2008 and 2010, shooting images of everything that he could, playing a ‘cat and mouse’ game with his supervisors....

A federal grand jury chargedTrevor Milton, founder and former chairman of EV startupNikola, with three counts of criminal fraud,Bloombergreports. He’s accused of lying about “nearly all aspects of the business” to increase stock sales of the electric vehicle startup, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. Specifically, prosecutors charged himwith two counts of securities fraud, including making false statements about the electric truck company, and wire fraud. In a separate complaint filed the same day, the Securities and Exchange Commission commented the following:...

When Henrik Gebbing and I founded Finoa in our shared apartment in Madrid back in 2018, little did we realize that within just three years we’d have team members across the globe with plans for exponential growth in the works. Obviously, the way we ran things when it was just a handful of us would never suffice now. Scaling our business has meant overcoming some tough challenges in order to build a sustainable organization....

Ask entrepreneurs about important early factors in the success of their startups and many will say that finding a really good co-founder is key.Founder2beis an organisation looking to make that process easier by taking an approach similar to online dating. The website acts as a matchmaking service for entrepreneurs. Founder2be users create profiles, sharing information like their location; skills; availability; previous projects; startup and fund-raising experience; ability to contribute seed funding, and co-founder preferences....

Founders, you’re getting sustainability messaging all wrong We have to reframe sustainability as an opportunity No one ever asked Negative Nancy to the dance Far too many impact-driven startups continue to communicate about sustainability in a negative tone. They talk about what we have tostopdoing — flying, eating meat, driving, using plastic, etc. — rather than communicating theopportunitythat impact creation brings with it. In turn, they hold back their own growth....