StartupNation

JUNE 18, 2025

Launching a startup is an adventure filled with uncertainty, excitement, and plenty of unexpected challenges. As you set out on this journey, protecting your business means more than just securing your data or drafting airtight contracts. It means building a resilient, adaptable, and innovative company. We’ve put together eight ways to safeguard your startup—from how you build your team to managing your finances, and choosing the right tech. 1.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

If you work in IT operations, the work you do is basically the backbone of your company. From safeguarding data to resolving major incidents and beyond, you're in charge of keeping everything running smoothly, so the only downtime you encounter is yours—not your system's. Making sure that your internal and external systems are constantly secure (and every team has access to the tools they need to get their jobs done) can't be easy.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Office work has changed permanently since 2020, whether you're now fully remote, hybrid, or just having to collaborate more with your coworkers on conference calls. Of course, the kind of work that needs to get done hasn't changed quite as much. To that end, online whiteboards are a key tool when you need fast, easy, visual collaboration regardless of what city, country, or continent your colleagues are in.

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Revolution

JUNE 16, 2025

To understand why I care so deeply about Hawaii’s future, you have to understand my past. I was born in Honolulu just before Hawaii became the 50th state. So close, in fact, that statehood became official on my first birthday. My childhood reflected the unique environment and culture of Hawaii. I grew up climbing banyan trees and body surfing. Community came first and aloha was a way of life.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2025

The newly launched fund will focus on pre-seed and seed stage startups developing AI applications. In a major boost for the artificial intelligence startup ecosystem, Seven Stars, a new venture capital firm founded by former SV Angel Partner Steven Lee, has officially launched its $40 million inaugural fund to support early-stage AI startups. The fund, which was oversubscribed in just five weeks, will focus on pre-seed and seed-stage investments in AI application companies across both the consum

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 15, 2025

Meet me where I am--that's the whitespace that Apple can fill up with a genuine personal assistant. I thought about that as I thought about where my weekly nextNYC newsletter fits into everyone's content consumption stack and even my own--and whether AI will mark the end of human driven curation. Do NYC founders really need me in between you and the event calendar?

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 16, 2025

The company’s scalable TRISO fuel production will meet the surging demand of AI-powered data centers. With a team of over two dozen professionals with 150+ years of DOE lab experience, Standard Nuclear isn’t just building a company—it’s building the backbone of the U.S. advanced nuclear ecosystem. Enabling the AI-Nuclear Convergence Standard Nuclear’s rise comes at a pivotal time.

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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2025

Why should you learn inbound marketing tips for growing startups? Well, because inbound marketing is a more affordable and sustainable model than other marketing approaches. And building awareness around your startup can be a tough task. Starting a business today is easier thanks to the internet. However, there’s a challenge: The competition for customers is high given the low entry barrier.

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The Seraf Compass

JUNE 18, 2025

Getting started as an angel investor is exciting—but it can also be overwhelming. From SAFEs and cap tables to pro rata rights and carry, there’s a lot of new terminology to learn.

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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

There's a lot of advice out there about the connection between timing and productivity: articles—including Zapier's own —suggesting "X things to do in the morning/afternoon/evening" to stay productive all day long. And yes, when you work on certain types of tasks absolutely impacts your productivity. But timing isn't a one-size-fits-all approach.

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Founder Bounty

JUNE 14, 2025

Email marketing remains a powerful tool for dentists seeking to build patient loyalty and attract new clientele. Effective strategies move beyond simple appointment reminders. High-performing campaigns focus on providing valuable content, such as educational materials on oral hygiene, informative articles about specific dental procedures (like Invisalign or teeth whitening), or even behind-the-scenes glimpses of the practice and its team to foster a personal connection.

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Venture Hacks

JUNE 18, 2025

Marketing is not the task of telling people about your product. Rather, it is the continuous process of generating knowledge that your customers will clamor for. Here are some marketing principles I like to keep in mind: Not being real is the one and only cardinal sin in marketing. Show the product, use the product—skip the grandeur. Marketing with a business goal is always junk.

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StartupNation

JUNE 14, 2025

Running a newly acquired small startup can be highly unpredictable. And while you’re likely to expect the ups and downs of day-to-day operations, it’s important to understand the impact of this unpredictability on your finances. You see, the biggest mistake startup owners make is tying their personal financial futures to the success of their business ventures.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 13, 2025

The post [Scale AI in AP News] Meta invests $14.3B in AI firm Scale and recruits its CEO for ‘superintelligence’ team appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Investing in a unified platform—where all your apps are connected via a shared system—can simplify data management, prevent silos, streamline communication, and reduce operating costs. 5 things you should automate today Start automating Google and Microsoft are the big names when it comes to unified platforms, but there's another player in the game: Zoho.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 13, 2025

Whoa, it’s been a minute. Somehow went almost two months without a post. Bad blogger! Yesterday Satya and I had the chance to celebrate Chime going public on NASDAQ. There are many ways to ‘grade’ an IPO from a punditry perspective ( here’s my own framework which I think still holds ), so I’m not going chime in with my own speculation (see what i did there), but on the other side of it, did want to recognize why this one felt special.

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Mark MacLeod

JUNE 18, 2025

Stuart Lombard’s journey with Ecobee reads like a masterclass in entrepreneurial resilience. After facing 172 venture capital rejections and watching Google enter his market with seemingly unlimited resources, Lombard could have easily thrown in the towel. Instead, he doubled down, […] The post Stuart Lombard Shares How Ecobee Survived 172 VC Rejections, Battled Google Nest, and Sold for $770 Million appeared first on Mark MacLeod.

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StartupNation

JUNE 13, 2025

When I entered the workforce, I didn’t expect tech to be an industry that would value my journalism background. But I quickly realized that many tech companies were hungry for great content—it was becoming a powerful way to build thought leadership and brand awareness. A few years out of school, I landed my dream role at LinkedIn, where I spent six years as a founding editor on the LinkedIn News team.

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Founder Bounty

JUNE 19, 2025

Building a business is tough and difficult. Its never been harder and more competitive. Although the tools to do it have gotten better the competition is fierce and will continue to be. Founderbounty An excellent resource. From the latest AI tools to tools on how to start a business from exited founders this really does have some excellent content to help starting a business.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Opening a spreadsheet CRM can feel like accidentally stumbling onto a Gen Alpha's TikTok account—disorienting, a bit of panic, and the realization that you might need a teenager to explain it to you. Despite the initial confusion, building a CRM in Google Sheets can be a surprisingly effective way to manage customer relationships (and slightly less terrifying than whatever Skibidi Toilet is).

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 17, 2025

DuckLake is one of the most exciting technologies in data. While data lakes are powerful, the formats that manage them have become notoriously difficult to work with. “I think one of the things in DuckLake that we managed to do is to cut, I want to say like 15 technologies out of this stack.” How does it achieve this? Instead of building a custom catalog server, DuckLake uses a simple, elegant idea: a standard database to manage metadata.

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Mark MacLeod

JUNE 19, 2025

Serial entrepreneur Mike Serbinis has built multiple billion-dollar companies across completely different industries, making him one of Canada’s most prolific tech founders. In this candid conversation, the League CEO and co-founder shares his journey from winning what he calls the […] The post League CEO Mike Serbinis on Beating Amazon at Their Own Game, His Billion-Dollar Exit Playbook, and Transforming Healthcare at Scale appeared first on Mark MacLeod.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 16, 2025

Groq, the artificial intelligence inference startup, is making an aggressive play to challenge established cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Google with two major announcements that could reshape how developers access high-performance AI models. Read more here.

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Founder Bounty

JUNE 13, 2025

Some say the mafia know a thing or two about business. Here are some of the best mafia business-focused quotes from movies. It may wise to learn something from this. The Godfather series: "It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business" "A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man" (about work-life balance) "Never let anyone know what you are thinking" "Great men are not born great, they grow great" Scarface: "In this

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Modern note-taking platforms go beyond documenting your thoughts. They offer powerful workplaces to manage your knowledge, no matter where it comes from. Whether that's turning a bunch of data into a live website or visualizing relationships between piles of notes, they've got you covered. Few do it better than Obsidian and Notion. Turn ideas into action Automate your note-taking For years, I've relied on Notion to make sense of the avalanche of digital information I collect, lik

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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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