StartupNation

MAY 23, 2025

In 2023, Jackson Greathouse Fall asked ChatGPT-4 to turn $100 into “as much money as possible” ASAP, “without doing anything illegal.” Note: Fines can definitely cost you more than your startup budget of $100. Time to Act—Launch Your Startup with $100 or Less No more waiting! No “dark” practices! It doesn’t exist.

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StartupNation

JULY 12, 2025

Sign Up for The Start Newsletter * indicates required Email Address * /* real people should not fill this in and expect good things – do not remove this or risk form bot signups */ Why Should Startups Hire Freelancers? Hiring freelancers is a smart move for startups that feel conventional recruitment strategies have reached a dead end.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

Additionally, the program requires that the business enter into a collaborative relationship with a New Jersey-based public or private research university, technology startup, incubator, accelerator, or similar entity. For more information, including additional eligibility requirements, click here.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 6, 2025

How Capsule is supporting young women to build thriving businesses Despite Romania’s growing startup ecosystem, women founders remain disproportionately low. Why women entrepreneurs need more support Despite Romanias growing startup ecosystem, theres a glaring gender gap in entrepreneurship.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. Startups operate in newer markets where pricing standards haven’t been set. But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, at least once per year. AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In 2024, RootNote spoke to and worked closely with dozens companies of all sizes in the sports, media, entertainment, and startup worlds, and they all had one major focus on their radar that they didnt before: content analytics. Content as a metric of brand reach; content as a tool for revenue growth; content as a differentiator.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 18, 2025

Josh Canale I had the pleasure of interviewing Josh Canale, the founder of Josh Canale Design  — a solo UX consultancy that helps early-stage AI startups turn complex tech into adoption-ready product experiences. What motivated you to launch your startup? What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup?

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Top Female Founders in 2023 and 2024. Horners insights into startup dynamics and scalable business strategies have earned her a seat on Forbes thought leadership councils and established her as a leading voice in the business community. She has earned acclaim in Entrepreneurs 11 Marketing Experts That Could Change Your Business, Inc.s

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Dan and his team have acquired over 50,000 rental properties across the country on behalf of their clients, and in 2023 alone, they closed over 4,600 assets in Arizona & Nevada. In Q4 of 2023, Dan partnered with Fidelity National Financial to bring Easy Street Offers to the national marketplace. Buckle up!

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StartupNation

JULY 16, 2025

Startup Financing: From Traditional Loans to Innovative Solutions Why Private Debt is in the Spotlight With the Federal Reserve signaling further rate hikes to curb persistent inflation, it is expected that traditional business loans will become harder to secure and more expensive in 2025 and beyond. In 2023 alone, over 230,000 U.S.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

Since I’m always interested in startup outcomes – especially those where there’s a private equity-like exit , Joe was kind enough to share the backstory with me, and here with you! I ran into Joe Hyrkin after his company Issuu (where he’d been CEO) was been purchased by Bending Spoons.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

For example, Wix was first to launch an AI design tool in 2016; Squarespace followed suit in 2023). While its oldest templates are fairly clunky, you can sort by "newest" and find trendy gems like this template aimed at AI startups. Through decades of competition, their core design features have essentially converged.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

With a thirst for learning and a willingness to share lessons learned and insider experiences, EO members published 47 informative posts on EO’s Inc.com channel in 2023. Here are the top blog posts EO published on Inc.com in 2023: 1. Million in Startup Funding Tal Moore (EO Los Angeles) is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Popsmith.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. Interest rates will level off in the first half of 2023 and I think there is a good chance of a “soft landing” or a very mild recession in 2023.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I ended my What Will Happen In 2023 with this advice: Buckle up, hang tough, and be smart. That was a big miss as 2023 will most certainly be remembered as the year that AI went mainstream with consumers, thanks to Chat GPT and other consumer interfaces to large AI models. To some extent, these two things are related.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Register At the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) on November 16, 2023. million growers in China have received online loans through MYbank’s Tomtit system by June 2023. As of September 2023, Lark had served over 8 million users with an average credit limit increase of RMB 45,000 per customer, said Hao Jiang.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We spent the good part of the past three months doing our favorite part of the job: meeting the startups we seed (and the communities that rally around them) on their home turf. What we did: Rise of the Rest VP, James Barlia , touched down in Motor City to get the latest on the startups innovating in mobility at the Fontinalis Summit.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What we did: Revolution Ventures Managing Partner, Tige Savage , Associate, Anant Pai , and Rise of the Rest VP, James Barlia , were all in attendance at 2023’s Cintrifuse Summit, which focused on “homegrown hustle,” inspiring innovation, and retaining talent in the greater Cincinnati startup ecosystem.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

We asked EO members to look ahead in 2023 and identify trends they see for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship overall. We’ve missed face-to-face interaction for too long; building relationships is key to winning more business in 2023. Opportunity for startups. Here’s what they shared. Video pitching. Truth will prevail.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts. Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. Seed- and Early-Stage U.S,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 2, 2023

From navigating complex regulations and securing funding to connecting with and growing a network, entrepreneurs in Vietnam face a unique set of challenges as they build their businesses: Access to capital: Securing funding for a new business can be elusive, particularly for startups. We look forward to meeting you!

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Revolution

MARCH 7, 2024

Why does representation matter when it comes to startups? A brighter spot: Funding going to startups with at least one female founder ticked up to 26.1% of allocated capital in 2023 (compared to 18.2% Because women have and continue to gain more purchasing power than ever. Here’s what they had to say. “As

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

By working hard to implement the strategies she learned, in 2023 WashRoom Laundry crossed the US$1 million dollar revenue threshold and Saichelle graduated to full EO membership in EO Charlotte. I also work with City Startup Labs. I truly believe ‘You get out of it what you put into it’.”

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

in 17 startups since 2019. December 08, 2023 10:35 AM Eastern Standard Time SAN DIEGO—San Diego Angel Conference at the University of San Diego (SDAC) activates angel investors and connects them with early-stage companies seeking seed funding. It’s inspiring,” says Luckhurst.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? The one trend that only a handful of construction startups adopt is the use and application of computer-aided generative design.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 1, 2023

Don’t miss EO’s 2023 EmpowHER virtual series on 7, 14 and 21 March (the first three Tuesdays of the month). That same network supported me back and increased my power to allow me to make the difference I set out to make, and that I aspire to continue making in the future.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Acadian Ventures , an early-stage venture capital firm, announced its 2024 Future of Work 100, an annual list of venture-backed startups impacting how work gets done in the future. Easy access to capital over the preceding decade let startups pursue growth over profitability. Eight of the top ten startups are based in the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

On the flip side, athletes, entertainers, and C-level executives also ask what they should expect when investing in technology startups and working with founders looking to build the next big thing. Being an investor means being prepared for the ebbs and flows of the startup ecosystem.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

First, developers are generally early adopters of new technology—an analysis of ChatGPT prompts from May/June 2023 found that 30% of ChatGPT prompts were coding-related. Secondly, the biggest LLMs have been trained on datasets (e.g., Dylan Field, Figma Calling all builders 16.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2022

What happened in 2022 is the bottom fell out of the capital markets and the startup and tech sector more broadly. In the areas that USV works in; tech, startups, and web3, there have been a number of important downstream effects of the popping of the bubble and they are worth enumerating. This is the first of these two posts.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. Can these startups actually make any money? In 2023, the average spend across foundation model APIs, self-hosting, and fine-tuning models was $7M across the dozens of companies we spoke to.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Candex, a startup that aims to simplify procurement — specifically vendor management and payment processes — for businesses, today announced that it raised $45 million in a Series B investment led by Goldman Sachs with participation from WiL (World Innovation Lab), Altos, NFX, Craft, JP Morgan, American Express and Edenred.

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Jason Calacanis

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Thanks for reading Jason Calacanis on Startups! ” Why The AI Roaring 20s will be the greatest time to start your company The next supercycle is starting right now, in 2023 and 2024. Unlimited venture capital for any winning startup (defined as a startup that can get to $500,000 in revenue), with reasonable gross margins and burn.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

© 2023 TechCrunch. What if a little bit of investment, a splash of mentoring and practical support, a slew of introductions, and a whole lot of belief could be used to help artists with their careers? All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Revolution

APRIL 20, 2023

In 2023, LaserWeeders will be active across 17 U.S. What They’re Solving For: Food production is a universal need, making farming a vital and massive market — specialty crop farming alone is a $22B sector. states and three Canadian provinces.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

 Effective at the end of the w24 batch, I will return to my original role of YC Group Partner and will be able to once again devote all of my time to inspiring, investing, and mentoring early-stage YC startups.  I’ve

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