A Smart Bear: Longform

JULY 26, 2025

A Smart Bear » Max MRR: Your growth ceiling All Articles Topics Author Moon Sun All Articles Topics Author Subscribe By Jason Cohen on July 27, 2025 Reading time: 11 min Simple eReader (Kindle) Rich eReader (Apple) Printable PDF Max MRR: Your growth ceiling by Jason Cohen on July 27, 2025 Your company will stop growing sooner than you think. The “Max MRR” metric predicts revenue plateaus based on churn and new revenue. source For years I’ve battled the same, tired misconceptio

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Revolution

JULY 28, 2025

Inside the startup–utility partnership that’s testing how we can make existing buildings cleaner, smarter, and ready for a lower-carbon future. In tech and infrastructure, it’s easy to focus on what’s next: futuristic buildings, next-gen grids, communities built from scratch. But so much of the real challenge and opportunity lies in bringing what’s already here up to speed.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 22, 2025

Unconference and Workshops at AUT in Auckland on 7 and 8 August 2025. The event brings together entrepreneurs and supporters from all over New Zealand in a two day festival of networking, collaborative education, and getting sh!t done. At the Unconference on 8 August, the attendees set the agenda, and discuss items of importance on the day, sharing experiences, and building coalitions to solve critical problems in real time.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 27, 2025

The investment firm’s funding of the Tennessee-based startup builds on its portfolio of solutions that defend the nation’s cyberspace. Gula Tech Adventures has led a $2 million seed round for Starseer, a cyber security startup that is developing tools to secure and govern enterprise AI systems. Known for its deep focus on cybersecurity innovation, the investment firm is backing Starseer’s mission to bring transparency and compliance to artificial intelligence at a time when AI adoption and scrut

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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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Jason Malki

JULY 23, 2025

Ian Cain I had the pleasure of interviewing Ian Cain , the Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of QUBIC Labs. Ian Cain is a politician and entrepreneur bridging government and technology, and a co-founder of QUBIC Labs, a nonprofit innovation hub based in Quincy, Massachusetts, focused on blockchain, AI, cybersecurity, and digital infrastructure. He serves as President of the Quincy City Council and has spent the last decade driving public-private partnerships, civic innovation, and entrepreneur

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 24, 2025

When Wei Sun fell in love with New Zealand while on holiday in 2016, little did he know that he would be back nearly a decade later, launching a healthcare technology startup in Christchurch to build an affordable, effective AI gastrointestinal (GI) health management platform. Sun – a seasoned entrepreneur with a 25-year track record in healthcare technology, AI, and robotics – is the founder of Nexture.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 27, 2025

AI orchestration is having a moment—and not in the vague, hand-wavy "robots will change everything" way. Real teams are using it right now to solve problems like reducing support volume, speeding up product releases, and even spotting bugs before they hit production. To use an on-the-nose metaphor, AI orchestration is like an orchestra conductor: coordinating dozens of moving parts so everything hits the right note at just the right moment.

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Founder Bounty

JULY 25, 2025

If you scan LinkedIn you may be able to see the amount of VC's that have little to no startup experience. But why is this? If YC (the most successful startup accelerator who has backed the likes of companies like dropbox and Airbnb and is full of exited founders, why are other tier 1 VC's hiring mostly Stanford and Harvard alumni without startup experience?

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StartupNation

JULY 24, 2025

In this era of digital interactions, maintaining authenticity in brand messaging is critical to business success. The content available online can be overwhelming for customers. Hence, they tend to ignore or disengage with marketing messages that aren’t relevant to their journey. A recent global survey of 3,300 consumers revealed the growing demand for relevant content: 96% of respondents shared that personalized messaging can convince them to choose the brand.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 22, 2025

The company is nationally recognized for its pioneering model of impact investing, combining financial returns with measurable social and environmental outcomes that aligns with addressing the gap in affordable housing in the U.S. Amid growing concerns over the nation’s affordable housing shortage and escalating climate risks, Jonathan Rose Companies has officially closed its **sixth and largest fund to date—Rose Affordable Housing Preservation Fund VI—with over $660 million in capital commitmen

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OurCrowd

JULY 22, 2025

The post [Alloy Therapeutics in BusinessWire] Alloy Therapeutics and Kansai Startup Academia Coalition (KSAC) announce strategic collaboration to accelerate global growth of Japanese life science startups appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 27, 2025

I have two voices in my head when it comes to new tech. One is the wide-eyed optimist who wants to try every tool and click every AI button. The other wants to delete every app on my phone, move to a cabin in the woods, and write by candlelight. There's no doubt AI is exciting. It's already helping teams save time, be more creative, and get through the workday with fewer repetitive headaches.

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Hunter Walk

JULY 26, 2025

No Notes. Just some chef’s kiss, on-target reads Encore Anxiety [Anu Atluru/Working Theorys] – Wonderful read on the pressure to succeed a second time. Oh please, some might concern troll, but I’ve witnessed this in tech careers. Most frequently with (a) repeat founders who fear their next company will fail and prove their initial win was a lucky fluke, and (b) younger folks who ending up joining an early stage rocketship out of school and once it succeeds beyond their expectat

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

Career reinvention is a powerful journey, and this article showcases real-world examples from successful entrepreneurs. Drawing on insights from experts across various fields, these stories highlight the diverse paths to professional transformation. Discover how individuals from law, journalism, tech, and more have leveraged their unique experiences to forge new, thriving careers.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 22, 2025

xLight ’s breakthrough EUV FEL platform addresses critical industry pain points, the cost, scalability, and throughput involved in semiconductor fabrication. In a significant step toward reshaping the future of advanced semiconductor manufacturing, xLight, a Palo Alto-based technology innovator, has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series B round.

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OurCrowd

JULY 22, 2025

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / July 22, 2025 /In 2007, Apple’s iOS didn’t just launch an operating system. It redefined how people interact with technology. Tailor Brands is aiming to do the same for entrepreneurship.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 24, 2025

The first time I opened a GitHub link, I had no idea what I was looking at—just a bunch of files, commit messages that might as well have been written using hieroglyphs, and a lot of buttons I was too scared to click. Do more with GitHub Start automating If you're not a programmer, GitHub can definitely feel intimidating at first. But once you understand the basics, it's surprisingly approachable and incredibly useful.

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GCUC

JULY 28, 2025

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Venture Well

JULY 25, 2025

At VentureWell, we provide a full spectrum of commercialization services that help bring innovations from lab to market—but what does that look like in practice? The post Medtech to Market: Advancing the First Point-of-Care Hepatitis C Test appeared first on VentureWell.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 25, 2025

The co-founders with the support of a highly experienced team and investors are working to establish critical tools and infrastructure for the operation of spacecraft communication systems. Cascade Space, a rising innovator in the aerospace industry, has announced the close of a $5.9 million seed funding round to advance its end-to-end space communication platform.

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OurCrowd

JULY 22, 2025

The post [Hailo in Hailo] Hailo announces general availability of Hailo-10H Edge AI accelerator with generative AI capabilities appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 24, 2025

If you'd asked me a year ago whether I could turn my barely-there coding knowledge into fully functional apps, internal tools, and custom widgets without hiring a developer, I would've smiled politely and quietly choked on my LaCroix. But since early 2025, I've been vibe coding my way to actual tools. The code is minimal, the confidence is unearned, and the results are surprisingly functional.

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GCUC

JULY 22, 2025

GCUC Podcast Recap: Bex Murphy, Hub Australia The Hospitality Blueprint: How Rebekah Murphy Designs for Loyalty and Impact The coworking world is evolving. Design, amenities, and flexible plans are no longer.

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Venture Well

JULY 24, 2025

The ongoing housing crisis in the United States has created widespread challenges related to access and affordability. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s. The post Designing for Change: How Kit Switch Is Rethinking Construction appeared first on VentureWell.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 27, 2025

Why is the sub-$5 million seed round shrinking? A decade ago, these smaller rounds formed the backbone of startup financing, comprising over 70% of all seed deals. Today, PitchBook data reveals that figure has plummeted to less than half. The numbers tell a stark story. Sub-$5M deals declined from 62.5% in 2015 to 37.5% in 2024. This 29.5 percentage point drop fundamentally reshaped how startups raise their first institutional capital.

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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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