American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

One of the lessons that I learned about startups was you can move quickly alone, but you can move fast further as a team, Godby said. We were building an amazing product that connects emotionally with consumers which we tell stories about to reach people. I felt like we had a working history and trusted each other, Godby said.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For example, rather than expanding the company’s cost structure by hiring additional staff for new customers or orders, think about how to use technology, automation, or outsourcing to scale your operations. To design a scalable business model, think about how you can create a customer-centric culture within your company.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

It goes without saying that they’re always interested in knowing about the impact you’ll make with your initiatives. It’s your responsibility to make the impact metrics tell a compelling story about your company’s growth trajectory and potential. It’s often a make-or-break situation for you.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Assemble a Strong and Talented Team Steve Jobs offers another quote about the importance of having the right people around you. Steve Jobs offers another quote about the importance of having the right people around you. Steve Jobs offers another quote about the importance of having the right people around you.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 11, 2025

That sick feeling in my stomach wasn’t just embarrassment; it was the painful recognition that I had let down an organization I cared about. Get Specific About the Gap Ask clarifying questions: “What would success look like in this area?” I chose the latter.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 10, 2025

Michael Brown: Turning Risk into Resilience at Skyline Robotics For Michael Brown , CEO of Skyline Robotics, entrepreneurship is not just about innovation—it’s about overcoming adversity to unlock new frontiers. These stories prove that resilience isn’t about avoiding hardship.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco. Tell us a bit about Sanzo and how it was founded? That said, I knew nothing about this industry. I’m a Sanzo drinker. I’m also a Sanzo angel investor.

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StartupNation

JUNE 18, 2025

Talk about your visions and even your fears—if you can disagree constructively, you’re on the right track. It’s not just about preventing high attrition rates; a toxic culture can drain your startup’s creative energy and ruin its potential. This isn’t just about preventing personal collapse—it’s also a strategic move.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This isn’t just about crunching numbers; it’s about gaining valuable financial insights that empower you to make informed decisions. This is super helpful for making smart decisions about your business, like whether to hire that extra hand or invest in that shiny new equipment.

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

Rather than asking about projections, they wanted to know about execution, why we chose certain materials, how we handled unexpected challenges. It wasn’t about being flashy; it was about showing that we understood the user better than anyone else in the room. The room felt different after that. Questions changed.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2025

Combine honesty with grit : Be ruthlessly honest about reality while maintaining the persistence to overcome challenges. Leadership Mindset Balance three layers : Focus simultaneously on execution (laying bricks), tactics (building walls), and vision (creating cathedrals).

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Beyond Just Setting Big Goals A Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) isn’t just about thinking biggerit’s about forcing yourself to innovate when the current way of doing things won’t get you there. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). ” At the time, we were running a startup accelerator for 6 companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2025

Most startups know not to blow a bunch of money on a big party before they have their first users, but legitimate questions remain about what you do in its placeand how you open yourself up to the world that gets attention. Its a little bit like trying to cook a Thanksgiving meal but only thinking about it the day of. New coffee brand?

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

What immediately drew us to Parafin was their differentiated approach to solving small business financing at scale through strategic partnerships with the worlds largest platformsThis is beyond lending its about empowering these businesses through data analytics to grow with the digital economy.

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Revolution

MAY 12, 2025

I couldnt stop thinking about it. But it was all about finding my path to entrepreneurship. So whatever desire you feel right now, whatever nudge has whispered to you about starting something, fixing something, inventing something: listen toit. Its about seeing something missing in the world and deciding, Im going to build that.

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StartupNation

JUNE 27, 2025

This isn’t about keeping up with the Joneses. Instead, it’s about finding fulfillment in what you do. It’s about adapting, recovering quickly and learning from setbacks. However, this doesn’t mean working harder until you burn out. When you encounter obstacles or experience failures, reframe them as opportunities for growth.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

NEC X is excited about its upcoming “Batch 13” cohort because of the program’s rapid growth. Applications will be evaluated on innovation, market potential, and scalability, while candidates can have new business ideas, develop problem-solving hypotheses, or prototype MVPs. Revenue or product launch is not required.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 25, 2025

For more information about the Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator or to apply for an upcoming cohort, visit i2e.org/bridge2. “Each team identified what they needed to work on and left the program with sharper, more polished, and more complete businesses ready to take the next step in their journey. It was truly an honor to help these founders build.”

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Check out the previous post about how luck favors persistence. Culture is Strategy This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Why Culture Matters More Than Strategy People often say “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” ” In BE 2.0,

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

As a creator, artist and philanthropist, I’m passionate about helping others pursue their dreams,” said Williams. Visa will provide financial tools and digital inclusion tools and resources to its students to improve financial literacy. “As

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

the picture is much more complicated, and parents often worry about whether continued livelihoods exist for their families in their hometowns. Finally, I want to make a broader point about Americas ability to compete globallyparticularly with China. In many other cities across the U.S.,

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 28, 2025

Jim Collins explains why: it’s not just about luckit’s about being ready for it and knowing what to do when it arrives. A Real Story: When Product Success Seems Like Luck Let me share a story about luck and persistence from our own experience. In BE 2.0,

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2025

The Good Soil Forum is about more than ideasits about action. For too long, entrepreneursespecially those from undercapitalized communitieshave been left without the support and access they need to thrive, said T.D. Jakes, Chairman of the T.D. Jakes Group and Founder of the Good Soil Movement.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

This post is about ‘seeing.’ So my general advice is as you’re building a firm, think about which magnets feel right to you and start investing in them early. As a result I’ve seen hundreds of VC decks, all certain they will be among the top performers. and related, of increasing importance.

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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2025

But here’s the catch: To gain free access to the entire report, you need to provide enough information about your business to help HubSpot understand if you’re a potential lead for them or not. They are an effective medium for educating your audience about your product or service. Provide immediate lead capture.

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StartupNation

JULY 2, 2025

If you’re transparent about your decisions, people will trust you. People want to support companies that give back and care about the world beyond achieving their bottom line. As a founder or executive, your actions become the blueprint for your organization. If you’re open to feedback, people will feel heard and valued.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

This round is about seizing the opportunities ahead for our next phase of growth, including driving innovation with new products, exploring acquisitions, and ensuring long-term financial flexibility, said Immad Akhund, co-founder and CEO of Mercury.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

We developed a friendship as part of our Board service and a recent blog post of his made me think I wanted to learn a bit more about his Instacart experience. My wife and I were thinking about starting a family, we were happily living in Toronto, and I did not have the risk appetite to leave a secure job to join a startup.

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StartupNation

JUNE 6, 2025

Leaning back in my chair and pensively staring into the digital whiteness of the Google Doc (about to type this article), I’m thinking how many times I actually pronounced (in my head or out loud), “ If only someone had told me this before ,” as a founding CEO. Speaking about innovative leaps overall. Off-Page SEO → Focus on Backlinks.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

Washington expressed his excitement about the transition, stating: Supergut has always been about more than just productsI founded the company in my sisters memory to empower people to take control of their health through the science of the gut microbiome.

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